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404 that shall he also reap.” This is sin's necessity, — to destroy itself, and so yield at last to the government of God, wherein is no power to sin.

You had better be exposed to every plague on earth, than endure the cumulative effects of a guilty

conscience. The abiding consciousness of wrong-doing tends to destroy the ability to do right If sin is not regretted, and is not lessening, then it is hastening on to physical and moral self-destruction. You are conquered by the moral penalties you incur, or by the ills you bring. The pains of sense are less harmful than its pleasures. Belief in material suffering causes mortal mind to retreat from its own error, to flee from body to Spirit, and appeal to divine sources outside of itself.

The Bible contains the recipe for all healing. “The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.”

Sin and sickness are both healed on the same principle. The tree is typical of Divine Principle, which is equal to every necessity and emergency, offering full salvation from sin, sickness, and death. Sin will submit to Christian Science when, in place of creeds and professions, the divine Principle of Being is understood and demonstrated, healing mortal mind.

The Science of Being unveils the errors of sense; and spiritual perception, aided by Science, reaches Truth.

Then error disappears. Sin and sickness will abate, and seem less real, as we approach the scientific period, which rebukes mortal sense, when we shall no more fall into sickness than into sin. The moral man has no fear of committing a murder, and he should be as strong on the question of disease.