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Rh away from their bodies to higher objects. Teach them that their bodies are sustained by Spirit, not matter, and they will find rest in God, divine Love, more than in oblivious sleep.

Give sick people credit for sometimes knowing more than their doctors. Always support their trust in the

power of Mind to sustain the body. Never tell the sick they have more courage than strength. Tell them, rather, that their strength is in proportion to their courage. If you make them realize this great truism, there will be no reaction from over-exertion, or from excited conditions. Maintain the facts of Christian Science: that Mind is God, and therefore cannot be sick; that what is termed matter cannot be sick; that all causation is Spirit, acting through spiritual law. Then hold your ground with the unshaken understanding of Truth and Love, and you will win. When you silence the witness against your plea, you destroy the evidence, for the disease disappears. The evidence before the corporeal senses is not the Science of the immortal man.

To the Christian Science healer, sickness is a dream, from which the patient needs to be awakened.

Disease should not appear real to the physician, since it is demonstrable that the way to cure the patient is to make disease unreal to him. To do this, the physician must understand the unreality of disease.

Explain audibly to your patients (as soon as they can

bear it) the utter control which Mind holds over the body. Show them how mortal mind seems to induce disease by certain fears and false