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Rh “the bones and marrow,” and it restores the harmony of man.

The matter-physician deals with matter, as both his foe and his remedy. He regards the ailment as weakened or strengthened, according to the evidence this foe presents. The Scientist — making Mind his basis of operation, irrespective of matter, and regarding the Truth and harmony of Being as superior to its error and discord — has rendered himself strong, instead of weak, to cope with the case; and he proportionately strengthens his patient with the stimulus of courage and conscious power. Both courage and consciousness are now at work in the economy of Being, — according to the law of Mind, which ultimately asserts its absolute supremacy.

Ossification, or any unusual condition of the body, is as directly the action of mortal error as insanity. Bones

have only the substantiality of thought which formed them. They are only an appearance, a subjective state of mortal mind. The so-called substance of bone is formed first by the parent's mind, through self-division. Soon the child becomes a separate, individualized mortal mind, that takes possession of itself and its own bones.

Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief, and unite

with the one Mind, in order to change this notion of chance to the proper sense of God's unerring direction, and bring out harmony. Under Providence there can be no accident, since there is no room for imperfection in perfection.

In medical practice objections would be raised if one