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Rh If the lungs are disappearing, this is but one of the beliefs of mortal mind. Mortal man will be less mortal,

when he learns that lungs never sustained existence, and can never destroy God, who is our Life. When this is understood, mankind will be more godlike. What if the lungs are ulcerated? God is more to a man than his lungs; and the less we acknowledge matter or its laws, the more immortality we possess. Consciousness constructs a better body, when it has conquered our faith in matter. Correct material belief by spiritual understanding, and Spirit will form you anew. You will never fear again, except to offend God, and will never believe that lungs, or any portion of the body, can destroy you.

If you have sound and capacious lungs, and want them to remain so, be always ready with the mental

protest against the opposite belief in heredity. Discard all notions about lungs, tubercles, inherited consumption, or disease arising from any circumstance, and you will find that mortal mind, when instructed by Truth, yields to divine power, which steers the body into health, as directly as error can forbid the feet to walk, or impel the hands to steal.

The discoverer of Christian Science finds the path less wearisome when she has the high goal always

before her thoughts, than when she only counts her bleeding footsteps in reaching that goal. If the destination is desirable, the vision speeds our footsteps. The outlook on Truth makes us strong instead of weak, and rests instead of wearying us. Now if the belief in death were only obliterated, and the understanding could obtain that we live on without death,