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Rh the whole thing; for matter has no sensation, and the human mind is all that can produce pain.

“As a man thinketh, so is he.” Mind is all that feels, acts, or impedes action. Ignorant of this, or shrinking from its implied responsibility, the healing effort is made on the wrong side, and thus the conscious control over the body is lost.

The Mohammedan believes in a pilgrimage to Mecca for the salvation of his soul. The popular doctor

believes in his recipe, and the druggist believes in the power of his prescription to save a man's life. The first is a religious delusion; the second is a medical delusion.

The human mind is inharmonious in itself. From this arises the inharmoniousness of the body. To ignore

God as of little use in sickness is a mistake. Instead of thrusting Him aside in times of bodily trouble, and waiting for the hour of strength in which to acknowledge Him, we should learn that He can do everything for us in sickness as in health.

Failing to recover health through adherence to physiology and hygiene, the despairing invalid often drops them, and turns, in his extremity, and only as a last resort, to God. His faith in Him is less than it was in drugs, air, and exercise, or he would have resorted to Mind first. The balance of power is conceded to be with matter, by most of the medical systems; but when Spirit at last asserts its mastery, then, and not before is man found to be harmonious and immortal.

Should we implore a corporeal God to heal the sick out of His personal volition? or should we understand the infinitely divine Principle which heals? If we rise no