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62 signs, assuring me that danger was over, before the patient felt the change; and I have said to the patient,

“You are healed,” — sometimes to his discomposure, when he was incredulous; but it always came about as I had foretold.

I name these facts to show that disease has a mental origin, — that faith in rules of health or in drugs begets and fosters disease, by attracting the mind to the subject of sickness, by exciting fear of it, and by dosing the body in order to avoid it. The faith reposed in these things should find stronger supports and a higher home. Understanding the control of Mind over body, we should put no faith in material means.

Science not only reveals the origin of all disease as wholly mental, but it also declares that all disease is

cured by Mind. There can be no healing except by Mind, however much we trust the drug, or any other means toward which human faith is directed. It is Mind, not matter, which brings to the sick whatever good they may seem to receive from drugs. The sick are never really healed, except by means of divine power. It is only the action of Truth that can restore harmony.

Whatever teaches man to have other rulers, and acknowledge other power than the divine Mind, is

anti-Christian. The good that matter seems to do is evil, for it robs man of God, omnipotent Mind. Truth is not the basis of Theogony. Modes of matter form neither a moral nor a spiritual system. The discord which calls for them is the result of the exercise of full faith in matter, instead of Spirit.