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Rh The footsteps of thought, as they pass higher from material standpoints, are slow, and portend a long night

to the traveller; but the angels of His presence — the spiritual intuitions that tell us when “the night is far spent, the day is at hand” are our guardians in the gloom. Whosoever opens the way in Christian Science is a pilgrim and stranger, marking out the path for generations yet unborn.

The voices of Sinai and the Sermon on the Mount are pursuing and will overtake the ages, rebuking in their course all error, and proclaiming the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Truth is revealed. It only needs to be practised.

Belief is all that ever enables a drug to cure mortal ailments. Anatomy admits that mind is somewhere in

man, though out of sight. Then, if one is sick, why treat the body alone, while we administer a dose of despair to the mind? Why declare that the body is diseased, and picture this disease to the mind, rolling it under the tongue as a sweet morsel, and holding it before the thought of both physician and patient? We should understand that the cause of disease rests in the mortal human mind, and its cure with the immortal divine Mind. We should prevent the images of disease from taking form in thought, and we should efface the outlines of disease already formulated in mortal mind.

When there are fewer doctors, and less thought is

given to sanitary subjects, there will be better constitutions and less disease. In old times who ever heard of dyspepsia, cerebro-spinal meningitis, hay-fever, and rose-cold?