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Rh and Spirit; for one is opposed to the other, and insists upon supremacy in the affections. It is impossible to work from two standpoints. If we attempt it, we shall presently “hold to the one and despise the other.”

Mortal beliefs are antagonistic to, and cannot mix with Science. This is clear to those who heal the sick on the basis of Science alone.

Mind's government of the body must supersede the so-called laws of matter. Obedience to material law

prevents full obedience to spiritual law, — the law which overcomes material conditions, and puts matter under the feet of Mind. Mortals entreat God to restore the sick to health, and forthwith shut out the aid of Spirit, by using material means, thus working against themselves and their prayers, and denying man's God-given ability to demonstrate Mind's sacred power. Pleas for medicine and the laws of health come from mortal ignorance of Science and its transcendent power.

To admit that sickness is a condition over which God has no control, is to presuppose that omnipotent power is powerless on some occasions. The law of Christ, or Truth, finds all things possible to Spirit; but the so-called laws of matter find Spirit of no avail, and demand obedience to materialistic codes, thus departing from the basis of Divine Science. To suppose that God constitutes laws of discord is a mistake; for discords have no support from divine law, however much may be said to the contrary.

Can the agriculturist, according to belief, ever produce a crop without sowing the seed, and awaiting its germination according to the laws of God? Yet the Scriptures inform us that sin, or error, first caused