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Rh are spiritual law-givers, enforcing obedience through divine sanctions.

Controlled by the divine Intelligence, man is harmonious and eternal. Whatever is governed by human

belief is discordant and mortal. We say man suffers from the effects of cold, heat, fatigue. This is human belief, not the truth of Being, for matter cannot suffer. Mortal mind alone suffers, — not because a law of matter has been transgressed, but because a law of this mind has been disobeyed. I have demonstrated this as a rule of Divine Science by destroying the delusion of suffering from what is termed a broken physical law.

A lady, whom I cured of consumption, always breathed with great difficulty when the wind was east. I sat silently by her side a few moments. Her breath came gently. The inspirations were deep and natural. I then requested her to look at the weather-vane. She looked, and saw that it pointed due east. The wind had not changed, but her difficult breathing was gone. The wind had not produced it. My metaphysical treatment changed the action of her belief on the system, and she never suffered again from east winds.

Here is testimony on this subject:

I take pleasure in giving to the public one instance, out of many, of Mrs. Eddy's skill in metaphysical healing. At

the birth of my youngest child, now eight years old, I thought my approaching confinement was premature by several weeks, and sent her a message to that efffect. Without seeing me, she returned answer that the proper time had come, and that she would be with me immediately. Slight labor-pains had commenced before she