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370 every whit whole, man must be better spiritually as well as physically. To be immortal, we must forsake the

mortal sense of things, turn from the lie of false belief to Truth, and gather the facts of being from the divine Mind. The body improves under the same regimen which spiritualizes the thought; and if health is not made manifest under this regimen, this proves that fear is governing the body. This is the law of cause and effect, or like producing like.

Homœopathy furnishes the evidence to the senses, that symptoms, which might be produced by a certain drug,

are removed by using the same drug which might cause the symptoms. This confirms my theory that faith in the drug is the sole factor in the cure. The effect, which mortal mind produces through one belief, it removes through an opposite belief, but it uses the same medicine in both cases.

The moral and spiritual facts of health, whispered into thought, produce very direct and marked effects on the body. A physical diagnosis of disease — since mortal mind must be the cause of disease — tends to induce disease.

According to both medical testimony and individual experience, a drug may eventually lose its supposed power

and do no more for the patient. Hygienic treatment also loses its efficacy. Quackery likewise fails at length to inspire the credulity of the sick, and then they cease to improve. These lessons are useful. They should naturally and genuinely so change our basis from sensation to Christian Science, from error to Truth, from matter to Spirit.

Physicians examine the pulse, tongue, lungs, to