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386 of mortal mind, — one of its dreams. Realize that

the evidence of the senses is not to be accepted in the case of sickness, any more than it is in the case of sin.

Expose the body to certain temperatures, and belief says that you may catch cold and have catarrh; but no

such result occurs without mind to demand it and produce it. So long as mortals declare that certain states of the atmosphere produce catarrh, fever, rheumatism, or consumption, those effects will follow, — not because of the climate, but on account of the belief. The author has in too many instances healed disease through the action of Truth on the minds of mortals, and the corresponding effects of Truth on the body, not to know that this is so.

A blundering despatch, mistakenly announcing the death of a friend, occasions the same grief that the friend's

real death would bring. You think that your anguish is occasioned by your loss. Another despatch, correcting the mistake, heals your grief, and you learn that your suffering was merely the result of your belief. Thus it is with all sorrow, sickness, and death. You will learn at length that there is no cause for grief, and divine wisdom will then be understood. Error, not Truth, produces all the suffering on earth.

If a Christian Scientist had said, while you were laboring under the influence of the belief of grief, “Your sorrow

is without cause,” you would not have understood him, although the correctness of the assertion might afterwards be proved to you. So, when our friends pass from our sight and we lament, that lamentation is needless and causeless. We shall