When infringing some supposed law we say there is danger; and this fear causes, of itself, the danger, and consummates the physical results. We shall never suffer from a broken law, except it be a moral or spiritual law. The laws of mortal belief are destroyed by the understanding that man cannot legislate the times, periods, and types of disease, wherewith to kill men. God legislates, but God is not the author of barbarous codes.
Let us dismiss sickness as an outlaw, and abide by the rule of perpetual harmony — God's law. Man's moral right is to annul an unjust sentence, a sentence never inflicted by divine authority.
Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man, is rendered null and void by the law of God. If we submit to unjust decrees, in ignorance of our God-given rights, it is the bias of education that enforces this slavery. Be no more willing to suffer the illusion that you are sick, or that some disease is developing in the system, than you are to permit a sinful temptation, on the ground that sin has its necessities.
When the first symptoms of disease appear, dispute the testimony of the senses, by Divine Science. Let your higher sense of justice destroy the false process of belief, which you name law; and then you will not be cast fettered and helpless into prison, there to linger till you pay the last farthing, the last penalty your belief demands.
When the body is supposed to say, “I am sick,” never plead guilty. Since matter cannot talk, it must be mortal mind that so speaks. Therefore meet the intimation with a protest.
Mentally contradict every complaint from the body; and hold your ground disputatiously, until the body
