faith in drugs, in hygiene, in prayer, or in some minor curative.
There are really but two modes of practice; one is quackery, the other is Science. To heal the sick we must be familiar with the great verities of being. Mind is immortal. Therefore its embodiment is immortal; and this embodiment is no more material in our waking hours, than it is when it acts, walks, sees, hears, enjoys, or suffers in a dream.
There is no mortal mind out of which to make a mortal body, built from the illusions of sickness, sin, and death. There is but One Mind, the unerring and immortal; and this One contains no mortal opinions. Sin, sickness, and death are beliefs, misnamed mind. All that is real, good, or eternal is included in Immortal Mind.
To be made whole, we have only to forsake the mortal sense of things, turn from the lie of belief to Truth, and gain the facts of being from Immortal Mind.
Neither in Science nor Christianity can we believe in the reality and power of both Truth and error, and hope to succeed with either. Error is not self-sustaining. Its false supports fail, one after another.
According both to medical testimony and individual experience, a drug soon loses its supposed power, and can do no more for the patient. Hygienic treatment loses its efficacy. Quackery at length fails to inspire the credulity of the sick, and then they cease to improve. These lessons are useful. They should naturally and gently change our basis from sense to Science, from error to Truth.
The Bible contains recipes for all healing. “The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.”
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