innocent. You aided and abetted Fear and Personal Sense. You betrayed Mortal Man, meanwhile declaring Disease to be Divine law. God's servant, and the righteous executor of His laws. Our higher statutes declare you all, witnesses, jurors, and judges, to be offenders, only awaiting the sentence which General Progress and Divine Love will pronounce.
We send our very best detectives to whatever locality is reported to be haunted by Disease; but, visiting the spot, they learn that Disease was never there, for he could not possibly elude their search. Your Material Court of Errors, when it condemned Mortal Man on the ground of hygienic disobedience, was manipulated by the oleaginous machinations of the counsel, Belief, whom Truth arraigns before the supreme bar of Soul, to answer for his bloodshed. Morbid Secretion is taught how to make sleep befool reason, before sacrificing mortals to their false gods.
Mortal Minds were hypnotized by your attorney, Belief, and compelled to give a verdict delivering Mortal Man to Death. Good deeds are transformed into crimes, to which you attach penalties; but no warping of justice can render a disobedience to the so-called laws of Matter, disobedience to God, or an act of homicide. Even penal law holds homicide, under stress of circumstances, as justifiable. Now what greater justification can any deed have, than that it is for the good of one's neighbor? Wherefore then, in the name of outraged justice, do you sentence Mortal Man for ministering to the wants of his fellowman, in obedience to higher law? You cannot trample upon the Supreme Bench. Mortal Man has his appeal to Spirit, God, who sentences only for sin.
The false and unjust beliefs of your material mental legislators compel them to enact laws of sickness, and then render obedience to these laws punishable as crimes. In the presence of the Supreme Lawgiver, standing at the bar of Truth, and in
accordance with the divine statutes, I repudiate the false testi-