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If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom.
It is but a blind force. Man has "sought out many inventions,"
"but he has not yet found it true that knowledge can
save him from the dire effects of knowledge. The power
of mortal mind over its own body is little understood.
(Sin destroyed through suffering)
Better the suffering which awakens mortal mind from
its fleshly dream, than the false pleasures
which tend to perpetuate this dream. Sin
alone brings death, for sin is the only element
of destruction.
"Fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body
in hell," said Jesus. A careful study of this text shows
that here the word soul means a false sense or material
consciousness. The command was a warning to beware,
not of Rome, Satan, nor of God, but of sin. Sickness,
sin, and death are not concomitants of Life or Truth.
No law supports them. They have no relation to God
wherewith to establish their power. Sin makes its own
hell, and goodness its own heaven.
(Dangerous shoals avoided)
Such books as will rule disease out of mortal mind, -
and so efface the images and thoughts of disease,
instead of impressing them with forcible
descriptions and medical details, - will help
to abate sickness and to destroy it.
Many a hopeless case of disease is induced by a single
post mortem examination, - not from infection nor from
contact with material virus, but from the fear of the
disease and from the image brought before the mind; it
is a mental state, which is afterwards outlined on the
body.
(Pangs caused by the press)
The press unwittingly sends forth many sorrows and
diseases among the human family. It does this by giving
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