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human system will be acknowledged. It is proverbial
that Florence Nightingale and other philanthropists engaged
in humane labors have been able to
undergo without sinking fatigues and exposures
which ordinary people could not endure. The explanation
lies in the support which they derived from
the divine law, rising above the human. The spiritual
demand, quelling the material, supplies energy and endurance
surpassing all other aids, and forestalls the
penalty which our beliefs would attach to our best
deeds. Let us remember that the eternal law of right,
though it can never annul the law which makes sin its
own executioner, exempts man from all penalties but
those due for wrong-doing.
(Honest toil has no penalty)
Constant toil, deprivations, exposures, and all untoward
conditions, if without sin, can be experienced without
suffering. Whatever it is your duty to do,
you can do without harm to yourself. If you
sprain the muscles or wound the flesh, your
remedy is at hand. Mind decides whether or not the
flesh shall be discolored, painful, swollen, and inflamed.
(Our sleep and food)
You say that you have not slept well or have overeaten.
You are a law unto yourself. Saying this and believing
it, you will suffer in proportion to your belief
and fear. Your sufferings are not the penalty
for having broken a law of matter, for it is a law of mortal
mind which you have disobeyed. You say or think, because
you have partaken of salt fish, that you must be
thirsty, and you are thirsty accordingly, while the opposite
belief would produce the opposite result.
(Doubtful evidence)
Any supposed information, coming from the body or
from inert matter as if either were intelligent, is an illusion
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