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go from one part to another, for Truth destroys disease.
There is no metastasis, no stoppage of harmonious
action, no paralysis. Truth not error, Love
not hate, Spirit not matter, governs man. If
students do not readily heal themselves, they should
early call an experienced Christian Scientist to aid
them. If they are unwilling to do this for themselves,
they need only to know that error cannot produce this
unnatural reluctance.
(Positive reassurance)
Instruct the sick that they are not helpless victims,
for if they will only accept Truth, they can resist disease
and ward it off, as positively as they can the
temptation to sin. This fact of Christian Science
should be explained to invalids when they are in a
fit mood to receive it, - when they will not array themselves
against it, but are ready to become receptive to the
new idea. The fact that Truth overcomes both disease
and sin reassures depressed hope. It imparts a healthy
stimulus to the body, and regulates the system. It increases
or diminishes the action, as the case may require,
better than any drug, alterative, or tonic.
(Proper stimulus)
Mind is the natural stimulus of the body, but erroneous
belief, taken at its best, is not promotive of health
or happiness. Tell the sick that they can
meet disease fearlessly, if they only realize
that divine Love gives them all power over every physical
action and condition.
(Awaken the patient)
If it becomes necessary to startle mortal mind to break
its dream of suffering, vehemently tell your patient that
he must awake. Turn his gaze from the false
evidence of the senses to the harmonious facts
of Soul and immortal being. Tell him that he suffers
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