tion of the omnipotence and omnipresence
of God; that He is All, and that there can be none beside
Him; that God is good, and the producer only of good; 27
and hence, that whatever militates against health, har-
mony, or holiness, is an unjust usurper of the throne of 1
the controller of all mankind. Note this, that if you have
power in error, you forfeit the power that Truth bestows, 3
and its salutary influence on yourself and others.

You must feel and know that God alone governs man;
that His government is harmonious; that He is too pure 6
to behold iniquity, and divides His power with nothing
evil or material; that material laws are only human be-
liefs, which govern mortals wrongfully. These beliefs arise 9
from the subjective states of thought, producing the be-
liefs of a mortal material universe, -- so-called, and of
material disease and mortality. Mortal ills are but errors 12
of thought, -- diseases of mortal mind, and not of matter;
for matter cannot feel, see, or report pain or disease,

Disease is a thing of thought manifested on the body; 15
and fear is the procurator of the thought which causes
sickness and suffering. Remove this fear by the true
sense that God is Love, -- and that Love punishes nothing 18
but sin, -- and the patient can then look up to the loving
God, and know that He afflicteth not willingly the children
of men, who are punished because of disobedience to His 21
spiritual law. His law of Truth, when obeyed, removes
every erroneous physical and mental state. The belief
that matter can master Mind, and make you ill, is an 24
error which Truth will destroy.

You must learn to acknowledge God in all His ways.
It is only a lack of understanding of the allness of God, 27
which leads you to believe in the existence of matter, or
that matter can frame its own conditions, contrary to the 1
law of Spirit.

Sickness is the schoolmaster, leading you to Christ; 3
first to faith in Christ; next to belief in God as omnipo-
tent; and finally to the _understanding_ of God and man
in Christian Science, whereby you learn that God is good, 6
and in Science man is His likeness, the forever reflection of
goodness. Therefore good is one and All.

This brings forward the next proposition in Christian 9
Science, -- namely, that there are no sickness, sin, and
death in the divine Mind