That man does not pay the severest penalty who does the most good. By adhering to the realities of eternal existence, — instead of reading disquisitions on 21the inconsistent supposition that death comes in obedience to the law of life, and that God punishes man for doing good, — one cannot suffer as the result of any labor of 24love, but grows stronger because of it.

    The physician who lacks sympathy for his fellow-being is deficient in human affection, and we have the The true physicianapostolic warrant for asking: “He that loveth 15not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?” Not having this spiritual affection, the physician lacks faith in the divine 18Mind and has not that recognition of infinite Love which alone confers the healing power. Such so-called Scien-tists will strain out gnats, while they swallow the camels 21of bigoted pedantry.

    If we would open their prison doors for the sick, we must first learn to bind up the broken-hearted. If we would heal by the Spirit, we must not hide the talent 367 367:1of spiritual healing under the napkin of its form, nor bury the morale of Christian Science in the grave-clothes 3Genuine healingof its letter. The tender word and Christian encouragement of an invalid, pitiful patience with his fears and the removal of them, are better than 6hecatombs of gushing theories, stereotyped borrowed speeches, and the doling of arguments, which are but so many parodies on legitimate Christian Science, aflame 9with divine Love.

The pallid invalid, whom you declare to be wasting away with consumption of the blood, should be told that blood 12never gave life and can never take it away, — that Life is Spirit, and that there is more life and immortality in one good motive and act, than in all the blood which ever 15flowed through mortal veins and simulated a corporeal sense of life.

    If the body is material, it cannot, for that very reason, 18suffer with a fever. Because the so-called material body Remedy for feveris a mental concept and governed by mortal mind, it manifests only what that so-called 21mind expresses. Therefore the efficient remedy is to destroy the patient’s false belief by both silently and au-dibly arguing the true facts in regard to harmonious 24being, — representing man as healthy instead of diseased, and showing that it is impossible for matter to suffer, to feel pain or heat, to be thirsty or sick. Destroy fear, 27and you end fever. Some people, mistaught as to Mind-science, inquire when it will be safe to check a fever. Know that in Science you cannot check a fever after ad-30mitting that it must have its course. To fear and admit the power of disease, is to paralyze mental and scientific demonstration.

377:1    If your patient believes in taking cold, mentally con-vince him that matter cannot take cold, and that thought 3governs this liability. If grief causes suffering, convince the sufferer that affliction is often the source of joy, and that he should rejoice always in ever-present Love.

    A felon, on whom certain English students experi-mented, fancied himself bleeding to death, and died be-Power of imaginationcause of that belief, when only a stream of 12warm water was trickling over his arm. Had he known his sense of bleeding was an illusion, he would have risen above the false belief. Let the despairing in-15valid, inspecting the hue of her blood on a cambric hand-kerchief, think of the experiment of those Oxford boys, who caused the death of a man, when not a drop of his 18blood was shed. Then let her learn the opposite state-ment of Life as taught in Christian Science, and she will understand that she is not dying on account of the state of 21her blood, but is suffering from her belief that blood is destroying her life.

Ignorant of our God-given rights, we submit to unjust 3Ignorance of our rightsdecrees, and the bias of education enforces this slavery. Be no more willing to suffer the illusion that you are sick or that some disease is develop-6ing in the system, than you are to yield to a sinful temp-tation on the ground that sin has its necessities.

    One whom I rescued from seeming spiritual oblivion, in which the senses had engulfed him, wrote to me: “I should have died, but for the glorious Principle you teach, 27— supporting the power of Mind over the body and show-ing me the nothingness of the so-called pleasures and pains of sense. The treatises I had read and the medicines I 30 had taken only abandoned me to more hopeless suffering and despair. Adherence to hygiene was useless. Mortal mind needed to be set right. The ailment was not bodily, 383 383:1but mental, and I was cured when I learned my way in Christian Science.”

It is proverbial that Florence Nightingale and other philanthropists en-3Benefit of philanthropygaged in humane labors have been able to undergo without sinking fatigues and expo-sures which ordinary people could not endure. The ex-6planation lies in the support which they derived from the divine law, rising above the human. The spiritual demand, quelling the material, supplies energy and en-9durance 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, 12though it can never annul the law which makes sin its own executioner, exempts man from all penalties but those due for wrong-doing.

15    Constant toil, deprivations, exposures, and all untow-ard conditions, if without sin, can be experienced with-Honest toil has no penaltyout suffering. Whatever it is your duty to do, 18you can do without harm to yourself.