creed hamper Spirit. If we trust one, we distrust the other.
Whatsoever inspires with wisdom, truth, or love — be it song, sermon, or Science — blesses the human Crumbs of comfort. family with crumbs of comfort from Christ's table, feeding the hungry and giving living waters to the thirsty.
We should put aside our false beliefs daily, become more familiar with health than with sickness, with good Murderous guests. than with evil, and never admit a discordant thought. We should dismiss those unpleasant guests — sin, sickness, and death — from mortal mind, in order to guard the body from them, as watchfully as we bar our doors against the approach of thieves and murderers.
If proper ward were kept over that lazar-house, that dismal cell and slaughter-house of infamy, mortal mind, Invisible iniquity. the brood of evils which infest it could be cleared out. We must begin with this so-called mind, and empty it of sin and sickness, or sin and sickness will never cease. The present codes of human systems disappoint the weary searcher after a divine theology, adequate to the right education of mortal thought.
Sin is thought before it is acted. You must control it in the first instance, or it will control you in the second. Jesus declared that to look with desire on forbidden objects is to break a moral precept. He laid great stress on the action of the human mind, unseen to the senses.
Evil thoughts and aims reach no farther and do no greater harm than one's belief permits. Evil thoughts, lusts, and malicious purposes cannot go forth, like wan-
