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FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH.
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Treat a belief of sickness as you would sin, with sudden dismissal. Resist the temptation to believe in matter as superior to Spirit. The Scriptures admonish us to “run and not be weary, walk and not faint.” The meaning of that passage is not perverted in its application to moments of fatigue, for the moral and physical are one in their results. When we wake to the Truth of being, all error, pain, weakness, weariness, sorrow, sin, and death, will be unknown, and the dream be forgotten. My method of treating fatigue applies to all bodily ailments, since Mind should be, and is, supreme.

That scientific methods are above all others is seen in their effects. When you once conquer a condition of the body through Mind, that condition recurs less frequently, and its ills diminish until they finally disappear. When the Mind once gives rest to the body, the next toil will fatigue you less, for you are working out your problem in Science; and in proportion as you understand the control Mind has over the body, will you demonstrate it.

You would not say that a wheel is fatigued; and yet the body is just as material as the wheel. Setting aside what the human mind says of the body, it would never be weary, any more than the inanimate wheel. Understanding this great fact rests you more than hours of repose.

We hear a sweet melody and misunderstand the science that governs it. The sick who are healed through Metaphysical Science — not comprehending the Principle of the cure — may misunderstand it, and impute their recovery to change of air or diet, not rendering to God the honor that is due. Entire immunity from suffering