This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...or hints of inflammatory rheumatism, your Mind-remedy is safe and sure. If you are a Christian Scientist, such symptoms will not follow from the exposure; but if you believe in laws of matter, and their fatal effects when transgressed, you are not fit to conduct your own case, or to destroy the bad effects of belief. When the fear subsides, and the conviction abides that you have broken no law, neither rheumatism, consumption, nor any other disease will ever result from exposurp to the weather. This is an established fact in Science, which all the evidence before the senses can never overrule. Sickness, sin, and death must at length quail before Quailing and the divine rights of Intelligence; and then Philanthropythe power of Mind, over the entire functions and organe of the human system, will be acknowledged. It is proverbial that Florence Nightingale, and other philanthropists engaged in humane labors, have been able to undergo, without sinking, fatigues and exposures which ordinary people could not endure. The explanation lies in the support they derive from divine law, rising above the human. The spiritual demand, quelling the material, supplies energy and endurance surpassing all other aids, and forestalls the penalty our beliefs would attach to our best deeds. Let us remember that the eternal law of right, though it can never annul the law which makes sin its own executioner, exempts man from all penalties but those due to wrongdoing. Unremitting toil, deprivations, exposures, and all untoward conditions, if without sin, can be relieved withBole source out suffering. Whatever it is your duty to do, of suffering Can be done without harm to yourself. If you sprain the muscles or wound the flesh, your remedy is at hand. Mind decides...