CHAPTER VIII - FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH Science and Health with KEY to THE SCRIPTURES | ||
Sickness akin to sin
Why pray for the recovery of the sick, if you are with- out faith in God's willingness and ability to heal them? If you do believe in God, why do you sub- stitute drugs for the Almighty's power, and employ means which lead only into material ways of obtaining help, instead of turning in time of need to God, divine Love, who is an ever-present help? Treat a belief in sickness as you would sin, with sudden dismissal. Resist the temptation to believe in matter as intelligent, as having sensation or power.
The Scriptures say, "They that wait upon the Lord . . . shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." The meaning of that passage is not perverted by applying it literally to moments of fatigue, for the moral and physical are as one in their results. When we wake to the truth of being, all disease,
CHAPTER VIII - FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH Science and Health with KEY to THE SCRIPTURES | ||