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Mind over matter

Is man a material fungus without Mind to help him? Is a stiff joint or a contracted muscle as much a result of law as the supple and

elastic condition of the healthy limb, and is God the lawgiver?

You say, "I have burned my finger." This is an exact statement, more exact than you suppose; for mor- tal mind, and not matter, burns it. Holy inspiration has created states of mind which have been able to nullify the action of the flames, as in the Bible case of the three young Hebrew captives, cast into the Babylonian furnace; while an opposite mental state might produce spontaneous combustion.