It may be set down as a basic law of universal application,...

Seymour (Ind.) Democrat.

It may be set down as a basic law of universal application, that to be so solicitous about keeping one's health, to be so anxiously apprehensive of the causes which threaten it, is a serious mistake. This is one of the respects in which Christian Science has been beneficial and one of the secrets of the amazing success which has attended its propaganda. Those who have accepted and are faithful to its doctrines are not constantly thinking about their bodily condition and fearing that they may fall sick. They have full faith that their good health will continue, and instead of worrying about eventualities entirely beyond their power to control, they take its continuance as a matter of course.

Our forefathers, knowing nothing about microbes, took no precautions against them, yet they enjoyed as good health as we do and lived as long. Let us set aside hysteria and be guided by the promptings of plain, ordinary common sense

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