his says nothing against, and it has absolutely nothing to do with
the great underlying laws themselves. The same has been true of the
early days of practically every system of ethics or philosophy or
religion the world has ever known. But as time has passed, these
foolish, absurd things have fallen away, and the great eternal
principles have stood out ever more and more clearly defined.

I know _personally_ of many cases where an entire and permanent cure
has been effected, in some within a remarkably short period of time,
through the operation of these forces. Some of them are cases that had
been entirely given up by the regular practice, _materia medica_. We
have numerous accounts of such cases in all times and in connection
with all religions. And why should not the power of effecting such
cures exist among us today? The _power does exist_, and it will be
actualized in just the degree that we recognize the same great laws
that were recognized in times past.

One person may do a very great deal in connection with the healing of
another, but this almost invariably implies co-operation on the part of
the one who is thus treated. In the cures that Christ performed he
most always needed the co-operation of the one who appealed to him.
His question almost invariably was, "Dost thou believe?" He thus
stimulated into activity the life-giving forces within the one cured.
If one is in a very weak condition, or if his nervous system is
exhausted, or if his mind through the influence of the disease is not
so strong in its workings, it may be well for him for a time to seek
the aid and co-operation of another. But it would be far better for
such a one could he bring himself to a vital realization of the
omnipotence of his own interior powers.

One may cure another, but to be _permanently healed_ one must do it
himself. In this way another may be most valuable as a teacher by
bringing one to a clear realization of the power of the forces within,
but in every case, in order to have a permanent cure, the work of the
self is necessary. Christ's words were almost invariably,--Go and sin
no more, or, thy sins are forgiven thee, thus pointing out the one
eternal and never-changing fact,--that all disease and its consequent
suffering is the direct or the indirect result of the violation of law,
either consciously or unconsciously, either intentionally or
unintentionally.

Suffering is designed to continue only so long as