rapidly the body will be exchanging conditions of disease
and inharmony for health and harmony. There is no particular reason,
however, for this surprise, for in this way he is simply allowing the
Omnipotent Power to do the work, which will have to do it ultimately in
any case.

If there is a local difficulty, and one wants to open this particular
portion, in addition to the entire body, to this inflowing life, he can
hold this particular portion in thought, for to fix the thought in this
way upon any particular portion of the body stimulates or increases the
flow of the life forces in that portion. It must always be borne in
mind, however, that whatever healing may be thus accomplished, effects
will not permanently cease until causes have been removed. In other
words, _as long as there is the violation of law, so long disease and
suffering will result_.

This realization that we are considering will have an influence not
only where there is a diseased condition of the body, but even where
there is not this condition it will give an increased bodily life,
vigor, and power.

We have had many cases, in all times and in all countries, of healing
through the operation of the interior forces, entirely independent of
external agencies. Various have been the methods, or rather, various
have been the names applied to them, but the great law underlying all
is one and the same, and the same today. When the Master sent his
followers forth, his injunction to them was to heal the sick and the
afflicted, as well as to teach the people. The early church fathers
had the power of healing, in short, it was a part of their work.

And why should we not have the power today, the same as they had it
then? Are the laws at all different? Identically the same. Why,
then? Simply because, with a few rare exceptions here and there, we
are unable to get beyond the mere letter of the law into its real vital
spirit and power. It is the letter that killeth, it is the spirit that
giveth life and power. Every soul who becomes so individualized that
he breaks through the mere letter and enters into the real vital
spirit, _will have the power_, as have all who have gone before, and
when he does, he will also be the means of imparting it to others, for
he will be one who will move and who will speak with authority.

We are rapidly finding today, and we shall find even more and more, as
time passes, that practically all disease, with its co