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After understanding this Law, we notice as we did not before how ills and evils are literally invited into most persons' lives! A mother, all unconscious of what she is doing for her family, thinks and talks disease, admits its power and dreads its attack. Thus does she open the very door that will let in these beliefs. "The fear of man bringeth a snare, but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe."

Listen to the conversation about you; is it not of ills, accidents, sickness and death? This proves of what man is thinking and what is his view of life. Paul tells us to "put off concerning the former conversation, the old man." The old opinion of man is to be put out of thought and speech.

It is wrong thinking that we feel as illness. How important it is to hold to the Perfect Idea in which is found no taint of sin, sickness or death, so that our thought and word may always be the expression of Perfection.

In a class, one said, "I was riding on a load of hay; the hay slipped, throwing me to the ground and breaking my leg. I had never thought of such a thing, so surely it can not be said that I received the fruit of my belief." "Let me ask you," replied the teacher, "do you believe in accidents?" "Yes." "Do you read and discuss accidents of others?" "Yes." "Do you believe that if you should fall from a high place, you might break a bone?" "Yes." "Then I see that you received the fruit of your belief!"