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I have accepted as Truth is God's Mind, God's Thought and God's Body forever and forever.

Fervently reject all sense of selfishness.

While this treatment is written for ourselves, it may also be given to any other by saying "he" or "she" instead of "I." In Truth, all good is universal and whatever may be said of one may be said of all --- " God is no respecter of persons."

Now we will suppose one in belief of sickness comes to us for help. It is sometimes asked by a young student: How shall I begin treatment? As a help, think for a. moment of the patient's name, or simply say, My dear friend, or My dear sister, brother or child.

We will give this treatment for a claim of rheumatism and it will serve as a model for any treatment we may wish to give.

We will first be very sure that we have been faithfully purifying our own thought of all belief of disease. We can not help another to realize his freedom from belief of sickness if we believe in its power --- it would be the "blind leading the blind." Before we treat another, let us be certain of ourselves. Some scientists have had what they call a peculiar experience. They have become affected, they say, with the trouble for which they were treating a patient. This could not be possible if the practitioner's own belief had been entirely put away. This teaches us another very important lesson, viz: