To acknowledge the Truth of being and the teachings of our Master, is to gain something more of Life. Every thought would then carry us toward that perfect spiritual harmony that abides in Truth, and this belief of life in matter would be to us but a passing dream and error. Our Master said, "He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die;" and he said this when he was about to call Lazarus from the tomb. It was not of the so-called material life that he spoke, but of the immortal or spiritual facts of man's being.
The boundary of man's mortal vision is death, and with the senses material he sees not beyond it. Would he but abolish all faith in dying in order to live, how much greater works could he do in proof of immortality.
The loving mother wonders how she rears her child, he is sick so much. It is a greater wonder to her, perhaps, that he lives, than that he should die. Now and then you find a family of foreigners where the children are all well; heat, cold or exposure does not affect them in the least. They go through the beliefs incidental to childhood with comparative ease. The measles do not settle on their lungs; they are able usually to run out-doors with the other children, who will not get through those troubles with similar ease. And why? Because the fear of the mother does not affect their little bodies in the least; because she does not have time to worry, and is not educated in physiology: possibly she may be more indifferent where there are so many of them. The constant anxiety of most mothers affect their children's health more than they realize, and as a rule they give more care to the physical than they do to the moral welfare of their children.
