416:24 The sick know nothing of the mental process by which they are depleted, and next to nothing of the metaphysical method by which they can be 416:27 healed. If they ask about their disease, tell them only what is best for them to know. Assure them that they think too much about their ailments, and 416:30 have already heard too much on that subject. Turn their thoughts away from their bodies to higher ob- jects. Teach them that their being is sustained by 417:1 Spirit, not by matter, and that they find health, peace, and harmony in God, divine Love. Helpful encouragement 417:3 Give sick people credit for sometimes knowing more than their doctors. Always support their trust in the power of Mind to sustain the body. Never 417:6 tell the sick that they have more courage than strength. Tell them rather, that their strength is in proportion to their courage. If you make the sick 417:9 realize this great truism, there will be no reaction from over-exertion or from excited conditions. Maintain the facts of Christian Science, - that Spirit is God, and 417:12 therefore cannot be sick; that what is termed matter cannot be sick; that all causation is Mind, acting through spiritual law. Then hold your ground with 417:15 the unshaken understanding of Truth and Love, and you will win. When you silence the witness against your plea, you destroy the evidence, for the disease disap- 417:18 pears. The evidence before the corporeal senses is not the Science of immortal man. Disease to be made unreal To the Christian Science healer, sickness is a dream 417:21 from which the patient needs to be awakened. Dis- ease should not appear real to the physician, since it is demonstrable that the way to 417:24 cure the patient is to make disease unreal to him. To do this, the physician must understand the unreality of disease in Science. 417:27 Explain audibly to your patients, as soon as they can bear it, the complete control which Mind holds over the body. Show them how mortal mind seems to induce 417:30 disease by certain fears and false conclusions, and how divine Mind can cure by opposite thoughts. Give your patients an underlying understanding to support them 418:1 and to shield them from the baneful effects of their own conclusions. Show them that the conquest over sickness, 418:3 as well as over sin, depends on mentally destroying all belief in material pleasure or pain. Christian pleading