degree that we open ourselves to this divine
inflow, does this voice of intuition, this voice of the soul, this
voice of God, speak clearly; and in the degree that we recognize,
listen to, and obey it, does it speak ever more clearly, until
by-and-by there comes the time when it is unerring, _absolutely
unerring_, in its guidance.

FULLNESS OF LIFE--BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.

God is the Spirit of Infinite Life. If we are partakers of this life,
and have the power of opening ourselves fully to its divine inflow, it
means more, so far as even the physical life is concerned, than we may
at first think. For very clearly, the life of this Infinite Spirit,
from its very nature, can admit of no disease; and if this is true, no
disease can exist in the body where it freely enters, through which it
freely flows.

Let us recognize at the outset that, so far as the physical life is
concerned, _all life is from within out_. There is an immutable law
which says: "As within, so without; cause, effect." In other words,
the thought forces, the various mental states and the emotions, all
have in time their effects upon the physical body.

Some one says: "I hear a great deal said today in regard to the effects
of the mind upon the body, but I don't know as I place very much
confidence in this." Don't you? Some one brings you sudden news. You
grow pale, you tremble, or perhaps you fall into a faint. It is,
however, through the channel of your mind that the news is imparted to
you. A friend says something to you, perhaps at the table, something
that seems very unkind. You are hurt by it, as we say. You have been
enjoying your dinner, but from this moment your appetite is gone. But
what was said entered into and affected you through the channel of your
mind.

Look! yonder goes a young man, dragging his feet, stumbling over the
slightest obstruction in the path. Why is it? Simply that he is
weak-minded, an idiot. In other words, _a falling state of mind is
productive of a falling condition of the body_. To be sure minded is
to be sure footed. To be uncertain in mind is to be uncertain in step.

Again, a sudden emergency arises. You stand trembling and weak with
fear. Why are you powerless to move? Why do you tremble? And yet you
believe that the mind has but little influence upon the body. You are
for a moment dominated by a fit of anger. For a few hours afterwards
you complain of a violent headache. And