ement. "The tongue of the wise is health." The
power of suggestion so far as the human mind is concerned is a most
wonderful and interesting field of study. Most wonderful and powerful
forces can be set into operation through this agency. One of the
world's most noted scientists, recognized everywhere as one of the most
eminent anatomists living, tells us that he has proven from laboratory
experiments that the entire human structure can be completely changed,
made over, within a period of less than one year, and that some
portions can be entirely remade within a period of a very few weeks.

"Do you mean to say," I hear it asked, "that the body can be changed
from a diseased to a healthy condition through the operation of the
interior forces?" Most certainly; and more, this is the natural method
of cure. The method that has as its work the application of drugs,
medicines and external agencies is the artificial method. The only
thing that any drug or any medicine can do is to remove obstructions,
that the life forces may have simply a better chance to do their work.
_The real healing process must be performed by the operation of the
life forces within_. A surgeon and physician of world-wide fame
recently made to his medical associates the following declaration: "For
generations past the most important influence that plays upon
nutrition, the _life principle_ itself, has remained an unconsidered
element in the medical profession, and the almost exclusive drift of
its studies and remedial paraphernalia has been confined to the action
of matter over mind. This has seriously interfered with the
evolutionary tendencies of the doctors themselves, and consequently the
psychic factor in professional life is still in a rudimentary or
comparatively undeveloped state. But the light of the nineteenth
century has dawned, and so the march of mankind in general is taken in
the direction of the hidden forces of nature. Doctors are now
compelled to join the ranks of students in psychology and follow their
patrons into the broader field of mental therapeutics. There is no
time for lingering, no time for skepticism or doubt or hesitation. _He
who lingers is lost, for the entire race is enlisted in the movement_."

I am aware of the fact that in connection with the matter we are now
considering there has been a great deal of foolishness during the past
few years. Many absurd and foolish things have been claimed and done;
but t