nvite it. In the degree that you open yourselves to it, its
inflowing tide will course through your bodies a force so vital that
the old obstructions that are dominating them today will be driven out
before it. "My words are life to them that find them, and health to
all their flesh."

There is a trough through which a stream of muddy water has been
flowing for many days. The dirt has gradually collected on its sides
and bottom, and it continues to collect as long as the muddy water
flows through it. Change this. Open the trough to a swift-flowing
stream of clear, crystal water, and in a very little while even the
very dirt that has collected on its sides and bottom will be carried
away. The trough will be entirely cleansed. It will present an aspect
of beauty and no longer an aspect of ugliness. And more, the water
that now courses through it will be of value; it will be an agent of
refreshment, of health and of strength to those who use it.

Yes, in just the degree that you realize your oneness with this
Infinite Spirit of Life, and thus actualize your latent possibilities
and powers, you will exchange dis-ease for ease, inharmony for harmony,
suffering and pain for abounding health and strength. And in the
degree that you realize this wholeness, this abounding health and
strength in yourself, will you carry it to all with whom you come in
contact; for _we must remember that health is contagious as well as
disease_.

I hear it asked, What can be said in a concrete way in regard to the
practical application of these truths, so that one can hold himself in
the enjoyment of perfect bodily health; and more, that one may heal
himself of any existing disease? In reply, let it be said that the
chief thing that can be done is to point out the great underlying
principle, and that each individual must make his own application; one
person cannot well make this for another.

First let it be said, that the very fact of one's holding the thought
of perfect health sets into operation vital forces which will in time
be more or less productive of the effect,--perfect health. Then
speaking more directly in regard to the great principle itself, from
its very nature, it is clear that more can be accomplished through the
process of realization than through the process of affirmation, though
for some affirmation may be a help, an aid to realization.

In the degree, however, that you come into a vital realization of your