perplexities and responsibilities. Or, as man or woman,
you entered on some phase of life involving care or trouble. Or you
became absorbed in some game of business which, as you followed it,
left no time for play. Then as you associated with older people you
absorbed their old ideas, their mechanical methods of thinking, their
acceptance of errors without question or thought of question. In all
this you opened your mind to a heavy, care-laden current of thought.
Into this you glided unconsciously. That thought is materialized in
your blood and flesh. The seen of your body is a deposit or
crystallization of the unseen element ever flowing to your body from
your mind. Years pass on and you find that your movements are stiff
and cumbrous,--that you can with difficulty climb a tree, as at
fourteen. Your mind has all this time been sending to your body these
heavy, inelastic elements, making your body what now it is. . . .

"Your change for the better must be gradual, and can only be
accomplished by bringing the thought current of an all-round
symmetrical strength to bear on it,--by demanding of the Supreme Power
to be led in the best way, by diverting your mind from the many
unhealthy thoughts which habitually have been flowing into it without
your knowing it, to healthier ones. . . .

"Like the beast, the bodies of those of our race have in the past
weakened and decayed. This will not always be. Increase of spiritual
knowledge will show the cause of such decay, and will show, also, how
to take advantage of a Law or Force to build us up, renew ever the body
and give it greater and greater strength, instead of blindly using that
Law or Force, as has been done in the past, to weaken our bodies and
finally destroy them."

Full, rich, and abounding health is the normal and the natural
condition of life. Anything else is an abnormal condition, and
abnormal conditions as a rule come through perversions. God never
created sickness, suffering, and disease; they are man's own creations.
They come through his violating the laws under which he lives. So used
are we to seeing them that we come gradually, if not to think of them
as natural, then to look upon them as a matter of course.

The time will come when the work of the physician will not be to treat
and attempt to heal the body, but to heal the mind, which in turn will
heal the body. In other words, the true physician will be a teacher;
his work will be to k