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360 Spirit and is harmonious; but this is a most high, and most secret place to personal sense, that knows nothing about it.

When the relation between Soul and body, and God and man is understood in science, we shall become harmonious mind and body, and never until then.

If Life is affected in the least by exercise, food, clothing, etc., God is discordant, the harmony of Spirit beclouded, and Life at length put out. Physiology and materia medica direct us not, as David did, to God, “a present help in time of trouble,” but change the tones of Life to a minor key that flattens into discord, while the science of Life that sharpens its sweet tones and conscious harmony into immortality, asks in vain for a hearing. That “old things shall pass away and behold, all things shall become new,” I for one, anticipate with joy, willing, if need be, that Truth shall cut off right hands and pluck out right eyes, in amputating error. We perceive the “irresistible conflict” that awaits the ages when Truth shall overturn the beliefs of man.

Let the science of Life be taught in our institutions of learning and taken up by pulpit and press; give it but the place of physiology and it would eradicate sickness, sin and death, in less time than these have been increasing on the old systems and stereotyped plans to beat them. Simply to understand the nothingness of error, saves a Don Quixote warfare with windmills, and we gain the immortality and liberty of being, by control over our bodies. Since man “hath sought out many inventions,” he has not learned that knowledge can save him from the dire effects of knowledge. Many a hopeless case of disease has been induced by a