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388 know or think about hygiene, the less we are predisposed to sickness. Recollect — it is not the body, but mortal mind, which reports food as undigested. Matter does not inform you of bodily derangements, but mortal mind does so; and this pseudo-mental testimony can be destroyed only by the better results of the opposite testimony.

Our dietetic theories first admit that food sustains the life of man, and then discuss the certainty that food can

kill him. This false reasoning is rebuked, in Scripture, by the metaphors about the fount and stream, the tree and its fruit, and the kingdom divided against itself. If God has — as prevalent theories maintain — instituted laws that food shall support human life. He cannot annul these regulations by an opposite law, that food shall be inimical to existence.

Materialists contradict their own statements. Their belief in such laws, and in penalties for their infraction,

is the ancient error that there is fraternity between pain and pleasure, good and evil, God and Satan. This belief totters to its falling, before the battle-axe of Science.

A case of convulsions, produced by indigestion, came under my observation. In her belief the woman had

chronic liver-complaint, and was then suffering from a complication of symptoms connected with this belief. I cured her in a few minutes. One instant she spoke despairingly of herself. The next minute she said, “My food is all digested, and I should like something more to eat.”

We cannot deny that Life is self-sustained; and we should never deny the everlasting harmony of Soul