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160 Keeping these two truths in mind, it is not only easy to see why, as the Doctor admits, all systems of cure "have done service to humanity," and that "they will continue to do so until the Lord comes," but also that He comes in and by means of them according to the laws of Divine order, which turn even evils to use and over-rule all disorder for good.

"Man as he lies stretched upon his pallet, is still both a soul and a body and he is subject to the influence of spiritual forces operating by correspondence into the distinct planes of the soul and of the body, to restore the equilibrium of the one and of the other, and of one to the other. The fact that diseases are spiritual in their origin, and that the efficient cause of cure is in the spiritual world, "is no hindrance to a man's being healed naturally, for the Divine Providence concurs with such means of healing." In the process of repairing injury or maintaining the status of health, the means employed are varied according to the nature of the injury or the special demand of the condition given; and with these means spiritual forces concur in such wise as to adapt