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Rh all things will work together to bring his life into order; one thing with another, and all together with a view to the harmonious whole in heaven, which is the divine end in the making of us. The more simply and trustfully any one is in this life, the more he will regard disease as a disorder and a manifestation of evils, and the more he will rise above it, not by denying it, but by seeking only to know and do the Lord's will, and to come into obedience to the laws of spiritual and bodily health, and the more he will enjoy inward tranquillity and peace. They are right, therefore, who assert the supremacy of the spiritual life; for so far as we come into that orderly life of the spirit, which is regeneration, we are protected from the sphere of evil spirits, brought within the sphere of angelic association, and into the stream of that divine influx and operation which worts all things for eternal ends. This spiritual state lifts from the body at once the chief cause of its ills and makes way for happy usefulness day by day in the circumstances which are the best possible preparation for our entrance into the soul's own world in its own body; a body which is fashioned in the image of the soul's ruling love, and is free in a world