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 universal law of brotherhood—that each shall discharge its appropriate function, not apart from the others and for the sake of itself alone, but in harmony with, and for the welfare of all the rest. And the more faithfully it labors to do this, the more does it promote its own health and strength as well as the health and strength of the other members. The welfare of each is linked indissolubly with that of all the others. One life pervades them all, and each receives and enjoys that life in proportion as it respects and faithfully works for the good of the whole. The moment one ceases to do its work, or appropriates more than its share of the juices elaborated, or more than it needs to fit it for the performance of its appointed use, that moment comes disease—disease to itself and disease to all the rest. And if it persevere in this abnormal course, sooner or later death inevitably ensues.

Such is the law, fixed and unalterable. There is no escape from it. And what a striking exemplification does it furnish of the great law of spiritual life, the law of neighborly love!—yes, and the sure consequence of a persistent violation of this law!

Although one life pervades all the bodily organs, they do not all receive it in like measure. Their receptivity is as various as their forms. Some receive it in a higher degree than others, and