and the weeping and mourning of their surviving friends. Naturally, such a state of mind, commingled of fear and self-pity, works havoc upon the body. Many a man and woman have spent sleepless nights, driving healing slumber away with their imaginings and terrors at the fancied encroachment of some dread disease.

We must realize the true nature of health, and then we may be able to cope with illness. Health is the natural state of man, illness is the exception. Man is essentially a healthy being. God, the fountain of life and health, created man in his own image; but man, through failure to realize this truth, follows paths which lead to bodily deterioration. Sickness does not mean that the divine in man is impaired, but it means simply that the divine flow of health, the fountain of strength, has been brought to a standstill.

If man would but realize that he is essentially a spiritual being, that his body is but the vesture of the individualized spirit, that his life is a portion of the great Spring of life which fills the world, he would at once discard the constant fear of ill-health to which he is a prey.

The organs of the body are but the visible instruments whereby the spirit expresses itself, the senses are but mediums, and the brain is but a tool, and all the other processes are but messengers to carry out the injunction from the higher center of man, from his mind. Sickness in the body is a symptom of some disturbance in the mind-center; bodily sickness is the signal of some form of mental depression, conscious or unconscious. It is the spirit in man, therefore, the invisible, the mind, which must be considered first in avoidance and treatment of illness. Spirit cannot be reached through physical channels, it must be reached through divine methods. When one fears the approach of illness, let him commune with the divine in him; let him, in order to stimulate the flow