f these laws never ill, never run down,
"nervous," or prostrated? Yes, they are sometimes ill, sometimes run
down and overworked, and suffer the many evil effects ensuing; but the
work which has produced these results is much greater and more
laborious than would have been possible without the practice of the
principles. At the same time their states of illness occur because they
only partially obey the laws. In the degree which they obey they will
be preserved from the effects of tensity, overstrung nerves, and
generally worn-out bodies; and in sickness coming from other
causes--mechanical, hereditary, etc.--again, according to their
obedience, they will be held in all possible physical and mental peace,
so that the disease may wither and drop like the decayed leaf of a
plant.

As well might we ask of the wisest clergyman in the land, Do his truths
_never_ fail him? Is he _always_ held in harmony and nobility by their
power? However great and good the man may be, this state of perfection
will never be reached in this world.

In exact parallel to the spiritual laws upon which all universal truth,
of all religions, is founded, are the truths of this teaching of
physical peace and equilibrium. As religion applies to all the needs of
the soul, so this applies to all the needs of the body. As a man may be
continually progressing in nobility of thought and action, and yet find
himself under peculiar circumstances tried even to the stumbling
point,--so may the student of bodily quiet and equilibrium, who appears
even to a very careful observer to be in surprising possession of his
forces, under a similar test stumble and fall into some form of the
evil effects out of which he has had power to lead others.

It is important that this parallelism should be recognized, that the
unity of these truths may be finally accomplished in the living;
therefore we repeat, Is this any more possible than that the full
control of the soul should be at once possessed?

Think of the marvellous construction of the human body,--the exquisite
adjustment of its economy. Could a power of control sufficient to apply
to its every detail be fully acquired at once, or even in a life-time?

But when one does fall who has made himself even partially at one with
Nature's way of living, the power of patient waiting for relief is very
different. He separates himself from his ailments in a way which
without the preparation would be to him unknown. He has