enjoyment by the imperfection of their organism, it becomes a moral necessity to know how to prevent so much discomfort. The fund of vital power can be increased, but everything must be done within proper limits in regard to exercise and repose; deficiency of exercise produces mental feebleness, deficiency of rest disease.

Nature asks us not to worry. Variety is nature's delight, and her favorite remedy for many evils. The charm of life is in newness of scenery and employment, and the physical system responds to that variety in a manner that would argue a conscious vitality and power of appreciation in every tissue. In variety without excess or abuse is the secret of all rational enjoyment. When to a pure and temperate recreation is added a truly hygienic diet, we shall see a physical improvement commensurate with our intellectual advancement.

There is not a natural action in the body, whether involuntary or voluntary, that may not be influenced by the peculiar state of the mind at the time. Traveling benefits, because, in developing new sensations and ideas in the mind, there is a corresponding change in the relations of atoms and forces in the physical system.

Formerly, people traveled to make a pilgrimage to a holy shrine or to receive a blessing from some patron saint. But now, man travels from necessity; to regain his lost energies, and to begin to engage in the difficult and serious business of aiding nature in the slow process of recuperation.

Whatever makes change of air and scene easy and cheap, is a public benefit; and all that increases public enjoyment, promotes public peace and security. The more pure air people breathe, the more frequently they bathe, and the more abundantly the flowers appear in their noisome nooks and corners, the better and more intelligent will they become. Happiness is health.

Sweet health! far brighter than the day,
How fair she seems when far away.
How charming and how full of rest
When we have parted from our guest.

We think how little we have prized
Her bounteous gifts, or realized
The warmth of her abundant wine
That filled our veins with strength divine.

We see the beauty of her face,

That we before had failed to trace,
And strive with fervent breath to pray
For her return without delay.

Then moving forward on the track,
Behold! we see her coming back.

Ah! then we open wide our door

And welcome her as ne'er before.

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We are affected by the emotions and sentiments from different surroundings. Any change in life and habits, changes correspondingly the direction of the vital currents. nervous system is fed by the brain, and upon the magnetisms and electricities of the nervous system depend the functions, purity and harmony of the vital organs.

The human body is composed of two hundred and fortyeight bones, and nearly five hundred distinct muscles. We have fourteen miles of blood-vessels, and five hundred miles of nervous filament, every one of which is an electric telegraph a million times more perfect than that of Morse.

All those who are conversant with the anatomy and the physiology of the human structure are fully aware that if, by any sudden process, the bones, the muscles and every particle of the frame could be dissolved and dissipated save the nerves, the latter, from the minuteness and the density with which they throng every possible portion of the system, would represent, although in a filmy manner, the whole structure as palpably and perfectly as if it had been drawn

on paper. This being indisputable, and it having been established beyond the possibility of error that the nerves are the great channels of life and sensation, it is obvious. that the mission they perform is of the most gigantic importance. As all our sensations of pain and pleasure are dependent solely upon the state of our nerves, it will be seen at once that their healthy condition is indispensable to anything approaching bodily ease or comfort, and that, should they become diseased, the most disastrous consequences could not fail to be the result.

To fine souls, emotions are as costly as deeds; a feeling may draw off as much nerve-force as a convulsion. Activity is good, but an incessant spin of activity in the brain disturbs the balance of the nervous system. We need repose, the quiet, not of inaction, but of harmony. There are two kinds of rest-one of congenial surroundings and the other of appropriate labor.

Health is temperance in all things. A degree of bodily activity is requisite to harmony of mind; the solidity of the muscles should balance the irritability of the nerves. Too great an expenditure of the nervous fluid in any direction, in business concerns, in sorrow or disappointment, or overtasked mental activities, together with a sedentary life and disregard of hygiene, often results in the dethronement of the mental powers. We should avoid all excess and extravagance, all violent and unpleasant agitation, and also, all too great or long-continued intellectual exertion.

Every one is born with a protoplasm capital, both in fact and in the power and ability of gaining or adding thereto. It is a law of physiology that every organ is strengthened in proportion as it is

physical strength may be acquired,

exercised; that even independently, despite

are half-built and half-developed. May they not increase their vital power by a sensible system of moderate yet vigorous daily exercise, without increasing risks of overdoing?

From mental and physical harmony results pure power. Physical endurance is valuable, for that implies that a man has a good deep chest and sound digestive organs; given these, he must succeed in any practical career. To harmonize body and mind, we must bring up the nervous tone and energy by means of the right kind of breathing, sunshine, fresh air, ablutions, music, exercise and varied employment.

Exercise hastens the change of the old, and the deposit of new, particles. All the processes of life, in order to be properly accomplished, require exercise of the parts in which they transpire, as of the whole body. Increase of muscular power is attended with proportionate increase of digestive power.

Digestion is the secret of life. When the intimate and inseparable relations between body and soul, and the influence of the physical cause upon spiritual conditions are fully recognized, when the laws which God has made to govern the entire organization of mankind are understood and taught in the family, the school and the church, then we may speedily look for the time when the great and saving truths of Christianity shall be fully realized, and man shall feel that he enjoys the kingdom of heaven within him, and consequently able to render his body as well as his soul a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God. The brotherhood of man is capable, through the laws of experience, of becoming a sanctuary of joy. Knowledge, which is another name for experience, must be our guide. The government of God may be said to rest, so far as it relates to mankind, upon physical, organic and moral laws.

No artifice, however keen-sighted, can obtain anything from nature at half-price. All rewards and punishments, all penalties and chastisements, flow, not from any volition or special interposition of Deity, but from the obedience or disobedience of the established immutable laws.

When we work with nature we shall observe the laws of justice and truth. By a true conception of the universe and its harmonious functions, we shall be more able to carry out its teachings and apply them properly to our own happiness and usefulness. We are admonished to be wise enough to comprehend the boundaries of our own ignorance, and learn how to outgrow them.

PEOPLE PERISH FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE.

A healthy nervous system requires, first of all, a sound, nervous organization by inheritance; second, proper nutrition; and thirdly, due exercise of mental powers. Every peculiarity of body or mind, all intellectual qualities, are or may be transmitted; and not only the natural constitution of the parents may be inherited, but their acquired habits of life, virtuous or vicious; what was a simple practice of the parents, becomes the overpowering impulse of the child. Care and proper habits do much to avert the disease to which a bad inherited nervous organization is subject, though it is impossible to entirely remove the original defect.

The next thing essential to a healthy nervous system is. proper nutrition to supply the great waste produced by the nervous action. As this nutrition must come from the blood, it is evident that whatever lessons the quantity or injures the quality of the blood, impairs the health of the nervous system. If man subsists more upon air than the food and drink he consumes, then the body and brain must feel the effects of blood poorly supplied with oxygen.