FIFTY MILLION STRONG 



dormant, and the expectation of every optimist is that the 

 cooperation of the next generation will discover some of this 

 talent for the benefit of humanity. 



Cooperation develops symmetry. God gives to most persons 

 at birth all the materials for the development of a symmetri- 

 cal human being. The great trinity, body, mind and soul, 

 is the inheritance of all. What do most people do with this 

 great inheritance? A study of human life reveals the fact 

 of awful neglect and misuse. Only here and there does one 

 see men and women who appreciate what God has given them 

 and develop their threefold nature, thus showing the world 

 what can be accomplished when the whole life is trained for 

 efficiency. Most persons are one-sided. Here is a man with 

 a magnificent physique, but with the mind and soul of an 

 infant. Soon the body begins to show the marks of age and 

 then the man is reduced to poverty, since the immortal part 

 of him has been neglected. Here is another man with a 

 marvelously developed intellect and a body that indicates 

 that his whole life has been dedicated to the intellectual to 

 the great detriment of the physical. The world admires 

 intellect, but its admiration increases when intellect has not 

 been built on the foundation of a weak body. Alexander 

 Pope, the invalid, had a great intellect, but an " interrogation 

 point" of a body. Sir Walter Scott had a great intellect 

 and a strong body. Whom does the world admire the more? 

 Again, a man may develop wonderfully his spiritual nature 

 with little thought for a trained intellect and a well-kept 

 body. No, it is the symmetrical man that the world admires 

 most today, and it is the symmetrical man that is accomplish- 

 ing the most in establishing the Kingdom here on earth. 



The earth's greatest asset is the child, and the one thing 

 above everything else that appeals to the child is symmetry. 

 It is the man or woman who is in perfect sympathy 

 with the play life of childhood and who experiences with 

 the child the wild joy of reveling in physical activity; the 

 man or woman who can rise from the physical in easy man- 

 ner to the mental and carry the child on the wings of 



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