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force along the nerve currents, marshalling the powers of 

 mind and body, so that the will of man is supreme in its 

 control, and every muscle and organ and faculty moves 

 at its command. The mysterious relation of brain and 

 nerves to the healthful activities can never be explained, 

 but the fact is not to be doubted that in a condition of 

 health the brain rules in the conscious and the uncon- 

 scious action of the whole body. It is often said that 

 the mind is diseased, but the truth commonly is that the 

 brain is affected, so that it cannot act for the mind either 

 in transmitting its commands or in its equally important 

 unconscious influence along the lines of the nerves in 

 controlling digestion, in helping on in the assimilations 

 and secretions, and even in the circulation of the blood. 

 A weak or sickly brain brings inefficiency into all our 

 actions, and enfeebles and distorts the best energies. 

 Now I raise the question, where would you send a man 

 to gain strong muscles, a vigorous digestion, and the 

 healthful activity of lungs, and heart, and brain, if it be 

 not to the labor which is under the open heavens, and to 

 feed without restraint upon the best bounties of God, 

 which come from the well kept farm. 



I need hardly say that health is essential to our joy. 

 It is the thing we seek after with great longing. The 

 ancient Alchemist sought in vain to change all things 

 into gold. There is a modern Alchemist who not only 

 seeks for the great panacea, but claims to have found it, 

 and the world is full of his boasts, and men and women 

 in countless numbers are seeking for the blessings of his 

 healing art. They search for health along all avenues, 

 by all remedies and arts, and in all climes. This desire 

 is emphasized by the miseries of a ruined body, whose 

 aches and pains are so many voices always ciwing out to 



