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from the blood, such diseases as leprosy, insanity, inflam- 

 mation of the spleen and remittent fever are the conse- 

 quence. If any derangement happen to the gall-bladder 

 so that it cannot secrete the bile, bilious disorders follow. 

 If the kidneys get disordered, so that they cannot abstract 

 the water from the blood, dropsy and similar diseases are 

 the result. It all depends, however, on the will of God. 

 In the same manner, all the organs of the body have a 

 specific function. If it were not so, the body would 

 perish. . . . 



Our intention has been to show you that man is a great 

 world, and that you might know what a multitude of ser- 

 vants his body has to minister to him : so that you might 

 realize while in your enjoyments, in walking, in sleeping 

 or at rest in your world, that by God's appointment, these 

 numerous servants in your employ never suffer their func- 

 tions to cease for a minute. Listen now for a moment can- 

 didly. If you had a servant who had been faithful to you 

 during his whole life, with whose services you were not 

 able to dispense, while he could at any time find a better 

 master — yet if he should only for a single day disobey 

 your orders, you would get angry, beat him, and wish to 

 get rid of him. But God has been abundant in kindness 

 to you, and has given you so many servants, and has in no 

 wise any need of you. How then can it be just that you 

 should become enslaved to yourself, and follow your own 

 passions, and that forgetful of pleasing the infinite God, 

 you should rebel against your Creator and Benefactor, and 

 that you should render obedience to Satan, who is your en- 

 emy and the enemy of God ? 



Many and even innumerable books, student of the di- 

 vine mysteries, have been written in explanation of the organ- 

 ization of the body and the uses of its parts : but they have 

 no more made the subject clear and exhausted it, than a 

 drop can illustrate the ocean, or an atom illustrate the sun. 



