for more than twelve years, the soul of nothing is necessarily immortal as to its shape or form; neither, in an essential sense, is anything susceptible of annihilation. Only ultimate forms are eternal. The internal form of man is an ultimate form, therefore, his internal form, with its glorious endowments, is eternal. But the forms of plants and animals are transitional forms; therefore, such forms, with all their life principles, eventually cease from existence. Only the form ceases to exist; the life principles eternally continue.

But whither go the soul principles of animals when they die? Into the illimitable sea of life that throbs and surges around, above, and through us. The bodies of animals and plants decompose and blend with the substances of the material world; so the souls of these transient bodies dissolve and mix with the vital principles of the spiritual universe, which encompass us on every side boundlessly. The earth is incessantly producing new bodies, new fish, new plants, new animals, &c., and into these last developments the elementary principles of previous bodies freely enter, on their way up to MAN.

Habits and their Consequences.

QUESTION." Although I have read much, I am not satisfied with what I know of Tobacco, Alcohol, and Syphilis. Why were men so constituted as to love the first two, or engender the last?"

ANSWER.-By a close and cautious examination, we are forced to the conclusion that no human being is constituted to love either alcohol or tobacco. The effects that follow the first use of alcohol are pleasing and tranquilizing. The memory of this temporary relief from worldly annoyances and fatigue, is the magnet that draws thousands to drink more, and more, and yet more, until the habit is fixed beyond the power of will to resist. And this is true even after judgment and

conscience have combined against the habit. The use of tobacco is at first an affair of imitation among boys; subsequently it becomes an independent, injurious habit, uncontrollable by the individual's will.

Mother Nature is very kind and just to all her loved children. If they obey her best laws, she crowns their deeds with happiness. If, however, they remain under the guidance of lower laws, she metes out to them the philosophical consequences of their misdirection. She crowns conjugal love and true marriage with the diadem of happiness; but she as justly generates disease and corruption in the vitals of those who violate her sanctities.

Put on the Will Power,

DISEASE." I am a sufferer from no apparent disease, but possess little vigor of either body or brain. I desire to know if this arises from some defect of organization, or is it a weakness I may some time surmount ?"

REMEDY.It is unworthy an immortal spirit to surrender its powers to that lawless wretch, the meanest sinner among five hundred diseases, known in these parts as "GEN. DE BILITY." Concerning the duration of bodily infirmities, we give answer in the poet's words:

"Naught eternal is

But that which is of God. All pain and woe

Are therefore finite. Can the robber steal

From God? All souls are His, and Him deriv'd,

And thus are good, and Good alone is endless.

But Evil, having birth from second causes,
Created things, gross matter, and their laws,

Is not from all eternity with God,

But hath a recent origin, and thus
Hath not an endless, but a casual being,

And must expire where its reign began."

Obey the laws of bathing in cold water every morning; arise

early; go out into Mother Nature's auroral embrace; rest half an hour before dinner; put on the Will Power; step strongly ; and thus summon forth your yet dormant energies. You may

conquer.

The Evil of Suicide.

Persons who die by sudden accidents do not suffer intellectually and morally, because their misfortune is purely physiological or physical (the same in this respect as that of the suicide,) while the deliberate or desperate taking of one's own life is attended, in the other world, with the superaddition of all the intellectual disqualifications and moral darknesses which were antecedent to, and consequent upon, the state that led to the ignoble act. No individual can go self-sent and abruptly into the Spirit Land, without ultimately discovering the secret cause of the deed to have existed within his own mental constitution. This is certain, no matter how great the earthly provocation which primarily induced the person to consummate the act. It is the vivid consciousness of this individual unworthiness that, for a lengthened period in the other life, causes the regrets and sufferings of the suicide.

Hahnemann's Materia Medica.

There is much truth in the following remarks by Dr. Hempel: Who would not rather give his child a few pellets of hepar sulphuris, spongia, bichromate of potash, etc., to have it cured of croup, than to have it bled, purged, crammed full of emetics, and to have its skin blistered by vesicatories? Or who would not rather be cured of pleuritis or pneumonia in two or three days, by taking a few pleasant, harmless pellets of aconite, bryonia, belladonna, etc., than by submitting to all the tortures of the regular treatment for three times the length of time

required by the Homeopathic practice? The obstinacy and blindness of the pretended "regular" physicians are truly wonderful; they all have it in their power to shorten the sufferings of their patients by treating them Homeopathically, and yet, there is not one of them who would only condescend to look into Hahnemann's Materia Medica, much less to call upon those who have studied it, and who would be glad to inform their dissenting brother practitioners of the treatment to be pursued in particular cases, and to gradually initiate them in the principles of our art. There seems to be a gulf between the Homeopathic and Allopathic practitioners, which can never be filled; there can be no intellectual fellowship between those two classes of men, and nothing is left to the Homeopathic physicians except to appeal to the common sense of the public, and the brilliant results of their practice.

An Infallible Catholicon.

The Eclectic Medical Review gives the following, from a young lady who was fashionably educated at boarding schools, and indulged in idleness at home, so that there was neither strength nor elasticity in her frame: "I used to be so feeble that I could not even lift a broom, and the least physical exertion would make me ill for a week. Looking one day at the Irish girls, and noticing their healthy, robust appearance, I determined to make a new trial, and see if I could not bring the roses to my cheeks, and rid myself of the dreadful lassitude that oppressed me. One sweeping day I went bravely to work, cleaning thoroughly the parlors, three chambers, the front stairs and hall, after which I lay down and rested until noon, when I arose and ate a heartier meal than for many a day. Since that time I have occupied some portion of every day in active domestic labor, and not only are all my friends congratulating

me upon my improved appearance, but in my whole beingmind, body, and spirit-do I experience a wondrous vigor, to which I have hitherto been a stranger. Young ladies, try my catholicon."

How to Live One Hundred Years.

Ralph Farnham, the veteran of Bunker Hill, says: "Though I am in my 105th year, I am not past all usefulness; I split my own kindling wood, and build my own fires. I am the first one up in the morning, and the first one in bed at night. I never sleep or lie down in the day time, but rise at five, and retire at seven, and this I continue summer and winter. I have always been temperate, and for over thirty years past I have not tasted a drop of spirituous liquors, or even cider. I was never sick in my life, so as to require the attendance of a physician. About twenty-five years ago I broke my thigh by falling on the ice, and had a surgeon to set it, but this is the only time a doctor ever attended me. I live on plain farmers' diet, drink tea and coffee, and eat a very light supper, never eating meat after dinner. I have no doubt it is owing to these abstemious and regular habits, and the avoidance of medicine at all little ailments, that my life has been so prolonged. I voted for Gen. Washington for President, and have voted at every Presidential election since."

A Word to Mothers.

Fanny Fern has contributed the following excellent medical instruction to mothers, on the subject of air and exercise: "Consider it your religious duty to take out-door exercise without fail, each day. Sweeping and trotting round the house will not take its place: the exhilaration of open air and change of scene are absolutely necessary. Oh, I know all about Lucy's