soul feel harmonious? It cannot; for mind must suffer with the organs by which it exists. This fact, however, is of the highest significance. It teaches that the soul-which is the Fountain of forces out of which the mind rises into entity from an elemental state-contains the conquering and health-giving powers. From these energies, and not from medicines, the sick may expect relief. Sweet and grateful breathings from invisible principles are cognizable only by means of the sensitive energies of mind. Granite rocks do not hear the whisperings of infinite wisdom, although they invariably move in harmony and keep step in progress with such wisdom; while human beings, when unfolded in their affections for the soft and thrilling music of truth, not only obey divine wisdom in the simple luxuriousness of spontaneous freedom, but, in addition to such obedience, they receive and enjoy that handsome healthfulness which naturally results from equilibrium with the principles of such wisdom. It is true that medicines and magnetisms can and do contribute (sometimes) to the right development of the patient's inherent energies of health; and so, indeed, do all arbitrary appliances affect, either for good or for evil, all bodies and forces with which they come in contact; but this surely cannot be interpreted and appropriated as a sufficient foundation for the absurd doctrine that drugs, medicines, and magnetisms, contain, per se, virtues which may displace or regenerate your vices and consequent misery.

Nay, nay-listen, O suffering soul of earth! and thine ear shall catch the soft and grateful music of Nature's truths. The authority and divinity of thy Father are impressed upon each speaking principle. Motion, Life, Sensation, Intelligence -do not these principles rule, or ought they not to govern, in every part of your physical body? Do they not labor day and night, both when you wake and when you sleep, for the full

growth, refinement, and harmonious expansion, of all organs and functions? Is not the unspeakable goodness of our eternal Father and Mother displayed within the temple of your individuality? What principle of wisdom was it that, before you had a personal consciousness, built your bones and jointed them so beautifully? Do you not suppose that the same energy is with you this very moment? Behold with what promptness your windpipe expels a grain of sand or a bit of bread, which perchance invaded the province formed only to attract and enjoy the pure air of heaven. With what divine energy does the spirit of blood work to heal the wound on the surface of your temple? A mote is in thine eye-instantly the tissues send forth a flood of tears to wash it away! Thy stomach is stronger in righteousness than thy brain. Ever since your birth the digestive receptacle has been tempted, fed-crammed, jammed and poisoned-with every imaginable good and evil thing, from the outrageous inventions of the nurse, who first took you from the doctor's hands, to the last pastry cook's indescribable compound of table temptations. Your brain could not contain one half the shadows which such substances cast upon it, neither could your judgment dispose of a tenth part of such feeling in the shape of thought and intelligence; but your stomach pours forth its fluid, and commissions its self-healing attributes so promptly and perfectly, that all you can justly complain of is"indigestion ;" headache, of course, and intestinal disturbances.

Recuperation is natural to all living bodies. Every derangement, if curable at all, the self-repairing energies may overcome with harmony. Only open your understanding to a knowledge of those magnetic agencies, or perhaps mechanical aids, which will remove obstructions, and thus put into Nature's hands the reins of physical government. Man's fearfully constructed body is more than paralleled by his wonderful mind. This

power is endowed with the tendency to work both ways; it will either bring disease upon the body or remove it. If your own mind cannot begin the work, (which many times happens,) then avail yourself of the healing attributes of another mind. If your entrammeled imagination still needs a visible medicine to fix its faith upon, why-we are sorry for you-send for the only physician in whom you believe; and then straightway "let us pray" that he (or she) will give you the most artistically small dose of medicine possible for his sense of justice and adaptation to suggest.

The truth is, that, accidents excepted, the great majority of human bodily diseases are of mental origin. Disturbances begin in the forces and end in the forms; therefore, by virtue of a psychological and physiological necessity, the remedy must commence in the form and terminate in the spiritual constitution. Swallowing a disgusting mass of medicine is never necessary, any more than is a weekly dose of orthodox religion indispensable to good morals and happiness after death; and yet, disgraceful and disagreeable as it is, there are millions of our humanity who habitually take atrociously large doses of both! From all this, and innumerable other equally popular outrages, "good Lord deliver us!"

CHAPTER VI.

A PNEUMOGASTRICAL DISCOVERY.

MAN is an immortal, self-conscious spirit, enveloped for wise purposes by matter of a grosser sort, over which he is designed, through his volition and intelligence, to hold the supreme and exclusive control. His integral attribute for selfdevelopment and self-government surpasses the belief of his uneducated judgment. He is reckless and faithless in regard to the divine principles of his inner life, because he is boundlessly ignorant of the eternal riches that lie buried within the soil of his spiritual constitution, and the penalty is embodied in the form of DISEASE, whose miserable offspring are innumerable. Thousands of our brothers and sisters-good and tender-hearted people, who inhabit the hamlets and mansions of earth—are dragging out a wretched existence. The kindest, most skillful, best paid, and latest diplomatized physicians, can yield no perfect health to these "sin-sick" and suffering ones-and why? Because, in too many instances, both doctor and patient are equally ignorant of the psychological energies slumbering in the human organization. Coarse, cruel, crude, bitter drugs! What can they do for you, compared with the kindly offices of the spiritual forces that bivouac in every part of your wondrous organism?

Our new discovery is not to be patented. We design it for

the universal use and benefit of man. It is a self-adjusting and inexpensive invention, for the exclusive good of those who, from whatever parentage and subsequently producing causes, are summoned into the battle-field against the depredations and unlawful invasions of General DeBility.

The insidious operations of this celebrated "General" are delineated, and prescribed for, in almost every modern newspaper. "The Regular Faculty" proceed against him and all his embattled hosts, with countless systematic poisons, all established by Chemistry, and obscured from vulgar gaze by Latin babiliments" too numerous to mention." Thompsonians strenuously insist that the old headstrong "General" dreads the formidable array of their forces-in classified battalionsLobelia, No. 6, Diaphoretics, Compositions, and Steam! Hahnemannians, with indisputable argument, show that the most certain plan is to fight down the first symptoms of insurrection, invasion, or revolution-do this, promptly and scientifically, and the valiant "General" will depart with his armed host, overwhelmed and mortified with irreparable losses and defeat. The Cold-and-Warm-Water Brotherhood, with unfaltering zeal and undoubted intelligence, oppose themselves antagonistically to Gen. De Bility's encroachments with various streams and dispositions of the universal element also, with napkins, compresses, bandages, straight-jackets, wet sheets, &c., to which the enemy generally expresses indignant messages. He grows daily more restive under such Guerrilla treatment, proudly disdains the style of warfare, frowns upon the hydraulic establishments throughout the continent, and retreats to more safe quarters and mountain fastnesses, viz: to the families where the "Regular Faculty" make their regular visits.

In these remarks we do not design to misrepresent any system of medicine. We affirm that no medical system is master