there, then, no "balm in Gilead"? Is there no hope for such? No chance to replenish their exhausted forces? no "straight and narrow way" for chronic sinners to be saved?

We answer affirmatively, and bid all the diseased to enter upon the duties of the life-battle, by which Gen. DeBility can be at once and forever vanquished. And we would, therefore, admonish every sick one to read what we have already communicated, and to adopt whatever portion of the remedies is best fitted to individual necessities. But we have much to write respecting many functional diseases, not yet named in these chapters.

When the warm season is upon us, during which the early morning air is most magnetic and renovating, there is one straightforward habit to be acquired by the consumptive and digestively debilitated—that is, to rise in the early dawn, (say at half-past four, until autumn,) dress comfortably, and immediately proceed upon a ramble-eating a small orange while walking—and be sure to return, disrobe, and to lie down to rest one full hour before breakfast. Sleep for thirty minutes, if possible it will be possible by practice and rise in time to take a hand-bath, and to dress, all before the bell rings you to the first meal.

We know how cruel is this almost sovereign remedy for vital debility. It would be far easier to "give up"-to keep in bed while the golden sun is rising "with healing in its wings"—and, as the foolish neighbor does, to send for a doctor to administer doses of indescribable, drugs and tinctures. But let your reason act, and it will inform you, not withstanding the hardship of early rising, that a walk, a sleep, and a hand-bath, (wash your whole body as you would your face, in two quarts of cold water,) are the most glorious remedies for vital debility possible to prescribe The refresh

ing SLEEP before breakfast, and after a walk in the morning, is, particularly in this climate, a draught of pure health. It is well, also, to sleep about thirty minutes before dinner. Let this rest be inaugurated by the pneumogastric effort and vital equalization. If, after you rise early, you should attempt to read a paper or book, to study, or to indulge intellectual exercises, the debility of your system, nerves, bowels, and blood, will be in a few days increased four-fold. Avoid, therefore, all mental occupation previous to eating the morning meal. Otherwise, your strength will soon be weakness compounded.

In regard to eating: It is proper to caution all debilitated persons, young or adult, in the summer months particularly, not to eat fruit and vegetables at the same meal. Together, in the stomach and bowels, they chemically operate to generate various semi-poisonous gases; by which dysentery and various bowel disorders may be produced in a few hours. Of vegetables, beside bread, use but two kinds at one meal. the "stalled ox "-forbid the " fatted calf "be "fowl play" as nourishment-for your sake no sheep need be "led like a lamb to the slaughter "-let no swine "find favor in your sight"-but, without pastries and sweet things, live rationally and thankfully every day.

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We admonish you to be perpetually conscious of the glorious world in which you live; but which, with all its beauty and glory, is but the alphabet of the Spirit Land in the surrounding immensity. By coming out of the Egypt of Disease, your eyes will open upon the universally distributed glories of the visible creation. Your happiness will be increased an hundred fold in a few weeks. Now, while sick and confined to hospital limits, you live like subterranean mortals, shut out from the glory of the infinite. Who ever knew a first-rate good evil man? Or

who ever saw a happy and healthy sick man? Exodus and emancipation from Disease is a wonderful deliverance from the "Devil and all his imps." The temple of Nature would possess a new charm to the thus delivered. To illustrate what effect it would exert on the good-minded, we will quote, from Cicero's Natura Deorum, the following sublime conception:

"If there were beings who lived in the depths of the earth, in dwelling places adorned with paintings and statues, and everything enjoyed by those most wealthy and fortunate in the world; and if these beings could receive tidings of the glory and power of the divinities, and, after that, come out from their dark residences through the fissures of the globe to the surface on which we stand; if they could suddenly see the earth, and the sea, and the circle of Heaven-contemplate the great cloudy expanse, hear the winds of the firmament, and admire the majesty and beautiful effulgence of the sun; could they behold the starry host of heaven in the night, the rolling and changing moon, and the rising and setting of the celestial orbs in the order prescribed from eternity-they would surely exclaim. 'There are indeed Gods, and such magnificent things must be the work of their hands.'"

CHAPTER V.

SELF-HEALING ENERGIES BETTER THAN MEDICINES.

Earthly language cannot embody all we have to impart under this head, in regard to the perfect adaptation and competency of man's vital energies, to self-repair and harmonize the bodily organs.

As soul speaks to soul in the blissfulness and breathings of magnetic attraction, so the powers which live in all the cerebral centers and visceral organs meet and mingle together, like angels in the garden of light, for purposes of greatest good to the physical and mental proprietor.

Suffering Ones of earth! have ye not realized the medical wisdom that floats through every vein of your physical structure? There is no power more self-just and self-restoring than that which breathes, and sobs, and gushes, in your personal organization. Atheism is not more destitute of the divine qualities of intuitive wisdom than are the various systems of medicine of that restoring principle which alone can summon the spirit of health from its retreats in the corporeal economy. As ye cannot gather figs from thistles, so ye cannot obtain health from the drugs and medicines. Medicines cannot impart the principle of health, any more than can a book convey the light of wisdom. But there are aids and helps in medicine, just as there are hints and streams of suggestiveness in books.

The error, however, is in the source of reliance. The sinsick soul goes meekly to a priest, or prayer-meeting, with unbounded confidence in the efficacy of the remedies and ceremonies prescribed by the priest. In like manner the diseased mortal seeks the doctor with unlimited faith in the power of popular nostrums and inorganic compounds. And yet, as the age of honesty and intelligence expands, we find patients and physicians more and more agreeing that medicines, at best, but serve and subserve the inherent energies of the organism; that health is possible only by means of the self-restoring and conservative principles which the good Father and Mother transmitted to the organs, muscles, nerves, and blood, of the living temple; and, therefore, that all belief, or pretension, that medicines hold and convey the life-giving energies of health and beauty to man's body, is nothing less than mischievous superstition or intentional imposition.

Disease, in very shortest phrase, is discord. The causes and effects of this one "discord" are various and innumerable. They differ in different persons, because of temperament and occupation; also, they differ in different seasons, because of temperature and potential electricities. Spring-discords of body are different, in the same persons and places, from those which prevail in autumn; so, also, for reasons above given, winterdisturbances differ widely from those of the summer time.

Outward manifestations of invisible disturbances, are indications of the causes of discord, which preponderate either in temperament, occupation, or temperature. Something is unbal anced in the empire of concealed forces-either an excess, a defi ciency, or a misplacement of parts-perhaps, as occasionally happens, all these causes of pain and suffering exist and operate in combination.

When the body is thus besieged with "discord," how can the