VIII
HEALTH, AND HOW TO OBTAIN IT

“The eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing.”
--Isaiah 35:5-6

In all the world, there is no one thing so earnestly sought after as health. It is that without which there can be no real success in any reach of life. It is a universal necessity, for, without it, neither prince nor peasant can be happy. When the body is racked with disease, the sinner cannot sin so much, nor can the saint soar to such heavenly heights. Without health, he who would tread the path to fame in literature, art, music, invention or industry, faces an almost insurmountable barrier.

That some of us, through our so-called diseases, have been compelled to turn to God in our extremity is true; but the blessing is not that we have been sick unto death, but that we have turned to God; and this we might have done without being coerced. It is a sad commentary on the wisdom of the average man that he has

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