quite possible, by practice, to direct the will toward any part of the body in which the functions are temporarily disordered, in such a way as to aid in restoring their normal activities. A few deep inspirations of pure air, with a direction of the mental forces toward cold feet or hands, will often induce warmth and normal circulation of the blood as quickly as violent exercise. "Whatever you do," said an old teacher, “do it with your might." Remember the unity of life, and let every right physical effort be in very truth a prayer in act.

If it is wrong to make the mind a slave to bodily conditions it is also a fatal mistake to defy a real bodily need. Habitual neglect of these needs may in time dull the consciousness, but the sense of wrong cannot be wholly obliterated. Perverted instinct and function will surely react upon the health of both mind and body, and ultimately compel the brain to stop work and resort to some means to restore the lost equilibrium. Chronic ailments are the result of habit. Habit, in time, becomes law

to the body. Without dogmatizing upon the question whether all causation is mental, it is at least in this sense true that the mind is largely responsible for the formation of habits, and therefore for the development of chronic ailments. The mind must also do its part in effecting a cure.

"Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body." However imperfect the material given us at birth it is ours to mold it into a diviner shape, if so we will. "There is no body so misshapen, no feature so rugged and ill-formed, that it cannot be ennobled and rendered attractive by constant striving for the highest ideals in life and character; nor is any countenance so beautiful, any symmetry of form and feature so perfect, that it may not be fatally smirched and marred by sordid aims and unworthy thoughts."* Every man is therefore in a very real sense a self-made man. He is not only the architect of his own fortunes, he is by every thought and every

*"Life as a Fine Art," by the author.

act in the carriage of his body, the glance of his eye, the tone of his voice, the ordering of his daily life— revealing the secrets of his inmost soul, and giving to that soul its fitting means of physical expression.

III

Cleanliness and Godliness

When a soul is found sincerely pure,
A thousand liveried angels lackey her,
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt,
And, in clear dream and solemn vision,
Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear;
Till oft converse with heavenly habitants
Begins to cast a beam on the outward shape,
The unpolluted temple of the soul,

And turn it by degrees to the soul's essence.

Milton.

On the bathing-tub of King Trang the following words were engraved : 66 If you would one day ren

ovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there

be daily renovation.”

-Confucian Analects.

Guard your fire in youth, O friends,

For manhood's is but phosphorus,

And little luck or grace attends

Gay boaters down the Bosphorus.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to scourge us.

-Shakespeare.

Oh, blind to truth, and God's whole scheme below,

Who fancy bliss to vice, to virtue woe!

Who sees and follows that great scheme the best,
Best knows the blessing, and will most be blest.

-Pope.