Life, hope, and friends enhanced with fresh array.
Then when we fail he conquers us again,
Paroling us each day until the end.
Charles H. Crandall.
(Courtesy of Harper & Brothers.)
CHAPTER XLII
THE NATURAL LAW
But what is the law of our being? It is harmony, peace, rest. We have but to look at the workings of our own marvelous physical bodies to perceive that law. The more we study the human body, the more we wonder at its mechanism. Yet every part of this intricate machinery, in harmony with each other part, finds its own work, unless man, through his misunderstanding, throws it out of order.
Perhaps the strongest proof of the naturally harmonious working of the body is found in the responsive distress or disease which result from the wrong use of any one function. It is not necessary to cut the heart itself to injure it. To sever an artery anywhere will interfere with the perfection of the heart’s work as effectively as a direct injury to the heart. To bring bad news may stop its action forever.