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   There is a remarkable similarity between alcoholic fermentation and the processes of feverish and inflammatory diseases. Both are processes of oxidation or combustion, accompanied by increased chemical activity and temperature. Both run a natural, orderly course and when properly managed bring about certain normal, beneficial results. When not controlled or when suddenly arrested and suppressed, both may result in permanently abnormal and undesirable conditions.

   Both processes depend on three essential factors:

Alcoholic Fermentation depends on--	Feverish and Inflammatory Diseases depend on--
(1) A watery solution corresponding to (2) Sugar, corresponding to (3) Yeast, corresponding to	(1) Living blood and tissues. (2) Waste and morbid matter in the blood. (3) Microzyma, bacteria and parasites in blood and tissues.

   The following may serve as an explanation of the preceding diagram. Modern allopathic materia medica is founded largely on the assumption that bacteria and parasites of their own accord create disease conditions. From this they draw the natural conclusion that to kill the germs is equivalent to curing the disease. Almost their entire therapeutic efforts are directed to discovering, killing and eliminating by poisonous drugs, serums, antitoxins and by the surgeon's knife, the bacteria and parasites of disease.

   The following demonstrations, however, will prove that the primary assumption of allopathy, as well as its resulting conclusions, are fallacious and that a practice built on these false foundations must of necessity be pregnant with disastrous results.

  First or Hereditary Stage of Disease

Fermentation	Inflammation
Water plus a sugar solution (grape juice) corresponds to	A body plus hereditary and acquired morbid matter.

Second or Acute Inflammatory Stage of Disease

Fermentation

Inflammation

Yeast lives on sugar plus some proteid. While feeding on these, the yeast germ digests or splits up the sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid gas.    Disintegration of the sugar molecules is accompanied by the liberation of heat and by accelerated atomic motion. The temperature rises perceptibly, bubbles of carbonic acid gas and a scum consisting of dead and live yeast germs and of other debris rises to the surface. Processes of fermentation are in many respects identical with processes of digestion, combustion or oxidation. The entire fermenting fluid is in violent commotion.    If fermentation is allowed to run its natural course, within certain limitations of temperature, until all sugar in the fluid is consumed, the process ceases of its own accord, chemical activity and temperature subside, and the resulting product is a wine-like fluid of crystal clearness.    Alcohol, while itself the product of fermentation, as it accumulates in the fluid, checks fermentation.

Microzyma, while feeding on morbid matter, develop into bacteria or germs of putrefaction, and these in turn while feeding on pathogenic materials decompose them into simpler compounds suitable for neutralization and elimination. The resulting ashes or debris (see yeast scum) are eliminated through the natural channels of depuration and in the forms of pus, catarrhal and other morbid discharges. These processes of combustion and elimination of disease matter are usually termed fevers, inflammations, boils, abscesses, etc. Like fermentation they are accompanied by rise in temperature, accelerated (motion) pulse, elimination of effete matter, etc.    If the acute inflammatory processes in the body are allowed to run their natural course, within certain limitations of temperature until all morbid matter is consumed and eliminated, the result is a cleaner, healthier body. (Fever can be easily controlled within safe limits by cold water applications, fasting, etc.)    The products of bacterial activity tend to check bacterial growth and development.

   From this it, will be perceived that, the processes of fermentation as well as of acute diseases are to a certain extent self-limited by their own effete products.

   If the acute activities in the body run their natural course and terminate in normal conditions, then the whitish signs of inflammation in the iris gradually disappear and give way to the normal blue or brown.

   The second or acute inflammatory stage of encumbrance as recorded in the iris of the eye is illustrated in Fig. 14, Series I, and Figs. 10 and Fig.11.

Third or Chronic Stage of Disease

Fermentation

Inflammation

Yeast fermentation in a sugar solution may be promptly prevented or arrested by the addition of salicylic acid, formaldehyde or some other powerful antiseptic or germicide. Antiseptics are protoplasmic poisons, that is, they paralyze and destroy the protoplasm of living cells and inhibit their activity. Fermentation, suppressed by antiseptics, results in a turbid fluid containing unfermented sugar, dead yeast germs and poisonous antiseptics.    Prof. Béchamp proved that yeast fermentation thus arrested by antiseptics results in decomposition of the yeast cells and the appearance of bacteria in their stead. These experiments were conducted under conditions which made the invasion of bacteria from without an impossibility.

Acute inflammatory conditions in the body may be subdued or suppressed by protoplasmic poisons, such as antiseptics, antipyretics, opiates, sedatives, alteratives, or any other class of poisons which paralyze or destroy cell protoplasm and inhibit vital functions. All of these poisons not only paralyze and destroy bacteria and parasites of disease, but also paralyze and kill the healthy cells and tissues of the body. If the acute, feverish and inflammatory reactions of the second stage of encumbrance are suppressed by antiseptics and germicides, the combustion and elimination of morbid matter is hindered and suppressed, and drug poisons, which are much more harmful than disease poisons, are super-added to the old encumbrances of morbid matter.    These accumulations of effete and foreign matter become a source of continual irritation and obstruction, and form a luxuriant soil for the production or invasion of bacteria and parasites. In other words, Nature's acute cleansing and healing efforts are changed into chronic catarrhal diseases.

   The chronic stage of encumbrance as recorded in the iris of the eye is illustrated in fig. 14, series III, p. 112.

Fourth or Chronic Destructive Stage of Disease
(Loss of Substance)

Fermentation

Inflammation

If the turbid fluid, created by the suppression of alcoholic fermentation, be exposed to air and warmth, its microzyma will develop into spurious germs and ferments and various forms of wild fermentation.    These spurious fermentations, in their turn, may be suppressed by more antiseptics and germicides, but as a result the fluid becomes totally unfit as a beverage and finally poisonous to human life.

The human organism, when it has reached the third stage of encumbrance, will arouse itself occasionally to feeble (chronic) efforts of elimination, but ever increasing accumulation of morbid matter, continual additions of drug poisons, surgical mutilations of vital parts and organs, all conspire to lower the vitality and to prevent the possibility of any decisive, acute reactions or healing crises.    The natural resistance and powers of reaction of the organism are in this manner slowly but surely undermined and weakened. Decay and destruction gradually proceed into the advanced stages of tuberculosis, malignant tumors, paralysis agitans, locomotor ataxia, paresis, pernicious anemia, chronic rheumatism, etc.

   These destructive changes of the fourth stage of encumbrance, as recorded in the iris of the eye, are illustrated in fig. 14, series IV, page 112.

   In order to illustrate the foregoing theoretical expositions of the development of acute and chronic diseases by a living example from every day experience, I shall describe a typical case of consumption, tracing it from its incipiency in an hereditary scrofulous constitution through its various progressive stages to the fully developed tuberculosis, and thence to health under the regenerating influences of natural living and natural methods of cure.

   "John" was born with eyes of dark violet blue, indicating that "the sins of the fathers," that is, unnatural modes of living and of healing for many generations past, had endowed him with the undesirable inheritance of a psoric or scrofulous constitution.

Fig. 10

   Nature, ever seeking to establish the perfect normal type, almost at birth began to eliminate the morbid inheritance through the skin and the mucous membrane of the digestive and respiratory tracts. (Fig. 10.)

   But these well meant cleansing and healing efforts of Nature were misunderstood by John's parents and the family doctor. When the scalp took up the work of scrofulous elimination in the form of milk scurf and eczematous eruptions, it was smothered in oils, unsalted butter, cream, or mercurial ointments, in order to suppress as quickly as possible the "dreadful looking scabs".

   If mother, after this "successful cure", had looked closely into baby's eyes she would have noticed in the outer rim of the iris the appearance of a dark, broad ring--the "scurf rim"--and also a slight darkening of the iris color in general. (Fig. 11, page 96)

   Mother Nature, however, does not give up the fight so easily. Thwarted in one quarter she tries in another. Liver, kidneys, stomach and bowels next took up the work of purification. Johnny had attacks of gastritis, vomiting, colic and constipation alternating with diarrhea. The scrofulous poisons eliminating through the membranes of the intestinal tract bred worms of various descriptions.

   But doctor, grandma, auntie and the entire female neighborhood within a radius of several miles, contributed advice, teas, drugs and salves of all possible descriptions to "cure" the pains, colics, worms, constipation and diarrhea as fast as Mother Nature developed them. If mother had examined Johnny's eyes as he passed through these periods of strenuous doctoring, she would have noticed around the pupil in the regions of stomach and bowels the development of a peculiar wreath full of black spokes and spots, denoting the localities in stomach and intestines where drugs and suppressed disease poisons had accomplished their work of destruction. (Fig. 11.) She would also have noticed various color marks indicating the locations in which drug poisons had gradually accumulated. Fine, whitish nerve rings indicated that Johnny's nervous system, irritated and over-stimulated by disease and drug poisons, was badly out of balance.

   As the encumbrances of Johnny's system grew more serious and more complicated, Nature's efforts at elimination became more drastic and severe. He was going to school now and mother was very indignant because "he was catching from the dirty children" every "infectious" disease within hailing distance. Now he would be down with the measles, then with scarlet fever, another time he was infected with lice and itch and, to cap the climax, he was taken with smallpox.

   Mother and doctor failed to see that these "infectious diseases" were various forms of psoric elimination. These "dreadful" diseases were also promptly "cured" by poisonous drugs and serums. That is, they were checked and suppressed before they had run their full and natural courses, and were thus made permanent in the form of defective hearing, liver and kidney diseases, indigestion and malnutrition. (Figs. 11- Fig.12, pp. 96-97.)

   Though John, in his numerous tussels with allopathic and home made remedies, did not contract and carry off all the defects and blemishes mentioned above, he entered upon young manhood sufficiently handicapped to make life a burden. Suppression of psoric diseases left "itch spots" in his eyes in the regions of the liver, kidneys and intestines, indicating where the psoric poisons had concentrated. (Fig. 12- Fig. 13, pp. 97-100.)

   The eyes revealed in many places the color marks of quinin, phenacetin, strychnin, iodin, arsenic and mercury, showing that these poisons had accumulated in the parts and organs indicated in the iris and were now interfering with the normal functions of assimilation and elimination. (Fig. 12 - Fig.13.) As a consequence, elimination through the natural channels was seriously impeded, but waste matter and poisons had to be disposed of somehow. The mucous membranes of throat, bronchi and lungs undertook this work of vicarious elimination for kidneys and bowels, and it is not to be wondered that John was "catching cold" with every passing draft.

   Doctor Pills, who had "cured" so many of his childhood ills, now furnished the cheerful information that the catarrh and cough were becoming chronic. John continued to lose ground little by little. One day he walked into Dr. P.'s office and remarked: "Well, Doctor, my feet got wet the other day and I caught another bad cold. I am coughing and expectorating terribly--it keeps me awake.''

   "All right, John," answered Dr. P., "here is some quinin sulph. that will down the fever; and here is some codein (opium) that will make you sleep and dry up that cough. Come back in a few days and let me know how you are getting on."

   After a few weeks John came again. "Well, Doctor, your medicine worked like a charm. The fever was gone in twenty-four hours and the coughing and spitting has almost stopped now. Only I feel so weak in my limbs and my back aches and I have such a depressing headache and then my bowels won't move at all." (Depressing effects of quinin and opium.)

   "All right, John, we'll fix that up for you. Here is some phenacetin that will stop your aches, and here is a nice tonic (arsenic, strychnia and iron) that will give you a fine appetite. And then you eat a good big beefsteak twice a day, eggs and chicken, soups and beef tea. A little beer or good old brandy won't hurt you either."

   "All right, Doctor, but what about the bowels?"

   "Oh yes, I forgot about them--here are some pills. Take a few after each meal. They will keep you going like clockwork."

   One month later; "Good morning, Doctor."

   "Good morning, John, how are you?"

   "Well, Doctor, it might be better. That cough you stopped seems to be getting a little worse again, and I eat and eat and eat, but I don't seem to grow any stronger --it feels like a big stone in my stomach. My bowels worked a little better for a while, but now they won't move at all. Then sometimes I have a bad pain in my chest, and I am growing quite short winded."

   "All right, John, I see we have to give it to you a little stronger. Here are some calomel pills (mercury)--take a few every night and follow it up in the morning with a good dose of salts. That is bound to do the work. Your appetite will be better, you will eat more and that will give you more strength. I notice your heart and pulse are getting a little weak. I'll give you some digitalis, that will strengthen the heart. And here is some ipecac to loosen the mucus in your lungs and help to bring it up."

   Another month went by and poor John was not quite well yet. Once in a while he had a time of feeling well, and then the doctor told him the medicine was doing splendidly; again, John was worse, and the doctor said he must give him something stronger. By and by John became impatient. He thought "all that medicine" should have benefited him in some way. he did not like to leave his doctor, since Dr. P. now "knew his 'system' so well", He imagined that if he went to another doctor now, the latter would have to "study his system" for a year or so before understanding his multitudinous ailments.

   Dr. P. himself grew somewhat tired of the case. It grated on his nerves to see poor John come again and again with the same old "tale of woe". He knew that  the patient could not last much longer and advised him to consult a celebrated lung and throat specialist. John's vitality had been more and more lowered by the long continued effects of stimulants and virulent poisons. Poisonous tonics had worn out his stomach and cathartics his bowels. Quinin, iodin, arsenic, etc., were racking his flesh and bones with neuralgic pains. Degeneration of the lungs had progressed far enough to form a luxuriant soil for the tubercle bacilli. The celebrated lung specialist examined the sputum and found the T. B.'s in great numbers. He then proceeded to kill the germs with coal tar products. (Fig. 13.)

   But these poisons did not stop to pick out just the T.B.'s. On their way through the body they also destroyed red blood corpuscles and delicate tissues of vital organs.

   So, between the germs and the germ killers, the tonics and the over feeding, the mercury, salts and other good old orthodox pills and potions, John in spite of (?) all that money and science could do for him, went rapidly from bad to worse.

   Finally the great lung specialist, recognizing the futility of his efforts, ordered John to pack his trunk as quickly as possible for El Paso or Phoenix, the paradise of "one lungers". Finding himself (thanks to long continued illness and expensive doctoring) short of the necessary funds required for an extended sojourn in the southern mecca of consumptives, John decided as a last and forlorn hope to obtain my opinion of his case.

   Evidently having been informed about our way of doing things, he asked me to examine his eyes and give him a correct inventory and an estimate of his remaining anatomy. While I found some parts missing and others badly damaged, I did not consider his case entirely hopeless.

   From the records in the iris I proceeded to unravel his history as outlined in the preceding sketch. When the diagnosis was finished he asked me whether I "got it" psychometrically or mediumistically. I assured him that I did not have to draw on any supernatural powers; that, on the contrary, my "reading" from the iris was based on very simple and strictly scientific facts and principles. By means of a magnifying mirror and a chart of the iris he was himself able to locate and to recognize the principal landmarks. He had to admit that the record in his eyes exactly tallied with his past history and present symptoms, and he felt convinced there was "something in it".

   I assured him that though his case was somewhat complicated and advanced, I by no means considered him incurable since he possessed youth, some hundred and thirty pounds of flesh and the odds and ends of an originally good constitution. Only an actual trial could determine the possibility of cure. If there was left in his organism sufficient vitality and if his kidneys, intestines and lungs were not damaged beyond repair, his system would soon respond to the purifying and invigorating influences of natural treatment.

   Furthermore, it was explained to him that when properly assisted Nature always works her cures in a perfectly orderly manner, in harmony with certain well defined laws of crisis and periodicity. In conformity with these laws there would be about six weeks of general improvement especially noticeable in the digestive organs. First of all the bowels, which, "in spite" of laxatives and cathartics, had been sluggish and constipated for a lifetime, would begin to act normally and freely. Then, as his system became purified and invigorated, Nature would commence in earnest her work of elimination and repair. The latent chronic conditions would then become acute. Febrile diseases and skin eruptions long ago suppressed, as shown in the iris, would reappear and this time run their course in regular, natural order.

   I also informed him that during these crisis periods he would experience various symptoms of acute poisoning such as are commonly produced by quinin, coal tar products, mercury, iodin, etc., because these drug poisons accumulated in the course of many years would be stirred up in their lairs and would be eliminated in due season each under its own peculiar symptom.

   When I had proceeded thus far in my prognosis John arose somewhat abruptly, grabbed his hat and started for the door, saying he would come back some other time--that he must now hasten to keep another important appointment.

   Reading his thoughts, I assured him there was no cause for alarm; that healing crises come in mild form only, because they cannot materialize until the system is properly prepared, and in a healing crisis Nature always has the best of the fight. I also called his attention to the fact that he was rapidly wasting away in destructive disease crises and unless a speedy change was wrought in his condition he would soon be beyond the possibility of healing crises.

   Reassured and encouraged by my explanation he decided to give Natural Therapeutics a fair trial.

   I then proceeded to inquire into his daily habits and to offer suggestions for their correction. He was instructed that if he wished to eliminate old accumulations of disease and drug poisons he must stop taking in new ones in the form of meat, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, coffee or tea. The patient was put on a vegetarian, but withal positive, diet; everything in impure food and harmful drinks was promptly eliminated from his dietary. This greatly relieved his organs of elimination and gave them a chance to remove old encumbrances of morbid matter and poisons.

   Cold water treatments, massage, spinal manipulation, simple health gymnastics, normal suggestion and the indicated homeopathic remedies, all contributed to increase in a natural and harmless manner the activity of skin, bowels, kidneys, mucous membranes and in fact of every cell in the body, and this increase of activity was brought about without introducing into his system any poisons whatsoever.

   No condition can be called incurable until a combination of all these natural healing factors has been tried and has failed. If there be vitality enough to react properly under such treatment and if the destruction of vital parts be not too great the system will soon respond. John's case, fortunately, was of this description. Under our treatment the worst symptoms of the patient rapidly abated, his appetite improved wonderfully, the bowels moved more freely than for many years past; he grew in strength physically and mentally.

   He continued thus to improve for about two months, all the while watching with us for the predicted manifestations. Then he came to us and said: "Doctor, I do not believe your crises are going to materialize in my case--I suppose I was not sick enough to have any. Don't you think I might go home now?"

   I smilingly answered: "Just wait a bit and see--you will whistle a different tune by and by."

   A few days later our erstwhile too confident patient came to me in a different frame of mind--the picture of fright and despair. "Oh my, Doctor! I must have caught a terrible cold, but I cannot imagine where, unless it was that last cold water treatment. I told the attendant he was putting it on too long and too cold, but he only laughed at me,--and now I've got it. And those nuts I ate did not agree with me, either--I am always a little afraid of them. Oh, my stomach and bowels are in a terrible condition! I'm just as constipated and nauseated as I was six weeks ago. I have chills and fever and the cough and catarrh are worse than ever. I feel it is all up with me now. It's too bad, after having been so hopeful and confident of recovery. I suppose I was too far gone and my friend Jack was right. He told me this kind of cure was all right for rheumatism, but starvation diet and cold water would surely kill me."

   Without wasting any sympathy on him I congratulated him on his good fortune, jokingly saying--"Well, well, such a beautiful crisis! And just on time, too. Oh, these crises! They are so pleasant to talk and read about and they are really interesting when it's on the other fellow, but when they strike us we wish the doctor and his Natural Therapeutics in a warmer clime and feel like making a short cut for the drug store 'to have something done quickly'. Isn't that the way you feel, old man? Oh, yes, you thought you were not going to have any crisis; well, without any doubt it has you now. No, you will not die; don't worry--you are doing gloriously. If you don't feel like eating, fast until you are hungry. If you feel hot and feverish, take a cold sponge or a foot bath; or if you have the chills and cannot get warm, take a wet pack and a hot drink. This together with our regular treatment will be fully sufficient for any emergency, and Nature will do the rest."

   My good humor and confidence, inspired by absolute knowledge of the law, were more effective than the pills and blisters of Dr. P. John had it out with his fever, coughed, expectorated, perspired and had a pretty tough time of it generally. Notwithstanding the seeming severity of the symptoms he was able to attend to his usual duties with remarkable ease and endurance. Nature had the best of it--she never undertakes a healing crisis unless the organism is in condition to conduct it to a successful termination.

   After a few weeks of crises our patient began to improve, growing stronger day by day. He realized he had actually "gotten rid of something"--he felt remarkably light and energetic, in fact better than for many years. I warned him, however, not to be over elated and not to mistake the first period of real improvement for a permanent cure. For, while the eyes showed greatly improved conditions in lungs, bronchi and digestive organs, they still revealed plenty of work ahead for Nature's healing forces. And subsequent events again confirmed the records in the iris.

   After periods of "building up" and of splendid improvement, there would suddenly develop an inflammation of the kidneys, a "bilious spell", symptoms of acute quinin, iodin or mercurial poisoning. But the climax was capped by an acute attack of pneumonia.

   His friends expected this to be the beginning of the end, but the inflammation in the lungs ran its course in less than two weeks and the patient began to improve, at first slowly and then more rapidly.

   Today, three years after the great crisis, he is in good health and enjoying life in Europe.

   What lessons are to be learned from this remarkable and authentic case?

   The diagnostic signs in the eyes of this patient were verified--(1) by his previous history; (2) by his "symptoms" which exactly correspond with the signs in the iris; (3) by his subsequent healing crises; (4) by the gradual disappearance of the signs and color marks in the iris after the occurrence of healing and cleansing crises.

   The diagnosis from the iris as illustrated and confirmed by this and other eases, absolutely and conclusively proves the cumulative effect of drug poisons in the body. It demonstrates that everything which is foreign, uncongenial or injurious to life reveals its presence in the body by certain well defined color marks in the iris of the eye. It furthermore proves conclusively that certain elements which in the organic form are normally present in the human organism, will become abnormal and injurious to health when taken in large doses in the inorganic mineral form.

   For instance, iron, sulphur, sodium, lime, phosphorus, magnesium and manganese, in the live, organic form in fruits and vegetables may be taken continuously in large amounts without "showing" in the iris. The same elements, however, when taken in much smaller quantities in the inorganic form, soon accumulate in those parts of the body for which they exhibit a special affinity. These accumulations of foreign matter reveal their presence and location by well defined color marks in the corresponding areas in the iris of the eye.

   Why is inorganic matter so injurious to living organisms? Nature never intended coarse inorganic minerals to serve as foods and medicines for human bodies. Evolution consists in ever accelerated vibratory activity, accompanied by an increasing refinement of matter and by greater complexity of structure. In accordance with this law of evolutionary development, each lower kingdom refines and prepares food materials for the next higher one.

   The vegetable life principle draws, refines and organizes minerals of the soil into the living protoplasm of the vegetable cell and thus prepares them for animal and human'" food. The animal life principle refines and elaborates vegetable matter into the highly refined and complicated molecular structures of the animal cell. The vegetable lives on the mineral, and the animal on the vegetable. To introduce the coarse, inorganic forms of the mineral kingdom into the animal organism is contrary to Nature's plan.

   This explains why Nature did not prepare animal and human organs of assimilation and elimination to cope with the coarse, heavy aggregations of the mineral kingdom; why animal and human organisms cannot mould these uncongenial elements into normal living tissues; and why the organs of depuration cannot eliminate them completely.

   As a consequence, such foreign materials accumulate in parts of the organism for which they possess a special affinity, and ever afterwards, unless eliminated by powerful, natural methods of treatment, act as irritants and poisons, thus causing a large percentage of chronic diseases.

   What does diagnosis from the iris teach with regard to the dogmas of Christian Science? If there is no disease, why does God, or Nature, with marvelous exactitude, portray in the iris of the eye every passing or permanent condition which we are in the habit of calling disease? "Scientists" claim that diseases are only "errors of mortal mind". Mortal mind, however, until a few years ago never suspected the existence of these records in the eyes. How then could it be instrumental in producing them? If the teachings of Christian Science be true, we must necessarily conclude that the great Universal Intelligence which creates these wonderful records in the eyes is afflicted with a badly "erring mortal mind".

   About a year ago I attended a gentleman, who, in addition to natural treatment, desired also the assistance of a Christian healer. One day at the bedside of our mutual patient I met the healer, a grand old man with the venerable head and features of a patriarch. In the course of our conversation he related to me the circumstances of his conversion and development as a faith healer. Twenty years before, while living in a small Texas town, he was stricken with typhoid fever. The local country doctors fed him as usual on calomel (mercury), quinin and salts. But, in spite (?) of their faithful services he did not improve and they finally pronounced his inevitable doom. In his last extremity he had recourse to the Bible. The promises and assurances of spiritual healing therein aroused new hope and confidence, he "threw physic to the dogs'' and put his sole and entire reliance in the healing power of the Spirit. A powerful therapeutic faith, thus aroused, greatly invigorated and harmonized his mental vibrations and these in turn, by continuity, acted as a powerful tonic on the waning forces of the physical organism. Unhindered by poisonous drugs and stimulated by therapeutic faith, Nature's healing forces now gained the ascendancy and the disease crisis was transformed into a healing crisis. But, Brother C., as he assured me, attributed his marvelous recovery to a special intervention of the Lord.

   Through twenty years he had undoubtedly done a great deal of good in fighting the darkness and despair of crass materialism by a living faith in a higher spiritual healing power. But through all these years he had failed to understand the modus operandi of this healing power of Nature and could not appreciate its limitations. Looking into his big blue eyes I saw the yellow color marks of chronic quinin poisoning and as a concomitant the signs of chronic catarrh in the regions of head, bronchi and lungs. After he finished his story I asked him the question: "Is it not a fact that you suffer from time to time with ringing in the ears, frontal headaches and nasal and bronchial catarrh?" To which he answered: "Yes, brother, that is true; though prayer has helped me these twenty years in every other ailment, the Lord has never cured me of this chronic catarrh."

   Confessions like these I hear continually from the lips of healers and Scientists. If Brother C. had understood the laws of cure as explained in these writings, he would have seen nothing remarkable in his spontaneous recovery from typhoid or from any other acute ailment, because they are in themselves healing and cleansing efforts of Nature.

   He would also have understood that even the Lord could not cure him of his chronic catarrh so long as quinin, the primary cause and excitant of it, was not removed from his system; he would have known that it takes more than the buoyant and stimulating effect of therapeutic faith to eliminate such poisons from the system. With all due respect for the holiness and effectiveness of prayer, it is still true that a four months' thorough course of water cure, manipulative, dietetic and homeopathic treatment would have accomplished a great deal more in diminishing the signs in the iris and the catarrh in the body than his twenty years of faithful prayer. After all, God helps those who help themselves, and the grandest and most efficient of all prayers is intelligent, well directed work.

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