Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-09-26
HAPPINESS AND HEALTH,
Close Connection Between the Spiritua,
and Physical Organisms.

and Physical Organisms.
The healthy man has the best basis
of those qualities and feelings that
make for happiness. A writer puts it
well in saying:
Happiness may be defined as the
satisfaction resulting from the har.
monious qualification of all the pow
ers and faculties OF the soul, and by
necessary law of cause and effect this
state of mind win ultimate itself in
the outside circumference of our be-
ing, or what we call our body. Its
echo will be heard there and recorded
in the physical organism, Life is it.
self blessedness-that the two can not
be distinguished, but merge into one
Happiness is an essential and in
separable property of all true life.
Swedenborg, more than a century
foundest axioms of spiritual science
when he declared that life is love-
an idea which may be made evil
dent to anyone who will give to it an
earnest and patient thought and at
tention. Love is of itself state of
blessedness, satisfaction with itself,
Joy in itself; and, therefore, love and
happiness are one and the same, and
consequently all true life must be
blessed, since life is love.
Thus life, love and blessedness, and,
we may add, by necessary inference,
health, are intimately connected, and
are identical and always go together,
so that one can not exist without the
others. All delight or emotional bliss
arises from love-that is, from life. II
is an ebullition and overfowing of vi
tality. The man who is not happy,
who has not attained to blessedness,
does not in reality live. His existence
is only seeming and not a divine
reality. 1t is an undesired, unwel.
come and unsatisfactory state, which
in endured rather than enjoyed. His
highest enjoyment is negative of
misery, which he attains only in sleep,
the image of death.
1t should be remembered that hap
piness and health are most intimately,
II not indissolubly, associated. The
man who is happy, not by transient
CLEANS of spiritual sunshine, not by
casual gay surface-coloring of his ex'
istence, but by blessedness all through
his body, is not. in the proper sense Of
the word, diseased. The radical idea
of the term disease is inconsistent with
this state.
Let us remember that life blessed.
ness and health are one. He who is
not blessed, who is not happy, does
not really live. He does not realize
the idea of what we call life The
wheels of life move, il they move al
all, with friction and labor and effort
il action in the line of duty is an up
hill exertion and not a spontaneous
Wv acity.
An unhappy man, can not, in the
full sense of the word, be healthy
man. Much of what physicians treat
as physical disease is only mental
unhappiness. 1t follows from this that
the best physician is he who blesses
others, who makes other souls happy
by the divine sunshine of his work ant
presence. The sphere of his benefi
cient life is contagious peacefulnes:
and undisturbed tranquility. He min
listers to minds diseased, calms theil
fears, allays their anxieties, solves
their doubts, quiets forbodings, re
moves the gloom of despair, supplants
their self-condcmnation by sense O
pardon, and aims to pluck from tn,
heart every rooted orrow.-Phreno
logical Journal.