Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-18
ADDRESSES TWENTIETH
CENTURY CLUB.
Continued from Page Five.)

| fore after a time the pain returns and
| there must be further treatment ~ re-
| lief. 1t is a blessed thing to obtain re-
| lief When one is suffering; it is far
better to be cured so that there will
| be no return of the suffering. A cure
can be effected only by removing the
| cause that produces the disease and
! consequent pain. BY a cure, L mean
the complete elimination of the cause
of the disease from the whole man, so
that there will be not only relief, but a
| permanent cure. Then there will, with
correct living, be no return of the all
ments.
Ignorance of the laws of health and
life is the cause of disease. The an
cient prophet. Hosea, said: MY people
| are destroyed for lack of knowledge"
Lack of knowledge of the laws af
healeh and life being the cause of dis
| case, it is very evident the cure Of
disease is through knowledge of the
law of health ano life.
In the short space of time allotted
to me I can scarcely touch the margin
Of the subject which is more important
to humanity than any and all other
subjects combined. The great Master
and Teacher. Jesus of Nazareth said:
What shall it profit a man if he gain
the whole world And lose his own life ?''
This same thought was expressed in
a letter from my friend, Or. WI Ting
Fang. minister from the Chinese empire
to this country, who is an enthusiastic
student of the law of health and life.
He said: What shall it profit a man if
he become a nultimillionaire,o or pres
ident, or a king of a nation, and lose
his health and. be sickly and miser-
able?'
Prof Metchinkof of the Pasteur in
stitute Paris, in his book, The Pro-
longation of Life" makes this state
ment: Man has three things to over
come in order to become free-disease,
Old age and death. We have the knowl-
edge as to how to overcome disease"
The object of his book, THE Prolonga-
ton of Life" is to teach the people
how to overcome old age, and he says
when that is accomplished there is only
one more enemy for man to overcome,
which is death.
In talking with a friend on this sub
ject. 1 quoted to him the statement
that l have quoted from the prophet,
Hosea, MY people are destroyed for
lack of knowledge" and he said there
would be so many things that one
would have to learn that it would take
more than a lifetime. l replied: Can
you not learn five things?' Yes" he
said, Il can learn five thingS>very cas-
lily" 1 replied: There are five things
and five only that every person must
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drink, sleep, breathe. think. The law
of life within man has FIVE sections or
division or, we may say there are five
laws which make up the one great law
Of life, which the Creator has placed
within man. These five divisions of
the law relate to hunger, thirst, sleep,
breath, thought.
Life is one; disease is one. There
are infinite expressions and forms of life,
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of forms of disease, but only one dis
ease.
The cause of disease is the trans
gression of one or more or of all of
these five laws; and the transgression
of any one of these divisions Of the law
of life produces impure blood, wrich, in
turn. produces disease / hold that
there is but one disease-but many
manifestations of disease. The impur-
ity in the blood, caused by imperfect
digestion, passing through the body To-
Gates itself in that spot where resist
ance ia least-that is, in the weakest
spot. names being given to these forms
of disease according TO the location of
the affected parts.
There can be no disease when the
blood is pure, so that he who obeys
the daW will have perfect health, and
he who transgresses the law will have
disease. Obedience gives ease, which
is health. Disobedience results in dis
ease and death. Science says the life
is in the blood. The Bible also says
that the life is in the blood, so that
here science and the Bible are in ac-
cord.
When we eat scientifically and drink
hygienically, and sleep correctly and
breathe fully and rhythmically, and
think logically, scientifically and di
viuely We shall have perfect health be-
cause our blood Is pure. When we do
not thus live scientifically, disobeying
the great law of life we have disease
because the blood is impure.
l place eating first and foremost in
Importance, for there is where we must
begin to reform ourselves in order that
we may overcome our ailments and
weaknesses and may have perfect
health. Whatever the story of the fall
of man may mean. as given in the first
chapter of Genesis. we have the state
ment there that eating the forbidden
fruit was the beginning Of sin. Eating
being the beginning of the trouble. we
will start there for the reform. Pure
blood is produced by perfect digestion;
impure blood is produced by imperfect
digestion. The violation of any one Of
these five divisions Of the law of life
affects unfavorably the digestive power
and produces impure blood.