We are assured that our physical health
has an essential dependence on our mental,
moral, and spiritual health. Religion, pure
and undefiled, — as real goodness and true
love, — must ever act in accordance, in oneness,
with God's beautiful laws, for our health
and happiness. Our religion, other necessary
things being in accord, should keep us well
and make us happy. Our health of body is
a test, therefore, whether our religion is pure,
our love true, our goodness genuine.
Think not that this Gospel of Health and
Healing has alone to do with physical therapeutics,
or that it means only cure of bodily
disease. It is mental and moral therapeutics.
In its primary element it is religion itself, part
and parcel of Christianity : by which we mean,
the Christianity of Christ, the Great Physician.

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