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Foreword
The world is sick. Wherever people live, suffering abounds. No
wonder, then, that the search for relief from sickness and disease is
intense!
It is not the Creator’s purpose that members of the human family
should be weighed down with a burden of pain, that their activities
should be curtailed by illness, that their strength wane, and their life
be cut short by disease. But all too frequently the laws established
by God to govern life are violated, sin enters the heart, and people
lose sight of their dependence upon God, the Source of life and
health. Then follow the penalties of transgressing God’s laws—pain,
sickness, death.
God wants us to understand the laws that govern the body. He
wants us to bring our life practices into harmony with those laws.
This is a duty of prime importance. We need to understand the many
factors that contribute to true happiness—a cheerful home, obedi-
ence to the laws of life, and proper relationships to other people.
When sickness comes, it is essential that we employ the varied
agencies that, in cooperation with nature’s efforts, will build up the
body and restore health. There is also a larger and more important
question—that of our relationship to the Creator who in the begin-
ning gave life to human beings, who made every provision for their
continued happiness, and who today is still deeply interested in their
welfare.
In this volume, the author has brought within the reach of every
man and woman, lay and professional, every father and mother,
every boy and girl, a vast fund of helpful information on life and its
laws, on obtaining health and keeping it, on disease and its remedies,
on sin and the healing of the soul.
For one hundred years this book has provided instruction on
how to acquire maximum physical and spiritual health, thus bringing
hope to the despondent, cheer to the sick, and rest to the weary. It has
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