"Blood being made from the assimilation of food, it is, therefore, to food itself we must primarily look for the origin of these earthy deposits. Besides providing the requisite elements of nutrition, food contains calcareous salts, which, upon being deposited in the arteries, veins and capillaries, become the approximate cause of ossification and old age.

"The action of distilled water as a beverage is briefly as follows: First, its absorption into the blood is rapid; second, it keeps soluble those salts already existing in the blood, thereby precluding their undue deposit; third, it facilitates in a marked degree their elimination by means of excretion. After middle life a daily use of distilled water is highly beneficial to those desirous of retarding old age, and it is also a useful adjunct for averting stone in the bladder and kidneys."

Distilled water, diluted phosphoric acid, glycerine and some of the aromatics constitute a most delicious drink - a very nectar. And this nectar, drank freely, tends to remove calcareous deposits, thus prolonging human life.

The soul, or conscious innermost spirit, being a potentialized portion of God, never grows old, but the body does. The soul, living in, looking out through and building up, fashions its dwelling-place, the body. This is especially true of the face. Physiologists understand this, and read character accordingly.

All individuals, to a certain extent, are artists, painting their habits, thoughts and general conduct upon their countenances. Jealousy, envy, selfishness, dissatisfaction, an irritable disposition, all print crow-foot indentations in the corners of the eyes, darken the shadows, deepen the wrinkles, and draw down and sharpen the features of the face.

Candor, integrity and cheerfulness exert a reverse influence. True cheerfulness promotes digestion, quickens the circulation of the blood, covers the face with radiant sunbeams and greatly aids one in growing old gracefully.

Thanks be to God, there are good and true souls in the world who live in perpetual sunshine, and live in it because they carry it with them. It streams up out of their noble hearts like jets of light; joy flashes from their eyes; tenderness drops from their tongues, and smiles wreathe their foreheads. They should be called what they literally are - angels of gladness.

Pessimism, or perpetual fault-finding and complaining, not only gnaws the heart's center, not only corrodes and wastes the life-forces, but it often ultimate in a sad unbalancing of the nervous system, narrowing and shortening one's days; while, on the contrary, optimism, or faith in an overruling Providence that "makes for righteousness;" faith in the Divine principles of Christianity; faith in the innate worth of humanity, and faith that all things will, in some mysterious way, be overruled for good, aid - these all aid - in lengthening out the life to a century.

Struggle, then, for the prize. Study to understand and strive to obey the laws of nature, for they are the laws of God - the laws of God with penalties. Resolve - will - to keep healthy. Make the soul positive to the body. Remember that health is the normal state of man. Cultivate the will-power. Cherish hope. Be full of faith.

Exercise charity towards all. Control your passions; govern your appetites. Develop and manifest a sweet and peaceful spirit. Carefully observe the rules of health relative to pure air, drink, food, sleep and clothing, and with a fair constitution to start with on the journey of life, you may easily live a full century; and in the evening-time of life's rugged journey, standing and waiting by death's peaceful river, you can say with one of our finest poets:

"Up and away like the dew of the morning,

That soars from the earth to its home in the sun;

So let me steal away gently and lovingly,

Only remembered by what I have done.

I need not be missed if another succeed me,

To reap down those fields which in spring I have sown;

He who ploughed and who sowed is not missed by the reaper;

He is only remembered by what he has done."