Take the word of kindness from him who studies all human weaknesses and sympathizes with them; who understands that there must be sorrow and suffering commensurate with human ignorance; that at last by experience we shall learn and triumph over pain, and that the greatest healer is to be found within yourselves.

Your are only allowed helps, as children in swaddling clothes, until you learn to walk alone, and allowed to look to others for food and raiment until you can sustain yourselves.

The time will come when at the approach of the slightest disorder or physical disability you will summon the physician from within yourselves - that strong, healthful, life-giving will-power that shall conquer and redress the wrong thai is within you, and heal the disease.

Be sure that you are not left unaided; thousands of healers are in the world to-day, and could you see the number that the one who addresses you at this instant of time is influencing, having control as the telegraphic operator does the manifold wires at the same instant, you would believe what I tell you when I say that the great healing power of the world of spirits is poured out upon humanity to-day, not only to cure them of their infirmities but to heal the necessity for infirmities also. And could you but perceive these many bright-winged messengers, these that hover around and above you, ministering as did the Healing Band of Angels of yore through Jesus and his apostles - that health that he imparted, that vitalizing strength that was born of the spirit, for he was not strong in muscle, but only in spirit - you would understand that the healing power brought to bear upon the world to-day, if adequately responded to by you, would he sufficient to cure the nations of every malady. But because it is not so we must wait, and work, and teach, and labor patiently.

The time is rapidly approaching when instead of the physician you will summon the healer; after that, instead of the healer you will summon your own guardian spirit who, in the quietude of your room, will tell you of the infirmity and its remedy, and you yourself will be adequate to the victory.

But when one is weak and must be aided, it is the mental and spiritual strength that you most require. I urge this upon you, because by actual experiment you can readily discover how much the mind has to do with the physical condition; how you can nurse your sorrows and brood over your sufferings until they become manifold. I have known whole families to be cut off by what is termed consumption, a supposed hereditary disease, when it was perpetuated by the strong mental power of the mother brooding over her offspring, and one after another falling a victim to the mental as well as the physical malady. I have known of other instances, where some members of the family were put apart from the others and separated from the psychological influence, where the disease did not make its appearance, or if it did it was readily conquered by force of will-power.

There is no disease, dear friends, that the haman body is subject to that is not amenable to the healing power of the spirit. There is indeed no surgical operation that is not within the province of spiritual power, either to overcome the necessity for it, or to perform the operation. But when a nation prays with its lips for the restoration of a president's life, and entrusts that life to the probing process of several blind physicians who do not know, within several inches, the location of the ball, the praying is not likely to be efficacious.

If you pray for the gift of healing, ask for it from the source of healing; if you trust to science, have done with your prayers, for it is he who cuts and slashes the body that you trust, not the one who heals it. If you are to have spiritual healing, do not, when your children are sick or yourselves, run to the first apothecary or chemist, or the first physician, but trust to the power that you believe in. You cannot pray with the spirit and at the same time do violence to that prayer with your body. Two systems of practice diametrically opposed to one another can never heal the world.

I charge Spiritualists with being false to their professions, when believing in the gift of healing they allow fear to influence their feet and speed to the nearest physician, while the healer is at their door. I charge you with encouraging the oppressive laws that are now in vogue, even in your own State. with reference to the right kind of healing, when you employ a physician in whom you do not believe, merely through the baleful influence of fear. Cure yourself of that fear, and the healing is in your own palms; cure yourself of that dependence upon bigots, and the healing is by your very side. There is no ultimate panacea in any mineral remedy for any organic disease in the human body. Every particle of drug coustructed of mineral is poisonous to the human frame. You do not eat clay; you do not swallow the dirt of the earth to give you nourishment and vitality; there is no organic vitality in any mineral remedy. Vegetable remedies may be used incidentally, but even these are of such a nature that they should be applied under the careful and vigilant instruction of the spiritual healer.

But chiefly, and only, and ultimately, there is no greater power of healing than that contained in the human hand; and the human will that benignly, calmly and cheerfully lends its might to the sick-room is the most life-giving and health-giving agency that humanity can possess. The mother's hand upon her child, the wife that tenderly cares for her husband, the skillful nurse that all the world over must accompany the best physician, is the attestation of the truth of what I say. While the miracles wrought in every age, and the gifts of healing that have come down even through the baldness and barrenness of theology, prove to you that the source of healing and strength must be within, and that you must turn to that Well-spring where all life-giving agencies abide before the healer can come unto you.

O search out the crystal fountain ! Release yourself from the thralldom of fear, and the little child that is by your fireside can drive away the racking pain by the tender touch of the delicate hand. Oftentimes have we known the most fragile child to be the instrument of most wonderful healing. Ere this medium was twelve years of age she was chosen from among others of her age to heal the sick by the laying on of hands. No superficial knowledge of hers was required, no external training. Even surgical operations of delicate kinds can be prepared successfully and performed by those endowed with the gift of the spirit.

Encourage these gifts; do not drive them from your doors by your superficial fears or your paltry adhesion to custom. Let the schools of medicine depart with the ancient schools of theology that bear them company. Let your theology that would swallow up in its Gehenna the souls of young children, depart with your system of medicine that would also destroy their bodies. They belong together there in the Mosaic dispensation; they are " An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."

But the true healer is at your door, ushered in upon the pinions of the morning, and eventually, in all your lives you will apply the healing of the spirit.