PREFACE, purpose of this book is to furnish a Statement of the Spiritual philosophy of life with special reference to physical health, as the authors book, The How and Why of the Emmanuel movements was a study of the mental forces having to do with the same subject. If any apology were needed for a new book it could be found in the fact that every marked advance in human welfare has had its literature, so that those who could not enjoy the instruction and enthusiasm of its leaders might at least be intelligently informed as to the underlying principles and methods of the advance movement. The multiplying of books in the new healing philosophy of truth which has taken so strong a place in modern religious ideas today is justified in the fact that the same truth from a new view point, or in differing phraseology, as it is projected through different personalities, gives it an acceptance and helpfulness to many which it could not otherwise have. No claim is made for the originality of any ideas here expressed. The substance of these chapters have been given in the authors lectures, to his classes, and to his patients until their helpfulness has been clearly demonstrated, and many urgent requests have been made to have them put into more permanent and available form. These chapters are sent forth in the hope that they may bring help to a steadily increasing company of people in the church who are drifting away in search of those material benefits upon which so little emphasis has been laid by the church that they have felt that the church no longer offers them the comforts so much needed, and which they feel they have a right to expect in this strenuous age of living. Also to the other class in the church whose loyalty to her who is the mother of us all which will not allow them to wander afield in search of the truth and help they need, and who suffer needlessly because they cannot give up so much that is tried and true for that which is not tested by time. The purpose is to interpret the truth in the language of modern thought so that these good people may see that every blessing of the good God both temporal and spiritual, is available right vhere they are without the necessity of forsaking the leadership of the trained ministers of religion for that of selfappointed vendors of vagaries, and without depriving themselves of the advice of trained physicians which they often need... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.