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life, and life broke it and caused it to fall. My life brought me here from Prussia and carried me by the house at the time that happened; therefore life was the cause of my death, and, strange as it may seem, is the cause of all action.

The air contains three properties which our life (not our body) has named oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen, all of which are matter; take the oxygen and hydrogen and bring them together and the chemical action. will produce water; the oxygen and hydrogen are matter, and matter has no action of itself; what, then, could have caused the action? I answer, life; for if the life of man had no knowledge of this, or had there been no man's life, it would not have been known; the air would have remained in its original condition and no action would have taken place.

Take an alkali and an acid, both are matter, but bring them together and there is an action of which life is the cause, and in this

way: man's life made or prepared the alkali and acid, two opposites that would destroy each other and form a third property which this life calls a neutral salt; and were there no life, these properties could not be brought together, therefore life was the cause of the action; or, take, for example, what the world calls a natural action. Suppose a rock, through some unknown and unaccountable cause, should contain a few drops of water, and the frost should cause the water to freeze, and the rock should burst, what would be the cause of the action? The water, frost, ice and rock are all matter, and matter cannot act. Life is the cause, because if there were no life the eye would not see the action, neither would it be known; but you may say that the action would take place the same whether it was seen or not; suppose it did, but was not God indirectly the cause of the rock, water and frost? Through God all things exist, and God is Life, there. fore life is the cause of all action.

I have not yet shown you any difference between the Life that is God and the life of

man. Thus far the explanation is only to show that life is the cause of all action, and although we cannot always see it, we can understand it.

That which we can see, is not always true, but that which we can understand and demonstrate is true, even though we cannot see it with the material eyes, the same as a problem in mathematics is true and demonstrable, though perceived only through the understanding.

Now if life is the cause of all action it must be the cause of sickness. The matter or the body cannot suffer, because when it appears to be in the most severe pain, and when the life separates from it, the suffering ceases in the body; but in what condition the life is after it has left the body, you do not know, because you cannot see it. But there are many things which we can understand even though we cannot see them;

this is one of them and will be explained hereafter.

Before sickness becomes apparent in the body it must have been in the life; then, without the life, the body could not be sick. How does it get into the life, is the question. Every man's life knows or believes something, and this belief or knowledge origi nates in the life, either through its own thoughts or through the thoughts of the teachings of others. "As a man soweth so shall he also reap." Life is the soil, and the thoughts are the seeds; these thoughts are sown in the life of a child, spring up and become attached to the life, and after a time the life acts according to the thoughts, making the thoughts a part of itself, and the action is the product or fruit of the thoughts. So thought is the first product of life, and as the thought is so will the action be. "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." Life cannot act contrary to the thoughts which are become

beliefs or opinions, that is, which have taken root or are become attached to it, unless it acts unconsciously; and in that case unconscious life is the cause (as in the case of a very young infant where unconscious life is the cause of motion), because life is all that

can act.

A man's life is educated through the thoughts of other lives; these thoughts are the seed, and the seed is sustained by the life, and brings forth its fruit after its own kind. Every one knows something of physiology. All know that in exposing themselves to the elements they may take cold. This is one of the thoughts which were sown in the lives of our fathers and grandfathers before us. This thought or seed is hereditary in our life, and we are constantly reminded of it until this thought becomes attached to us, and becomes a portion of our life, and when the cold weather comes there arises in the life a confusion, controversy or battle; and if the life is