THE ORANGE LIGHTLY LAXATIVE.

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skin, fill up the glass then with boiling distilled water, and sweeten with honey. This is a valuable drink in all seasons of the year.

Natural Food, in speaking of the orange, says: "The orange contains more juice than any other cultivated fruit, and is also rich in free acid and sugar, and may be partaken of freely at all meals.

"Its medicinal property is beyond dispute, as it contains 86 per cent of water of the most purifying nature, and the other constituents consist of sugar, citric acid, albumen, and citrate of potash; and whatever doubts exist as to its origin, the consumption of the orange tends to the welfare of the individual, of whatever age, circumstance, or condition.

"It has been said, and truly, that no sort of food is better for the complexion than oranges. The finest complexions in the world are those of the Italian and Spanish women, who live largely on fruit, especially oranges, and this custom has found a footing in this country, and been taken up by English women for the purpose of acquiring a good complexion. This is the prescription given to those seeking to secure the dainty ivory and peach complexion of the Spanish and Italian beauties."

SUGGESTIONS FOR EVERYDAY LIFE.

Have some purpose in view, some noble end in life to achieve -and work to attain it. Do not worry over what you cannot help. Do not look back mournfully over "what might have been." You cannot recall nor relieve the past; let it sink away into the valley of forgetfulness.

Certainly you

Worry is a most worthless employment. should not worry over what you can help; because, if you can help it, you should, and that would end the trouble.

You should cultivate self-discipline. Be yourself, judge yourself, trust yourself, honor yourself. "I sanctify myself," said Jesus. Exercise faith and will-power. Be cheerful and try to make the best of everything. Co-operate with the higher psychic world.

Ever consider that whatever occurs is for the best, or will be overruled in the end for the highest good. Remember that very much that seems wrong to us is either misunderstood, or, as discipline, may ultimate in the good and the true. Each and all should do what they conscientiously believe to be right and there let the matter rest.

Shun shallow, frivolous society, novel-reading, circuses, late hour theaters, night skating rinks, and emotional excitement of all sorts. Nothing will more surely retard progress of health than uncontrolled passions, anger, jealousy, fault-finding, fretting, suspicion, careless tears, harsh unfriendly criticisms, and sour, disheartening feelings. Do not peddle slanders, speak good of others, or keep your mouth shut..

Do not for one moment cherish evil of another-get rid of all evil suspicions, all jealous thoughts, and all lurking revenge; for such thoughts injure the disposition and disease the body. Thoughts are spiritual forces. They may kill or make the dying live.

It is as true now as of old that "the wicked do not live out half their days." Passional indulgence has sent thousands and hundreds of thousands to untimely graves. All sensuous gratification other than for the legitimate purpose of pro-creation is not only exhaustive and injurious, but abnormal on the plane of cultured and exalted natures. Flesh begets flesh, and the end thereof is death. Paul pointedly condemned the "unfruitful works of darkness." Oh, mortals! There is a higher, better way! There is a resurrection in this life; and with those of the resurrection order, walking in newness of life, lust is buried and life immortal blooms upon its tomb.

You may have enemies-Jesus had his; and good John Wesley had his; General Grant, his. What stirring, sterling character has not had enemies! But I am the enemy of no one. I cherish not the least malice, nor envy, nor hate, nor ill-will toward a human being. There's good in every one. Find it and fan it into a blaze of moral beauty and brightness.

CHAPTER XXII.

"I TOO rest in faith

That man's perfection is the crowning flower,
Toward which the urgent sap in life's great tree
Is pressing, seen in puny blossoms now,
But in the world's great morrows to expand
With broadest petal and with deepest glow.

"The earth yields nothing more divine
Than high prophetic vision-than the Seer
Who, fasting from man's meaner joy, beholds
The paths of beauteous order, and constructs
A fairer type to shame our low content.

"The faith that life on earth is being shaped
To glorious ends, that order, justice, love
Mean man's completeness, mean effect as sure
As roundness in the dewdrop-that great faith
Is but the rushing and expanding stream

Of thought, of feeling, fed by all the past.

Our finest hope is finest memory-is love."-George Eliot. "Married thrice thrice; but are they mated, each living for the other?"-Percival.

"Hasty marriage seldom proveth well."-Shakespeare.

"A young man married is a man that is marred."-Shakespeare.

"What stronger breastplate than a heart?

"Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just."

-Shakespeare.

Quality in unity permeates the universe. Marriage and divorce are among the constant activities of the atoms and primary elements of nature. Take two transparent, colorless

solutions resembling water in appearance; one the nitrate of silver, the other common salt, and uniting them the result is chloride of sodium, a liquid and a solid. The chloride loves silver better than sodium, while the nitric acid seemingly indifferent is glad to get rid of silver on any basis. So here are two atomic marriages and two divorces, the original solution becoming solid chloride of silver, and liquid nitrate of sodium. Chemists inform us that every molecule is composed of two halves, as sodium-chloride, or silver-nitrate-two opposites, positive and negative. Those atoms that have power within themselves and of themselves to move other atoms near them cannot be called dead atoms. They live, move, and marry.

Life, even in the primordial world, is omnipresent. It is well-known to the students of nature that water loaded with impurities, if given the opportunity, will crystallize-freeze— into pure water, and the sediments themselves left for a long time in the presence of oxygen and ozone, crystallize into purity. Following crystallization from frost and snow and salt to rubies and diamonds you will be convinced that the very molecules and atoms have a stern mineral code of morals. They obey law. Their first aim is to unite; the second to be pure; the third to be perfect in form, and the fourth is to act in harmony. In the chemical world harmony is perfect law, and discord is chemical crime, and crime leads to wrangling hells, but not to annihilation. Annihilation is unthinkable; creation from nothing impossible. Atoms polarized have their likes and dislikes, their light and dark sides. Arsenic and strychnine are both used to heal and to kill. Carbonic acid refreshes at the fountain, but kills in the choke-damp of the mine. There is no poison known if that be the word-but that can be used for both purposes. The light psychically attractive side of atoms produces life, health, beauty, bliss; the dark side brings change, disease, and sorrow. Atoms combine on three planes of existence as solids, liquids, and gases. Human beings in true marriage combine on the physical, mental, moral, and spiritual planes. Only the last two are abiding. Burn a piece of wood and it passes out of

existence as wood, yet every atom exists in the invisible. There is no absolute destruction in the universe. There can be no loss of force, heat, light, electricity, magnetism, or the chemical forces. They are transmutable into each other. Change is not necessarily death. Dying is only to start anew on another and higher plane. The life principle, varying only in degree, is everywhere present. God is Spirit. There is but one God, Infinite Intelligence, and this thrills through every atom of the measureless and mighty kosmos. The elixir of life lurks in every mineral as well as in every flower and animal throughout the universe; and being the inmost essence of everything it is on its way through motion, and evolution, to higher, loftier altitudes.

Spirit, essential absolute spirit, is measurably the unknowable; and yet we intuitively feel that it is the substratum of force the divine revealer of energy, and the power by which life exists, and thought also as cognized by consciousness. And so in this mighty realm of being we see atom temporarily married to atom and spirit married to substance from which results all the potencies of life, consciousness, will, moral purpose, and the diviner attainments of perfected manhood, womanhood,the two halves of which when in right relations constitute the one unbroken, indissoluble circle.

No woman should remain maritally allied for a day to a "bluebeard" or a syphilitic sot. Such marriages alliances are unholy. They are festering sores on the body politic. They replenish the earth with imbeciles, thieves, and murderers. And no young lady should give her heart and hand to a young man addicted to midnight carousals, club-room gambling, or to a liquor-drinking, trifling tobacco-monger, with the hope and expectation of reforming him. Insist that he reform before marriage and keep him on probation from five to seven years. This will test his sincerity, integrity, and courage.

In the Light Bearer there was published a few months since a synopsis of the new marriage law of North Dakota. Here follow extracts: