Article September 16, 1961 Issue

True Health a Present Fact

MAURICE W. KEMPTHORNE

"True health as an attribute of the one divine Mind...
characterizes God's image, the real man "

Much thought is devoted to the consideration of health. Fearing its loss, the human mind is constantly analyzing it and speculating about it, studying ways and means to preserve and fortify it or else regain it. Many individuals are ardent devotees of bodily exercise, believing it to be essential to physical well-being despite Jesus' words (John 6:63), "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing." Paul observed (I Tim. 4:8), "Bodily exercise profiteth little."