It would really be a good thing if custom would prescribe that the moral health be inquired after and the question answered as frankly as people speak of physical health. Let us imagine one asking another, "How is your moral health to-day?" and the answer, "I wronged my neighbor yesterday, and to-day I am mentally sick from its effects," or "I have done as well as I knew how, and therefore I feel mentally well." How quickly people would make an effort to reform their wrong-doings if this style of greeting were as obligatory as is the present usual inquiry after physical well-being. In this way their attention would be continually called to their moral health, and they would take means to relieve themselves of their moral ailments.
They who wrong their neighbors and they who over-eat are spiritually in the same category. In both cases the laws of being are violated, and they suffer, though in different ways. Both need pity for their weakness and ignorance.
In the New Era health will mean the moral as well as the physical state.—From a late New York Daily.
