When a man walks with God his voice, to borrow Emerson's exquisite phrase, becomes as the "rustle of the corn." And a man's voice, be it added, is more or less an index to his thoughts, indeed to his entire being. Walking with God, however, involves more than exact obedience to the Commandments. It implies that gracious demeanor which mellows the individual, while warming and cheering the world at large. The precisely good man, wondering whence come his aches and failures, sometimes overlooks the significant fact that though "the law was given by Moses," "grace and truth came by Jesus Christ."
Temperament has as direct a relation to health as it has to happiness. There is no mystery here, even when health is appraised as a bodily condition; for is not the body directed by thought? Inevitably, therefore, must an individual's state of mind, tense or tranquil, react on the body for good or for ill, as the case may be.
Shades of temperament betray themselves in the individual's face, walk, conversation. Unmistakably does tensity of temperament restrict mental processes and retard organic action, while unfailingly does genuine tranquillity express that unlabored flow of divine energy which comes to the surface in clarity of intellect and buoyancy of movement.
