“The Blood is the Life.” This is the declaration alike of revelation and of science. Evolutionary processes may induce a variation in the form or number of the blood corpuscles, but they can not set aside the law that the building and rebuilding of all the organs involved in bodily or mental acts comes from the blood alone. The physical, mental and moral natures are so intimately connected that that which affects one, affects the others. So that a man’s mental and moral nature, as well as his physical, can very largely be determined by the quality of his blood. Now it is a physiological fact that our blood is made out of the food we eat. That food which enters the mouth and is assimilated, makes blood. By the marvelous processes of digestion and assimilation our food is transformed into blood; and the blood passing through the veins and arteries repairs the waste tissues and forms new ones, thus building up our bodies and sustaining life. It follows then that our bodies are made of the food we eat. Evidently it was the design of our Creator that the prime object of eating should be the building up of tissue—muscles, bones and brains. That this may be a pleasure to us, He has associated with eating the delights of appetite. But most of us have so far perverted the divine order as to make the pleasures of appetite the chief object of eating. “Give us something _good_ to eat,” is the great cry of humanity, and the goodness of food is gauged by the sensations of the palate and not by the law of nutrition. Most of us determine the goodness of our food by the amount of sensual delight it imparts to the palate, no matter how much damage it may do beyond to the delicate and intricate structure of the stomach and viscera. Hence a vast amount of food enters the mouth that makes bad blood, blood that in itself is corrupt, and carries poisonous particles to every organ in the system, putting us in splendid condition to be easily provoked to some outburst of anger, passion or revenge. My hearers, there is a sure and vital connection between bad blood and bad morals. Blood always tells in morals as well as in muscles. Blood has power throughout the whole realm of life, whether it be in a human body, in society, or in the body of a horse on the racecourse.