Among the many inquiries addressed to me is a post card that I received today from a stranger who wants to know something about GOD.
 It is as follows:
 “Alfred Lawson — Dear Sir:
 “You seem to be quite familiar with God end His plans—judging from your papers.
 “Why does God permit over 1700 diseases to afflict us?
 “What is blindness and tile paralysis good for?
 “Why does God create the tapeworm and intestinal parasites and numberless other The Original Benefactor creatures that are enemies to man and beast?”
 Well, since this subject has been brought up I will have to acknowledge that I am, to some considerable extent, familiar with God and His plans, insofar as an understanding of God’s Natural Laws are concerned.
 Anyone who has studied such of my books as MANLIFE, CREATION, PEN­E­TRA­BIL­ITY, MENTALITY, LAWSONOMY and THE AL­MIGHTY will have to admit that I know something about the CREATOR and His methods of transformation.
 Of course, if one has not studied those books, one is in no fit condition to discuss their qualities.
 When anyone offers an opinion concerning the merits of those books without having studied them, he puts himself into the