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DANGER OF HARD STUDY WITH TOO LIT
TIE EXERCISE.
| From Combc on hoalth and mental education.
In the first number of the " American
Annals of Education" the reader will find
an instructive article OH the necessity OF
combining bodily with mental exercise.
For twenty years and more," says the
writer, "the unnatural union Of sedentary
with studious habits, contracted by the
monastic system, has been killing in the
middle age. The Register Of Education
shows, in one year, l2O deaths. Exam
inc into the particular cases, and these will
be found the undoubted effects Of sedenta-
ry habits. Look at one name there.
He had valuable gifts, perfected by two
years academic, four years collegiate,
and three years theological studies.
He preached, gare much promise, and then
died of a stomach disease. He contracted
it mhen STUDENT. He did not alternate
bodily with mental labour, or he had lived
and been blessing to the church. when
he entered on his studies, he acas groaring.
into fail size and strength. He sat dorn
hUhis muscles dDindled, his digestion BE-
came disordered, his chest contracted, has
Mncs congested and his head liable to peri
odical pains. He sat four years in col
lcge, and three years in theological appi-
cation. Look at him nor. lie has gain
ed much useful knowledge, and has lm-
proved his talents; he has LOST his health.
The duties of his mind and heart were
done, and faithfully so but those Of his
body were left undone. Three hundred
and sercnty-fre muscles, organs Of motion,
hare been robbed of their appropriate action
for nine or ten gears, and noU they hare BE-
| come, alike pith the rest of his frame, the
prey of near one hundred and fifty diseased
and irritable nerreS."- Look at another
case. Exposure incident to the pastor
or missionary has developed tho disease in
his chest, planted there while fitting HIM
sS!: S!: C: .s::ifuiiness. lie contracted Sc.
dcnlary, while he was gaining studious
habit. That which he sows, that also
shall he reap. The east winds give him
colds; pulpit effort causes hoarseness
and cough, oppression and pain: He be-
comes alarmed and nervous. His views
of usefulness begin to be limited. ne
must nou go by direction, and not so much
to hJour ,cherc othcrrisc he aroutd haze
! been most uanted, as to nurse his broken
constitution. He soon adds to the number
ofmysterious proridences, 10 the number OF
innocent victims, rather, of cultivating the
mind and heart, at the unnecessary and
sinful expense of the body,-to the num-
Der of loud calls to alternate mental and
corporeal action daily, for the reciprocal
sanity and vigour OF both mind and body"
TO remedy these evils, and introduce
better system of training, SO as to make
bodily health and mental and rational cul-
tivation 90 hand in hand, an establishment
called the Manual Labour Academy was
opened near Philadelphia in 1929, and
has already proved the soundness OF its
principles by the success of its results.
The usual branches of study in classical
schools, with the addition of the Bible, are
pursued and 'sthe hours of recreation
are employed in useful bodily labour, such
as will exercise their skill, make them dcx-
ferrous. establish their health and strength,
enabled each to defray his own expenses.
and fit him for the vicissitndes OF lille. -
From this systematic union Of bodily Ia
bour in gardening, farming, carpentry,
and other work, with the usual academic
studies, many comforts are said to have
arisen. The health of tile inmates has
been uninterrupted, except in few who
were i'll when received and at the date
of the report, in 1880, "erery inrahd re-
naming there had been restored TO health.
Young men thus trained to practical obe-
dienceto the organic laws are much less
likely to run into excess in atter-llie, than
those who have been left in ignorance OF
the constitution of their own bodies.
"Whcn thought shall need no BRAIN" the
report continues, sand nearly four hun
dred organs of motion shall cease to consti,
tutc the principal portion Of the human body
then man the student dispense with muscular
crcrtion;" but, till then, let him beware
what he does, and look to the laws which
the Creator has established for his gui-
dance, and seek his happiness, not in de-
nying their existence, but in yielding
them willing and cheerful obedience.
In early and middle life, fever, with a!
unusual degree of cerebral disorder, is
common consequence of the excessive
and continued excitement of the brain
which is brought on by severe study, un'