Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-06-29
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.
Was it Providence?

Take for example, young girl, bred del
icately in town, shut up in nursery in her
childhood, in boarding house through her
youth, never accustomed to either air or cx-
ercise, two things that the law of God mikes
essential TO health. She niarries her strength
IS not adequate to the demands upon it,
Her beauty fades away. She languishes
through her hard offices in giving birth to
children, sucking and watching over them
and dies early. "What strange Proyi-
dence, that mother should be taken in tho
midst of life, from her children ?" Was it
Providence? No. Providence had assigned
her three score years and ten; term long
enough to rear her children, and see her
children's children, but she did not obey the
laws on which life depends, and of course
she lost it.
A father, too, is cut off in the midst of his
days. He was useful and distinguished
citizen, and eminent in his profession. A
general buzz arises OH every side of What
striking Providencew This man has been
in the habit of studying half the night, of
passing his days in his Office and the courts,
of eating luxurious dinners and drinking
various wines. He has every day violated
the laws on which health depends. Did
Providence cut him off? The evil never
1 ends here. The diseases Of the father are
often transmitted and feeble mother rare
ly leaves behind her vigorous children.
IL has been customary in some of our
cities for young Indies to walk in thin shoes
and delicate stockings in mid-winter. A
healthy, blooming young girl, thus dressed
in violation of Heavens laws, pays the pen
atty; a checked circulation, cold, fever aud
death. "What sad Providence!" exclnim
her friends. Was it Providence, or her own
folly? A beautiful young bride goes night
after night TO parties made in honor of her
marriage She has slightly sore throat,
perhaps, and the weather is inclement; but
she wears her neck and arms bare; for who
ever saw Il bride in close evening dress
She is consequently seized with an inham-
nation of the lungs, and the grave receives
her before her bridal days arc over. "Whut
Providence ~ eXclaims the world. "Cut
OIL in the midst of happiness and hope l"-
Alas did she not cut tho thread of her life
herself?
A girl in the country, exposed 10 oui
changeiul climate, gets new bonnet, i'll
stead of getting flannel garment A rheu-
matism is the consequence. Should the girl
! sit down TRANQUILITY with the idea that Provi-
dence has sent the rheumatism upon her, OF
should she charge it TO her vanity, and avoid
the folly in future
Look, my young friends, at the mass oi
diseases that are incurred by inte nperance
in eating or in drinking, or in study, or in
business ALSO being caused often by neg
lect of exercise, cleanliness, pure air by
indiscreet dressing, tight lacing, ETC.; and all
is quietly imputed TO Providence! Is there
not impioty as well as ignorance in this P
Were the physical laws strictly observed
from generation to generation there would
be all end to the frightih diseases that GU,
life short, and of the long list of naladics
that make life torment or trial. 1t il
thought by those who best understand the
physical system, that if the laws of life were
oheyed, this wonderful muchine, the body
. this "goodiy templc," would gradually de
0 cay, and men would die as if falling asleep
D Miss Sedgioick.