New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-17
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
Fyss an ASd,e,, t<cvs < Asrieifsra Society Of Hi"J-
hire Hanpden and FrGnkiia Couaiis', Mus
BY SYLVESTER GRAHAM

ted man. he planted garden, or as the heore I"
text more strictly signifies, an orchard, eastward
in Eden. or in a pleasant region and caused 10
spring up out Of the ground all trees pleasant to the
sight and good for food among which were the
trees OF life, or trees yielding life and heathsus-
tanning fruit: and trees Of the knowledge Of good
and evil, or trees yielding intoxicating and PERM
cisus fruits or substances the eating. OF which
would give, not an intelligent discsrnment and ap-
probation of good and evil IS abstract moral quail
ties but according to the strict sense OF the Ian
gage in the Hebrew text, simply that knowledge
of good and evil as matters Of personal experience
which is derived from such suffering Of evil as
gives a mental consciousness Of good and evil con-
ditions affections and emotions contrssted with
each other; as health and disease; pleasure and
pain: cheerfulness and sadness; joy and sorrow ;
happiness and misery. And God took the man
whom He had formed and put him into the garden
Of Eden to dress it and to keep it and commanded
him, saying; "Of every tree of the garden thou
nayst freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge
Of good and evil, eat not for in the day that thou
eatest thereof moth t0muth htoH pH begiH 10 de-"
| But man disobeyed this Injunction Of Divine be-
| nevoence, and ate Of the tree of death; and God
said TO man Because thou hast eaten Of the tree
OF which commanded thee not to eat, cursed is the
ground I6d' d6hHrechal in thy detection through
thy delinquency as its tiller, it shall bring forth
weeds and briars exuberantly and through thy
enervatng sensuaty the care and labor nccessa-
~ for the cultivation of the produce Of the field
which thou shalt eat, shall be troublesome anxiety
and irksome toll u thee and in the sweat Of thy
sI.1t III hy food -in
shalt thou eat it, till thou return to the ground out
of which thou vast taken" And as men multi
Piled upon the earth, they increased in sensuality
and depravty, creating disease and shortening life
I'LL all mankind had corrupted their way, by eating
flesh and drinking wine, and rioting in every form
Of sensual pleasure. And God, in mercy even to
the incorrieible and abandoned race sent flood to
cleanse the earth from its human poutions saving
only Noah and his family from the general destruc.
ton; not on account OF the peculiar goodness of
this particular family, but for the continuation of
the species And when the face Of the earth had
been covered with water for many months, and
every living substance was destroyed which was
upon the face OF the ground and all the fruits of the
earth were cut of, and Noah and his family had
nothing to subsist upon but the animals which they
had taken with them into the ark, God said-not
as at first, TO uniallen undepraved as Speries
but to remnant OF the fallen and corrupted race TO
Noah and his family, in their peculiar condition and
circumstances and 10 all others in like necesstous
conditions and circumstances" Every creeping
thing that liyeth shall be food for you; even as the
green herb have / given you all things"
These Sacred Records clearly teach us that in
the Divine constitution and appointment OF things,
the food adapted to sustain human nature, in its
highest hottest best and happiest state the fruit
of the orchard-of trees and shrubs as distinguish
ed from the grain and other products of the titled
field that these latter which require the careful,
of man, Tor their cultivation, constitute his second
best kind oil food, in relation to bodily and mental
health, vigOr, activity, usefulness happiness and
length Of days. And that in the most destitute,
depraved and abandoned state of man, he is given
up to feed, like beasts OF prey the carcasses of
other animals, and even to 90 beyond the most ra-
venous and ferocious OF predaceous beasts and de-
YOUR with greediness the flesh OF his own kind
filling the earth, by his transgressons, by his sen
suaIties and atrocities, with disease ana suffering
and untmely death, and every other evil and attic.
tive and calamitons consequence OF sin.
And these teachings of the Word of Inspiration !
confirmed by MI human history and ex perience
from the beginning of our race TILL now and BY all |
the truths of science which have been clearly aud !
fully ascertained 10y man, in relation 10 the same
matter. All the relevant anatomical aud physolo- |
g'cal and psychological evidence Of Human Nature
certles the truth Of these teachings of the Sacred
Records.
But rarely has it been more terribly demon
strated than in our own afflicted land during the
past season. Had God wholly Withdrawn His
merciiul providence from HIS creature Man, aud
left us TO the malignant and destructive tyranny of
the Prince Of Darkness a more fatal delusion could
hardly have possessed the human mind; a more
atnl course OF conduct could hardly have been pur-
sued by Man. And yet, in all this balefl expert.
once; Ia all this horrible mortality, Gods benevo-
lent admontions have been plain and palpable and
pressing; and their clear and merciful import has
~ We 7 va ftrt hun If..f
" Return To the Primitive and Diyinely instituted
Regimen -"Of every tree OF the garden-of
every tree of life-eyery tree which bears life
sustaining fruit, eat iree y but eat not touch not
the fruit Of the tree of DEATH"
The plague, the cholera, the various epidemics-
all the forms OF pesence that have scOurged the
earth, have distinctly and unambiguously uttered
this same admonton. But the heart Of Man has
been too fat; his whole nature has been too deep
ly sensualized TO perceive and understand and
obey the true teachings OF his calamitous expert
ence and, consequently, he has been confirmed in
bis deluson, and impeled preciptately down the
steep place OF destruction, rather than convinced
Of truth and converted TO the way of life, bv the
he has received and the tribaatons be
has endured.
Twice, at least has that form Of disease, de-
Cholera, been generated and pro-
pagsted over the human world, destroying millions
u lves-not by its own absolute m0rbiiic and per-
licious energy but by the fatal deusiou and error
md madness whichit has occas stoned; and yet men
emaln as ignorant OF the and causes OF this
ilsease, and OF the true means OF remedying and
PREVENTING 1t, as they were when il was known
My in sporadic cases half century ago. And
Consequently every preposterous theory, every alb
urd hypothesis, every erroneous conjecture has
'een conceived and adopted, in preference 10 the
imple truth, which is rejected and condemned as
nost incredible and fatuous falsty. The atmos
here, and the earth and the fruits OF the field and
the garden are, each Of them, accused OF hostii-
to man, anu OF being the source of the mysteri-
US morbiiic and perncious energy which consti- ,
utes the epidemic principle and fatal potency of
holera Yet il 10 certain that Cholera in ali that
institutes its primary and essential character is
he OF the mildest and most easily managed forms