Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-02-11
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..Mhx shonldst thon die. before thy timelo

why sfouldst thou die before thy timer"
Reader, look around and see the great
numbers that are carried to the silent tomb,
then ask yourself the above important
question. 1t is one of great moment, yet,
alas, how many of your companions are no
more. Notwithstanding the importance
and solemnity of this question, you need
not marvel when you rightly understand
the cause of SO much premature death in
the world. If you trace mans life from
the cradle to the grave, you will find train
of continual disobedience of Gods laws.
To sin is to violate Gods law The laws OF
nature or the laws that govern our lives or
existence, are the laws of God; consequent
ly, if we place ourselves in false relation to
these laws, we commit sin.
The infant in the cradle was not born to
breathe impure air, or to be the receptacle
of poisonous drugs Its little stomach was
not intended by its Creator to be minia-
ture apothecary shop. These little dears
are made to suffer untold pain and agony,
because of the false teachings of the guar
dians of health-the doctors. Thus you
see these buds of mortality are nursed in
the hot house of maternal ignorance and
is it wonder that the flower of youth is
so weak and sickly. Follow the period of
life through youth to manhood and you
will find the physical condition no better.
The seed or cause of disease was firmly
rooted in the infant and created the neces-
sity, professionally taught, of administering
more of the cause of disease to cure the
effect of previous medication, or, in other
words, to cure the existing disease by pro-
duclng another Is it wonder that so
many die SO young, when this mode of
rearing children is countenanced by men
who ought to know better. The youth of
our land, from false training, have unnat-
ural instincts and perverted appetites-arc
literally digging their graves with their
teeth aud drinking themselves to death.
God made man to Gce, not to die, as do
so many. Do you think it is easier to die
than to Ire? 1t is easy to live and hard
to die, yet millions think the reverse is
true Were one-half the effort put forth
| to stay IN the world that is put forth to get
ont of it, death would be seen SO seldom as
not to be unwelcome. Death should not
be seen in any house where the young arc
1t is sin to be sick it is shameful to die
in the way in which it is so popular to term
providential If man dies at his BIOS
soming, it is termed dying in the proyi-
dence of God, whereas, without the least
doubt, his death comes in the face of all
Gods providences
We look for better day, in which man.
kind will be taught how to live in order to
Eli his destiny properly-to eat to live, not
to live to eat-and that when sick, the best
way to get well is not to fill the system with
drug poisons. The time is fast approach
ing when man will see that theIcurative
principle is in the living organism, not in
an inert or dead substance-when other
means will be made use of for the cure of
| disease than those which are the causes OF
disease. This is the fundamental error
under which the whole medical world has
been laboring for the last three thousand
years, viz: "That III the treatment of dis
ease we do but substitute one morbid ac-
ton for another; that the most violent
poisons are among our best remedies"
There is only one school of medicine
that has thrown off this old fogy notion Of
treating the i'll to which flesh is heir to,
and only one that teaches man so to live as
to be in obedience to the laws of his being.
MEDIcUs