Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-07-06

DIosSomlnk OF the SOuI, ana b1lA HnhI
blossoming in truth and justice and right
is the true succsss. With many men
their worldly losses are their lransfgura-
ton, and worldly success onthe other hand
is their tomb, Prosperous in temporal
matters. they. stand up like old pyramids,
nightly built, but with inside only dust.
Many men, like the wreathing vine, climb
the vast trunk Of prosperity and blossom
elegantly Mt the top in the eyes of the
world, while they bear no fruit; and many
others, who reach but n short distance
from tho ground. have every twig cover
I'd with purple fruit. But we must go far
back Of all those temporal thi'gs, in con-
sidering our subject.
Let US look at the elements of sue
cess.
First--One il health. Health should
be preached and taught IA duty. and a
morality, and the want of 1t rs an immor-
ality. We would not say health is one of
the Christian grSres. but that it under
Laws them all. Nearly all tho great ends
OF life require health to their attainment.
In high state Of physical health each and
all the raemb%s are better able to perform
their respective functions. God made man
and nature to be in such harmony, that in
healtk there will be the greatest happ
ness in the mere enjoyment of sentient,
active being.
The social affections depend much on
healthy body: Where one man is made
gentle by bodily ailments, a hundred are
made pesvish. The dySpeptic carries more
faggots and hotter fires in his stomach than
even bnrnt in Smith6eld,
Even more needful is health to the intel
lectual and moral nature of man. Some
men think tho mind is like n birds nest,
perched in the topmost branches of tree.
but not part tboreof. But the mind il
more like The blossoms of the tree, affected
by everything which affects the body
Some who rume to ministers complaining
Of n moral aseaso need ply .ical regi-
men, and moral condition will often be de-
termined bS physical condition Mighty
~ truth is to the conscience, the sponge
to the skin miShdly helps it. You can
not keep Gods moral law and neglect his
natural law. 1t is far easier TO keep them
both at once, than either separately. Every
sanitary Improvement made In n great city
lis n step toward tho Improvement of its
morals. 4 sick minister is not n tit leadOl
FLOR u congregation. Asce.icsm, fS's.
philosophy and other"eyils which have dis
turbed the world. have sprung from un
,lcrstanding, clouded by unhcalth. Mos
of the greatest hercsias were hillary il
their origin. In the morning when the
body is fresh from rest, the world Seems
bri .ht and pleasant, and not large enough
at noon it is not So large, and 1T nigh
everything seems disconra.ing and tn,
world vastly too largr. At morn W,
carry the world on our shoulders, at moor
we i,v it down, and at night we are yla,
to lie upon i. and let the world cSrry
us.
Health is necessary to the Christian
grxcss. Many Of them are utterly impos
sible to sickness. Asceticism. too, is tn,
result of i'll heslth. and is not compatible
with the religion that springs from love
1t VAS well for the old anclorites tha
they retired into seclaSion. where mel
would not iud how peevish they were, fo
had they not they would never have go
into the calendar, or they would have go
into that other one.
There are exceptions to the rule, fo
there have been invalids who have taugh
noble l-ss,us; but health is es estenlally tn
prime element Of success i'm life, becaus,
it enables all others to give out their tru
f value. What good would all the weatl
nf the continent do. If one had the colic
A man may have what he pleases-if h
has The toothache, it is of no use.
The second element Of success is tn
, ability to open and exert all the parts Of
man 5 nature. This is to educate. Edu
cation is the ability To use with power al
the elements of power which God has pu
in us. \ mans power lies in the com
binde action of all his powers. One finge
has some power, another has another use
: but when We wish to grasp in earnest w
take the whole hand. Force is not cult
waited enough i'll our day, for fear {
strengthening impetuosity or passionat
: energy. which may produce evil results
, Yet it is what good men need to max
, progress with. 1t is only by using ever
, part Of the mind that great results can b
: attained.
, Men are apt to make their happiness de
pend ON one or two faculties, and if thes
: are blocked up, they.are deprived of pleas
t ure. For instance, some eat TO rrplelion
e and talk to them OF moral subjects, the
say; i am full happy, let sickness come.
and put their whole happiness into bodil
enjoyments. They had parlor, bat the
= lived in the kitchen, and when that VIZ
G swamped they had nowhere else I
\ go.
g Other men seek their whole happines
{ in the exescise of the executive faculties -
9 They find happiness only in stir aud bus
ness, and say that is happiness. So lon
8 as they are prosperous this may be tru,
: but how do such men feel in these times
O. They are all adrifl now.
y Others Jake pleasure in things whic
lSuch their pride, and SO long as they a,
{ we'll off all Is right with them. Of the,
i 6nd pleasure only in the praise Of men,
n But this is tower that easily will fall, an
4 as it their only tower, when it falls all