New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-19

the head to the last pbalanx of ibe FOO, the 6 Jod
God had made every bone. muscle snd nerve good.
The idea. man Of the church, ins.esd Of great.
strong, beriy sixfoct. fd-che-ted red-faced. hand
come man, With beard upon his chin, and appe-
ti'e for his dinner, was sleek, esn weak creature,
living upon water-cr"sses, aud eating only because he
must. not because he wishes.
lnlemperance, gnttony and RIGHTEOUSNESS were emu
meraied a. an0Ug The concrete of sickness and
early death. These male vices, though often in-
volving Innocent wives and children in the fire that
consumes the cenous and guilty husband and father
Idleness, another Of the concrete causes of these
evils was characterized az female vice. Woman Is
naturally more industrious than man, yet from the
false construction Of society, aod the force OF publc
opinion, she is made idle, aud then is often sick
because she has nothing else 70 do But the worst
phase Of this evil s that it glories IN lts own shame
The idle woman often boasts that she Is unable to it
her babv while to the true woman. there Is no higher
pride than to bear aud to care for her oh'pring.
AmericaH slavery Is anotner promo eas.e OF tne
est-lved among savage tribes; but In Georgia and
Alabama five slaves live no longer than three white
men though the constitution Of the black man is bet
ter adaps TO the climate OF .hese States than that OF
the white man. Thus Slavery Is chargeable for large
share OF these evils.
War is another cause Of shortening life. Forty
thousand British subjects were consumed by the
Crimean and one hundred Thousand more will
doubtless be left upon the plains Of India before peace
will be conquered with that country. But in the
present state Of society this hardly be avoided.
Should our fathers at Bunker Hill, though they knew
they exposed themselves TO the enemys bullets have
lodged behind the green haycocks?
Formerly, Yil1 beasts, cold and hunger were the
great enemies ef man. The higher races have
nearly these opposing forces still the food
clothing and shelter Of the most enlightened nations
ave far from perfect.
OF upward of 6,000 children born yearly in Edn-
burgh, than 2 COO died before fifteen days oda
slaughter Of the innocents at which even HerOd would
have stood aghast. Two years after the doctors ven
tilsted the houses and the mortality reduced to
few hundred.
Even in Boston in 1855, in 36 died in Ward 8, while
in WARD only in 90 died. The south Cove lands,
from their atLess imperfect drainage narrow streets,
and the want of light and air. must for centuries re-
main unhealthy, while by little care and cost thirty
years ago this evil could have been averted. The
Sun is the physician Of the Great Father and the air
bis universal medicine.
The present style OF female attire supported by the
waist iostead o. irom the shoulders, as our mothers
he'd up their garments, came in !or share Of these
great evils.
The food is another prolific cause OF sickness and
sbortI of life. The speaker exnorted his audience
to look the bread found in public houses and almost
all private houees, handle it. but not taste it, as it is
unfit for any animal above the swine. Divines had
puzzled themselves to find out the meaning of sin
against the Holy Ghost" He had sometimes thought
that in man it consisted in making bad liquor from
good grain; ard in women, FROM good meal, making
bad bread.
In the universal complaint of sickness and pain. in
the walng Of humanity for ber early dead, the speaker
heard Natures prophecy that in the future 1t shall
lot be so.