The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1865-07-18


MEiroAso.
The Beginning.
pA by DIR. NORMAL.
The first question of the true reform
er is, Having so much strength as
capital to work with, how can / best
apply it to accomplish most ?" So, too,
improving the best faculties by eIer-
else. Is there most need of preaching,
or practice-whichs is it because
truth is not proclaimed, that people do
not SEQ itp or that their organs of
sight are not clear? for by nature all
love to learn. We shall find that all
see call that is in them to see"-all
they can see, for alasl all the eyes the
soul has to look through ore those OF
the too often foul and diseased body I;
the soul sees all it can see, through its
darkened medium. What can you see
through muddy, discolored glasses P
AS such, to your eyes, are the bodies
to the souls within. First let the work
er cast the beam out of his own eye
purify his own body. Do not sacrifice
yourself; what really helps you, bene-
fits others, by natures eternal lay
"First, be pure" Purify yourself
the body first. Do you see what that
really implies? Your body should be
all of fine working, ''live' tissue; do
not carry around dead matter in that
wondrons fabric; it will tire you, it
will do you no good, but horn. What
hinders is, there are too many dead
people unburied i'm the world. Fat is
dead matter--by Mosaic law not eaten.
Your nose, in a natural state, will tell
you to avoid grease. Bathe the body
in lukewarm water, mornings. Keep
the pores of the skin open; let the inn
purities so pass out; do not stand In
their way. That is all nature asks
she will do the work. Don't "assist"
her with medicine-as well assist
the sap of the oak tree with medicine.
Give that to the dogs-it is safe--they
won't touch it,
As the impure matter passes off, do
you build anew with the very BEST
Gods image is worthy the best
Breathe only the best air. Drink the
best water only. When you avoid
stimulants, !. e., wasters, you won't get
up continuous fever-thirst in the
body. Don't eat fever-inducing arti-
cles. N. b., herein lies the root OF
the temperance, matter. Eat real
food. Did you ever see truly healthy
man-one whose prespiration is sweet
Let Mons. Nose test yours, if ii is not
impaired by offensive secretions. If
your skin exhalations are offensive,
you are eating, as food, an imitation
not the genuine; something that can
not be used by the system as bulk or
nutrition, brain, flesh and bone constit-
uents, but n clog to the blood filthy
1t may be sugar. Surely it is not
Faugh! Lard-of the unclean beast,
haunting the cess-pool-swine-which n
Jesus and Paul, Daniel and David
unite in condemning, taken with the
free action of real food into the blood,
thence cast out, ANONYMOUSLY, with un-
comfortable sensations, through the
pores of the skin, etc.
What is human food? Looking over
the world and history, we find man en-
lightened and happy, just in proportion
as his food is more of the fruits, grains
and vegetables, and less, or no flesh
meats. / speak only of what expert
ence, theory and natural law, true sci
ence, agree in. Look for yourself
testing by natural law. Still read
the book of nature, particularly
Though few others may. or wish to see
it, tremble not if you do discover that
Gods laws are one, harmonious, that
intercourse with, toll for, and butchery
of unnaturally penned-up beasts, is mol
an essential to the True Life here-the
Life which breatheth Love to all Gods
creatures, grown so strong by virtue o.
its inherent vitality, in despite of that
which, though it be one of the steps
which Mans Progress has assembled,
will yet, most assuredly, like Ortho'
doxy, be outgrown. Yet until a taste
for, and a knowledge how to make good
bread, of pure, freshly ground unbolted
wheat -four be more common, wild
game, living natural life, is much bet
ter than the sugared and spiced substi
tutes. 1t is folly 70 take away meat.
without supplying the best bread and
fruits.
Reader, view the cattle pen awhile
then turn to the fragrant peach, deli
cious to the eye as to the palate, with Q
bloom like the blush on the cheek o.
the pure maiden, caught from the 81
lently imbibcd sunbeams of an hundred
balmy summer days, or to the luciou'
fruits of the "purple vine" and think
which will best nourish the temple Of
the spirit" Choose. That is the be
ginning.
A REAL RoMANcE.-A curious scene