Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-07-31

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Religion and Health.
Those who study the Old Testament
are often surprised to find how large 4
proportion of its regulations were sanI-
tary in their end and aims, designed to
educate 8 whole community in those
habits, and calling their attention to
those virtues and exercises which
should form , healthy population
Their laws relating to clean and unclean
beasts, for instance. entering into all
/ domestic life, and demanding that if a
mouse or rat or piece of dead flesh had
! touched any culinary vessel, it should
be dipped in water and thoroughly
washed before it could be again used,
were intended to raise nation of slaves
into the most civilized and cleanly
nation then on the earth 1t was found
necessary to forbid pork altogether to
nation who perhaps were not so care
full thoroughly to cook all their meat
as we are Their fastings, festivals,
clean and unclean animals, their week
ly day of rest, and whole domestic ar
rangements were wonderfully devised
system for directing the attention Of
the whole community to the cultivation
Of the most pefect health of body, as
one of the first Of religious duties.
About a generation ago, DR.. Combe,
q physician, of Edinburgh, who in early
life had nearly died for want of srfi-
cient care, went everywhere over Great
Britain and America, leeturing on
health, and publishing works on the
constitution of man, calling attention
to this subject as a religious duty, in
always correct, and his ideas were some-
what restricted, but they met great
want in the popular mind, and treated
of very neglected subject. His lee
lures gave phrenology a start in this
country, and everything connected
With physical culture. And though
some terrible blunders were made, they
inspired class Of men who have been
experimenting and growing in the con-
scientious feeling that the cultivation
of health, by all suitable exercises and
renose alternately Of each organ, is the
duty of every individual; one without
which he cannot perform Alright any
other duty to himself, his family or the
community.
There is sort of idea, popular with
some, that Christianity has done away
with all this religion of the body
There cannot be q greater and more
pernicious mistake. Christianity has
stamped q value upon every human
life never before conceived, and health
Is a part Of life-it is life. When st.
Paul said that bodily exercise profteth
little, he spoke of Pharasaic exercises
into which Judaism had degenerated
mere forms without life. But when
the same writer argued, as sufficient
proof of the sin of certain immoralities,
that he who committed them sinned
against his own body, he implied that
all neglects and courses Of life injurious
to health are regugnant to the very
foundations of all true religion. This
is for your health"' was the sufficient
reason in his eyes Why he should COM
mand men TO take food, and even wine
is enjoined on q sick man for the same
reason. Thou shalt not kilr' embra-
ces more than most think. Christian
science has greatly added to the aver
age length Of life, and it has not done
half its work yet.
And still there are thousands who
never study the laws of health, 70 obey
them as q religious duty, bat eat and
drink, rise and retire, oVer-exercise
or 60 without exercise,
without any conscientious scruples, ex-
cept sofar as pain or the doctor reform
their habits per force. II
But the cultivation Of the highest
attsinable degree of health is not only !
} positive part of religion, but one of !
the most important parts Of religion I
Indeed, the example set by each affects 7
The family; and tbs whole community,
and national customs, duration of life, 7
happiness and physical progress or de-
yeneracy, so long as the family or race
hall last-aH are bound up in this COM
1rehensiYe principle, cultivating the 4
most perfect health as a fundamental .
'eligious duty. Inferior individuals n
md races are crowded out of existence, a
md the superior multiply and fill the n
,arth. This is the way in which, in .
he course of ages, the types and ideas a
# all races steadily improve. We live Il
n an age of science, and that science v
which produced the best races Of men
Fill populate the world of the future o
md give it dominion. 81
Besides, the intellectual yigor of a
ace corresponds, other things being u
quail, with the cultivation of bodily q
Iealth of every part. No doubt sickly fc
Olks have usually the most delicate
nd sensitive nervous organization--ll le
hey often perceive more acutely, and u
more exactly, the direction ~ ~
q which men ought to act. Indeed, in v
Il motion, there are two things to be <,
onsidered, force and direction Now, A,
ranting that persons not robust may
9 more delicate and exact in the direc- -
on they give to their energies, yet of
Icking the wholesome energy and m
IanIy vigor, most Of what they propose ca
les fruitless for want of energy, per- IN
Iyerance and intellectual force, gener- ed
ly to make its power felt. But or
seased body il not usually so healthy an
its tastes, affections and impulses.- Of
hey are morbid, perverted, erratic,
Id lead to all sorts of wrong and mis- fri
ken judgments.
Nor is even this the worst. Morality Ju
spends much upon health. All sorts
depraved impulses are stimulated by frl
oss feeding and want of exercise. The
rly riser, the temperate man N his Po
Od, the active and energetic man in M M
.ercise, will be found generally pos a. i
ssed of the best moral judgment-all l- ta-
$ instincts and impulses leading him ~
noble, humane, honorable and eleva- Ja,
courses of action. This reverence bv
: the health of the body is therefore ~,
ost comprehensive in its bearing on w5
dividuals, families and races. To so
2ulate the alternate exercises and re- b
Sc Of all our bodily faculties, as to use OF
em for the end to which they were ,
signed by the great and al-wise o-n
eator, is an object worthy the most ''S
tient study and religious care of of
cry human being.-Pitbie Ledger. evo
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