The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-05-17
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MoraIActiOu a TOnic.

Moral action is the necessary restorative OF
the soul that has lost its pristine health and
yipor from any cause. Spiritual ills are
quite analogous to those of the physical sys-
tenn and need a quite similar treatment,
too. MANY persons are afflicted with
morbid indisposition enumer-
ating their infrmities-at ease only when
describing their diseases and reporting the
state of the heart, liver, aud lungs. A good
physician would inform them that the physl-
cial organs discharge their functions best
when least interfered with; he would advise
them to let heart, liver, and lungs alone and
not even converse about their ailments, but
to seek cheerful society, and, above all, to en-
gage in some occupation that will exercise
the muscles while it interests the mind
Many an invalid falls victim to half-imag-
mary maladies, because no friend has the
courage to bid him "take up thy bed and
walkp Exercise is one OF the best restorers
of wasted system. Manual labor and m
nocept recreation are natures best medi
cines. And so Of the large class OF persons
who perpetually complain of religious Ian
ouor. insepsibility, and want of faith, and
make their associates uncomfortable by re-
citals oftheir morbid feelings, gloomy fears,
and endless talk about their souls. The
faithful moral physician will not humor their
sickly mood by administering imaginary
opiates, but will prescribe the only remedy
of which their disease admits. He will say,
"You must work. However languid your
devotional feelings, exercise them in prayer
and they will recover their healthy tone.
Seek out ard help the poor and suffering,
and your heart will regain its Vigor. ASK
yourself what is right that you may do 1T
and consequence will arouse from its stupor
| in fresh strength and fill your heart with en-
uobling peace. Forget your soul and Its
| infirmities in doing what good your hand
| finds to do with all your might and your,
.indisposition will be speedily replaced by
following such prescription as thisl
|
The true way to restore the sick soul is by
lifting it out Of the close, gloomy chambers
of remorseful memory and haunting i'm
| aoination into the blessed sunshine, invigor-
ating air, and boundless landscape of Gods
/ love. until it thrills with an answering glow
and can rise up to repair its shattered con-
stitution by fresh obedience. Its wounds
will heal as it performs its work; its faults
will disappear as it cherishes virtues and
nufs on graces; its selfshness will die down
4 as il practices generosity; the fever Of pas
. sion will cool as the breath of pure love
blows over it. and holy aspirations lift it
aloft. Not by sectarian devices, but by the
healing Spirit of God and the meek per-
formance of his will in all things, can the
soul recover from its sins. Living for no.
BILE purpose, with mind absorbed in great
thoughts and plans of usefulness, crowding
the days with generous deeds, we shall en-
tirely escape the malaria of evil and achieve
the purpose OfOur being. Spiritually asTsll vel
as physically, man was made for work. The
other powers of the mind converge to the
executive ability which adapts means to
ends and translates thoughts into things
Doing is the end of thinking, feeling, faith
, The highest state of soul is not that of mu'
sing mood, dreamy sentimentality, or In
doient indifference to both good and evi
) which should be called sickly instead o
sanity; but that in which every faculty anS
sentiment are raised to their highest working
condition and harmoniously cooperate t
, finish the task we were created TO perform
r Not until we can say with Christ: M
: Father worketh hitherto, and work, shal
we attain his blessedness.-Li6erGC Christian