The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-02-27
THE USE OF THR BODY.
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Ths hdnan body h hi instrument 1t
pleasure and use, built for eighty ysaEs'
wear, Every man belongs to m econo-
nytin which he has right to calulate,
or his ffieneis .tor him, op eiehty years
- . fairfefmofiife. His body II placed
In world adapted u nourish and pro-
tsct II 4 NAtnee h esn6sniaL There are
elst6ents enough 81 mischief 10 n ifa
man pleases to fnd them out, A man
can wear his body out ~ quickly as he
pleases, destrny It II he will; but after
all the sseat laws Of nature arc nourish-
Ing laws, and comprehensively regarded,
nature h the univemal-nurse, and uni
veraal physician Of our race, guarding
us against evil, warning IN of It by in
cipient pains, setting up signals OF dang
er, not outwarily but inwardly, and
Gautioning US by sorrows and by pains
for our benefit. Every immoderate
draft which Is made by the appetites
and passions is so much sent forward to
be cashed In old oge. You may sin at
one end, but God takes it off atthe other.
Every man has stored up for him some
eighty years, If he knows how to keep
them and those eighty years like bank
of deposit, are full of treasures; and
youth, through ignorance or though inn
moderate passions, is wont continually
to draw checks Oh old age. They do
not suppose that they are doing it, al
though told that the wicked shall not
live out hnlf their days. need not 60
far to find illustrations of premature ex-
hatstion, or at any rate Of weakness and
enfeeblement. I might point you to q
dozen instances, without going mile in
any direction, for the truth that the un-
virtuous men shall not live out half Of
their days. Men are accustomed to look
upon the exercises Of youth as some
thing that belongs to that time. Men
say tfat Of course the young, like colts
unbridIed, will disport themselves
There is no harm in colts disporting
themselves. hut n colt never gets drunk.
do not ohjec: to any amount Of gaicty
or vivaclty that lies within bounds Of
reason or Of health, but I do object and
abhor, asto sstiginatize Us dishonorable
and unnlaDiy, every such course in youth
takes away strength, vigor and purity
from old age. do not believe any man
should take the candle Of his old age and
light 1t by the vices of his youth. Every
man that transcends natures laws in
youth is taking beforehan those treas
urcs that arc stored up for his old age !;
It Is taking tAes eaa III heta ota ass and aaaxe
hausting it in riotous living in his youth
Mere gaicty and cxhilaration are whole
some, they violate 10 law, moral or
physical. think a man is not thor
ough Christian who is not cheerful, Il
happy, u buoyant Christian. There may
be times of public sorrow, and there may
be exceptional times Of religious revivals
when sterner stuff is required; when
Christian men have duties to perform
that bring into acti witty tile steamer .clc-
mems of their character; but these are
exceptional cases. The ideal Of Il Christ
ian manhood Is one of cheerfulness, hap
piness, hopefulncss-a manhood fuil OF
beauty, of serenity.
l do not object, therefor, to mirt,, or
gayety, but I do object to any mans
making an animal Of himself by living
for the qualification of his own animal
passions. People frequently think that
to require, in the conduct Of youth, that
which we expect in later life, has some.
thing Of Puritanism in it. Men have
an impression that youth IS very much
like wine, crude and insipid until it has
fermented, and when it has fermented
and thrown down the lees, and the scum
has been drawn off, the great body be.
tween is sound and wholesome and
beautiful. am not one that thinks SO
l think that youth is like the beginning
of the plant Of life, and that every war,
or cXcrcsccnce is SO much an enfeeble
ment Of its fruit-bearing power. l de
uON O0iCNC tuht uti IIsutl Is ally llcttel
for having learned what is the whole
career of drunkenness or lust, or what
are the dallyings or indulgence that be
longs to morbid life. A young mar
that las gone through these things ma,
be saved at last, but in after life, he has
not the sansibility, he has not the puri.
~, he has not the moral stamina that h.
ought to have. He has gone through
an experience but for which his man
hood would have been both strongc
and nobler. am one Of those thai
thoroughly disbelievc that q man is any
better for having, in youth, passet
through, an experience that developed
his animal nature and his lustful appe
tites. Excess, in youth, in regard t,
animal indulgenccs, Is bankruptcy il
| old age. For this reason deprccat,
late hours, irregular hours, or irrcgula
sleep as intemperance. People ask M,
frequently: "Do you think that ther,
is any harm in dnnring?" No; / d,
not. There IL much good in 1t. ID,