The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-12-30
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lion Win plymouth SuuISuI oAOONAJ II
which might be patterned after by
Christians and churches elsewhere with
great advantage to society. Hehas adj
iacent to the church a building, which
he calls Bethel, fitted up comfortably
and abundantly supplied with library
ofsuch books as furnish;profitabler read
ing, with newspapers, periodicals.
maps, and everything or a kindred ma
ture calculated to entertain and inform.
Thisis thrown open on Sabbath and
Sabbath evening, and persons of all
grades of knowledge and cultivation
are invited to avail themselves freely of
its advantages. Mr.. Beecher's philoso-
ply is briefly this, that while he would
prefer people should attend religious
service the number who do 80 is limit
ed, while there are thousands who do
not and win not, and these too the
very ones who most need mental and
religious culture. Too many of these,
for lack of ATTRACTIONS in this
direction spend their Sundays either In
proftless idleness, or in dissipation.
Mr.. Beecher therefore, endeaYors to
attract them TO the rooms of his Bethel,
to furnish them means of mental occu-
patton and bring Thorn under the inn
proving and refining influences of
books. AS a still:further inducement he
has introduced regular Sunday evening
lectures on various subjects adapted to
the wants of the hearers and it is
gratifying that his efforts thus far have
been quite successful.
The lecture delivered in Mr.. Beecher;s
Bethel last Sunday evening was by DR..
willard Parker, one ofthe most emf
nent physicians of New York land a
brother, by the way, of our old friend
GrenvllIe Parker, of Wellsburg, so well
known to the readers ofthese columns.)
His subject was food and its relations to
the truman system. We find a synopsis
of tho Doctors remarks in one of our
New York exc aesi and though in a
very condense5 they embody so
much Informs Mich every one
ought to possess That we copy them
entire:
DIR. Parker, after few preliminary
remarks, stated that the only way TO
have health, happiness and life is to
know the laws that govern and regulate
us and contribute TO health and happi-
ness. Every Individual should know
how he is made and what he is made
for, both to enjoy this life and the next.
| The blood is the life of the flesh, its
great centre and source. Our food,
when takeD into the system, is convert
| ed into chyle and goes to the nourish-
ment OF the blood. The blood first
! ht4 Tiplps finally
| through the lungs. which Purityit, In
order TO have good, pure blood, we must
have good materials, such as good food.
You cannot make anythinggOod out of
| bad materials. So with the blood. The
blood travels through the right heart to
the lungs. The bad blood goes out in
carbonic acid gas. The lungs take in
or throw out about twenty i've inches
OF this gas with each breath. The blood
| In passing through the system under
goes great changes. Oxygen is the
| great article of lie, without which we
cannot exisI. No other "gin" can be
\ compared to il. The lungs and the
skin are two great outlets of im.
pure matter. Tins, therefore, necessary
not only to have good air to breathe
| through the lungs, but also to keep the
| skin clean to keep good health; bathing
| is, therefore, necessary 10 Keep the skin
| in healthy condition. He recommend
i eu uHllY COtu water bhtIlS anu sOUNl
| friction. He entered into Il diagnosis
of the different kinds of food and their
effect on the system. He classified
| them as the heterogeneous, or muscle
| makers, which include milk, cheese,
peas, barley, oats, potatoes, beef, mutt
| ion, poultry and venison. Tue carbon
| aceous. or heaters, such as sugar, milk
butter, cream, wheat bread, rice, buck
wheat, potatoes and fat beef, mutton,
pork and poultry. The phosphate, or
| brain and nerve feeders, he enumerated
as milk, oysters, fish, eggs, beans, peas,
potatoes, beef, veal and mutton. He set
down the time required for digesting
the different kinds OF food as follows
Rice, one hour; trlpe, one hour; trout,
an hour and n half; milk, two hours;
| beans, two and half hours; potatoes,
two and half hours; turkey, two and
a half hours; beef, three hours; mutton,
three and quarter EOurs; eggs, three
and II half hours; white bread, two and
IA half hours; veal, four hours; salt beef,
four and a quarter hours; cabbage,
four and half hours; pork, five
and quarter hours. He next
stated that the effect of cooking
| was shown by the lime required for
! digestion under the various modes for
instance, beef roasted required for di-
gestIon three hours; broiled three hours
and a quarter; boiled, three hours and
a half, fried, four hours; pork, siewed,
| three hours, broiled, three hours and a
quarter fried, four b ours and quarter;
boiled four hours and a half;rOasted, five
hours and quarter. He said:that
fruits were not producers of muslce,
| brain, or heaters, but, combined with
| solid food, had their salutary effects on
the system. Providence has wisely
adapted the produce of different CHM
ates to the wants and uses of its inhab.
itants; but how often does man abuse
this wise dispensRtionl Persons OF
sedentry habits, or brain workers,
should not distress the stoma ch with
TO much solid food. From this abuse
spring paralysis and apoplexy. The
lungs, the skin, the kidneys and the
bowels are the four great sluIces of the
body. He exempt: fed their workings
and uses by diagrams. He next spoke
ot-ihe necessity OF light to health.
Vegetables placed in cellar will
soon wither. So the human be-
ing, if excluded from good
air and light. will soon contract
disease and die. One is almost as con-
ductive to our health and happiness as
the other. He censured the growing
tendency OF driving in carriages and
not taking enough of the healthy ex-
ercise of walking. He said that labor
Was conductive to health. There were
two kinds of labor-muscle and brain
most priced, is certainly the most
healthy and he believed the most hon
OrablP. In his opinion all healthy per
sons were cHpmble of giving ten hours
labor out OF twenty four. No man can
do head work well and work more
than four or five hours. Overworking
of the brain produces paralysis, apo
plexy and other fatal diseases. He in
stanCed several Cases of brain. workers
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