The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-05-27
A EsnndInherltnnce

When describing fine specimen Of
human nature, in the shape of very
healthy young man, we remarked,
''You must have descended from good
stock-that is to say, from a healthy
and longlived ancestryj besides this lin
ferring from his supple action and his
joyous good-naturel you have proba-
bly, lived a strictly temperate life, add
ing to, rather than diminishing, your
capital stock ofyitality and hold on life"
His teeth were clean SOUND, ,and strong,
with no stain Of tobacco; his muscle
was wiry and compact; his chest full
and plump, with large lungs heart, etc,
and excellent digestion and circulation.
BE was then twenty-six years of age.
At the conclusion of our examination,
he stated that he was born in Kentucky;
descended from English stock, his pa
rents were Virginians, and had attain
ed the ages ofseventy and seventy-two;
that they were seldom i'll, and as seldom
used medicine; that tney were strictly
temperate, scrupulously honest, and not
only religiously inclined, but deyout
worshipers; He (the SOM had been
trained and educated in all these things.
He stated it as his belief that his total
exemption from all disease, aches, and
pains, and his full enjoyment of exhu-
berant health, was owing chiefly to the
almost perfect health, temperance, and
the adaptation Of his parents to each 9TH
er. In temper, in energy, in ambition,
in industry, in their devotion to God
and to each other, there was perfect
compatibility. And, he added, THIS
WAS MY RICH INHERITANCE.
This interview brought train of i'll
teresting reflections to our mind. We
queried, Why should not all inherit the
same favorable conditions? Are pa
rents justified in reducing their own
bodies to low degree of life and health,
so low as to be Just above the death
line, by dissipation, debaucbery, or by
slavish attention to money-getting,
and then, while in this dead-and- alive
state of physical dilapidation, become
the parents of weak, puny, and feeble
offspring that cannot mature! Consld-
er the fact, that more than ten thousand
children, under five years of age, die
in the city Of New York every year.
and that more than three hundred thou
sand infants die in England every
twelve months. Whyl Partly, nay
chiefly, because they are born Of sickly
and dissipated parents The stock is
poor; the blood is bad. "Can an evil
tree bring forth good fruit!" The re-
sponsibility of parents is great They
have no right to curse their progeny
through their selfindulgence or viola
ton Of natural law. God requires of
every one the right use of all his facul-
ties of all lis faculties Of mind and Or
gans Of body.
Go to the schools and asylums for
idiots and imbeciles to the retUrmato-
ries for juvenile delinqueuts to the
mad-houses for the insane, and ascer-
tain the causes of these human miseries
Is idiocy, imbecility, Or insanity to be
charged to the Creator! Is God the
author of these imperfections? or do
they result from violation of His lawsl
1t must be clear to every enlightened
mind that this matter of Inheritance is
governed by law; that its obedience
secures all the blessings which natural.
| ly flow therefrom, and that its infringe.
ment is punished as herein indicated.
What blessed thing it is to inherit a
full, vigorous, heaIthful constitution
and what a misfortune to be born of a
sickly, puny, or corrupt parentage.
Health is duty disease is a misfor-
tune, to call it by no barsher term
Reader, the Scriptures are sustained by
science when they command US to see
to it that we present our bodies ga liv
ing sacrifice, HOLY and acceptable unto
God" Can the drunkard do thisi
Can he whose very bones are foul with
filthy tobacco do it? Let us consider
our duty in these respects, not only tC
ourselves, but to our descendants and
to our God, and do it.
Reader, are yoa in the path of duty
or are you living life Of mere animal
indulgence? Whatsoever man sow.
eth, that shall he also reap."-Phrsno.
logical Journal.