The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-11-14
We see how extensive is the use o.

We see how extensive Is the use Of
tobacco, when the records of the Inter
nal Revenue Office show the manufac
ture of 95,096, l25 pounds of tobacco
and 1,3l9.675, 900 cigars for the year
ending June 80, 1871. According to the
returns Of the census, which fix our
population at thirty-eight millions, this
would allow about ct pounds Of tobacco
and 70 cigars to every individual-man,
woman and child. This statement does
not include the great quantity of to-
bacco imported.
In regard to whisky. it is enough to
know that one-half the money expend-
ed for it would sustain system of COM
mon schools throughout the Union
equal to that Of Massachusetts.
These are very suggestive facts, show
ing to what an expense the abuse Of the
body may lead; very great evil in.
deed looking at it in a merely pecuniary
light. But the body, as We have seen,
is very intimately connected with the
soul, and every glass OF liquor man
drinks enters the common reservoir OF
sin which is to drown the conscience.
When he makes his body drunk his
soul is made drunk also; and when his
body lies in a gutter that leads to the
sewer where all the material filth OF the
city is emptied, his soul too wallows
in gutter which leads to the eternal
cesspool where all the spiritual filth OF
the universe is cast.
l had not intended, in speaking OF the
education of the body, TO say ANYTHING
of this so much discussed evil. l only
allude to it to illustrate how wonder
fully degraded the body may become
by wrong education, for the appetite for
stimulating liquors is certainly one
acquired by education, not a natural
one. 1t is beautiful thing to keep the
body pure and healthy, that it may be
as little cumbrous to the immortal spirit
as possible; and it is teautiiul thing
to say Of a man that she gave up the
ghost and died in a good old age, an old
man, and full of years" Such record
would at least testify to his having been
temperate, i! nothing more; and TEN.
perance is mother OF virtues as intem-
perance is Of vices.
Let us turn now to the consideration
Of the nobler part Of man,
THE MIND.
We have shown the importance, the
duty, the absolute necessity Of the
proper education Of that part OF our
being which is subject to decay and
final dissolution. 1t grows and
fourishes but for a short season, even
as stalk Of corn, which comes forth
in the spring tender and beautiful in
its verdant freshness, spreads its broad
blades in the summer heat, and "opens
its grain; but, when the autumnal
winds bring hoar frost, becomes sap.
lees, lifeless thing, and is blown down
to be covered by the SHOWS of winter.
So is the body. 1t is OF the dust, and
to the dust returns; it has its spring, its
summer, its fall, and lis final, lasting
winter, from which the returning songs
of birds, warm April showers, aud the
suns reyiving rays shall never resur-
rect it.
How beautiful the contrast, and how
beautifully expressed n that passage OF
Holy Writ which says: Then shall
the dust return to the earth As it was,
and the spirit shall return to God, who
gave it"
The spiritual being of man is the
highest type OF mind in the universe,
for it was formed lin the image OF
God" 1t is therefore perfect in its
constitution, and is capable of every
mode OF action; it has for its field the
whole creation, and there is no limit to
its capacity. Being the image of the
Deity 10 its formation, it shall ever
strive 10 become more and more like
Him in degree OF power, to obliterate
time and space, aud attain as near to
omnipresence as the allwise Creator
will permit. See what it has done
Every steam engine that whistles in its
swift aud noisy course is trumpetlng lis
glory. 1t has furnished the earth with
a system OF electric nerves by which the
events that take place in Europe are
known in America almost as quick, and
very much in the same way as painful
or pleasant affection of any part OF the
body is conveyed to the mind. A dis
patch was sent from Valentia, Ireland,
February lst, 1868, at 7:3l A. NJ,
reached New York at 2:35 A. NJ, and
was received in San Francisco at ll:2l
P. NJ, January 3lst, actual distance
1000 miles actual time from NaIentla
to San Francisco = minutes. So Yhat
is done to-day in Nalentia is Known
Yesterday in San Francisco. Such the
triumph Of mind over time and space.
1t has also given man an eye by which
lie can gaze unharmei upon the daz-
zliny surface OF the sun, and by which
he has discovered thousands Of other
brighter lights far in the ethereal depths
1t has enabled him to pry into the
secrets of the insec. world, and examine
the universe Of animalcules that fill air,
earth and water.
Through rules by itself laid down it
has done that which challenges our
BELIZE. In 1916 lie Verrier sat in his
room in Paris, and, with an accuracy
that astounded all the astronomers OF
Europe, announced the existence Of a
planet hitherto unseen, assigned its po-
sition in the heavens, told its magnitude
and the character OF its Disc observers
in Berlin, probably with more curiosity
than faith, turned the telescope to the
point in the sky indicated, and there in
truth, within a degree OF the calculated
place, was the planet, which the earth
| ~ goi-fathers of heavens lights have
Improperly termed Neptune.
So, numbered as it is by connection
with dull clay, the mind has neverthe-
less ventured bold excursions, winged
it's way around the orbits of distant
planets, measured the stars that shine