The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03

The decency of this arrangement is a large
element of its value. The dry earth GOV
ers all that has gone before. There is some
thing absolutely humliating in going to {
place where one sees heaped up and swell
hold. Let each one but take the trouble
to cast in handful of dust, and all is de
Gently yelled from view.
No doubt many will think all this trouble
unnecessary. They know nothing of indi
gestion, they have little shame or delicacy
in observing the calls of nature. 1t mat.
tiers little to them whether there are any
such conveniences or not. But some con
sideration is due to the delicacy of others,
and especially to the instructive modesty OF
females.
The neglect of regularity in certain daily
duties is known to be the cause of no small
amount of disease and suffering. The suf-
ferers with constipation and with h;emor-
rhods are exceedingly numerous. The
lives of many men and women are marred
in their efficiency and comfort by reason of
this ever-present distress. One of the no
blest bishops of the Episcopal Church in
this country is said to have lost health and
life in this way. Travelling very constantly
over large diocese where decency and
privacy in some things were often neg
lected, he found it impossible to observe
the habits necessary for his health.
Children of both sexes lay, by negligence
in these matters, the foundation of i'll
health. Modest persons will undergo the
greatest inconvenience rather than go forth
when every one sees them on their way,
and will procrastinate to the latest posi-
BILE moment rather than enter an unclean
garden house, offensive to the sight and so
intolerable to the smell that the visit is a
daily punishment.
In the name then of decency and mod
esty, of civilization and refinement, of
health and even life, we urge attention to
these domestic arrangements. Our pen
will have been we'll employed, if we can
persuade some to abolish promptly and ut
terly all those pits which hide and concen-
trate to the point of indefinite accumula-
ton, impurities which work no end of mis-
chief, and to try, carefully and impartially,
the virtues of Dry Earth.
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may be allowed, in conclusion, to offer
some suggestions touching the Christian
morality which underlies, in my opinion,
all such discussions as the foregoing. For,
as St. Paul cried out to the Phillippian
.iailor, do myself no HARM" so the Chris
tian teacher may well cry out against the
wantonness of self-destruction with which
men despise their physical well-being.
The human body is represented as the
most gracious handiwork of God. His
eye watches it in embryo, and the develop
ment of its members is noted in His book;
and this thing of beauty is a JOY forever.
Many had dreamed of the indestructibility
of the soul; none dared hope that the body
was substantially imperishable, until the
seer of Israel exclaimed, "My flesh also
shall rest in hope"
We are not to be angels, mere spirits and
flames of fire. in that which constitutes its
essential identity and, until science can
determine how the oak lies hid in the acorn,
we need not endeavor to discover in what
this identity consists the body is to he
hereafter as now, the tenement and instru-
ment of the soul
Nay, more: when we tell the story of
infinite love, we are wont to say, with spe-
cial awe and reverence of the Everlasting,
He was made man." We were, before,
His brethren; for we were created in the
image OF His Father: now we are His kim
dred in the flesh; for He is perfect man of
human body and soul subsisting.
And the body is made temple of the
Paraclete: clean and pure should ever be
the shrine of SO awful a presence.
We complain of science that it's present
tendency is to materialize, as if each great
conception Of the intellect or each throb of
pity might be measured and registered in
terms of heat or electricity.
but tne fetOrL may De maze upon the
religion of the day, that in it's one-sided
zeal for the piety of mere sentiment, it
spirtuaizes to the point of sublimation, as
if, indeed, the flesh were altogether vile
and its functions not deserving to be con-
sidered.
No! Flesh and spirit are married one to
another; for season they may be parted,
but the ultimate bond is indissoluble.-
Those whom God hath Joined let no man,
in his schemes of life and duty, strive to
put asunder.
The body should be subject to the mind,
as the mind obeys the uttermost of all au-
thorities. We are to glorify God in our
bodies and in our spirits, which are His.
Both partners in this service must be kept
clean and sweet and unimpaired in their
native energies.
If we could draw near unto the holy
place, with true heart, in full assurance
of faith, we must come, "having our hearts
sprinkled from an evil conscience and our
bodies washed with pure water"