Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-17

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Interesting Papers by Bishop Ireland
Ex-Gov. C. K. Davis, sRev. DR.. Riheldaf.
fer and DR.. Boardman, with Discussion OF
| the Same.
A sanitary council, under the auspices
of the State board of health, convened
| for two days session at the State su-
preme court room at the capitol at P. NJ.
For the accommodation of expected WIS.,
itors extra chairs had been put in and
when the council assembled some
fifty persons were in at
tendance, among whom were
DR.. Hewitt, of Red Wing, president of
the State board of health; Dr. Berry, of
New Ulm; most of the leading alopathic
physicians of st. Paul and Minneapolis; a
fair representation of the clergymen Of
st. Paul of the various denominations,
and goodly number of spectators, ladies
and gentlemen, interested in the subject
of sanitary reform, to create an interest
in which the council was called.
According to the programme arranged,
the afternoon session embraced three pa
pers upon the general subject of preven-
ton of epidemic diseases and the hygiene
of the home, in which was included the
question of as to how far should and
could the clergy and physician cooper
ate The writers of the papers were
Bishop Ireland, Rev. DR.. Sample and
Bishop Whipple. Unfortunately the tive
latter gentlemen were unable to be pres
ent. somewhat interfering with the regu-
lar order.
1t was ten minutes past 2 O'Clock when
the council was called to order, at which
time President Hewitt entered the room
accompanied by Gov. Pillsbury. Gov.
Pillsbury was escorted to the dais, usually
occupied by the supreme court
bench, and calling the council
to order, he invited the Rev. DR..
Thomas, st. Paul's (EpiscopaD church,
St. Paul, to open the proceedings with
prayer. The invocation ended, Gov.
Pillsbury welcomed the council to the
capital speaking substantially as follows:
In the formation of new State there are
many matters which greatly contribute to its
advancement. An Industrious, healthy and
energetic population is the first necessity. The
desire to see progress in all industries-in our
agricultural, in our manufacturing, our me-
chanical, our educational, and our mining
interests, and in our commercial pursuits.
And while these great industries are being de-
veloped, it is of The highest Importance that
the sanitary condition of our commonwealth
should be constantly guarded with the strictest
diligence. To this end I am glad indeed to
know that Minnesota was among
the first States of the country to
appreciate the Importance of this, and to
organize State board of health. 1t is largely
through the instrumentality of this board
hare ant 20 frpe
epidemics.
/ understand that the assembling of the
council is to consider, deliberate and recon.
mend measures pertaining to the sanitary con-
dition of our State, a most worthy, inter.
esting and beneficial object, and one in which
every man, woman and child is more or less
interested.
1 have great pleasure in extending to the
members of this council most cordial well
come to the capital, and to express wish that
the results of your deliberations may be of
most pleasant and profitable character.
BISHOP IRELAND's ADDRESS.
At the conclusion of the governors re-
marks, he introduced Bishop Ireland,
who read an interesting paper, of which
the following is but brief abstract of the
most salient features:
Public hygiene is undoubtedly subject in
which the clergyman must needs take deep
interest however much or little he may be able
to do in favor of it.
His immediate ministry concerns itself with
the soul, the spiritual and moral nature of
man. He labors to prepare him for a life of
divine blessedness hereafter by teaching him
in this life to submit his intellect and his will
to divine laws. But man has q material as
well as a spiritual nature, and SO intimate is
the union, so closely are the acts of the soul
interviewer with those of the body, that we
completely overlook the other. "Mens sana
in eorpori sano," "a healthy soul In healthy
body" such is the. human ideal, and such the
condition of plenary health in the ordinary
course of things for soul or body Physicians
can tell how potent for good Is the influence
upon the body of a pure and well regulated
mind I will well say as a clergyman that
our efforts In cleansing mans moral nature
and in raising up the hopes and as
pirations towards the skies re-
from the natural forces which constitute and
surround the body. I can indorse the words
of Prof. Tyndall and be as far as these
words go a ''materialist" with him. $50
the years roll by" he says, in a late article on
the Sabbath, "the term materialist will lose
more and more of its evil, for it will
be more and more seen and acknowledged
that the true spiritual nature Of man is
UOuIu Qp WILL LIS .COututiOu, Will
some food, pure air, cleanliness-hard work,
too, if you will, but also fair rest and recrea-
tion-these are necessary not only to the
physical but to spiritual well being. The
seed of the spirit is cast in vain amid stones
and thorns, and thus your best utterances be-
come idle words addressed to the acclimatized
inhabitants of our slums and alleys" The
Clergyman is in full accord with the physi-
clans as to the means to be employed in the pro-
motion of hygiene. These are the study
and observance of the laws of nature. The
action of the church in this relation has
not always been rightly understood. Abiding
to the middle ages John William Draper says:
''It had always been the policy of the
church to discourage the physician and his
art, he interfered too much with the gifts and
profits of the shrines. For the prevention of
disease prayers were put up in the churches,
but no sanitary measures were resorted to-"
And presume Mr. Draper would ridicule no
less the modern church than the medieval one
when told that the church to-day has the same
faith in prayer and miricle which she had six
or ten centuries ago. Mr.. Draper writes with.
out having taken pains to inform himself as to
the real facts in the case, hence he and not the
church deserves the ridicule of thoughtful
men. Help yourself and God will help you;
this maxim has been in all ages the substra-
tum of the teachings of the church in relation
to prayers and to miracles in answer to prayer;
the creator has established certain laws for the
government of the physical as well as of the