The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-10-07

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| the human frame is accompanied by
I the excretion of carbonic acid in d.
rect proportion to the waste of life.
Two of the savans of the Academy OF
Munich, Pettenkofer and Volt, hayinc
constructed q respirator enabling them
| to weigh and measure the breath and
vapors expired from the human
frame. experimental on man at rest
and man at work. They presented
q paper to the Academy, in which
they stated that, lin comparing the
total of the two days experiment, 1t
appears that, on the day of labor,
there were 373 grammes of carbonic
acid excreted more than on the day of
rest, and 246 grammes of oxygen more
absorbed. But in 1913 grammes OF
carbonic acid containing 271 grammes
of oxygen, there is difference OF rs
grammes of oxygen used in excess of
that taken from the air." ('The An
nual of Scientific Discovery" 1859.
Pape 1881
That means that the workingman
used up Is grammes of his life, about
an ounce in that days work. in six
days he used up $50 grammes of his
life; in seven days 175 grammes. In
one year of continuous labor he ex-
pended 9,100 grammes of oxygen more
than he inspired. 1t needs no very
profound science to calculate that at
that rate his original stock of vigor
would eventually exhaust itself, no
matter how large it was at first; and
that the mans life would be spent
much faster than that of the man who,
by resting on the Sabbath, restored to
his frame the amount of oxygen
which he had overdrawn during the
week. And the facts of the case fully
confirm the conclusion. Horace Gree
ley tells us that he found no old men
in the workshops of Paris, where the
workmen enjoy no Sabbath.
1t is true, that portion of this over
draft Is restored by the repose of the
night, but not the whole. There re-
mains an accommodating balance
against the laborer's life force. The fever
of his blood does not cool down suffi-
GENTLY. DR.. Stratton, who conducted
several series of observations on the
pulse, says that I'm health the human
pulse IS more frequent in the morning
than In the evening for Six days out
seven but on the seventh day it is
slower" (Edinburg Medical Journal.
January, 1s43.) The fever heat of the
working days cools down ON the Sab
| bath.
Let US, then, for the sake of
illustration, put a money value upon
the breath of life, though no sane man
would sell it at any price if he knew
what he was selling. But let US value
the oxygen at only cent a gramme.
Then the laborer only receives two
| dollars and forty-slx, cents day for
| his work, and 1t costs him to live two
| dollars and seventy one cents. He is
plainly losing twenty-five cents day,
or one dollar and seventy. five cents
in his seven days drudgery, and that
makes ninety.one dollars year. Sup
| pose the man to have been modern
| Samson, to have had thousand dol
lars worth of life to begin with in
eleven years of seven days drudgery
he would exhaust it ALL
But if he rests every Sabbath day,
he not only does not overdraw his
oxygen on that day, but he makes a
saving. For, though he does not
breathe in as much oxygen as when
he is working, he does not consume
nearly so much, so that on Sabbath
night he has a great deal more oxygen
in him than he had on Saturday
night. To return TO our dollars and
cents: he gets three-quarters of a
days wages and his board on Sabbath,
to meet the loss of twenty. five cents a
day for the six working days of the
Wcch 81 budt Hc CduuOU pay
his way, but have few cents over on
Monday morning. He has got new
start-a fresh lease of life. He has
more. oxygen in his blood, and that
means more life. The poor fellow has
actually got few grammes of life
ahead. So, on Monday morning his
head is clear, his eye Is bright, the
stiffness is gone from his back, his
knees are supple again. He feels in
every bone of his body the blessing of
Gods blessed day of rest. AS he
kisses his wife, and gives his little boy
three losses and shake, and steps
out cheerily to his work, he feels him
self new man though, perhaps, he
does not know why, nor thank God,
who has blessed him with fresh sup
ply of life in his blood by the rest of
the blessed Sabbath. The Sabbath
rest, then, of one day in seven, is the
exact proportion OF rest necessary to
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