Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-12-21
PEEYISH PEOPLE.

1t is likely that faults of temper are very Of
ten results of defective nervous organization.
But if we are to charge on the body all the
sins Of the mind, ethical science must come to
an end. 1t is the mind that should take care
of the body. 1t cannot plead its own negli-
gence of duty, in vindication of its wayward-
ness Suppose the liver to be torpid, through
excess in eating or drinking, the nerves to be
irritable through wlful overstraining, the
lungs to he burdened because of improper ven
tilation of dormitories suppose that the laws
of physical health, one of them or all of them,
have been broken-is the blame-worthiness to
be found in the body or in the mind ?
There is sanitary science, closely allied to
piety. Sweet-tempered people are in the main
healthy. They commit no assaults upon the
bodily organs. Using and not abusing their
bodies, they get for their considerateness an
agreeable service from each one of the organs
that carry on the various functions of the
physical economy. There is then funda-
mental basis for good manners, good morals,
and good tempers, to be laid in the proper care
which may he taken of the body as the tene-
ment of the SOUL 1t is not primarily from the
weather, but from lack Of physical adjust
ment to its requirements, made with intelli-
gent carefulness, that SO much Of ill-humOr
and of peevishness arise. Without cheerful
ness and sweetness, with serenity of disposi-
ton, life is but 4 sharp worriment with real or
imaginary ills.
4 merry heart doeth good like a medicine
''The souls calm sunshine:' brings all flowers
of delight into bloom, ripens the fairest fruits
and sheds divinest lustre upon all the diversi-
fled scenery of the landscape which the eye of
Christian love surveys. While amiability OF
temper may be of nature, cheerfuness is Of
grace. 1t excludes fretfuness and murmuring
and repning as being the deStrOyers Of inward
comfort and hindrances to usefulness. How
excellent are right words, from hearts filled
with kindly sympathies and generous compass
sions But the peevish temper is as the nettle
that poiSonS or as the wasp that stings. 1t
ought to be. and may be abolished by sensible
regimen and considerate thought Christian
Weekly.
''TuE NAME OF ."-Jesus! How
does the very word overflow with exceeding
sweetness and light and love and life Filling
poured forth, irradiating the mind with a
glory of truth in which no fear can live.
Soothing the wounds Of the heart with balm
that turns the sharpest anguish into delicious
peace shedding through the soul a cordial of
immortal strength. Jesus! the answer TO all
our doubts, the spring Of all our courage, the
earnest of all our hopes, the charm of omnip-
Otent against all our foes, the remedy for all
onr sickness, the supply of all our desires.
Jesus. melody to our ears, altogether lovely
to our sight, mamma to our taste, living water
to our thirst. Jesus our shadow from the
heat, our refuge from the storm, our cloud by
night, our morning star, our sun of righteous
ness. Jesus at the mention Of whose name
''every knee shall bow and every torgue con-
fess." Jesus our power, Jesus our righteous
ness, Jesus our sanctificatiOn, Jesus OUR e
demption, Jesus our elder brother, Jesus our
Jehovah, Jesus our Emmanuel! Thy name is
the most transporting theme of the church,
as they sing going up from the valley of tears
to their home on the mount Of God thy name
shall ever be the richest chord in the harmony
of heaven where the angels and the redeemed
unite their exulting, adering songs around
the throne of God and the Lamb. Jesus
thou only canst interpret thy own name, and
thou hast done it by thy work on earth and
thy glory at the right hand Of the Father;
Jesus, Saviour.