Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-08

many heavy burden, and In countless
ways makes the current of his life flow
with strong pulse. We dwell in Chris
tan community where the
above general results are
manifest. But even here we find vast
amount of pestilence, wasting disease, be-
reavement and consequent sorrow. To
correct this terrible condition of things is
the object of all sanitary reform. As
a Christian minister I express my positive
conviction that this reform will be greatly
aided by giving to the multitude correct
understanding of certain theological doc
trine. refer to the doctrine of the
| PROVIDENCE OF GOD.
A few generations ago all pestilence was
regarded as direct and arbitrary vista
ton of God, to be arrested by prayer
and fasting. This Same
opinion has a large hold
upon the multitude to-day. We
need to preach that it is the will of
Gods providence that good health should
prevail as the result of regarding certain
conditions, divinely established. That in
this God is no respeotor of persons, but
| sends blessings to the evil and to the good,
to the just and to tho unjust in proportion
to their obedience.
According to this doctrine truly pious
man, who starves himself on indigestible
| food will suffer many agonies while his in
ordered and who eats cheerfully of whole
some food. will escape all dyspeptic
trouble. The devout Christian who toler-
ates foul cesspool, atrocious plumbing.
and lll-ventilated bedrooms may find his
children dying of malaria while the family
of his heather neighbor is healthy"
The paper continued at length, treating
the subject ably and was an interesting
and instructive production.
Rev. DR.. A. G. VanAnda, of Minneapolis,
contributed Q valuable and instructive
paper upon
LAWS.
The following is an abstract of the ESSAY:
''The sun emits light and heat and his
rays carry vitality to frozen earth. So
God is light and love and hence life
association with clear, vigorous mind
not only secures knowledge but also love
for it. and the capacity of acquiring it.
The soul of Homer, Plato, Shakespeare,
Homel, coming into contact with that of
an anlettered child, through the medium of
language is like fuel to latent spark,
kindling it into blaze. So the soul of
God vitalizes the human soul when brought
into association with it. And further the
possessions of friend are better known
to US than those of stranger, because
their value is increased for their owners
sake, and our pleasure from acquaintance
with them is only second to
that of acquaintance with
the owner himself.
A genealogical tree is without interest
to Us unless it be representation of our
immediate ancestors. Their imagination
and fancy load it with foliage, flowers and
fruit, pleasant to the eye and sweet to tho
taste.
Piety implies the conviction of Gods
absolute ownership of tho bodies and souls
of men. The investment is Gods. The
care of it ours. Hence the loss of strength,
time and happiness, is so much robbery Of
God and so much added to the poverty and
sufferings of the race, and SO much SUBJ
and happiness.
Avoidable diseases are therefore crimes,
the grade Of which is determined by our
opportunities of knowing better than We
do. Disease resulting from poisoned air,
| from gluttony or want of exercise, when
! it can be taken, ought to make a man as
| much ashamed of himself as If he had
LIED AGAINST HIS NE1GHBoR.
In proportion as another is the object
of our love are his rights
respected? The pious respect Gods
rights, but he has right to the very best
use of my powers. The deceased body or
mind cannot produce its best; no more
than the engine whose fires burn low can
propel machinery with its full force.
Facts show that where piety the most
nearly approaches the type presented in the
sermon on the mount. these sanitary
laws are the most patiently studied, the
most thoroughly understood, and as con-
sequence there we find the nearest ap-
proach to the maximum of health and long
evity.
It follows that the growth of piety in
| duces better observance of sanitary laws,
and hence better health and longer life.
Rev. Father McGolrick, of the Church of
the Immaculate Conception, read one of
the most interesting papers of the confer
ence upon
PASTORAL DUTIES IN RELATION TO HYGIENE.
To alleviate the miseries of the poor, to
comfort those stricken down by dis
case, to aid them in the weary
days of sickness is noble
duty, but to prevent so far as We can this
suffering and misery, to root out disease,
to prolong life and give to every man the
precious boon of health, "Mens sana in
corpore sano,' How much nobler-how
much higher and holier duty-how
much more worthy of the best efforts of
every lover of his kind. This,
gentlemen, is your appointed labor,
a work in which all men ought to be inter-
ested, and yet the advance must be by
slow degrees, for even here you have to con-
tend with ignorance, prejudice and indif-
ference. This nineteenth century of ours,
which has more yet to learn, for just as of
old the selfshness of city corporations and
| the Indifference of our legislators bar the
way to progress. Here is a quotation from
an old book which will suit our time and
circumstances, and yet the incident took
place four centuries ago, while America
was yet an undiscovered land.
In the fourth year of Henry VII, of En-
gland petition was presented to the in
habitants of st. Faiths and st. Gregory's in
London, near adjoining the cathedral
church of st. Paul, setting forth that the
parishers aforesaid were greatly annoyed
and disturhAd nv cOrrnnt airs anoandarad