The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1883-06-13

world are chargeable toFa deranged
stonAch and 4 torpid liver. And
the long promised millennium will
never come until I've nave a gener-
alton healthy enough to 90 through
life without the blues. Look /! the
world owes as much to the stomach
Of John Wesley as to his brains for
the glorious doctrines he taught
and the mighty system he set on
foot. And John Calvin never
could have either written Or be
lieved his horrible theory Of the
eternal DEGREES but for a bad diges-
ton and a sluggish liver. Health
is to man what sun and soil are to
the tender plant what the founda-
ton is to the temple; what fire
and water are to the engine. You
may have an oak. on any soil, but
go plant it in the sand pr in yon
Doggy, alluvial soil and you have
it low and gnarled and porous, the
workman passesit by as worthless,
and the farmer heWs it down as a
useless cumberer Of the ground.
But plant it III the firm rich soil Of
the mountain side Whereit IS nurs-
ed by the storm and fed BY the,
rich juices Of earth, and then its
roots 60 GUITAR and wide; Irvine
themselves about the granite, and
its 100 limbs lift themselves in.
dal1iance with the clouds and
shrieking its defiance to the hurri-
cane, becomes not only the mon.
arch but the pride and glory Of the
forest, a man essays at vast ex-
pense to build a temple On a quak-
ing bog. He rears its walls, lays
its beams, rails esz its fretted col
umns, chisels into beauty6its gables
and cornices, guild its walls with
splendor, but while he>is bringing
the cap-stone to crownNit withal
the magnificent: pile goes down
with "a crash to utter ruin. >%You
go out in the evening with the fiji
est telescope to gaze upon the
heavens; but, the heavens are.
hung with haze, and no image Of
beauty is born upon your soul.
Now what is a bilious headache,
OF unstrung nerves, or enfeebled
powers, but a building upon the
quicksand Of disease, and a search
ing after truth through impenetra-
bile mists and haze? Nov I insist
- - Vic kieT there
tldeley ~ forget His ioIndatiofl
stone There u osftfon u
look upon impaired health as the
brand Of culture and-a stamp ofre-
inement You associate strength
with the brusque and burly heroes
Of the ring, as the stamp of the
coarse and the vulgar, or else
In the eager chase for man
hood you may overlook this
one foundation stone. Now|to you
/ speak. There. is small need in
deed to counsel others. 4 am not
talking to these. 1t is of but lit
tie moment whether they live Or
die. They are a reproach to.their
Maker and a disgrace to their kind.
Why they exist becomes the great
est problem of the age Ito think
ing men. II speak TO others. The
importance of health is better under
stood now than ever. '@Yet men
do not know the relation of health
to the highest, noblest work. You
imagine,/I repeat, that you need
only a cultivated brain. / do not
deny that even with poor health
much may be and has been done.
There have been men who have
fought life long battles with disease
and performed herculean labors.
Yet they have not done the highest
work. Look at the grandest work.
ers in every department Of toll. ]
Beecher and Hall in the pulpit.
The Ist after 40 years constant
work, turning. off books, delivering
endless lectures, and speaking to
larger crowds than. any man in
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