Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-28
EABOR'S TRUE GOSPEL.
Enx- Healthfulness of Work Considered
from High Standpoint.

rom q High standpoint.
Action-activity of body and mind
Ssan essential condition of well being.
2GIa IN accordance with mans nature,
ssTeeu by creative power. That man
-hauld have employment of his facul-
Ssss. has its foundation, as Joseph Cook
VEsafd say, lin the bed rock of the
nature of things" The curse pro-
tesnced against Adam, by the sweat
Il thy brow shalt thou eat Bread" dio
Esufs create condition OF labor. Per-
iszEE 1t made labor loss productive,
lksss requited for the earth was to
bring forth thorns and thistles" to
nsssn- But the sting of the curse was
En- the fact of the unsatisfying char
:: 9aser of labor henceforth. Instead OF
tssaehght, it was to become burden;
sastead of a pleasure, a trial; and how
szsznpletely has the curse been
fulfilled. But there was a hope
Nar the future. The very
teams of the curse contained
Yvumsse. There was balm applied to
Eszl the smart The serpent's head
waa to be bruised The higher nature
Was yet to rule, and the higher nature
, hrings more intelligent conception of
! the benefcence of labor, which in no
small degree annuls the curse. 1t is
the law of both the physical and men,
tai nature that activity is essential to
growth. The action which comes from
labor is indispensable to the vital
fnrces- The activity of labor is nee
essary for the proper performance of
the function of respiration. Respira-
ton is so important a factor in the ami
NAL organism, that very delicate and
intricate machinery has been provided
for its maintenance. If this becomes
ceranged or diseased, discomfort or
death will ensue. A very large num-
Ter of minute vesicles have been pro-
vided in the lungs, for the admission
OF air and the Interchange of gases in
the blood, and the action of the
snuscles in labor greatly facili-
tates the filing of these vesi-
eAes. If for any reason they
fail of proper use, they invite disease.
Nature abhors a vacuum" is sci
entific adage, and if these vesicles do
not become refilled as they are emptied,
the residual air at length escapes,
and the vesicles become filled with a
growth of the epithelium of the mem
brane lining them, and SO they become
Jbliterssted. That shuts off the use of
80 much of the very important lung
issue, and the system is weakened by
Just SO much. Failure of the respira-
ton also involves the action of the
the excess of nutrition, and the de-
pE1rator of its waste. The hepatic,
venous and hillary circulation, is run
en- so low a pressure that it requires
the effect of muscular action, and
pressure of the abdominal walls and
the diaphragm upon the liver, to
maintain the flow. This muscular
action and pressure is furnished by
the physical exercise of labor, and
increased respiration which such
labor induces. Without it there
is such sluggishness of circula-
b1OH Ill UIlO 11N I'll GllCtU Un0I0 dTISOS
venous congestion. The hillary secre-
ton moves SO slowly that concretions
form and distractions occur, and the
bile becomes absorbed into the blood,
producing long train Of evils. The
help that muscular contraction gives
90 the capillary and venous circulation
LII general, is very important; and such
helpful muscular contraction is best
brought about by the bodily exercise
of labor, and the positions and contor-
tons of body labor necessitates.
Activity OF the mind is no less i'm
portant. A mind without occupation
of AIRY kind is an easy victim to insane
delusions. Both mind and body de-
mand activity, and they SO inter
changeably affect each other that their
healthfulness is interdependent.
This is the gospel of labor, and they
who teach and practice any other are
still under curse. -StdndGrd.