The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-14
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wHAK-HEARTaD MAN ANS w Erred
Few Facts About Faith Cures and
Means OF Retaining Health.

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Means OF Retaining Health.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Sept. 13.-Read and
ponder the following communication, re
ceived a few days ago from southern gem
tleman:
"It seems to me you are quite as radical,
and beg your pardon-quite as foolish as
tho faith cure and mental science folks.
They say there is no need for person to be
ILL.,, and SO do you, although you say it
differently. Now l know you are all
wrong. Sickness is quite as natural as
health, for, if it were not so, there wonld
be no discipline. no decay. no death
few are elected to good nerves, strong
muscles and ample digestion, but the great
majority are sufferers from one cause or
another from the cradle to the grave, and so
it comes to pass that death loses its sting and
the grave its terrOrs Let me take my own
case as an instance in point. l was born
with a weak heart, and as a consequence
every other physical organ was out OF kilter
| married q beautiful and accomplished
young lady. the picture of health, but soon
afterward she lost her roses and her
vigor, although the doctors could find
no real disease. She has not seen a
well day In six years We have had four
children, and had it not been for unlimited
means and best medical advice we never
could have reared them. / do not think
there has been anything amiss with our eat
ing or drinking, and my wife has been far
too delicate to go into society, and has never
loaded herself down with the clothes you so
constantly deprecate."
Such are the vital points of this letter.
The concluding pages are devoted
to summing up of the
infirmities Of the family, and the writer's
reasons for believing that nothing he could
have done would have made any difference
to its health or comfort.
do not think it necessary to epdeavor
to refute my correspondents conclusions,
since the premises from which they are
drawn must seem utterly Illogical to every
intelligent mind. Later In this strange
document, the writer gives me to under
stand that the weak heart" which he
drought into the world" with him, was an
organic disease, and of this fact ne had
always been conscious.
1t is not agreeable to me to have so selfish
and immoral man as this one talk to me
about discipline and the necessity and
naturalness of physical suffering. The man
who will ask woman to marry him under
such circumstances and has no conscience
about perpetuating the disease which has
made his own life constant torture from
his earliest remembrance deserves very
little consideration. He is responsible for
the suffering of five persons 1 do not be-
lieve that such q man would speak TO his
wife-before marriage-of an organic
disease. To find it out afterward would
certainly be sufficient to account for
the fading of the roses and the subse-
quent invaidism. This wife undoubtedly
considered it her duty to bear children.
Though it broke her heart and made her
pauper, think she should have declined.
What is the misery Of one life compared
with the wreckngs Of four times that num-
berg II thisIwoman entered the matrimonial
state aware OF her intended husbands
physical condition. she was as anlaable as