The Red Cloud chief., 1892-05-06
slow, too nervous or too lymphatie
God help him, for God only can.

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God help him, for God only car.
Now, what ara the results Of Undo
ience? A marked consequence of thi:
vice is physical disease. The healthi
ness OF the whole natural world depend.
upon activity. The winds, tossed anf
driven in endless circuits, scattering the
mists from the mountains and scoopins
ont death damps from the caves and
blasting the miasma of swamps and
hurting back the fetid atmosphere OF
great cities, are healthy just because OF
their swiftness and Observation-Disclosures
OF sweep. But after a while the wind
falls and the hot sun pours through it,
and when the leaves are still and the
grain fields bend not once all day long
then pestilence smites its victims and
digs trenches for the dead. The fount-
ain, born far up in the wild wood of the
mountain, comes down brighter for
every obstacle against which it is
driven and singing a new song on
every shelf of rock over which it bounds,
till it rolls over the water wheels
n the valley, not ashamed to grind
corn, and runs through the long grass
OF the meadow, where the willows
reach down to dip their branches and
the unyohed oxen come at even-tide to
cool. Healthy water. Bright water!
Happy water! While some stream. too
lazy any more to run gathers itself into
a wayside pool, where the swine wal
low and filthy insects hop over the sur
face and reptiles crawl among the OOze,
and frogs utter their hideous croak, and
by day and night there rises from the
foul mire and green scum fever and
plague and death. There is an endless
activity under foot and overhead. Not
one four o'clock in the flower bed, not
not fly On the window pane, not
one squirrel gathering food from the
cones of the white pine, not one rabbit
feeding on clover tops, not one
drop falling in a shower, not one min
now CHANGING in the sea, not one quail
whistling from the grass. not one
hawk cawing in the sky, but is busy
now and is busy always, fulfilling its
mission as certainly as any monarch on
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hear the shout of the pillow boys busy in
the field and the rattle of the whiffle-
trees On the harrow, but you do not
that there is more industry in the
earth upturned and in the dumb vegeta-
ton under foot than in all that you see.
II you put your a to a lump of riven
sod you may hear nothing in the roots
md spiculB of grass, but there at work
spades and cleavers and pile drivers and
battering ANS and internecine wsrs.
do not wonder hat the lively fancy Of
he ancients saw in the inanimate crea-
ion around Floras, and Pomonas, and
traces, and Fauns, and Fairies, and
and Nymphs.
Everything is busy. Nothing is mani
nate except the man who cannot see
he life and hear the music. At the
the morning stars sang to-
but they were only the choir
which were to lead all the stars and all
he mountains and all the seas in Gods
All natural objects seem at
me and the same time uniting in work
# joy and worship. In Gods creation
here is no pause in either the worship
n the work or the joy. Amid all natural
at one and the same time it is
Iallow cen and Whit Sunday and Ash
and All Saints day. All |
he healthy beauty of that which we
ee and hear in the natural world is de-
'endent upon activity and un-
Men will be healthy-in-
ellcctually, morally and physically
only upon the condition of ar .
ctive industry. l know men die every
of overwork. They droop down in
oal pits and among the spindles of :
lorthern factories and on the cotton
of the south. In every city T,
nd town and village you will find men |
roaming under burdens. as, in the east, ,
amels stagger under their loads be-
ween Aleppo and Damascus. Life is
out every day at counters and
York benches and anvils. But there !
re other multitudes who die from mere
Indulgences every day r
diseases beyond the cathol- !.
,on of allopathy and homeopathy !
nd hydropathy and eclecticism. Rather
han work they rush upon lancets and
Nature has provided for those
tho violate her laws by inactivity, !
that rheum for the eyes and what govt
Dr. the feet and what curvature for the
pine and what structures for the chest
nd what tubercles for the lungs and
hat rheumatisms for the muscles and
hat aeuralgias for the nerves. Nature
4 time arraigns every such culprit at
er bar and presents against him an in
of one hundred counts, and
him on each one of them.
There are many who estimate the re-
of an occupation by the lit
exertion it demands, and who would
OF have their children enter any en-
loyment where their hands may be
piled, forgetting that a laborer's over
lis are just as honorable as a priests
obes and an anvil is just as respectable
S a pulpit. Health flies from the bed
f down and says: Il cannot sleep
and from the table spread
nth ptarmigan and ~eipicurean viands,
aging: 81 cannot eat here;" and
-om the vehicle of soft cushions and
asy springs, saying: II cannot ride
and from houses luxuriously
armed and upholstered, saying: Il can
OF live here;" and some day you meet
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