The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-06-03

In the inanimate creation around Floras
and romonas and Graccs and Fauns
and FAIRIES and Satyrs and Nympha.
Everything Is Busy. Nothing IL
inanimatc except the man who can not
see the life and hear the music. At the
creation the morning stars sang togcth.
or, but they wcrc only the choir which
was to lead all the stars and all the
mountains and all the seas in Gods
worship. All natural objects seem a,
one and the same time uniting in work
and JOY and worship. In Gods creation
there is no pause in either the worship
or the work or the Joy, Amid all nat
ural objects ut one and tho same time II
is lIallow Zen and Whit Sunday and
Ash Wednesday and All Saints Day.
All the healthy beauty OF that which
we see and hear in the natural world Is
dependent upon activity and unrest.
Men will be Observation-Disclosures
morally and physically--only upon the
condition of an active industry. ]
know men die every day of ovcrwork.
They drop down in coal pits and among
the spindlcs of northern factories, and
on the cotton plantations OF the south.
In every city. and town, and village you
find men grooming under burdens, as, in
the east, the camels stagger under their
loads between Aleppo and Damascus.
Life is crushed out every day at coun.
tcrs. and workshops, and anvils. But
there are other multitudes who die from
mere inertia. lndulgcnces every day
contracting diseases beeond the cath
olicon of allopathy, and homeopathy,
and cclccticism. Rather than work they
rush upon lancets and scalpcls. Nature
has provided for those who violate her
laws by inactivity, what rhcum for
the eyes, and what govt for the
feet, and what curvature for the
spine, and what structures for the
chest, and what tubercles for the
lungs, and what rheumatisms for the
muscles and what neuralgias for the
nerves. Nature in time arranges every
such culprit at her bar, and presents
against him an indictment of 100 counts.
and convicts him on each one of them
The laws of nature will not stop their
action because men may be ignorant of
them Disease, when il comes TO do its
work, does not ask whether You under
stand hygiene. or pathology, or ma
terra medica, Ii there were not so
many lies written on tombstoncs and in
obituaries you would see what multi
tudes of the worlds inhabitants are
slain in their attempts TO escape the
necessity of toll Men cross oceans and
continents, and climb the Alps, and sit
under the sky of Italy or the shadow of
the Egyptian Pyramid, and go down
into ancient ruins, and bath ut Baden
Baden, and come homo with the same
shortness of breath, and the same poor
digestion and the same twitching of the
nerves. when at home with their own
spade they might have dug health out
Of the ground. or with their own aX
hcwn health out of log, or with their
own scythc garncrcd health from the
grain fold. There are many who csti.
mate the rcspectability of an occupation
by the little eXertion IL demands, and
would not have their children enter any
employment where their hands may
be soilcd, forgetting that = laborcr's
overall are just as honorable rs priests
robes and an anvil is just IN respectable
rs pulpit. Health flies from the bed
of down and says: Il can not sleep
here" and from the table spread with
ptarmigan and cpicurian viands, saying:
II can not eat here" and from the vcsi.
Gle of soft cushions and easy springs,
saying: II can not ride here" and from
houses luxurioualy warmed and uphol.
stored, saying: ~ can not live here,
and some day You meet Health, who de-
clined all these luxurious places, walk.
ing in the plow's burrows or sweltering
beside the kissing forge, or spinning
among the looms, or driving n dray, or
timing roof, or carrying hods of brick
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