Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-04-28

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Seasons of dissipation you may rouse up 20
3 sudden activity and start again in the
chase of some high and noble end, even
though you catch the game YOU will sink
back into slothfulness before you have
roasted that which you took in hunting.
Bad habits unfit a man for everything but
politics.
Now, what are the results of indolence'
A marked consequence of this vice is physi-
cal disease. The healthiness of the whole
natural world depends upon activity The
winds, tossed and driven in endless circuits,
tcattering the misos from the mountains,
and scooping out death damps from the
caves. and blasting the miasma of swanps,
and hurting back the fetid atmosphere of
great cities, are healthy just because Of
their swiftness and Observation-Disclosures of
sweep But, after awhile, the wind falls
and the hot sun pours through it, and
fwhen the leaves are still and the grain
fields bend not once all day long, then pes
thence smites its victims and digs trenches
for the dead
The fountain, born far up in the wild
/ wood of the mountain. comes down
brighter for every obstacle against which
it is riven, and singing new song ON
/ every Sutil Va iOth ONNi IL DOhihaf
till it rolls over the water wheels in the
valley, not ashamed TO grind corn, and
runs through the long grass of the
meadow, where the willows reach down 10
dip their branches. and the unyoled oxen
come at eventide 10 cool. Healthy waterl
Bright water Happy waterl While some
stream too lazy any more TO run, gathers
itself into wayside pool, where the swine
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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 ague and
death. There is an endless activity under
foot and overhead.
Not one four o'clock in the flower bed,
not one 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 show
er. not one minnow 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 it's mis-.
sion as certainly As any monarch on earth |
or any angel In heaven. You hear the /
shout Of the pluwboys busy in the field
and the rattle OF the whiflietrees on the !
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more industry in the earth upturned and |
In the dumb vegetation underfoot than in |
all that you see
NATURES CEAsELESs ACTIVITY.
II you put your ear to lump OF riven |
sod you may hear nothing ia the roots aud |
spiculB of grass, but there are at work |
spades aud cleavers and piledrivers and |
battering rams and internccine wars. do /
hot la Il
clients saw in the inanimate creation
around Floras and Pomonas and Graees
and Fauns and Fairies and Satyrs and
Nymphs. Everything is busy Nothing
is inanimate, except the man who cannot
see the life and hear the music Az the
creation the morning stars sang together.
but they were 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 at 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 natural objects at one and the
same time it is Halloween 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 de
pendent upon activity and unrest. Men
will be healthy-intellectua morally
and physically-onlyu upon the condition Of
an active industry. know men die every
day Of overwork. 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 vii
age you find men grooming under burdens
A., IN the east, the camels stagger under
their loads between Aleppo and Damascus.
Life is crushed out every day at counters
md worSbenches and anvils But there
are other multitudes who die from mere
inertia. lndulgences every day are con I
mcting diseases beyond the catholieon Of {
and homeopathy and hydropathy
ind eclecticsm. Rather than work they
'ush upon lancets and scalpels
Nature has provided for those who vic.
ate her laws by inaetivity-what rheum
or the eyes, and what govt for the feet.
md what curvature for the spine, and I
What structures for the chest, and what tu-
Dercles for the lungs, and what rheuma. !
isms for the muscles, and what neural :
yias for the nerves. Nature in time ar.
aigns every such culprit at her bar. and \
PRESENTS against him an Indictment of one $
lunureu counts, ana conNlctS hlm on each l
me Of them. The laws of nature will not q
top their action because men may be ig- I
lorant of them. Disease, when It comes !
o do its work, does not ask whether you 4
understand hygiene or pathology or ma g
eria medica. I
If there were not so many lies written on
ombstones and in obituaries You would c
&c what multitudes of the worlds inhab- 5
tants are slain in their attempts to escape
he necessity of toll. Men cross oceans c
nd continents, and climb the Alps, and sit y
nder the sky of Italy or the shadow of {
Egyptian Pyramid, and go down into am :
lent ruins, and battle at Baden Baden, and c
ome home with the same shortness of ;
reath, and the same poor digestion, and =
be same twitching Of the nerves, when at e
ONE with their own spade they might a
ave dug health out of the ground, or
18th their own AK hewn health out of a W
y, or with their own scythe garnered Z
ealth from the grain field y
There are many who estimate the re- y