Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-02-18
Physical Culture.

Says some good mother, oh, my
children don't need physical culture;
they run and play enough to keep them
selves in excellent condition. lust so.
Will you kindly tell me the position your
girl takes when she sits down. What
IS the reason your growing sou hangs
his head forward like a convicted
CRIMINAL Have you one boy that carries
himseli like soldier ON paradelp
Have you one daughter who stands,
sits and walks with the issome grace OF
an ancient Grecian maiden On, no,
you answer impaticntly, but IL the
children are healthy, what need have /
10 care about the Testl But are they
healthy DO they never have head
ache, or side ache, or are they never
afflicted with colds' DO you know that
perfect beauty and perfect health are
synonymous terms II the ancient
Greeks possessed the secret of beauty,
they also acquired the knowledge OF
perfect physical health. You have the
earthly lives of your children IN your
hands, What would you say II some
one CAME TO you and told you That either
from prejudice or ignorance you had
robbed your chi dren day by day OF
long string Of pearlsl Each day you
stole one from the chain, until you sent
forth your offspring, stripped OF their
most precious possession and left to lace
a bitter world with no means aud no
power TO acquire them. for you hnd
robbed them of their all. You will do
that. Let me tell you what this gospel
Of physical culture means to you and me.
We say that the spiritual Gospel OF
Christ must be obeyed, or men will be
damned. SO must this branch OF His
Gospel; II you do not accept light and
truth when II Is presented before YOU
you will be condemned. That Is plain
language, but II is Bible language. Now,
our leader Brigham Young used to say
that all truth belongs to the Saints.
| Joseph Smith has told us that the
temporal ana the spiritual are so closely
connected that one indissolubly in-
wolves the other. Our temporal welfare
must receive a righteous share OF our
| time and strength, or we will be called
| too 9evere reckoning. Your children
| need 10 be taught now to Use their
/ bodies, as well as how to use their
minds. Would you think your child
had a sufficient education IL YOU gave
HIM books to read indiscriminately, and
lett him TO work out his own mental
salyauoni II /, Is necessary for him to
| 20 to school TO get his knowledge in a
systematic manner, II lie needs method
and scientific direction for his intellectual
development, why do you say and thinl.
he can get his physical development
without system, order, science and
education This gospel OF temporal
tiles, like many other revelation given
through the Prophet Joseph Smith, has
been taken up ny the outside world,
and people are awaking to tue fact that
the body is part OF the immortal soul,
aud that neglect or cruelty to the body
issecond only TO neglect aud cruelty 10
the soul. II you have the opportunity
give your children a chance to study
physical culture under competen,
teacher. and encourage them to exercise
intelligently at least once every day.
Let me say one word, which because oi
disappearance deserves more noticeable
place than at the close OF an article the
system OF expression called Delsarte is
not physical culture, any more than YOU
arm is your body. have explained thi.
before but II deserves repe iiion.