Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-05-27
Our Faith and Our Bodies

The kiss of long ago
You are too young to know it now,
But some time you shall know.
Eugene Field.
Our Faith and Our Bodies
AS he thinketh in his heart, SO is he PROV
cribs. xiii, 7.
There are certain passages OF Scrip
ture, of which this is one, whose real
Significance is at last being discovered.
in the diamond fields of Africa price
less stones have remained for ages un
known and undisturbed; and in the
domain of spirit precious truths have
lain for centuries unrecOgnized. By
some happy chance an explorer of the
African wild stumbles on the scattered
gems, and the world is at once made
richer. By an equal chance a scientist
or philosopher announces a new prin-
ciple or truth and we find that some old
prophet or seer taught it centuries ago,
and the world has been deaf until now.
The text furnishes an apt illustra
ton. In vague and general May we
have always believed that mans
thoughts possess kind of creative en-
ergy, but we have not appreciated the
practical value and Importance OF this
fact. We have simply glanced at it,
and then passed by on the other side.
The rough diamond was under our very
feet, and we every day trod on the spot
where it lay; but not until recent years
has any one picked it up and polished
it and shown us its radiant beauty.
SAT last, however, it has been reveal
ed to US that in it's broadcast sense the
heart makes the man, and that the
words, s'As he thinketh in his heart, SO
is he," are not the expression of poet
ical fancy, but of a literal and awful
as well as an encouraging truth. The
basis of all true reform lies in the fact
that body and soul not only reflect each
man, the Christ man, the soul is un-
disputed master of the body.
Physicians assure us that mental con-
ditions produce-that is, originate
bodily disease. Therein is one of the
profoundest problems of the profession,
and in some cases it's despair. We are
startled beyond measure when told
that not only will vicious habits result
in physical arrangement, but that con
tinuously vicious thoughts have the
same tendency.
The world has gone wrong for many
generations and become entangled in
the meshes of inherited maladies, sim
ply because men have chosen their OWE
way in opposition to Gods way. The
worlds mental attitude has been the
fruitful source of all the bodily evils
from which it has suffered. If the uni
versal mind had convinced itself in the
beginning that uneelfiShness is more
profitable than selfshness, that. purity
pays dividends while impurity lays as
sessments, and had continued through
the centuries to lovingly live along the
lines of the Creators plan, pain would
be thing unknown, the word disease
would never have been coined. and
death would be like the sweet sleep OIL
childhood, from which we would wake
in heaven. So far as the world is God'i
world. it is perfect; so far as it is man!
world, it needs the succor of mighty
remedial agencies.
Now, since mental conditions pro
duce disease. then it must follow that
mental conditions may check disease
and even produce health. Let us lin
ger here for moment, for we are kneel
ing on the ground as the Christ passes
r by and touching the hem of His gar
ment. We are on the threshold of very
wonderful discoveries, the value OF
which cannot be estimated. If it bt
true that to possess the Christ spirit il
not merely to bear the ills of life serene
1y, but also to prevent them to degree
then for the first time we lift our relig
ion out of it's theological environment
and make it priceless, practicaltruth
When it is forced upon us that no mar
can be wholly we'll either in body or il
soul who is not consciously Gods child
and that we are well or i'll in body and
soul in proportion to Onr 6lial relation
to Him, then we put religion where il
hn1 ~, t,1c or 70, Ix,%.
which in our ignorance of natural and
moral law we long ago removed it.
The important fact for men to rec
Ognize is this--that the cardinal vir
tues are the corner stones of healthy
body and healthy character The
spirit of the Christ dissipates that con
dition of mind which producesdisease,
and tends to reproduce health as surely
as wheat seed il properly sowed will
furnish wheat crop. The assertion
ii entirely within the bounds of known
scientific law that the ideal man is he
who reverently looks to heaven and
says, I'm Him live and move and
have my being"
Here is the grand lesson to ponder
that faith is reposeful, that it is the
equivalent of strength, for it is the
miracle worker that not only enables
us to bear pain. but. lessons the pain
itself.
How wonderfully practical Chris
tianitys becomes! You must feed the
mind with wholesome thoughts, OF
you will vainly feed the body with
wholesome food. Your physical com
fort depends on what you are able to
see when you look into the heavens
The heart is the man. 1t is like the
spring in which the river has it's source
Unless the spring is kept pure the
river will be turbid to its very mouth,
and unless the heart is kept pure there
can be no home, no health, no happi
ness. Indebted religion is nothing
else than the Christ spirit which makes
each event of life stepping stone to
higher things, and death the topmost
step from which we are lifted into
heaven.
GEORGE H. HEPWORTH
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