Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-17
SIN AND SICKNESS.
Morbid Mental States Bring About Nor
bid Conditions of the Body.

Morbid Mental States Bring About Nor.
bid Conditions of the Body.
Everybody knows that certain forms
of sin, when practiced, will result in
disease; but all do not know that sin in
it's incipiency, in thought and in feeling,
is poisonous and deadly. And yet this
is true. The apostle tells us that "the
minding of the flesh is death, but the
minding of the Spirit is life and peace"
All life comes originally from the
Spirit of God, which brooded upon the
waters, and breathed upon Gods crea-
ton. So there is still spirit in man,
and the inspiration of the Almighty
giveth them understanding" The in
dwelling Spirit of God quickens the
mortal body of the redeemed saint.
Thus men are now quiclened who were
once "deadin tresspasses and sins" and
SO long as men walk in the Spirit, and
do not fulfil the lusts of the flesh, their
tendencies are toward life and health.
But when men become sordid, mean,
sinful, the foundations of life dry up
within their souls, and this inward dis
ease manifests itself in the outward
physical frame.
There are unseen elements which Sc
riously affect our health. The odor Of
flower will sometimes produce serious
sickness; and emotions which flush the
face, battle the skin in perspiration, dis.
turb the action of the heart, and set IL
futtering or chill it into stagnation
must necessarily affect the health. The
milk of an angry mother has sometimes
sent child into commissions and to the
grave. Fear often deranges the bodily
functions, as many persons die because
they are afraid to die. Unhappy emo.
tons destroy the appetite; ard when
the appetite for food is gone, health goes
with it, and life cannot long be main
tanned. Anger, malice, wrath, envy, dis
content and dependency, all are sinful
and all are deadly. Persons fret them
selves into the grave, instead of going
rejoicing all their way through this
world. People are wearied and worried
to death, when they should be glad
in the Lords mercy, rejoicing in His
goodness. If people will look on the
bright side instead of the dark, thank
God for their blessings instead of pour
ing over their troubles, look forward
for the good that is to come instead of
worrying over the evil that is past or
that may never occur, they will find in
the Frightening eye, the glowing cheek,
the joyous voice, the tokens of an in
ward health which God imparts, sus-
tains and blesses.
Thousands of people to-day are sink
irg into a murmuring, fretful, unhappy
mood, which will land them in the grave.
There are people who brood for months
over some petty veXation or trifle, who
not only fret themselves into the grave,
but harass the souls of those that are
around them. We should learn / o fret
not ourselves because of evil-doers,"
and let many unpleasant things pass
unnoticed. 1t is not wise to see every
thing that we do see, or hear everything
that we do hear. It is we'll to be little
blind and little deaf while passing
through this world; and the man who is
to dwell on high, safe in the sheItering
care of God, is one who ''stoppeth his
ears from hearing of blood, and shut
teth his eyes from seeing evil.'-H. L.
Hastings, in the Christian.