The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-15
PULPIT EDITORIALS.
Delivers BY Dr. Frank Crane 1t Trinity |
Church. Chfcsyo. rsscedirg the vsusA
Sermon sunday Mar. -. iese-
THE MIRTH CURE is BEST OF ALL
copyright, 1881

Copyright. 1881
Some French physicians have recent
" announced what they call the mirth
cure" The New York Sun. comment
ing upon this very sagely remarks that
there Is novelty on the side OF the
Paris scientists--novelty and origin
atty, too;", which animadversion goes to
show what mistakes newspaper men.
an we'll as common mortals. are liable
to fall into by not reading their Bible.
Some thousands Of years ago q wise
Jew declared there was nothing new
under the sun. and curiously enough
II was this same philosopher-king, Sol
onion the Great. who antedated the
Gallo doctors by publishing this iden-
tical mirth cure. setting II down In his
book of proverbs that "a merry heart
doeth good like a medicine" 1t Is pleas
ant to think that then as now there
moved about among the crowd OF
troubled men those jovial. twinkling.
beamy faces that drive away the brood
ing humors of our bilious race.
But whoever originated the idea do
not care. Plagiarism has ever seemed
to me a trivial and jealous issue;
thought belongs to him who can use 1t;
a little man with a borrowed big idea
is like David with Goliath's sword; aft
er all there are only about eleven, per-
haps twelve, real ideas In the world.
and since the table talk of Adam and
Eve we have been ringing the changes
upon them. A recent article In The
Bookman sneered at middle men,"
mere popularizers Of science, and exalt-
ed the Original discoverers;" trash!
there are no original folk; all our minds
are but channels Of the universal
thought. the main question for us to
consider being whether we shall be
clear and healthful brooks, babbling or
otherwise. or be sewers.
But to return to our mutton, I con-
slider the mirth cure, whoever invented
Il, to be the best Of all cures in these
days of cures. The whole earth teens
with advertised restoratives; the land
scape blossoms with them; the bill
boards glow like Italian sunsets and the
periodicals and newspapers are reduced
to daily, weekly and monthly bulletins
of them. We have healing by Chris
tian science, by faith, by electricity
by animal magnetism, by vegetables,
animals and minerals, by pills, drinks
and boluses, by everything. including
menti-culture, magetism and just plain
mud. From the pines Of Georgia to the
smart weed that springeth from the
rail fence come natures juices to suit
our every ailment. Medical schools
produce doctors as fast as hominy
comes from the mills. Why should any
one any more say he is sick when for
25 cents he can have the choice OF seven
billion remedies, each of which will pos
itively restore him to health in nine
minutes by the watch? Yet, strange to
say, the more of these sickness de-
stroyers we have the more sicknesses
we discover.
Now, the mrth cure differs radically
from all others herein, that 1t is not a
specific, but an actual catholicon. And
further it was invented by the ALL
Wise Creator, and not by man. 1t will
not operate successfully however, I'M
less taken according to directions; that
is, 1t must be used daily from the youth
UP and one must not omit to shake we'll
while using Thus administered 1t heals
mainly by preventing disease. 1t is an
tiseptic: the cheerful man is not liable
to take any disease unless he should
lose his false teeth laughing, and / un-
derstand that not even faith can rem
edy that 1t is germicide bacteria turn
pale at it's approach, as we learn from
the versicle:
"The microbe trembles when he sees
A body cheerful and at ease"
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1t promotes healthy action in all the
bodily functions. 1t expands the lungs;
being in this respect better than the
Colorado climate, whittier recently a
man went with one lung and in three
months had three lungs-having mar
ried two: for had he used mirth faith
fully he might never have lost the one
and thus have had four. 1t promotes
the secretion of the bile, removing all
the yellow, envious and naughty ele-
ments out of the spirit as well as out
of the frame. 1t secures the deoppil-
alton of the spleen. q do not know
what that is, but read 1t in doctor
book and have been unable to look II
up because of pressure of other engage
ments-but whatever 1t is, mirth VIII
do it, 1t is better than mares milk
honey baths, buttermilk, or any lotion
or powder for the complexion, as Sol
ONION declares: "A merry heart makett
| a cheerful countenance" 1t is a great
| health food, contains no mineral, keeps
| well in any climate and agrees with any
| temperament. 1t Is monstrous fine
| digester, as the wise man further says
HE that is of a merry heart has
continual FEAST" and the provert
| runs: Laugh and grow fat"
|
But the superior advantages OF the
mirth cure are more illustriously mani
| fest in it's salutary effect upon the
| mind. No man who laughs will evel
go insane, at least he will not make G
practice Of 1t. God gave laughter to tn,
only animal with an intellect on pur'
pose, that all the mental action Should
thus be kept sweet and wholesome. The
Creator intended men to laugh; wher
they won't laugh at all but go on will
| furrowcd brow of unremitting care
then He drives them crazy that they
may laugh all the time. Historians
scientists and theologians with no toucl
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