The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-18
HE HAS COURAGE.
THIS PREACHER VERY BROAD
IN HIS VIEWS.
endorses Sunday Sports Such as
Athletics and Says That the Modern
Beer Garden Is a Step in the Right
Direction.

The Rev. Horace Porter, assistant
to DR.. Dwight Hills, of Plymouth
church, Brooklyn, gave the following
interview to a New York paper the
other day:
Religion and gymnastics should
travel hand in hand. 1t has taken
countless ages to develop and bring to
Its present perfection this wonderful
oody Of ours. Man has just about at
tanned physical perfection. Any fur
Their development will be in the men
tai and spiritual welfare. Having such
a splendid mechanism and the will and
power to control it, we should do
everything in our power to advance
and perfect it. 1t is our duty to our
selves, our neighbors and our de-
%scendants.
"A dyspeptic is pessimistic on all
subjects, a bug-bear to the community,
and leaves his descendants a bad in
heritance. He has no right to be a
dyspeptic-no man has. Let him eat
judiciously, keep reasonable hours and
exercise. Let the body be in good
healthy condition, and pure thoughts
and a high moral standard is inevita-
bic. Once, ages ago, w were all body;
animal, growing, roaring, chasing ami
mails. But the backs began to straight
en-, the wrinkles on the brow disap-
peared, the angle of the forehead grew
less and less, and thought eventually
fNn1 {hn r1oan of ircftrnf With
thought eventually came spiritual de-
velopment, and some day we hope to
be all spirit. There are many who
wish scriptural support for such a
stand as l take. A man asked for
scriptural evidence and gave a quota
ton against it at a recent prayer
meeting where l used this subject.
Take the life of Christ. He lived al
most exclusively out of doors, walk
ing over the hills and through the val
leys of Palestine, going frequently to
the mountains for rest, and living on
none but the plainest of food. The
sanitary code of the Jews was high.
They were a rural people naturally,
which assured their physical health.
On that was based their splendid ply
steal zeal. The dependency of the
spirit on the bodily health is great,
though there are wonderful exceptions.
Henry Ward Beecher was a man of
enormous physical development, with
great power for good, a veritable lead
er of men; the Rev. DR.. Abbott, weak
physically, as he says he is, but with
wonderful mental and spiritual devel-
opment, a striking illustration of the
power of mind over matter.
In the city we have opportunities
to walk Of which very few Of us take
advantage. If a business man, instead
Of climbing Immediately into a crowd
ed l. train, should start from home a
little earlier and should walk part Of
the way, would it not benefit him?
II consider the bicycle one of the
greatest blessings, one of the greatest
inventions of the age. Used with mod
GRAFTON and propriety, there can be no
better exercise. 1t takes people out
into the parks and country who other
wise would never get out. There are
those that say it is immoral, vulgar and
unladylike for women to ride wheels.
Every woman in the land should have
a wheel, and, ridden with moderation,
I venture to say that the very near
future would find the women of our
land healthier, stronger and better. in
every way than they ever were before.
II believe in Sunday sports to this
cxtent-amOng the lahOrine classes
those who have to work from Z to 7
every day, when night comes are so
tired that bed is their only thought.
Under these circumstances l think that
man does wrong if he does not go out
on Sunday and breathe the good air