The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-12-07
The Human Will Can Conquer oil Ills oI
Heredity II Put TO Work.

Once upon time | put an idea
as old as God and as large as the
universe into simple and compact
form for the benefit OF the ordinary
mind. Just as a homeopathist puts
strong medicine into small pills for
the benefit of those who cannot or
will not assimilate big doses Of
drugs. Here is my poetical pill:
Out from the tomb crept vice with hide
Gus leer,
IL am Heredity,' he cried, "whom all
men fear,
sleep but de not When fate calls /
come,
And generations at my touch succomb. J"
A lofty shape rose sudden in his path.
1t cried "You lie - and struck at him
in wrath.
IIeredity, the braggart, stark and still.
|, Fell PROSTATE at the feeto Mighty Will.
Now comes a protest from ply
sician in Chicago. He says: II
write you because believe your
faith to be wrong, in direct antago-
ism to the grand idea Of an omnis-
cient and omnipotent Creator, and,
moreover, because | believe t1at its
universal acceptance would lead TO
untold suffering, disease and death.
This much science teaches me-"
In order to prove his grand"
idea OF an "omniscient and omnip-
otent Crestor," | am sorry to say
the good doctor (but poor poet }
!. sent me whole page of his protest
in verse-of which one stanza will
suffice to show how beautiful and
uplifting is his creed.
Heed this, Will: though seeming at
Your bold stroke,
: Heredity's no braggart and shall rise
again
) To harrow the world with sin and
pain,
. Or bless it with noble minds and hearts
like oak"
have known scores OF human
beings who were yoked like cattle to
their load Of belief in the hopeless
ness of their inheritance, and who
"died as the fool dieth," either
physically or morally, because they
expected TO. know woman who
believes she "inherits" consump
( ton through two generations Of an
cestors and who is faithfully invit
. ing il to make her the third victim
!, But there are others whom it is {
greater inspiration to know. One
. is a robust woman Of sixty, the only
survivor Of family of consump
tives. At sixteen she was declared
to be in the grasp Of the disease
One day she fell to thinking, anc
. God illuminated" her mind with
a great truth.
/ She said to herself: eff l inherit
a bodily disease from my parents
do | not inherit divine health from
God? He made my soul, and HI
must wish me TO be well viii
be. -
She began to breathe. Until thi
|, time she had used only a few CELL
! OF her lungs--afraid of the fresh all
! because she ''inheriled" veal
lungs. Then she practiced gentle
: calisthenics and increased the ex
] ercises gradually. She took N,
! medicines-because she had all he
life taken them to no avail. Sh'
believed in her divine right I,
, health-and she obtained robus
health. No matter what we do no
) know of God and the Beginning
, this we do know, that some Intelli
gence greater than the mind of mar
| conceived and executed this tire
, mendous and glorious scheme o
worlds. Every part Of the univers,
/. is a part Of that Cause.
Every star has purpose; every
= human life has purpose. The sta
knows and obeys-man ignores ant
rebels.
But once let him know and ODE,
and realize his Higher Hsredity anc
live up to it, aud he becomes par
, OF Onnipoterce. He is a Grown
!. Prince thereafter and helps direcI
/ his own destiny.
i In spite Of the protest Of my Chi
cago correspondent | do not think
. this belief is pernicious, or that il.
acceptance can lead to "diseass
> and DEATH" Quite the contrary
Il know that it overcomes disease
! poverty and misery when it is per
sisted in. As for death that is only
> part Of eternal life, and We mus
: not want to overcome il.
! Therefore doctors and medicines
have their place in the world. Mer
will need physicians until they
| learn their tr ,e relation to nature
, Then they will know how to hea
themselves.