Milford chronicle., 1903-10-30

other pursuit. l know the difficult
with which a busy man tears himsel
away from his work at any given me
ment of the day but his happiness AM
that of his family depend upon it. tn
most uniformed mind. with heal h.
body. is happier than the wiSest vale
tudinarian." Good advice for Ihoma
Jefferson to give 100 years ago; just al
good advice to give to the young people
Of the present day.
Value of Health.
Not only happiness. but also most OF
temporal and spiritual usefulness. is
dependent upon physical health We
read with amaZpmeut what Alexander
IL. STEPHENS was able to accomplish
when he. as an Invalid. confessed 10
| senator Vest that for over forty years
he had never scru day without suf-
/ fering physical pain We study with
wondernent TIE gigantic work of the
/ invalid Robtrt Hail. of the invalid
/ trederick w. Robertson, of the Invalid
R3bert Louis Stevenson. of lie invalid
j. L. Green and Of the uta.I Henry
, kirke White, who couluucu to work,
1 although he WAS fgAtgs death step
by step. Yet for the most part you
Will find that the great leaders of the
wo&d have had strong bodies Go
and sit today in the gallery Of the Unit
ed States senate. and you cannot gain
say this fact. Some of the United
States senators are now very aged
men, yet even in the decay of their
physical organisms. as among the ruins
Of Melrosa abbey. you can still trace
the strength and the power of bygone
days. But. though the necessity Of
physical health should be an axiom,
yet the strange fact remains that most
people by countless foiiies are fragrant.
" undermining the physical walls Of
lie temple Of the Holy Ghost. They
are OverwOrking the body. as you
sometimes see tired horse compelled
70 pull too big a load They are ubus-
ing the body with the idea that God
will forgive them because they are try
ing to do his work. No. no. my friends.
This abuse Of the body must not be.
The temple of the Holy Ghost should
1e physically strong temple The
broader Il mans shoulders the heavier
$ the load he can lift for Christ. The
ouder his voice the farther. all things
'eing equal. he can sound forth the
Message Of Saviour's sacrifice.
Moral CIeanlinezs.
The temple OF the Holy Spirit. in the
ext place. Should be clean body.
here are some men whose b-dips are ,
iven over to moral tilthiness. They
re- Ike some OF the ancient heathen
'mplps which were avowpdly dedicat- !
d TO the deities of lust. drunkenness
nd debauchery, the existence of which \
as national diShOnOr. The worship |
'rfOrmed in those temples waS so vile {
at You could not describe it in public a
'itAout bringing Il blush of shame to 1
tery modest cheek and a demand for [
lence from every modest lip. The pic y
Tres found on the walls of the ex O
lmed city of Pompeii show that those 1
mples were veritable clarnel houses, ;
here bats and owls and carriOn birds II
lrged themselves on the decaying II
'rpses of truth, purity and love. Let {
le temple of your body be clean. as IL
lrist wanted the Jerusalem temple d
be clean when he drove the traders ii
It Of that temple. crying. lis it not d
ritten my house shall be called Of all q,
Itions the house Of prayer but ye d.
we made it den Of thicYcsY clean tc
David wanted his physical altar TO 81
clean when he uttered the agOniz III
= prayer. Wash me thoroughly from m
= iniquity and cleanse me from my W
l.. or that other pleading beseech- ii
ant. Cleanse thou me from secret ri
ults." or clean as Paul meant us to III
clean when In this same letter to
? COrinthian church he wrote these
lrning words: IF any man defile the ,n
nple of God. him shall God destroy. or
: the temple Of God ls holy. which C
nple We are" Oh. the terrible con- -,
nnatiOn which is to be visited upon ~
'se whose bodies are defled by the h
Iuleenee Of degrading vices. Oh. the ".
full doom awaiting the spiritual des- v,
alton Of the temple Of the Holy 70
Ost! ~
Consuming Fire. 81,
lave you ever seen a sanctuary Of ,.I,
ok and stone which has been dedl- -
ed to God destroyed by earthquake ns
by fire? Well. have. On a dark. NJ
rmy night l was awakened in my mr.,
'Oklyn home by the rumbling OF the ~
engines. | heard a quick rap at . ,
door, as my sister called: Wake vo
The Tabernacle is in fiames!' I as
riedly dressed and ascended to the nh
ola Of our house. which overlooked ir
city. There the whole family were ms
hered. The air seemed charged loo
surcharged with electricity. or
he distance the public buildings Of A
city looked like the great white scr
lsions Of a celestial city. making by is
trust the scene more dramatic. The dof
rch did not burn as other buildings Gts
ned to barn, but its roof in its en-. wb
y was mass Of living Goals. II I'm,
ed like an altar. huge altar upon sop
ch was being gacrihrpd rho whole -