Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-05-18

organs are healthy proves that he new
er knew he had a liver or spleen or
kidneysT' In one sense, my brother,
your answer is right. When a man
loses HIS good health he is ready to
give up almost everything he has to
win IL back. III his lungs are diseased
he will sell out his business to 90 and
i've in Los Angeles. Cal. or San An
.onio. Tex, or in some mild climate OF
Arizona. IL he has gallstones he will
gladly cross the seas in the hope that
the Carlsbad waters may dissolve
them. If he has a cancer willingly
does he lie down upon the operating
table in the hope that the surgeons
knife may cut out the fatal destroyer.
But I'm another sense, my brother, your
answer is wrong. Though most Of US
may be healthy, yet there was a time
when nearly all well persons were
sick, and awfully sick. We know what
1t is to have the temperature run up TO
104 and los and the pulse, like trip
hammer, beating $50 times to the min
ute. We know what Ii Is TO have pneu-
monia or typhoid fever or appendicitis.
And from the past experience Of those
sicknesses we should fully realize the
blessing of good health and be willing
to pay a great debt of service to God
for that health. When visiting the
Isle of Wight In 1885 we saw the
queens physician every morning ride
up to the royal palace. He did not go
there because the queen was Ill, but
in order to prevent her from becoming
sick. If the royal courts Of Europe
have their attending physicians, who
are paid large salaries to keep the rul-
ers well, shall we not pay in service
anything to our Heavenly Physician
for the physical strength with which
many of us are endowed?
Capital of Good Health.
"Oh," said poor laborer to mis-
sionary one day, II do not owe any
debt to God. He has done nothing for
me-" Nothing for you! exclaimed
the missionary. Would you be will
ing, poor as you are, to take a mill
lion dollars cash for your two eyes"
mo-" answered the laborer, 81 would
not" Would you be willing to take
a million dollars for your two legs, and
all the rest Of your earthly days have
to be wheeled around as a cripple?
Would you be willing for million dol
lars to exchange your good lungs for
those Of q consumptiver' NO." said
the laborer, IL would not" Then"
said the minister, you owe to God
gratitude and service to the amount of
at least 100000 capital for good
health"
We have all followed with intense
interest the operation which the ia
nous Vienna surgeon. DIR. Lorenz, per-
formed on the little daughter Of a
Chicago millionaire. Twice has the
great doctor crossed the seas within
q few months to visit his little patient.
1t has been said that for each trip he
was paid $4,000. "Oh," you say, 'let
that Chicago father pay 100000, pay
! anything, If he can only have his Grip
pied daughter cured" Then, my broth
| er, do we not owe God a greater debt
/ than Mr.. Armour owes to DR.. Lorenz
Have we no debt to pay because we
were born with two straight legs and
have had for years the blessing of good
health?
A big debt, for food and clothing and
house rent, 1 find charged against us
in the divine ledger. A noted French
statistician has compiled the following
summary of how an average man,
fifty years of age, has spent his past
life: He has slept 5000 days; played
1000 days; was eating $500 days and
has been sick 500 days. During his
1900 days Of feeding, he has eaten a
whole car load of bread-17, 900 pounds
whole car load of meat-16yOO
pounds; 1900 pounds of vegetables
eggs and fish, and has drunk 1000 gal
Ions of liquids. He has worked only
$500 days out of the 1920 days which
he has lived. In other words, he has
slept nearly as long as he has worked
Then when you further estimate al
the expense of a mans clothing ant
cost Of travel during his life, you car
to some extent compute the fnancia
value of the food and clothes witt
which God has endowed one of hi
children up to the half century mile
stone.
Friend of Infancy.
But though the divine debt for foo
and raiment may be very great ar
you going to try to cancel it by merel.
estimating. dollar for dollar, how mucl
the beefsteaks and the chops and tn
potatoes and peas and barrels of apple
and the garments have cost? Oh, nc
That would not be right. You, stron
man, with the earning capacity yo1
now have, owe to God financially NOR
than that. You have a moral debt a
well as a financial one. If | shoul
come to you in a business crisis O
your life and help you. you woul
never forget it. If l should say: "Ml
So-and-so, hear the banks are begiI
ming to push you. Never mind. l wi
see you through this crisis. Bring you
notes to my office, and l will indors