The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-08-28
ARE you GUILTY?

US know better how to live than VIC
do live. The laws of health are vio-
lated systematically and grievously.
The penalty, pain, follows. We
repent OF our sins while the pain
lasts, but go at once back to the old
way MS soon as the pain has left us
There are many people who have long
since reached the conclusion that
coffee produced bad effects upon
them. Do they cease drinking it?
Not bit of it! There are many
men who have reached the conclusion
that the use of tobacco Injuries their
health. Do they quit the use Of the
weed upon reaching that conclusion?
Not bit Of it! Many people suffer
with periodic spells of headache, bill
iousness, indigestion. A little at
tention would lead to the discovery
Of the cause. How often it is the
case that one goes for years q martyr
to these attacts without even trying
to locate the cause. Many others,
even after they make the discovery
absolutely refuse to be governed by
| the knowledge that has come to
| them. The power to choose is a
priceless possession of mortals. But
how often is that power abused by
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his dinner table. Cabbage or some
other dish that has proven Injurious
to him is set before him. Does he
turn away from the cabbage? Not a
bit Of it! At least not many men
do. Most of them begin to reason
away the knowledge of past expert
ence. Perhaps it was not the cab
bage after all must have been out Of
normal any way, maybe this time it
will be different. And another in
dulgence is made. But the penalty
follows; and, likewise the repentance
! and likewise, If time enough is given,
| another indulgence Many people
have made the discovery that they
eat just bit too much almost every
meal. ID such people cease their
wicked over-indulgence upon making
the discovery? Not bit fit! There
are those who have been going on at
this for years. They are sinners
against both knowledge and expert
ence, ard will go on in their evil
course until some chronic ailment
will fasten upon them and take them
out Of the world. Is a man who Is
so great slave to his appetite any
better than q drunkard? He is also
slave to his apRssstMtess pRssMesn TheTs tham is t
man who over eats or INDUCES in
foods that he knows to be Injurious
is irritable, nervous. The drunkard
is in the same fix. The man that
does not control his eating has a
heavy head. So has the drunkard
There is really little difference. A
man who drinks n dozen cold drinks
day perhaps knows that he is vio-
lat!ng the laws of health, but his
knowledge rarely ever restraints him
In his reckless course. 1t would he
too harsh to say that men are gen
orally gluttons. 1t might be unkind
to say that the most of men are often
guilty Of gluttony. But the SAYING
might approach nearer the truth than
it does eloquence in diction, The
witer, lest some man should say,
Physician heal thyself," must con-
fess his own wrong doing. Indeed,
1t was just case of that very thing
that lead to the writing of these
words. Battercakes are not Alto
gether bad for all people. They are
very bad for some people, among
them the humble writer. Why should
he sit down to breakfast and deyour
half dozen or more, when he had
learned by sad experience that the
sure penalty was a miserable head
ache, days opportunity for work
wasted and no telling what else in
the way of loss? 1t takes US long
time to come to SEQ that the fellow
who goes out in the morning to his
days tolls loaded down with indi
gestible food, sour in looks, with a
frowning face is whipped before he
strikes the first blow in the battle
for that day.
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