Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-08-22

be should have lived out his threescore
years and ten. few months before
his death he said to the famous sur
geon. DR. Routhe: Yes, you see me at
a little over forty having a fine prac-
tice making my several thousand
pounds a year, but | am today phys
zeal wreck / have a fatal disease Of
the heart, the result of Overwork. l
cannot live many months, and my part
ing advice to you is this: Never mind
at what loss, take your annual six
weeks holiday. 1t may delay your sue
cess, but ii will insure your develop
ment Otherwise you may find your
self at my age prosperous practition-
er, but dying old man."
am not here going into the details
of the errors and the reasons why a
man should not abuse his physical or
ganism. But Isam here to state that
as God limits the natural realms in
which the fish can live, and the plants
can live, and the creeping things, like
the worms and the snakes, can live, so
God gives to man a physical realm,
and in that realm he must live. If he
persists in going out of that realm he
must die.
An Airshfp Tour.
l step into the airship Of Santos-Du-
mont, that wonderful wizard of the
air. The Brazilian aeronaut says:
where would you like to go? Would
you like sail over the waters of the
Mediterranean? Would you like to
view Paris from a height higher than
the Eiffel tower? Would you take
sightseeing trip above the buildings of
the st. Louis worlds fairY' But l am
ambitious, and, forgetting the limita-
tons of my body, l say: Nay, not any
of these Journeys would l go. But, as
a sailor might sight the cleaning eye
of a lighthouse from afar and head
toward an open harbOr, l would head
toward the lighthouse of some star l
would explore an unknown world"
With that request smile twitches the
| corners of my companions lips. The
| machinery Of his airship begins to
throb. We mount higher and higher
and higher until it seems the blood
must burst from my agOniZing BRAIN
what is the matter?" l cry. Turn
the ship, turn it, or l shall die!' With
that Santos-DumOnt turns the airship's
rudder, and as we begin to descend he
says: Il took you on this journey to
prove to you that it is an impossibility
for man to live far above the earth
When the air becomes rarefed there is
not enough substance there for man to
breathe. God has decreed that phys
ical man never can fly like bird away
to the stars. He is free to live in this
air only as he breathes that air when
his feet are planted upon the solid
earth"
Down into the shaft of coal mine
descend. Farther and farther 1 go
until the darkness seems to be hurled
at me. 1 cling in dumb fear to the
miner by my side We go down and
down until the heat becomes like the
blistering sands of the Sahara desert.
Fresh air from above is now pumped
| to my painting lungs. But the heat
| grows more and more intense until it
seems 1 cannot live. Suddenly we come
| to the end of a long coal shaft. why
not farther?" l ask my guide. HAS
the coal vein stopped here?" NAY"
is the answer, ''the coal is just as rich
| farther on, but it is an impossibility
now to work it. The farther we bur
row into the earth the hotter it be-
| comes. God has decreed that physical
man must live on the earth's surface.
He may pass around the surface of the
earth, but cannot go through it. He
can never tunnel his way from New
York to Peking." What is true of the
air and land is true also of the sea.
In that wonderfully interesting book
called ''Intra Mundi'' the author de-
scribes one of the pleasures of heaven
as walking through the crystal halls
of the river of life. We know not
what may be the delights reserved for
us in that celestial sphere. 1t may be
ours to pass dryshod through the river
! of life as the Hebrews passed through
| the Jordan. But while we are in this
mundane life we can never explore the
crystal halls Of the Atlantic ocean nor
sail through the ether of the skies. If
man leaves his natural element he dies
as surely as did the fish we caught
some weeks ago when they were drawn
out of their natural element. Physical
man has his limitations of life. five
would physically live we must obey
certain physical laws. We cannot eat
! pebbles like an ostrich. We cannot
| hibernate like snake. We cannot
drink in water like bluefsh. We can
not eat grass like an OK. We cannot
breathe the foul and fetid air Of a
miasmic swamp as the FREELY, with its
| little lantern. makes its home among
the boys and calls the green slime its
playground. Physical limitations hem
in the liberties of physical man. We
can live our physical life only as we
obey Gods physical laws.
| Our Social Limitations.
We also have social limitations. By
that l mean in the liberties of social
economies. Every mans liberty ends
where his neighbours liberties begin. As