Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-08-27

ne died from overwOrk at forty when
he should have lived out his thrcescore
years and ten. 4 few months before
his death he said To the famous sur
geon. DR. Routhe: Yes. you see me ut
a little over forty having fine prac-
tice. making my several thousand
pounds IA year. but | am today phys
ical wreck have fatal disease of
the heart. the result of ovcrwork. I
cannot live many months and my part
ing advice to you is this: Never mind
ut what loss. take your annual six
weeks holiday. 1t may delay your sue
cess. but il will insure your develop
ment. Otherwise you may find your
self at my age a prosperous practition-
er, but IL dying old man."
am not here going into the details
Of the errors aud the reasons why a
man should not abuse his physical or
ganism. But I am 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 physical realm.
and in that realm he must live. IL he
persists in going out of that realm he
must die.
An Airship Tour.
! 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 n sail over the waters Of the
Mediterranean? Would you like to
view Paris from Il height higher than
the Eiffel tower! Would you take a
sightseeing trip above the buildings of
the ST. Louis worlds fair?" But l am
ambitious. and. forgetting the limita-
tions of my body. say: Nay. not any
of these Journeys would go. But. as
a sailor might sight the cleaning eye
of q lighthouse from afar and head
toward an open harbor. | would head
toward the lighthouse OF some star.
would explore an unknown world"
With that request smile witches the
corners of nay companions lips. The
machinery of his airship begins to
throb. We mount higher and higher
and higher until II seems the blood
must burst from my agOnizing brain.
What Is the matterY" | cry. Turn
the ship. turn it. or shall die!" With
that Santos Dumont turns the a:rship's
ruddcr. and as we begin to descend he
says: Il took you OH this journey to
prove to you that II is an impossibility
for man TO live far above the earth.
When the air becomes raretied there is
not enough substance there for man to
breathe God has decrccd that phys
ical man never can fly like bird away
to the stars. He is free to live In this
air only as lie breathes that air when
his feet are planted upon the solid
earth"
Down into the shaft of Il coal mine
descend. Farther and farther | go
until the darkness seems to be hurled
at me. | cling in dumb fear tn the
miner by my side. We go down and
down until the heat becomes like the
clustering 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 Ii
seems l cannot live Suddenly we come
to the end of II long coal shaft. why
not farther" ! ask my guide. Has
the coal vein stopped here:" Nay"
is the answer. the coal Is just as rich
farther Oh. but 1t is an impossibility
no:y to work it. The farther we bur
row into the earth the hotter II be-
comes. God has decreed that physical
man must live OH the earth's surface.
He may pass around the surface of the
earth. but cannot 20 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 "lntra Mundr' 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. II
man leaves his natural clement he dies
as surely as did the fish we caught
some weeks ago when they We're drawn
out of their natural element. Physical
man has his limitations of life. II We
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 bluefish. 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 ! mean In the liberties of social
economies. Every mans liberty ends
where his neighbours liberties begin. AS
citizen OF the United States have nc