The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-07

right for their patients. But they are
 proverbial iconoclasts at all the shrines of health when they apply those laws to
 their own tables. Their doctrine is, Do
 not eat as I do, but eat as l say Let
 a convention of physicians assemble, and
 they will have the most intellectual pa-
 pers read before them upon the proper treatment of dyspepsia. Then they ad-
 journ and go to the table and eat twice
 as much as they ought to eat and eat
 that unmasticated food in half the time
 they ought to eat it. Then they will
 return to their homes and have their
 meals at irregular hours. The physician
 would never let his dyspeptic patients
 eat as he does. He knows what he ought
 to do, but he does it not Now if we had
 to live our lives over again in all prob
 ability we would do in reference to temp
 tation just as the average physician does
 in reference to his well known gastron-
 omic laws. We would fall before tempta- tion as he yields to the temptation of the palate. And I for one would be very
 much surprised if we would turn out
 again spiritually as well as we have done. Fruits of Experience.
 I force myself to this belief for sec-
 ond reason. We had but little experience in the past But we did have some expe- rience and knowledge of sin. We did not
 
 unwary bird We walked straight over
 the precipice of sin with our eyes wide open. For many years you were addicted
 to drink. You have been in the past a
 drunkard. You are reformed one now.
 You know all the miseries and horrors of drunkard's life. But tell me about your first glass. Did you not have just as
 much horror of liquor then as you do now? Did you not lie awake all night long, feeling that fiery liquor burning it's
 way down your throat and into your heart after your first drink? Yet did that experience lead you to forswear drinkY
 Did you not return to your tempter again and again? You have been desecrater
 of the Sabbath day. You can see the aw- full results of what Goddess Sabbath is upon your present life. Why do you not
 make Sabbath a holy day? Did the sin of broken Sabbath ever appear to you
 more heinous than when on the first Sab bath you stayed away from church and
 went with some sinful boys picnicing in the woods? An, Christ was right when | in the parable of Dives and Lazarus he represented the rich man in hell who had asked him to send Lazarus back to earth | to warn his five brothers Hest they come | into this place of torment as receiving
 the answer from Abraham, ..If they hear not Moses and the prophets neither will they be persuaded through one rose from | the dead" If we deliberately sinned when we first went through life we should surely deliberately sin if we went through | life second time. In all probability if | we had life to live over again we would | not turn out spiritually as well as we have already done.
 l Then consider another fact. If we were going to live our lives over again we would have to change time. Instead of being seventy. sixty, fifty or forty years | of age we would have to become ten. | twenty or thirty years of age. What | does that mean? Why, it means when
 we call back our fathers and mothers and sisters and brothers and run around again as a curly headed child we would have to give up our wives and husbands and children and grandchildren. Would you | like to do that? Of course if you were little girl of eleven years of age you could not have husband and lot> of babies as you have now. Of course if you were a schoolboy you could not have a couple of other schoolboys running around and calling you papa" and asking you what they should do. Were you happier when you were young than you are now? doubt 1t. l doubt if the opportunity of being ordered around by your teachers and by your parents and by your older brothers and sisters were laid alongside of your present opportunities you would say, Give me back my youth" think that you would say: Let me stay as l am. l would prefer to be a man rather than boy or q wife and a mother rather than little child being put to sleep in 1 trundle bed.'
 We loved and still do love our fathers and mothers and sisters and brothers.