Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-05-25
| SATURDAY
NIGHT TALKS
QUIET AND DIET.
May 27, 'os-(Mark 6: so-44)
b. r. z. DAWSON


DR.. Quiet and DR.. Diet are TWO
very good physicians. Rest ana ne
freshment are about the extent Oh
their prescriptions. but multituoes
can attest the efficacy OF the treat
ment. The world has been iohs
time learning what was wefl-kno"n
and constantly practiced In Palestine
by the Great Physician centuries ago.
1t was His custom after an itlnerane
preaching trip, after an exciting eX-
perience with great multitudes In the
metropolis, teaching and preaching
and healing, labors which taxed MS
physical system to its capacity, ana
tore the nerves of His disciples into
shreds to take a boat ride across the
lake of Galilee into the solitudes OF
the opposite shore, and in the wilder
ness. "far from the madding crowd"
or in the mountain Businesses,
breathe the healing air OF the high
lands and take n.strength and re-
cuperation, prone on the breast OF
nature.
This has been the practice OF
some of the worlds greatest men
through the ages. The world
would never have heard of Moses,
II he had mot dreamed away
40 wears in the deserts OF INDIAN
keeping the sheep of Jethro and de-
veloping physical constitution that
40 years of the most strenuous sub
seuuent activity could not break
down. The psalms of David were
evolved under the stars that shone
on the Judean hills while the shep-
herd boy watched his flocks by night.
John the Baptist got his rugged con-
stitution through having his dwell
Ing place in the wilderness. The men
of the. early ages lived long because
they lived a simple life.
Some of the worst-tempered peo-
nile of the world are members OF the
church. In good and regular stand
ing. and they are so from the fact
that they have no rest. They toll all
the week at some profitable employ
ment. and they give all their spare
time to experimenting Sunday
schools, listening to sermons, and
every night holding meetings. They
feed beggars, hold conventions,
speak at meetings, wait on ministers,
serve on committees, take all the
criticisms and hypercriticism that
come to earnest people, rush about
everything they undertake, have all
the Irons In the fire, and develop
their hearts at the expense or all
their other functions. All such peo-
ple should understand that 1t is as
much their duty to take care OF their
health as to go to the sacrament. 1t
Is as much q sin to commit suicide
with the sword of the spirit as with a
pistol. Our earthly life Is a treas
ture to be guarded. 1t Is an outrage
to die when we ought to live. To fire
nm the boilers so that they burst
mid-Atlantic shows poor judgment
when a moderate rate of speed would
have taken us to a peaceful dock In
good repair. The disposition of the
old-time Mississippi pilots to pass
everything on the river, blew up
many a steamer and cost many q life.
That man is a sinner against God
and humanity who tries to 40 the
work of thirty years In five. Many a
train rushing across the country at
record breaking speed comes to q
halt through q hot axle, And the
same thing Is true OF men. The rush
of business produces q hot box.
But Or. Quiet is in partnership
with DR.. Diet and they who patron
ize the one should employ the other
also. Christ fed the 5000 in the will
derness, not with indigestible and In
appropriate food, but with the good
old-fashioned, homely nutritious d1e'
Of bread and fish. It would have beer
AZ easy for him to have provided
BANQUET such as epicures partake OF
but such fare would have been en-
tirely united for women and chill
dren who composed a great part o.
that crowd. The food He provided
was appropriate for them. The mar
who takes care of his health Is care
full of his diet. He need not neces
sarily make himself general nuts
ance because of his finicky appetite
but he will not usually partake o
the whole bill of fare, from soup tt
dessert. 1t is little short OF bias
phemy to ask God to take care o
you while you sleep II you eat chick
!, en-salad and welsh rarebit at clever
| o'clock at night and then go to sleel
stuffed to repletion with every win
dow shut tight, II you do not see vi
sions and dream dreams that are no
of heavenly origin under such cir
cumstances, 1t will not be through
any failure on your part to invit'
"the spirit of the vastly deep" to dis
port around your pillow.
One reason why the apostles wer
such spiritual giants was becaus
those early ministers were not In
vited out to late suppers, with yelloy
legged chicken and fried cakes. The
kept good hours. and lived on sub
stantial diet, that furnished nitrate
for the muscles, and phosphates 10
the brain. and carbonates for tn
whole frame. They had good diet
Fish was cheap along Galilee, an
this, with unbolted bread gave Their
plenty Of phosphorus for brain food
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