Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-04
GRADUATES HEAR
BURDETTE PREACH
Pastor of Temple Baptist Church De-
livers caIaureate Sermon to
Glass of College of
Osteopathy

At the Temple Baptist church yester-
day morning Pastor Robert j. Burdette
preached the baccalaureate sermon pc
fore the graduating class OF the Los
Angeles College of Osteopathy at the
morning service, taking for his text
John 3: 2, Beloved, i pray that In all
things thou mayest prosper and be In
health even as thy soul prospereth.'
What is the difference between good
and bad health? None at all. For there
is no such thing as bad health. There
Is but one kind of health. The word is
an abstract noun meaning whole, from
which word 1t is derived. 1t is from the
old high German 'haelu and in it's pure
sense means not only whole. but saliva
ton. 1t is not at all related to heal
To heal a man is to make him whole,
proof positive that he was broken, de-
formed, imperfect.
For man to say of himself that he
is in bad health is to say of shattered
mirror that 1t is in a fractured condi-
ton of Wilderness. A man is either In
health or he is sick. Health Is simply
the normal condition of the natural
body and the soul.
"'God,' cries the psalmist, is the
health of my countenance.'
"In Wycliffe's translation of the Bible
YOU read In Acts %: %, Therefore be it
known to you, for to heather men this
health of God Is sent
Salvation we read it now. And in
the same old version Jesus says of
Zaccheus, Luke 10: 8, This day is health
come unto this house
"'Health,' then, is a word too perfect
and noble to be restricted to the only
perishable part of our being-to the
only part of us that, whether we be
righteous or wicked, is destined to
death and decay.
1--WE have belittled great word. We
have let it shriVel upon our lips and
atrophy in our thought until we apply
1t with equal fitness to a refined, cul-
tured, educated woman and a COW; to
the president of Christian university
and a pig in the sty.
1--WE have narrowed 1t down from it's
old meaning, when 1t was as long and
wide as eternity, to a sense in which
1t lasts only about seventy years. We
have dragged 1t down from its pristine
divinity of meaning, when the psalmist
sang God is my health to apply 1t
to little sniveling cold in the head, or
toothache.
ut used to mean, in the soul and
thought of man, God the all powerful
Now we make it cover a twinge of
neuralgia and rheumatic joint, So
have men exalted the baser over the
divine, the body over the soul-the body
which Paul, with all the skill and
to deal smashing blows In order to
keep it under Yet is not the body
to be despised. 1t is the burden bearer
for the soul.
1T is a glorious thing to be well. To
lie down at night because you are
sleepy To sleep the sweet sleep of a
boy or a laboring man. To rise in the
morning because you are rested and the
bed Is irksome to you To enjoy your
breakfast so heartily that you neither
know nor care what you are eating.
TO go out to your days work not be-
cause you must, but because your work
Is a delight to you, body and mind and
soul. TO sing at your work Just for
the very JOY of living-the ecstasy of
being alive.
Body and mind and soul running
the race Of life hand in hand-not