The Newtown bee., 1907-03-08

ht uFdNlUk WINGS anu CllluTGn In 10 a shirl or pernicious ctivity-pernici- lus because it rohs the home of that first claim which God gave it. It is another case of lack of proportion, of lesser crowding out a superior good, resulting in ultimate loss The church las it's place, but it is multiplying sub
 sidary organizations, which are ob- curing vital moruoes-that strength Is not in the many, but in the reliability And self reliance of the individual unit: that age and experience are of a
 iiyine order that presumption and immaturity can never fiually over throw: that the spiritual are the vital interests, not the suppsrs. entertain nents and feverish chase after present qualification of pride, appetite ana selhshness; that the called are not necessarily the chosen and that one no Christian in the Holy Spirit sense
 If the term. There was organization before Christ came. He came to re- store the value and virtue of the unit
 Robins idea of a wife was of an aqual, one capable of becoming & mother and capable, as well, of rearing the children whom she might bear
 In another particular. Robin never
 regretted the principle of his action,
 in neither seeking bride above his station In wealth or family, nor below
 it in intelligence and virtue. He was
 
 ure, never having known much of a
 mothers watchful care and mrllowfng oenignity, she having been an invalid from his earliest knowledge Thrown
 into the world, as boy into deep wa ter, it was sink or swim and, while his
 efforts to preserve his integrity bred endurance, it bred likewise a soernness
 that inevitably follows in the wake of stern duty. To make an ideal home. one must have been drilled in home duties, with their self-surrender and thoughtful sympathy, and it was too been gentle and tender enough to make an ideal husband. Courtesy, thoughtful, constant and kindly, is the cream of life and, without 1t, life is but skim-milk, and blue enough at that. Marriage at best is but an earth ly expedient for the perpetuation of the race. The qualification of animal passion is the least part of marriage. It is necessary and provided for, but in heaven they are neither married nor given in marriage and there is a spirit
 ual suggestion in the pictures of the church as the bride of the Lamb. Pitiful it is when coition is the ann and end of married life and the more | oestial the passion, the quicker and | dercer the infidelity to the marriage VOW. Unless there is soul union,
 sense of Gods love shining through
 the banns like golden thread, to be- come one flesh is little better than
 legalized prostitution Man and wife were made to be mutual helpers toward eternal righteousness and peace
 and any lower ideal deoauches what God has instituted and blessed.
 While Robin was editorially em- ployed, he was subject to severe bilious attacks. Having been & bottle baby, he started life with impaired digestion
 and had not yet learned to study him. self, mark the cause of distress and | learn how to avoid it's recurrence His | frequent colds were dosed with cough drops, which relieved the cold. but in creased the bile Man has learned many things. but the Increase of doc tors, nurses and saniIariums shows
 that he yet lacks self knowledge, self restraint and self help. This was es- pecially true in Robins case and in- dulgence led to suffering, due to in- | tense headaches, the result Of & dis ordered stomach While at work in | the office, one attack WAS so severe as hack was summoned, he was removed | to his boarding place and doctor | called, who, instead of assisting nature
 to remove the irritating cause or in-
 structing his patient how to avoid
 similar attack, gave hypodermic injec- tfons of morphine Since pain is ma tures danger signal of something
 wrong in the system, this drugging of the sentinel is arrant nonsense. Ma ture needs assistance, not resistance, Il and the Chinese custom Of paying doc | tors to keep one we'll, with DO Tee II when sickness breaks the record, is
 much more sensible than our modern menr on us when IlL The day of drugs | is numbered. We only use two prod | ucts of the mineral Kingdom in com-
 mon use-salt and water, and the
 custom of using minerals as drugs is
 opposed to common sense. Nature gives us the minerals through vegeta bles and animals, showing that miner als were never intended to be taker directly into the human system There grow within a few miles of every home or could be easily obtained, herh' sufficient to cure every disease, h only
 we knew enough or were not so super
 stitious that we cling to the least pro
 gressive of all the professions-so me
 dieval that it yet befogs the genera public by writing its prescriptions in dead language, the Latin The popu lace, however, never think of health
 until it is lost and then run for doc tor, who may be as ignorant of com mon diseases as was he who, called tt
 case of scarlet fever, pronounced Il grip rash and the life of a promising
 young man, already engaged to bt
 married, paid the penalty. So many doctors would have made better woOc | butchers,
 | Our city life, with it's rush and roar
 each equally productive of Ill, draw young life into its giddy whirlpool
 with its promise of higher wages, reg
 ular hours and work for bosom shirt and white hands. The wages are de captive. If the doctor fees, the medi cines, the enforced vacations and ner
 vous collapse were deducted, any farn
 hand, rough and rugged in the ba5tl \ rs,S 2, 4ofh hnr h av,1 Skx .l<,vr fc
 could far surpass them. even with hi } SIP or s14 a month and board. N
 wonder that city people are buying u waste farms far and neari Filling tn