The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-04
MAN SHOULD NOT DIE
There Is No Physiological Reason
For Death.
THE BODY is SELF RENEWING
Perfect Diet and Mode Of Living Would
Insure Exact Balance Between
Bodily Waste and Renewal and
Would Mean Physical Immortality.

The last enemy that shall be de-
stroyed is DEATH" said the Scriptures,
yet II some man attempted seriously
to reassert this ancient truth today We
would look upon him as q mad prophet
Indeed. Yet the time will come when
men will be able to believe this prom
ise OF the Bible, although they may
never see 1t literally fulfilled.
Death some day will be acknowl-
edged to he as unnatural In the econ
omy Of the creative plant as are sin
and suffering But whether or not in
some millennium period mortal man
will be able to forego the gross proc
ess of physical dissolution in becom-
ing spiritual body is purely meta
physical question that does not enter
here. What does interest us Is the
question, occupying the greatest scien,
tif1c minds today, whether the body as
such cannot be retained in perfect con
dition indefinitely.
William A. Hammond. one of the
great authorities, answers 1t by say
ing. There is no physiological reason
why man should die"
Thomas ]. Allen, NJ. A., LII. D., writ
ing In similar strain. says: The hu.
man body is not like machine which
must wear out by constant dlsintegra-
ton, for 1t Is self renewing. 1t Is a
simple. scientific fact that we get an
entirely new body every few years,
estimated at from three to seven.
Every day Is birthday. for the proc
ess of waste and renewal never ceases.
Perfect balance between elimination
and renewal would avoid permanent
waste"
There is no doubt that when we be-
come more enlightened and understand
perfectly the laws that govern and de-
termine our physical lives and when
we conform to these religiously life
will be UNNECESSARILY prolonged.
The decay of the body as evidenced
In old age is unnatural The aesthetic
within us recoils in merely contemplat
Ing Its approach. We feel that there
must be something self perpetrative in
the change when the strong color In a
healthy man and the fresh beauty in d
pure woman take their departure
when the bloom on the cheeks fade,
when the brilliant light within the eyes
grows dim and the full, red lips become
pale and fallen.
Medical science has pointed out the
physiological cause of these conditions
Probably the time will come when 1t
will be able to point out the manner Of
avoiding them.
We know that the body grows old be-
cause Of the existence Of an imperfect
balance between the waste which the
body accumulates and the amount 1t IL
able to throw Oh. During youth the
balance is perfect. because the body
has more than Its normal vitality and
strength to throw OF the waste matter,
but MS we grow older this perfect bal
or another
The strength that should 20 to elimi-
mating impurities from the body Is not
husbanded, but rather squandered in
different ways. Then, too, we eat and
drink those things that cause excessive
waste. An impure diet composed Of
foods containinx uric acid, such a.
meat. or u drinks containing poisons,
such - tel and coffee, taxes the eiimi-
satixe powssu. and when the time
esnss when these give way 4 STATE q
imperfect elimination has ~ in. and the
wastee In part are deposited IN the sys-
ten. settling IN ths arteries and join1
Of tn bods and accommodating unta
they bscons Obstructive elsnSots.
The blood strpam eirculates inper-
fsctiy. and when once this condition
exists bad fusetioolng Of svery organ
- ~ body rsenlt1 and Old aeo and
1satA grldnaIy enlne. =,
Mind, TO. has great deal to do ID
AaSAsaine u rstardtng thsAspleaaAnt
slG1 - physical dseay. Nantal 81
enss ~ Gatis4aetseiiy demonstrated
~ nAAn. narssw. Nl6sh and unplsas-
a1t thoughts act dsstEuctivsly on the
tssues q The body, While tAoushts Of
wholesome ard Dositsys character act
ceoaHuctively. ~
And when the curtains Of ''the win
dewv Of ~ sssr' ars drawn, whsa thu
temples door = elpssd and 4 Hnal d.
snn i witlin, when tn spirit, passes
tie threshoh to take up newer and
Amer sdi6cs o. IT. own creation, scjsncs
assures ~ that the body lives on.
Hers At least physical Immortality -
an assured fact.
TAsosegy IN ifssIIktously -saught 40
that III boy rstutns to inanimats
duak The fs1isious answer It sesencs
~ that X returns to God. The Iatest
word In the Aid Of biology u that all
nature, including the ali mother soil,
- animated and hallowsd with the d.
vine principle Of life.
More than this. matter IL indestructi-
BILE and eternal. There ID not an atom
that can BE- lost In all the universe.
For this reason our bodies do not really
die. They are in the care Of the angels
Of the elements.
The peculiar cellular arrangement
that formed them into beautiful body
may b. caused to diatntsgrats through
ths action Of ths oxygen upon It, time
may change IT, position Of the atoms
composing II. but ths lattsr stfll con-
thin within thansslves The sacred and