The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-11-19
MAN SHOULD NOT DIE
There Is No Physiological Reason
For Death.
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 If some man attempted seriously
to reassert this ancient truth today we
would look upon him as a mad prophet
indeed. Yet the time will come when
men will be able to believe this prom.
Use of the Bible, although they may
never see it literally fulfilled.
Death some day will be acknowl-
edged to be 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 a spiritual body is a purely meta
physical question that does not enter
here. What does interest us is the
question, occupying the greatest scien-
tifc minds today, whether the body as
such cannot be retained in perfect con-
dition indefinitely.
William A. Hammond, one of the
great authorities, answers it by say
ing, "There is no physiological reason
why man should die"
Thomas j. Allen, M. A., LII. D., writ
ing in a similar strain, says: "The hu-
man body is not like Z machine which
must wear out by constant disintegra-
ton, for it is self renewing. It is a
simple, scientific fact that we get an
entirely new body every few years,
estimated at from three to sever.
Every day is a 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 contemplate
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 q
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 it
will be able to point out the manner of
avoiding them.
We know that the body grows old be-
u Of the existence Of an imperfect
balance between the waste which the
body accumulates and the amount it is
able to throw off. During youth the
balance is perfect, because the body
has more than its normal vitality and
strength to throw of the waste matter,
but as we grow older this perfect bal
ance becomes destroyed from one cause
Or another.
The strength that should go to elimi-
mating Impurities from the body is not
h%usbanded, but rather squandered in
different ways. Then, too, we eat and
drink those things that cause excessive
waste. An impure diet composed Of
foods containing uric acid, such as
meat, or Of drinks containing p%oisons,
such as tea and coffee, taxes the elimi-
native powers, and when the time
comes when these give way a state Of
imperfect elimination has set in, and the
wastes in part are deposited in the sys-
TEN, settling In the arteries and joints
of the body and accommodating until
they become obstructive elements.
The blood stream circulates imper-
fectly, and when once this condition
exists bad functoning Of every organ
of the body results, and old age and
death gradually ensue.
Mind, too, has a great deal to do In
fastening or retarding the unpleasant
signs of physical decay. Mental SCI
ence has satisfactorily demonstrated
that mean, narrow. selfish and unpleas-
ant thoughts act destructively on the
tissues Of the body, while thoughts Of a
wholesome and positive character act
constructively.
And when the curtains Of "the win
dows Of the SOUP are drawn, when the
temples door is closed and a final ST.
lence Is within, when the spirit passes
the threshold to take up a newer and
finer edifce Of its own creation, science
assures us that the body lives on.
Here at least physical Immortality is
an assured fact.
Theology has irreligiously taught US
that the body returns to inanimate
dust. The religious answer Of science
Is that it returns to God. The latest
word in the field Of biology is that an
nature, including the all mother soil,
Is animated and hallowed with the di.
vine principle Of life.