Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-01
MAN SHOULD NOT DIE
Perfect Dict and Mode Of Living Would
Insure Exact Balance Between
Bodily Waste and Renewal and
Would Moan Physical Immortality.

"rhe last enemy that shall be DE-
stroyed Is DEATH" said the Scriptures
yet IL some man attempted seriously
to reassert this ancient truth today WI
would look upon him as mad prophe
| indeed. Yet the time will come whe
| nen will be able to believe this pron
! ;e Of the Bible. although they may
ever see 1t literally fulfilled.
| Death some day will be acknowI
dyed to be US unnatural In the econ
my Of the creative plant as are sill
md suffering. But whether or not IL
ONE millennium period mortal man
will be able to forego the gross proc
SO Of physical dissolution in becom
ing a spiritual body is purely meta
physical question that does not enter
| here. What does interest us Is the
question. occupying the greatest scien
tlfic minds today, whether the body as
such cannot be retained In perfect con
!Itlon indefinitely.
| William A. Hammond. one Of tho
great authorities. answers 1t by say
ing. There is no physiological reason
why man should die"
Thomas J. Allen. NJ. A., LII. D., writ
ing III similar strain, says: '"The hui
man body is not like a machine which
must wear out by constant disintegra-
ton. for 1t is self renewing. 1t Is q
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 MS evidenced
In old age Is unnatural. The aesthetic
within us recoiis in merely contemplate.
ing it's approach. We feel TINT there
must he something self perpetrauve In
the change when the strong color In q
healthy man and the fresh beauty in q
pure woman take their departure.
when tue bloom on the cheeks fade,
when the brilliant light within the eyes
grows dim and the full, red lips bacome
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-
cause Of the existence Of an imperfect
balance between the waste which the
body accumulates and the amount 1t 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
hlsbanded. but rather squandered In
different ways. Then. too, we eat AMI
drink those things that cause excessive
waste. An impure diet composed Of
foods containing uric acid, such I'll
meat. or of drinks containing poisons
such as tea and coffee, taxes the elimi
native powers. and when the tim"
comes when these give way state -
Imperfect elimination has set in, and the
wastes in part are deposited in the sys
TEN, settling in the arteries and joint
Of the body and accommodating Until
they become obstructive elements.
The blood stream circulates imper
fectly, and when once this condition
exists bad flnctioning of every organ
Of the body results, ard old age and
death gradually ensue.
Mind, too. has 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-
I ant thoughts act destructively on the
tissues Of the body, while thoughts Of q
wholesome and positive character act
constructively.
And when the curtains of 'ethe win
dows Of the sour are drawn, when the
temples door Is closed and final 81
lence is within, when the spirit passes
the threshold to take up newer and
finer edifice Of it's own creation, science
assures us that the body lives on
Here at least physical Immortality is
an assured fact.
Theology has irreligtously 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 oil
nature, including the all mother soil,
IS animated and hallowed with the d.
vine principle Of life.
More than this, matter Is indestructi.
BILE and eternal. There is 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 a beautiful body
may be caused to disintegrate through
the action of the oxygen upon it. time
may change the position Of the atoms
composing 1t, but the latter still COL
tain within themselves the sacred and
eternal principle Of life as much as
does the soul, and they exist only to
enter into new and perhaps more beau