The daily Alaskan., 1908-08-28
MAN SHOULD
 LIVE FOREVER

"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 mad prophet indeed Yet the time will come when men will be able to believe this prom, lse of the Bible, although they may never see 1t literally fulfilled.
 Death some day will be acknowl' edged to be as unnatural In the econ omy of tho 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 purely meta physical question that does not enter here. What does Interest us Is the question. occupying the greatest scien- tlac minds today whether the body as such cannot be retained in perfect con ditlon indefinitely.
 William A. Hammond. one of the great authorities, answers 1t by say ing. "Thcre is no physiological reason why nan should die.'
 Thomas J. Allen, M. A., IL, D., writ Ing in a similar strain, says: "rhe hu. nan body is not like q machine which must wear out by constant disintcgro. ion for fl is self renewing. Il is a simple. scientific fact that we get an entirely new body every few. years estimated at from three to seven, Every day Is a birthday, for the proc css of waste and renewal never ceases Perfect balance between elimination and renewal woGld avoid permanent waste"
 There is no doubt that when we be- come more enlightened and understand rarrcctly the laws that govern and de.
 ,.ml.c our physical lives and whc2 wr conform to these rcllgiously life will be immeuSurably prolonged.
 The decay of the body as evidenced m old age Is unnatural. The aesthetic within us rccois in merely contemplat. .ag its approach. We feel that there aust be something self pcrpctrutive In inc change when the strong color in a healthy n!au and the fresh beauty in d nurc woman take their departure, when the bloom on the cheeks fade, when tue brilliant light within the eyes ,,.,,,.s dim and thn rull rcd liDS 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 ont the manner Of avoiding them.
 We know that the body grows old be- cause of the existence of am imprrrcc' balance between the waste which the body accumulates and the amount it is able to throw of. During youth the balance Is perfect, because th" body has more than It's normal vitality and strength to throw or the waste matter but as we grow older this perfect bal. ruce becomes destroyed from one cause or another
 The strength that should go to cumi- ratmg impurities from thc body is not urshaadcd. lv; rather sguanar"cI lI different ways. Then. too. we eat ml rink those things that cause excessive waste. Aa Impure diet composed of foods containing uric acid, such as meat. or of drinks containing poisons, such as tea and coffee, taxes the cltmi. native powers. and when ,hc time comes when these give way state of Imperfect elimination has set in, and the wastes in part are deposited in the sys- tenn, settling in the arteries and joints of the body and accommodating until they become obstructive elements,
 The blood stream circulatcs imper, rcctly, and when once this condition exists bad fuuctionlng of every organ of the body results, and old age ard death gradually ensue.
 Mind, too, has a great deal to do ia haStenng or ret0rdlng the unpleasant signs of physical decay Mental sci ence has satisfactorily demonstrated that mean, narrow, selfish and unpleas- ant thoughts act desTuctively on the tissues of the body, while thoughts of a wholesome and positive character act cOnstructlvely.
 And when the curtains of "the win dows of the soup are drawn, when the temples door is closed and a final si- leuce Is within, when the spirit passes the threshold to take up a newer and finer edlfce of It's own creation, science assures us that the body lives on. Here at least physical immortality Is an assured fact.
 Theology has lrrellglously taught us that the body returns to inanimate dust. The religious answer of science Is that 1t returns to God. The latest word in the field of biology Is that all nature including the all mother soil, Is animated and hallowed with the d. vine principle of life.
 More than this, matter Is indestructi- ble 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