Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-06

program contains plenty OF work of
out-of-doors air, a goodly measure of
play, and simple trust in a loving
Father. Then, as for the whole matter
themselves i'll by their solicitude over
their health.
The body is not the master of life,
but the tool of life. 1t has Its place,
and that place is essentially as an
instrument to obey the dictates of the
will.
A sound mind will insist on a
sound body. Lack of reasonable care
of ones health indicates lack of
perfect mental sanity.
The monastic Interpretation of
Paul's exhortation to keep the body
under" was to treat the body as If 1t
were wholly an enemy and had no
rights. Thus "the flesh" has come to
be synonymous with all wickedness
The body assuredly should be kept
under; its proper place is secondary
and subordinate Nevertheless, we
now know that the welfare of the
spirit is inextricably bound up with the
welfare of the body. They two
are, in large sense, really
one. So the person who is rat
ionally concerned about his spirit
gives that spirit pair of stout legs
to walk upon, a pair of sound lungs
to breath with, decently-kept stom-
ach and well-furnished brain. Re-
ligion and dyspepsia are mutually
antipathetic. Normal religion should
| express itself In part by good health.
| To overwork in the name of religion
lis as unwise as to undereat in the
name of pleasure. To conserve ones
physical well-being is actually to min
lister directly to a wholesome spirit
ually.
A few weeks ago was permitted to
look into the faces of five hundred col
legt girls, in attendance upon the
Student Young Woman's Christian
Conference at Silver Bay, New York
There was nothing about the gathering
to suggest nunnery or the stereo
typed, unthinking conception of Chris
tianity. The young women typi1eo
American life at its best-sane, whole
some, unpriggish, unartificial, sunny
young womanhood. They entered
into prayer meetings with the
same zest and naturalness witt
which they entered into athletic
/ tournaments, or college froIci
The whole affair to me was novel; ant
!. I regarded it with journalists crit
ical eye, yet could not discover
trace of hysteria, sentimentality o.
1 aught else that might be classed b.
the most fastidious as "unwomanly.
And it all advsrted the religion of out
of-doors, the religion of good health
even, one might say, the religious
ness of athleticism. In their splendit
healthfulness those young women es
hibited type of saintliness that !
very much more to modern taste thai
the anaemic spirituelle female figure
OF the sacred art of few centurie
! past.
1t is more important to keep one
: health than to mako ones accustome
living. Anybody with courage and Ell
terprise enough can live somewher
for very little money and grow healtf
Ter while doing 1t; but whoever ruin
his health in order to maintain a cel
tain position and standard Of living
inflicting wicked burden upon hin
! self, upon his family, and upon 81
: ciety.
The first contribution to the caus
! of patriotism is to give to the stat
3 a healthy body, equipped to fulfill tn
duties of normal life.
!. AS these words are written see OF
! of my window small boy turnin
i somersaults, forward and backward
down a terraced lawn, in the sheer e,
y uberance of good health and amin,
? gpirits. He is enjoying his muscle
Simple existence Is to him such d
!, lightful thing that he retires at nigf
:. by diving and jumping onto his be,
and wakes up in the morning to SKI
!, the cat" or perform other feats on tt
! person of the nearest relative WI
J will share his frolics. Is 1t any wonde
that he is sunny, merry and magnet
$ so that the whole. world upon whic
he smiles, smiles back at him. TT
buoyancy Of life should stay with pc
d sons until the end; instead, many
e us are semi-inyalids before we are we
J. out of our teens. All because we 3
i, not regard sensibly the sacredness
o the body which the Creator has give
Il us as the tool with which to ser'
q him.
8 One who has travelled among tt
9 unclothed, or very slightly clad, n
, : tives of the tropics must pronoun
!. the human form the most beautiful
y all temples. In oil the orient saw ]
= temple to compare, in grace and seer
. Illness, with, say, the glistening, nak'
= bodies of a gang of street laborers
Singapore The more we know
physiology the more we admire tt