The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-08-01
MAN SHOULD NOT DIE
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.

Insure Exact Balance Between
Bodily Waste and Renewal and
Would Mean Physical Immortality.
aThe last enemy that shall be de-
stroyed Is death" said the Scriptures.
yet II some man attempted seriously
20 reassert this ancient truth today we
would look upon him as mad prophet
indeed. Yet the time will como when
men win be able to believe this prom
Use OF thu Bible. although they may
never see Il literally fulfilled.
Death some day will DO acknowl-
edged % be as unnatural In the econ
omy OF the creative plant as are ain
ana suffering. But whether or not In
some Millennium period mortal man
viii be able to forego the gross proc
co OF physical dissolution In becom-
Ing q spiritual body 10 q purely meta
physical question that does not enter
here. What does interest us 10 the
question. occupying the greatest scien-
tifc minds today, whether the body as
such cannot DO 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, IL. D., writ
ing In a similar strain. says: Tho hui
| man body Is not like n machine which
must wear out by constant disintegra-
ton. for II is self renewing. II Is a
simple. scientific fact that we get an
| entirely new body every few years.
estimated at from three TO seven.
Every dny IL 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 10 these religiously life
VIII be UNNECESSARILY prolonged.
The decay OF the body as evidenced
In old age Is unnatural. The aesthetic
within US recoils IN merely contemplate
ing It's approach We feel that there
must be something self perpetrative In
the change when the strong color In
healthy man and the fresh beauty In
pure woman take their departure,
when the bloom on the checks fade,
when the brilliant light within the eyes
grows dim and the full, red lips become
pale and fallen. s'"sr>
Medical science has pointed out the
physiological cause of these conditions.
Probably the time Will come when II
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 II Is
able TO throw or 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 strenngnsthat should go to ellmi-
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 containing uric acid, such as
meat. or OF drinks continuing poisons,
such as tea and coffee. taxes the elfmi-
native powers. and when the time
comes when these give way n stats OF
imperfect elimination has set In. AMI 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 eiementz
The blood stream circulates impcr-
fectiy, and when once this condition
exists bad functioning OF every organ
OF the body results. and old age and
death gradually ensue.
Mind, too. has a great deal 10 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 destructiveiy on thu
tissues OF the body, while thoughts OF
wholesome and positive character act
constructively.
And when the curtains OF ''the win
dows OF the sour are drawn, when the
temples door Is closed and a final 81
lcnce is within. when the spirit passes
the threshold 10 take up a newer aud
finer edifice Of It's own creation. science
assures us that the body ilvea on.
Here at least physical Immortality II
an assured fact.
Theology has Irrellgiously taught US
that the body returns 10 inanimate
dust The religious answer OF science
Is that Il returns 70 God. The latest
word IN the Geld 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 IL indestructi-
BILE and eternal There IL not an atom
that can be lost In all the universe.