The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-02-07


feet for locomotions hands, to work out
his way and to uplift the fallen; a
tongue, to make himself ineligible
anc, to sing His praises; eyes, to
pie rec the darkness and to behold the
be auties of nature; ears, to catch the
st rains of sweet music; a faculty, to
perceive his relations to his Creator
nd his fellowman; a reason, to re-
ect; judgment, to determine; and
n will to execute; and in addition to
all this, sense within, which enables
him to understand right from wrong.
1T is the will of God, therefore, that
we, so endowed, would see to it, that
our bodies, His temple of abode and
the home of the soul, that part of us
which shall live forever, be kept in
the very best healthy condition. In
fact we are responsible to God for
the use and abuse of all our powers of
mind and body.
Moral laws and physical laws gov
ern the universe. What is true Of
law in one sphere is true in all
spheres. If we violate the laws of
health by Incorporate eating and
drinking, disease, which is the ad-
monition and the penalty, will soon
oyertake us. If we transgress the
laws of mind, idiocy or insanity may
be our punishment; and if we disobey
Gods moral law, He will as certainly
avenge it as He does the infraction of
His physical laws If a man drop
lighted match into a key of gunpow-
der, the effect of his imprudence is
quickly made known by the explosion
that follows. If he sticks a pin in
his flesh his wounded nerves quickly
send mis- brain report of the in
jury. If he exposes himself impru-
IDENTIFY to extremes of cold, he has
pneumonia or may be consumption.
These are sudden and certain results
of violated physical law.
But if a man is passionate, or de-
ceitful, or dishonest, over-indulgent in
the practices and pleasures of socl-
ety. abusive of his civil and social
relationships, destroyer of virtue
and character, the punishment of these
violations Of moral law may not and
generally do not, Immediately follow;
but that they will follow at some time
is as certain as that the law of right
has been violated. Too often it is the
case that man allows himself to
indulge in little perversions or excess
es under the delusion that they are
not harmful, or that he can quit at
any period of his life he may wish.
But such indulgences-
Step by step lead their victim
To the verge of dread despair
Hurls him over the brink of ruin,
Laughs and leaves him there
when habit of indulgence is once
firmly established it becomes our mas.
ter, and we rarely have sufficient
strength to overcome it, though its
continuance be condemned alike by
reason and experience. We often do
its bidding without thought or reflec-
ion, not being aware of its influences.
nd sometimes when we are fully con.
'ious of its power and are DESTROYS
u escaping its trammels, our weak
II SIS is manifest in our failure. In
n is age of intelligence, a man who
,e' IS the right and cannot follow it:
WI 70 is the victim of poor health or
lis ease, and cannot help it; who loves
all things noble and does not fight
against things ignoble neither in him
self or in others; who is haunted nv
high ideals of what he wishes him
self to be and is forever falling short
of ito me this man is the most
of all creatures The drunk
ards of to-day were the innocent
school children of few years ago.
The outcast of society to-day was the
bright hope of a mothers heart a few
years ago. The criminal of TODAY
was the JOY and delight of fathers
home yesterday. The physically
wrecked men of to-day were the strong.
stalwalt boys of only few days ago.
Just how helpless man is to save him
self from the clutches of disease and
sin may be illustrated by "Promethus
sin may be illustrated by 'Prometheus
Bound as told by Aeschylus: bv
Virgils LAGOON, with his sons in the
coils of the great serpent; and by the
young man in Paris, who was examin-
ing a guillOtine and from curiosity lay
down on the plank under the knife
and found himself fastened there un-
able to escape Hannah was hung on
the gallows he had prepared for Nor
decai. In Proverbs we read, Whose
diggeth a pit shall fall therein, and he
that rolleth stone it will return
upon him Therefore shall they eat
of the fruit Of their own WOW ond bo