The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-07-24
MAN SHOULD NOT DIE
There Is No Physiological Reason
For Death.
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.

THE last enemy that shall be de-
stroyed Is DEATH" said the Scriptures,
yet II some man attempted seriously
to reassert this ancient truth today we
would look upon him as a mad prophet
indeed. Yet the time will come when
men will be able to believe this prom
ise 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 the creative plant as are sin
and suffering. But whether or not In
some millennium period mortal man
will he able to forego the gross proc
ess OF physical dissolution In becom-
Ing spiritual body Is purely meta
physical question that does not enter
here. What does interest us is the
question, occupying the greatest scien-
tIfc minds today, whether the body as
such cannot be retained In perfect con
dition indefinitely.
william A. Hammond, one Of the
great authorities, answers 1t by say
ing, "There Is no physiological reSson
why man should die"
Thomas J. Allen, NJ. A., LII. D., writ
ing I'm a similar strain, says: "The hu-
man body Is not like machine which
must wear out by constant dlsintegra-
tlon, for II is self renewing. 1t Is
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 immeasurably prolonged.
The decay Of the body as evidenced
In old age Is unnatural. The aesthetic
within us recoils in merely contemplat-
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 a
pure woman take their departure,
when the bloom on the cheeks fade,
when the brilliant light within the eyes
grows dim and the full, red lips 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 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 aecumulates and the amount II Is
able to throw of. During youth the
balance Is perfect, because the body
has more than It's normal vitality and
strength to throw off 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
husbanded, but rather squandered I'm
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 containing polsons,
such as tea and coffee, taxes the ellmi-
native powers and when the time
comes when these give way state OF
imperfect elimination has set In, and the
wastes In part are deposited In the sys-
TEN, settling In the arteries and joints
OF the body and accommodating until
they become obstructive elements
The blood stream circulates imper-
fectly, and when once this condition
exists bad functionlng OF every organ
of the body results, and 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-
ant thoughts act destructively OH the
tissues OF the body. while thoughts of a
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 final ST.
lence Is within, when the spirit passes
the threshold To take up newer and
finer edifice OF Its own creation. science
assures us that the body lives on.
Here at least physical Immortality is
an assured fact.
Theology has lrreligiously taught us
that the body returns 20 inanimate
dust. The religious answer OF science
Is that it returns 10 God. The latest
word In the field Of biology Is that all
nature, including the all mother soil.
Is animated and hallowcd with the Ill
vine principle OF life.
More than this. matter is indcStructi-
BILE and eternal. There is not an atom
that can be lost I'm 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 n beautiful body