Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1908-11-25
man SHOULD NOT DIE
There Is No Physiological Reason
For Death.
THE BODY IS SELF RENEWING
Perfect De and Mode of Living Would
insure Exact Balance Between
Bodily Waste and Renewal and
Would Mean Physical Immortality.


stroyed Is DEATH" said the Scriptures.
yet II 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 viii be able TO believe this prom
ise or the Bible. although they may
never see it literally fulfilled
Death some day win 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 be 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 scieu-
tific minds today. whether the body as
such cannot be retained In perfect con-
dition Indefinitely
William 4 Hammond. one of tho
great authorities. answers II by say
ing. There "a no physiological reason
why nan should die"
Thomas !. Allen. NJ. ~. IL. D.. writ
ing IN Il similar strain. says: '.Thc hu-
man body Is not like machiSe which
must wear out 10y constant dis.n,egra-
ton. Tor 1t is self renewing. I; is a
simple. scientific fact that we get an
entirely new body every few years.
estimated at from three TO seven.
Every day Is 4 birthday. for the proc
css OF waste and renewal never ceases.
Perfect balance between e.imina lion
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-
tcrmine our physical lives ANA when
we conform to these reliriously life
will he UNNECESSARILY prolonged
The decay OF the body rs evidenced
In old age i unnatural The aesthetic
within us rccoils ia i.;erclv colter: plat
ing its approach We feel that there
must be something self perpetrative In
the change when the strong color in a
healthy man and the fresh beauty in Il
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.
Medical science has pointed ont the
physiological cause OF these conditions.
Probably the time will come when Il
will be able 10 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 IL 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 OF 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 ellml-
mating impurities from the body Is not
husbanded, but rather squandered in
different ways. Then, too, we cat $ad
drink those things that cause excessive
waste. An impure diet composed OF
foods containing uric acid, such as
meat, or OF drinks containing poisons.
such rs ten and coffee, taxes the elimi-
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
or the body and accommodating until
they become obstructive elements.
The blood stream circulates imper-
fectly, 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 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 on the
tissues OF the body, while thoughts OF n
wholesome and positive character act
constructively.
And when the curtains OF 1.-The win
dows OF the soul" are drawn, when the
temples door is closed and q final ST.
lence is within, when the spirit passes
the threshold to take up a 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 irreligiously taught us
that the body returns to inanimate
dust The religious answer of science
Is that 1t returns 20 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-
BILE 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
OF the elements.
The peculiar cellular arrangement
that formed them into q beautiful body
may be caused to disintegrate through
the action Of the oxygen upon II. time
may change the position of the atoms
composing ii, but the latter still con-
tain within themselves the sacred and
eternal principle OF life as much as
does the soul. and they exist only to
enter into new and perhaps more beau
tifui combinations of Hfe.-Health.