The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-19

Indefinitely anyone not doing much
mental or physical work.
As q rule. when one is sick, the nrst
thing to do, and often the only thing
necessary, is to stop eating md drink.
plenty Of lemonade, xhichH a good
means Of aiding elimination through:
skin and 1hdneys. Eat nothing till
there 'is.atsd lstinctssdesire*lors sfood;a
then begin with 4 little easily. dlgested
food and increase t gradually. The
bowels should be sfrps 70 a. tp save
expenditure Of vitality. The inclina-
.tioa;stoe rechne should :tbe I 1eomplied
with. :: :
Overlooking, causing, accumulation
Of waste in' the system and resulting
'coneestion,s physical and mental, lis
the chief physical cause of disease,
Health, therefore depends, on the
physical side, upon avoiding over
? feeding, while supplying every ele-
ment' of nutrition, some Of which are
wanting in the accidental dietaries fol-
lowed by many: Il
4 To 'teat anything" because the; i'm
portance Of, the right mental condition
is realized is as wrong as to think
anything because the food is right.
The liver can make glycogen or liver
.sasar>fronn, beef; but much easier from
toast or prunes. Albumen, essential
to life, is contained only I'M certain
foods To eat the right food and
worry about 1t, is no: better than to
worry. about something else and eat
the right food, Worry kills; SO does
wrong eating. -
Children have more diseases than
adults because 4 child has greater
central vitality to- be used In eliminate
ing the ills of hered.ty than an adult.
Unless the child gets too much food or.
unnatural food, or not enough of the
right food, together with proper air,
light, water, variety Of exercise Of the
i! mind through the use of the objective
faculties and of muscular exercise
unless the child is improperly nour-
ished land nurtured) it will be sick
in the right way, the positive way
Measles are good for child that has
In the system by heredity, unwhole-
some conditions that must be elimin-
ated If it is to grow up healthy in
body and mind. Do not stop or drive
In the measles, nor any other disease;
aid nature in elimination. Provide
carefully proper nutrition and give ma
ture chance.
Nqtrition-this is life. Maintain
proper nutrition and nature will do
the rest. 1t is natural to be we'll, not
sick. Sickness is but the evidence of
health, the healthy effort of nature to
right wrong conditions. A dead man
cannot be sick.
The pain you feel is the result Of
natures effort to restore normal con-
ditions; therefore be thankful that
you are ''sick," for it is a sign that
you will soon be well-if the vitality
is not too far exhausted and IL too
many obstacles are not put in natures
way. And there are two important
signs that may be depended upon,
positive and negative. If the patient
suddenly gets better" before the
natural course of natures curative
process has run, or If there is abso-
sultely no desire to live, the end is
near. But if there is a vigorous ef-
fort on the part Of nature to restore
normal conditions, there is health al
ready, the abnormal form of health
commonly called Sickness; this is al
ways favorable sign; and If tho
crisis is developed naturally and tho
positive forces prevail at that point.
the normal condition will gradually re-
turn. The natural process of natures
cure may be helped or hindered.
Desire, intensified, ripening into
faith and faith into will, the will to be
well, has an influence on health OF
vast~importance. This is being recog.
nized and applied practically, shorn Of
the superstition which has long at
tached to it because it was not, under
stood, in the Emmanuel Movement
and in the practice of the scientific
physician, is a we'll spring of health
and happiness.