Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-18
HEALTH AND MARRIAGE

Editor Herald: The suggestions made
by M of Duarte in your issue Of De-
cember 13 are certainly worthy OF the
most serious consideration, but how
many physicians are competent to give
us that ''clean bill of health" which
should precede the marriage bond?
1t is not generally understood that
disease is a very slow process instead
of a sudden condition and that years
of violation of the natural laws are
required to develop the ailments which
| afflict and eventually kill us. The ex-
ternal manifestations of old age are
nothing more nor less than the mani
festations of internal disease. How
successfully these may be overcome
and obliterated is up to the progress
sionists to prove.
Frequently do we read of men and
women dying suddenly who have ap-
parently been in the best of health.
The error lies in our ignorance of how
a normal person should look. Not one
out of a thousand human beings ap-
proaches anything near the normal
Our bodies are primarily the abiding
places of hereditary taints, such as
scrofula, psora, ETC.. and beginning life
at this disadvantage we innocently
Out continuously duu " our dllOllhSill
of systemic poiSonS, contaminate our
vital fluids, cause corruption and OBJ
struction in our organs and tissues
and furnish a luxurious soil for all
kinds of parasites, germs and bacteria
Quoting one of the most prominent
physicians in the United States: Or
thodox sicence admits that the aver
age length of life should be over 100
years, while in fact it is now about
iS he q nj that falls
far short of his allotted span of life,
and what are even these few years foi
the great majority but slow dying
from the cradle to the grave? Very
few ever know for "a single day what it
means to enjoy the full measure of
abounding health, virile strength and
elasticity of body and mind which
nature intended for them. There must
be something wrong somewhere in
mans habits of life to account for this
discrepancy between the possible and
the actual state of physical, mental
and moral health"
How we should glory in the fact that
there is a way open to all of US to
eradicate every degenerating condition
and reach to the higher level of our
possibilities, and yet of the hundreds
to whom 1 have pointed the moral and
explained the recompense but two have
had the courage and determination to
"pay the price"
For there is a price to pay-and it is
not an easy one. H. means the uproot-
ing of virtually every acquired habit
of living, eating and dressing; 1t means
the establishing of an entirely new
code of ethics and ambitions. To those
who have money to eXpend on their
regeneration the course is simple, but
those who struggle for their daily
bread will be confronted with many
obstacles.
However, God gave us the power to
triumph over our weaknesses, and why
hesitate in a cause which is the most
worthy, the most noble, the most up
lifting and the richest in results of any
we have to fight for? How many are
anxious to take their places on 1.-The
Zring line" for the sake of establish
ing theh ideal civilization, which will
produce offspring perfect in every way,
exempt from disease and a true reflec-
ton of our CreatLr? EUREKA.
Los Angeles, Cal