The Washington herald., 1910-03-28
NEED GOOD HEALTH
TRANSPORTED Body Theme of
Rev. ClaytOn'S Sermon.
EXPLAINS TEACHINGS OF BIBLE
Primitive Man, Who Gets Plenty OF
sun, Air, and Exercise, Free from
Vices and Diseases, Says Preacher
Most Beautiful Woman Only Prom
Use of Immortal Youth of Soul.

"The teachings. of the Bible about the
dishguration and the TRANSPORTATION Of
the human body answer many questions
about the future of the race and form
the basis of duty and hope. said Rev.
J. B. Clayton in a sermon at lmmanuei
Baptist Church last night.
1.-THE Bible attributes a disintegrating
and degrading power To sin. and the truth
of this statement is apparent in those
vices which leave their marks in the
human countenance, in the loss of physi-
cal and mental powers, and in the habits
which degenerate and degrade mankind.
No sin has ever beautihed the human
face or figure, no vice has ever given-it
increased vitality, and no evil course of
thinking and conduct has ever given
even temporary loneliness TO the race.
The connection of spirit and flesh is so
intimate and so vital that what affects
one affects the other.
Accompanied by Vices.
1T IS a matter of common observation
that civilization has been accompanied
by a multiplication of vices and diseases.
The primitive man who had the good
sense to give his body plenty of sun, air,
and exercise was free from the vices
and diseases Of civilization. We shut up
our bodies in badly lighted. badly venti-
lated. and badly arranged rooms. and
then wonder why we are sick. fiabby,
and pale. The average length Of human
life is less than the average length OF
human life could and therefore should
be. DR.. Wiley says it is a crime to have
a cold, and that disease is both suicide
and homicide. II is as much suicide and
homicide 10 kin ourselves and others with
germs as with knife or bullet
Disease is a crime against the body,
against the race. and against the soul
and God where it is preventable Good
plumbing is as much a Christian duty as
good praying Clean housekeeping is as
much an obligation as a clean heart. A
clean city is as imperative as clean
heaven. We have civilized our minds;
we need to civilize our health by civil
izing our cities out Of their filth and
diseases into good, clean, wholesome con-
ditions, where we may grow healthy
souls in healthy bodies
1T does not matter whether we were
evolved from a primordial life-germ or
were created from dust, we are here, and.
being here. have infinite possibilities.
Ultimate humanity viii be healthy and
happy; the spirit transformed by truth
and the body transformed by good living
The resurrection message is not that the
Identical PARTICLES which form our bodies
shall rise from the dead. but that the i'm
mortal soul shall possess an incOrruptible
spiritual body, having definite shape and
definite place OF that resurrection-life
and body the scriptures declare Christs
to have been the pattern. The desire and
the prophecy of immortal youth. free from
pain and disease. is indicated in our de-
sire 70 ward off the wrinkled decrepitude
Of age. God be thanked for the mirror
and a woman's sensible use of it,
Women Preserve Beauty.
Women are not the conservators of
custom; they are the preservers Of the
beauty of the human face and figure, and,
except for the feminine desire to retain
youth and to appear well, the race would
long ago have degenerated into the ugli-
ness and degradation of savagery. The
human form divine would soon lose it's
beauty except for womans mirror But,
at her best, the most beautiful woman,
retaining the elastic figure, step. and grace
Of youth, is but promise of the immortal
youth of the soul in the TRANSPORTED body
patterned like Christs. which the Bible
predicts shall be the ultimate condition of
humanity
THE inspiring teaching OF the Bible is
that though dishgured by disease, the
body shall be TRANSPORTED; though dis
figured by sin. the soul shall be trans
formed; and IN TRANSPORTED earth hui
hanity shall realize the divine intention
being predestinated TO be conformed TO