Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-03
CHURCH STARTS
WEEKLY SCHOOL
OF HEALTH
MOST VITAL Thing IN life
Evangelist Helping to Awaken
the Public Conscience


gave to man nearly 1000 years ago a
system of hygiene and a political
economy for the preservation of his
health which to-day, with all the mar
wells of modern science could not we'll
be improved upon. The laws If
cleanliness and quarantine were absc-
lutte" said DR.. L. l.. Andrews, the
Medical Superintendent of the Atlanta
Sanitarium, at the Inauguration last
night of the weekly School of Health,
which he is to direct every Monday
night in connection with the great
evangelistic campaign which is being
conducted nightly in the Old Brough-
ton Tabernacle by Evangelist Carlyle
B. Haynes. He said in part:
Health is the perfect functioning
of a perfect organism. Perfection is
not the work of man but of Deity All
His works declare Him as the One al
together desirable and perfect in all
His ways. OF man it is declared that
he is fearfully and wonderfully
made. Marvellous is Gods working
in the human form.
By the anatomist there is revealed
TO us the great systems of the struc-
ture of the human form and their per-
feet adoption to each other and to
the whole The osseous system, not Il
thing of beauty in itself, is wonderful
with its ligaments, clothed with its
muscles, nourished by its double sys-
tenn of calculation, and united and
correlated into action by it's nerves.
But what shall be said of the beauty
and nicoty of cell structure as reveal
ed by the microscope, or the wonder
full chemical prosecces performed in
its laboratory of informal secretions?
Here the work of the Master Artist is
most evident,-Hi one purpose,
Health
Scientifically, health is mans di-
vine prerogative. With his balanced
powers in action he becomes the CEN
ter of ever widening social circles.
Health is his radiance, sunshine, his
benediction. Every system of his be-
ing is striving with all its power for
this one purpose Nature in her va
ried forms of environment is arrang
ed for and is working to the same
end. Gods great out-of-doors, with
| it's canopy of blue and its sunshine
and shade, was intended for and
should be mans play house and work
shop, and also his sanctuary. Here,
amid spacious fields, and sheltered
wales, and rugged mountains, he was
to find home and food and beauty and
wisdom in the exercise of his body
and mind-the perfect functioning of
his being, health.
but lest we read not the lesson of
Nature correctly, God has said to us
that He desires above all things tin
we may prosper and be in health, ev-
en- as our souls prosper We were
created in his own image and like
ness being made a little lower than
the angels, and were crowned with
glory and honor for His pleasure
and for His glory How strange,
then, that illness, sickness and dis
ease should be imputed to Him as
though He were their author or as
though He took pleasure in the suffer-
ing of man!
But man has sought out many liz
ventions, plans of his own-and d.
waited from Gods original purpose
concerning him. Still in the divine
economy his Creator, to meet these
conditions and to preserve the life OF
his creatures, gave to man nearly A.
600 years ago a system of hygiene AID
political economy for the preser'a'
ton of his health, which to-day, with
all the marvels of modern scielce
could not we'll be improved upon. The
laws of cleanliness and quarantine
we're absolute. 'Ye shall therefore
keep my statutes, and my judgments
which if man do he shall live IN
them And we shall be to me
kingdom of priests, blessed above ell
peoples, and I will put none of th9se
diseases upon YOU for ye shall be
holy. for the Lord your God air
kt ly.'
To-day, under the influence OF va
rious progressive reforms, we are
hegining to realize the sacredneSs on
re divine right of health AMI It's
significance to the individual and to-
the nation. An individuals one asset
is his health. This being true OF the
individual. it is true of the nation NO
nation is stronger than the strength
of it's individuals. Health IS ITS SUI
preme factor in the aggressive acqulsl-
ton of mower and position to-day. The
history of the forces that have chang
ed the may of the world are written
enervating vices and health and soul
destroying habits and conditions.
Would you perpetuate our nation!