Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1913-12-19

who enters the race for success In
either business or professional cir
Giles cannot afford to neglect the
cultivation of his physical powers.
\ man without health Is handi-
capped In the beginning. A man
with n weak body, other things he
ing equal, lacks the essential lever
aye to accomplish ms much rs those
who have greater powers Of endur-
ance While the physical must
ever constitute as indispensable
foundation, yet that which distin-
cuisines and crown man Is not found
in his physical nature. Many Of
the lower animels are stronger than
man. Even the exon surpasses
him i'm strength, the bird rises
above him and surpass him IN
flight, the eye of the eagle IS snpe-
rior to that of man., the bee sur
passes him in industry, and even
the little ant has always been t. him
an example of tireless perseverance.
The noblest and grandest thing iu
the world is u young man in all the
vigor and. bwoyaney of manhood,
and with all the promise of long lite
and great usefulness before him
The young man with broad should
ders and deep chest, with strong
muscles and intel lectual forehead
a veritable son of Gods the grand
est object i'm the world. That which
clevates man and places him next to
his Creator in the scale of being is
found i'm the fact that God creatcd
man in His own image God gave
him intelligence, gave him u moral
sense and a spiritual nature, and
these elevate him UNNECESSARILY
above all other EcreVtures of Gods
hand.
Without these he is not qualified
to rule over all the lower forms of
creation. and no creature can sue
cessfully resist his dominion. Man 5
highest culture Is is found in the
symmetrical development of his
three fold nature-the physical, in
tellectual and spiritual. Nothing
can be done which would isiure or
impair any one of these without in
Jury to either or both of the other
two. To neglect the intellectual and
moral nature, and develop only IT,
physical, is only productive of pure
brute force, while on the other hand
anything which tends to destroy the
best development of the physical
man underminds and ottimes over |
throws both the intellectual and the |
moral nature. When a boy gives
up to selfpolution or Il man
yield to the allurement of vice. he |
not only saps the source of physical |
power, but the very earliest symp-
tom of his sad mistake and serious
sin is found in his perverted moral |
sense. His moral nature il the
very first to suffer, and with II boy
the first symptom, of his sin is in
su bordinatiou to par rnts, rebellion
against God, hostility to the Bible,
the Church, and presently to every
thing that is sacred and good The
effect is seen in his
weakened intellectual-pow rs, and
if he persists i'm course of excess
and sin. the eventual result may be
or even insanity.
Therefore any treatment upon the
subject of sexual science which
fails 20 recognize the relation of the
and moral to the high
EST well-being of the physical ma
lure must be partial, misleading and
unreliable, and those
who fail to bring to boys and men
who have been brought under the
dominion of self-polution and sin
he assistance which is to be found
N the proper quickening of the in
iellectual and moral natures must
TAIL of any considerable success or
good
Our sexual nature was given to US
or the wisest and most beneficent
purposes, aud both the sexual ma
ure itself and the productive func-
ion or act as well, when understood
md exercised in harmony with the
realtors interest, are sacred aAd
loly; il is only when it is perverted
'r when permitted to dominate the
higher intellectual and moral ma
ures that the sexual nature becomes
/ source of evil instead of good.
Tod made us to live in our higher
moral and intellectual nature II
vas never intended that the lower
hould rule the higher. If there is
therefore, at any time insubordina-
ion in the lower nature. the appeal
must be to the higher, to that i'm Us
which is Kingly and superior and
which the Creator intended should