The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-09
RHEUMATISM REMORsE
OF GUILTY STOMACH
Epidenics the Remorse of Guilty
Communities, Says DR.. Fred
j. Mayer.
TAKES TEXT FROM EDITORIAL
II Individuals Practice Daily Clean.
Illness, Clean Streets and Markets
Will Follow-Says Ancient People
Had Better Ideas Of Sanitation.

"WaEh and he clean
Let the individual observe the hyei-
enic and sanitary laws concerning the
care OF the body If he is to become tile
Christian, Judged by the dictates Of his
religion; for cleanliness is next to Cod
Illness and filth goes hand In hand with
immortality.
Let tho Individual nave knowledee
or the sanitary laws, and let him prac-
ttce them In his daily life, and tho re-
suits will become evident In the COM
munity in the form of cloan. market
places, streets and residences and the
abolition of open sewers"
Such Is the gist of the sermon de-
nvered before the congregation OF Cal
vary Baptist Church last night by Dr.
Fred j. Mayer from n text found In the
editorial columns of The Times Dis
patch. The editorial was read in full
to the congregation, and each person
present was advised To read the para
graphs for himself and to inculcate its
teachings In his daily life.
EMINENT SCIENTIST FAyops
SANITARY EDUCATION
DR.. Mayer. former president OF the
Louisiana Medical Society. former
Health Officer of that state, lecturer on
hygiene In the State OF mississippi, nc-
credited representative OF the Texas
Board of Health in Europe and South
America for the suppression of the bu-
bonic, cholera and yellow fever plaques
and the originator of the system for
the hyEienic education OF the masses IN
connection with the pulpit, last night
delivered one of the strongest addresses
along the lines of sanitary education
ever heard in Richmond.
, Nothing Is SO important as the
teaching Of clean living from a physi-
cal standpoint to insure the success
OF the spiritual life. the speaker said.
he was of tho opinion that popular
ignorance OF tho Importance of the
laws underlying the physical weil-be-
Ing was responsible for most OF the
human ailments and pains. and pithily
summed up the statement by declar-
ing rheumatism to be the rernorse of
guilty stomach, and epidemics the
| remorse OF guilty communities.
Laws may be made and attempts to
enforce them may be e1erted, but they
theY are enacted understand the rea-
sons for their existence, DR.. Mayer
SAID The. people must be instructed
In the fundamental laws of hygiene
and receive enlightenment as to the
relation which insects, unsanitary
water streets and homes bear to them
and to their lives If the enforcement
OF these laws Is to be made possible.
To this is added the necessity for the
cooperation and correlation Of all
educational factors with that of san
/ itation In order to lift the pail Of ig-
norance and to insure a higher plane
of spiritual life; for the ministrations
of the body should not be ignored In
favor Of the ministrations to the soul,
as they are interdependent one upon
the other.
ANCIENTs HAD CLEARER
IDEAS OF SANITATION
DR.. Mayer traced many religious
customs TO source far back into tho
ages and showed that their origin re-
suited from cooperation on the part
OF the clergy and the sanitary experts
OF the times. He made reference to the
sacrificial affairs of the Hebrews, sto the
custom OF doffing sandals before en-
tering the church and to the washing
OF the disciples feet by the gentle
Nazarene Attention was also called
to tho methods employed in preparing
food, and especial emphasis was placed
on pork. which, DR.. Mayer said, was
frequently the transmitter of innu-
merablc germs.
The speaker said that the ancients
OF more than 5000 years ago were
further advanced along some lines Of
sanitation than are we of the present
day aid noted as an example the care
ful means taken to insure removal OF
waste matter. the highly perfected
sewerage systems, the abhorrence of a
system similar to that of Shock oe
, Creek. These habits were closely al
lied with those Of religion, tho speaker
emphasized when he characterized the
ancients as taking q bath. cleaning
their teeth and then praying as the
hrSt things to be done in tho morning