The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-08-06
The Human Heart and Some
DANGERS that Threaten II

Lily -,
Your Text: With long life will
satisfy thee, and show thee my saliva
ton.
Our text: Come let us reason to-
gether.
The heart Of this sermon is the one
you can carry in your breast-the first
organ of the body to show life, and also
the last. The heart is a small organ IN
size, but mighty in force. 1t does work
enough in one day to carry a man OF
$50 pounds weight 3, 900 feet high, or to
raise a freight car loaded with coal
feet from the track. To do this mighty
work in "a hours it makes more thar
100, 600 strokes.
The contention of this writer is that
80 per cent of all deaths from disease
are really heart failure While the
announced causes of death from heart
failure" are increasing every year,
those deaths that seem to be from other
causes are largely from ''beart-fail-
ire One takes a fever, and because
he has abused his heart for years he lie
unable to pull thru with the disease.
On the other hand if the doctor finds
the patients herat "all right" he is
quick to assure the loved ones that he
has a good chance even in case of
typhoid or pneumonia.
The enemies that get u.s. are either
! ''stimulants' or narcotics" OF these
no doubt narcotics are the more
dangerous, but ''stimulants" are prob
ably most generally used.
Both these are drugs" also pos
ons." and known to those whe find
them as ''dopes."
/. Stimulants are.such drugs as add
heart beats by squirting on the brain
c~enters which preside over the heart.
These drugs have no real strength CIV
ing qualities, but after the lash" is
laid on they leave the entire system in
worse condition than they found it.
2. Narcotics are such habit forming
drugs as SLOW down" afellow's heart,
and they do this by deadening. or mar
cotizing'' the brain centers that pre-
side Yer heart action.
Coffee is a "stimulant," and one cup
of the beverage will add about 10 per
cent of work to the normal action of
the human heart. This means more
than 400 added beats in one hour, or
in one day sufficient work to lift a
man of $50 pounds vertically 800 feet.
Tobacco and all forms of alcohol are
narcotic" in their effect. That is
they SLOW down" the heart, and pro-
duce the lazy" sleepy feeling. Some
doctors still claim hat alcoholic drinks
are a 'stimulant," but Connie Mack
knows better. He says "Alcohol slows
a fellow down. | have nothing to do
with a drinker." Connie got his
knowledge from first hand, from ex-
perience in the school of "hard knocks"
while most of the doctors read theirs in
a book.
The following outline will help you to
classify the "habit-forming drugs
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Stimulants-l. ~Strychnine. 2. Am.
"~colas" and ~"'cocas." These are usu-
ally dispensed at the fountains. Coffee
and tea are served at table. All are
equally dangerous and damaging; ,
Narcotics Tobacco. 2. Alcohol
all kinds. 4. Choral. 5. Heroine.
All these are ..habit- formers" taken
at first because they produce exhilara-
tion, make one forget the bad feeling
usually brought on by wrong living,
either spiritually or physically. When
one does not like his present feelings
hS hpDt " dIOWIl lIlcIIl.
This dope" may be a ''stimulant"
like tea, coffee and ~''colas'' and ''co-
cas-" found at the fountain, or it may
be the long cigar. Cf a mani or the
short cigarette (f a child. ANY of
these may be taken to hide a pain.
Men have learned the tobacco habit be-
cause they had a tooth ache. and took
a Chew to ease the pain. Women
SaaK cntfaa and foo for thu hAolaaL.
Our girls even now seat themselves at
the pretty chairs in fine drug stores and
say to the clerk Give me a dope"
The manufacturers of these fountain
furnished "dopes' constantly announce
that they refresh" you. None of
them can refresh a person. 1t takes
sunshine, air, water, food, rest, to do
that thing.
None of these ''dopes" can add one
iota of strength. They are deceivers,
all. Long ago the Wise Man said
wine is a mocker. (deceiver) and
~whosoever is deceived thereby is not
wise" When we believe we get
strength from them we only get weak
ness. And the sad thing is that weak
ness is hidden by these deceivers. They
are all ''make-believes," ''hypocrites.'
coming to us as ''angels of light, but
leading is into darkness.
No n a escape who alternately
spurs on his heart by a stimulant, then
slows it down by a narcotic. Some
time when you need hat best of
friends-t the pure, clean. unabused
heart-he will desert you. and you will
go down in ruin.
These ''dopes' are one of the prime
instruments of Satan, as he goes
about over the world seeking whom he
may %devour." They are sought out by
those who hope to find worldly pleas
ures which will satisfy their desire fol
true spiritual life. Mar is a spiritual
being, and longs for spiritual life anc
energy and excitement and '.hilarity. =
But failing to find the true excitement
and exhilaration he takes these base
material substitutes, and is made tc
feel better, as he puts it.
The only sure way of escape from
these is Tee-Total abstinence. "Toucf
not, taste not" is the only safety. 70,
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