The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-10-28

even the city on Ninevah had a sew
erage system.
| The Egyptians were hard hearted
heathens. They worshipped frogs
and prayed to calves and went into
the Red Sea to slaughter the people
Of God but they Matched eggs in in
CREATORS, laid sewer pipes and regu-
lated the living quarters of domestic
animals by law.
In the city of Rome today they tell
us there is a sewer which carried
away the refuse of the city five hun
cred years before Caesars decree
sent Joseph and Mary down to Beth
lehem.
The Franks in the days of Charlie
nlagne heated their homes in winter
with furnaces and were careful for
ventilation. They did not live in
houses with no heating facilities or
work in stores without fires when it.
was cold enough to frost, and take
cold, grip, pleurisy, pneumonia and
then send for the doctor and wonder
why the preacher had not been to see
them.
The city of Jerusalem as far back
as Solmon's day had waterworks and
was careful to get uncoataminated
water from the mountains. They
brought down snow from Mount Her
mon to cool the baby's milk and keep
lit sweet. They had a continual fire
III the valley of Gehena where the
refuse of the city was burned and not
dumped out in waste place as so
many American towns do.
In public cleanliness, in quarantine
regulations, in the science of cooling
and warming, in the matter of sewer
age, in the prevention of disease we
have advanced but little beyond the
ancients.
The laws of ancient Israel were
largely sanitary laws. The seventy
elders of Israel were health officers
The people of God from Moses to
Christ had state board of health and
lit was not composed alone of physi-
clans, for every priest was member
of the board. The book of Leviticus
is good text book on hygiene. Per-
!!haps there ought to be preacher on
every state board of health, whose
duty it would be to preach cleanliness.
I"Cleanliness is next to Godliness,"
says the proverb; but it is more.
Cleanliness is part of Goodness.
Deuteronomy forbade the people
Ieating anything which "dieth of it.
SELF" We Americans are too much
advanced for that; but we do eat
that which was dying of itself. We
feed milk from tubercular cows to
babies and half of the human race
dies in infancy. Then we put notice
in the local paper that "The Lord
saw fit to remove our darling babe"
; The twenty-third chapter of Deut-
leronomy gave laws for soldiers in
camp, laws which would make the
lspread of typhoid fever and numerous
lother intestinal disorders impossible.
Yet in our war with Spain it has been
ssid that we lost as many men during
that war from sickness as from gun
fire.
Leviticus provided that a leper
should be quarantined, should have
his clothing perforated, should wear
his hair loose and must hold some
thing over his mouth when he spoke,
to say nothing of when he coughed or
lsneezed. His clothing had to be burn
ed when he was dead-no pious pack
ing of it to be sent to the poor or to
an orphan home.
Saddles and chairs in which certain
afflicted people sat were 20 be washed
and dried before being used by a
healthy person. Moses may not have
known about germs but the God of
Moses certainly put laws in the Bible
that make for the suppression and
destruction of deadly bacteria.
In the prophecy of Isaiah we read
about domestic animals eating whole
some food (which hath been winnowed
with the shovel and with the fork, !"
and now some twenty-six hundred
: years afterward, the cows drink and
wade in polluted water ard eat mil
: dewed hay and million babes drink
the carelessly handled milk and die
and an obituary lays the blame on
God, "He hath removed the soul of
our deceased child"
;, But if health officer puts the dan
: ger stamp on mans dairy or quar-
antines his pigs, or orders pool
drained back of his barn, or stable
: to be disinfected, then somebody bel
. lows like a bull of Basham and away
he goes to the ballot box with vote