The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-10-28
A HEALTH SERMON
Health notes.

1t is not often that ministers of
God think to declare to the people of
their pastorate, lessons in Christian
ity based on the principles of prac-
teal healthful living. There has come
to the attention of the Notes a SER
mon delivered recently by Rev. w.
Bruce Doyle, of Plant City, having, as
its text, | Corinthians 1916: "How-
belt that is not first which is spiritual,
but that which is natural, afterward
that which is spiritually" and, with the
permission of the author, the Notes
takes pleasure in publishing his re-
marks herewith, which are a most
concise and plain outline of these
principles:
The natural comes first in creation.
The Lord God formed the earth, he
called to view the heavenly bodies, he
made the fora and fauna of the earth
and then made the Adam-all this
was that which we call natural. Then
God blew into the nostrils of Adam the
breath of life and then Adam became
a living soul-this was spiritual.
The natural comes first in thought.
The babe stretches out its tiny hands
and calls for the moon, it reaches for
a toy and plays with the kitten, all
this goes on for years before the child
begins to think of God or contem-
plate his own soul.
The natural stands first in mem
DRY. Letting your mind run back
over the childhood days you recall
your earliest recollections. The thing
furtherest back in your memory is a
toy, pet, friend, an incident or
some natural thing, it is not a dream
of angels or a thought of God or a
dread of demons.
The natural comes first, and of all
nature the most important thing is the
human body which is the temple of
the Holy Ghost and in which the Son
of God tabernacled himself. How
great then should be the care of this
physical man!
"Thou. shalt not KILL" says the law
Of Jehovah. The .catechism of the
Westminster assembly says that this
commandment "Requireth all lawful
endeavors to preserve on rown life
and the life of others" If we would
not kill then we must "endeavor to
preserve" the life of others. If we
take rifle and go to a mans home
and shoot him, he is dead, If we
leave barrel of water to stagnate in
our back yard and breed mosquitoes
which pass through a home where
there is malarial fever, yellow fever
o. dengue fever and then after a
while go on to a mans home andsill
him with the germs of death, he is
dead. In the jury box the cases may
be viewed differently but it is all the
same to the dead man.
Humanity advances rapidly in
science. We have made a submarine
and gone to sleep on the ocean floor;
We have made an airship and sailed
opened the gates of the frozen poles;
we have reached the penetralia of
every land, and suggested new
science, "Catalacitics," the exchange
of thoughts, the bartering of ideas.
But we have advanced, Oh! so slowly
in sanitation.
We think of the Babylonians as
cruel people who burned the sacred
city of Gods people, left So1omon's
temple in ashes, and put the Hebrews
in slavery, but when the Babylonian
army set out to do this they left a
sewerage system at home.
Jonah did not want to preach in
Ninevah. How many reasons he had
we do not know but surely it was not
on account of health conditions, for