Year: 1867

do twice as much work if they knew how
to wisely employ their forces Most men
do their work over about three times.
First they do it by anticipatiou--th think
ing about it, and thinking about it then
by relaity; and then by rumination---
thinking it over after they have done it.
Men wear themselves out with care and
fear and anxiety; men wear themselves
out with trudgiug up hill, because the
body is in such a low condition that
what they ought to do by intuition they
have to do BY labori'us research. Men
insist upon boring through hard OAK to
get miserable peep,hole through which
to look at the truth. when whole win
dow. crystalline and transparent. is he
fore them, if they only knew how to use
it.


A high bodily condition gives men the
power to think and e4e,ute better. And
when the millennial day comes, among
the signs Of it will be the fact that men
understand their bodies that they know
how to bring them to their highest condi.
ton; that they are capable ofperforming,
without wasting and abusing them that
they know how to fill up what they do
with double the quantity of exertion that
they how Know how to put into it. But
this will not be until men know how to
consecratc their bodies and make them
holy in the sight Of God. And | do not
know of any questions that need TO be
treated mole in Charity Schools, and
Mission Schools, and Young Meu's Chris
tian Associations, than bodily questions.


Young men come into life not knowing
the meaning of their passions; without
knowing the laws or the drift of their ap
petites. Many times through ignorance
they fall into habits that drain their very
life blood, and undermine their whole
constitution. And when they come to years
Of discretion, 50 as to know what il Wise
and what ii uuwise in the care Of them.
selves, the work is done. they are damhed.
and :hey can not be restored. There are
thousands Of men who, for the want of a
mother to talk to Them. for the want of q
father to teach them, have utterly destroy.
ed the vitality and taken cdt the very
stamina of their life.


Now, somebody ought to teach some
body to teach somebody else. If there
are no Christian physicians in the land
to teach young men what is the organiz.-
ton of their bodies, what are the metes
and bounds Of indulgence, and what is
the meaning of those secret sins and
pleasures which carry hell in them. ii
seems to me that the place where those
things ought to be taugat is Young Mems
Christian Associations. If they are too
delicate to be taught BY preachers in the
pulpit. they ought not to be SO delicate
but that somebody can teach them some.
where.


A true and full Christian worships
God with spirit. soul and body. That is,
a full worship is one which includes in
it all the agencies that go to constitute
true manhood.


l remember once being alone for an
hour or two Oh The top Of Mount Wash.
ingtoh. | separated myself from the
party that | was with that / might he
alone. And recolect distinctly that iu
that high mountain afr, with perfect
health, and with the most exquisite sen.
sihility to every thing that there was
around me, had the feeling that in the
mere CONSCIOUSNESS of physical health
there was mere pleasure than most men
are able to get out of the whole round Of
artificial society excitements. | was
struck with how much the body has Of
pleasure in animal health. You see it in
children Id the yOdirg. in their exubcr-
ant overflow Of JOY in mere motion, in the
simple dot of bounding.


Now. the body ought to be Kept at That
state iii which its joy, its overflow, shall
be. as it were, an Offering unto God
Health. and pleasure in health; activity
and fruitfuluess in adtiVity-these ARE
not prayer, but they range themselves
right along by the sias oft. am not
speaking Of their relative Importance, but
Of their moral quality. Where mah
has physical excellence which results from
Watch and care, and where be has con.
ceptioIfof his s'body as- oohsscrated to God
ia such way that he keeps it pure and
sweet and clean and healthy all through,
aud makes it Musical with joy, he is con.
s.autly rendering praise to God he wor
ships Gbd continually.


A new light is thus thrown upon the
shame and guilt Of bodily dissipati0ns'
There is great glory i'm presenting our
bodies living sacri6cess Let md dpeh
that little. A mother is sometimes