Year: 1872

farmer to make poor minister


said great many extravagant things In my pulpit,
and preached with great deal Of cru eness preached
great many sermons which, after six months, would
young men do shaped into general truth that which
was truth only under certain circumstances, and with


was great reader of the old sermonizers Tread old
Robert South through and through saturated myself
with South: formed much OF my stylo and my hand
ling of texts on his methods obtained vast amount
Of instruction and assistance from others Of those Old
sermonizers, who were as familiar TO me as my own
name. read Barrow. Howe. Sherlock, Butler ana
Edwards particularly. ] preached great many ser
courses often founded the framework Of my own;
After had preached them said to myself Ihat VII NIL
never do; wouldn't preach that again for az VIZ
world" But was learning, and nobody ever tflppeu
me up had no Board of Elders ready to bring Ind
back TO orthodoxy. had time TO sow all my
wild oats, aud without damage 10 my people lor ~
knew too little 10 know whether was orthodox OF HU e
Ana II was generay greatly 70 taer uWysbaes fake
cause people are very much like hshes' ~ saFe
vast quantities OF water INTO Their mouths o ont tLe
OF the aniinalcuie u contains anu lnen 40 nretfv
water while keeping IN the food feore rt Won saw
The part that is nutritious they keep anu ans @ not hurt
let alone. This early ministerial training Co.'s no tinS
them but IL is invaluable 10 young man @ VIZ - Etv io
the bearings of his new station and learning Ao" "
handle the ship that God has given him 10 sah'


Some of the most practical useful portions OF THIS
book are on the subject of health, showing the Su
preme Importance which Mr. Beecher attacheS 10
the physical nature of man as the 1oundatloh Oh
spiritual progress. If you take 1ull stem Oh
wheat in harvesttime and shake out all the kernels



take from a man his bran-power, all that is left of
him is cha and straw that is it Is nothing but ami
NAL All there is of a man lies in the nerve and
hrain-power: and while the business of life is to
take care of the bone and muscle, the stomach the
liver the lungs and the heart that is only because
this is the way to take care of that which is after
all the sovereign, and for which all these other
things merely servants and messengers and pur-
yeyOrs. 1t is the bran-pOwer or the mental power
as expressed through the brain, that man to
surpass the lower creations around him." In this
sense he undertakes TO explain the fact of genius,
perhaps not with eminent success. Men are
said to have genius. What is genius but q con-
ditiOn of fiber. and condition of health IN
fibeTi 1t is nothing in the world but automatic
thinking. And what is automatic thinking! 1t Is
thought that thinks itseG instead of being run mp or
worried up to think. Whoever thinks without
thinking is in fact genius. In music il is said that
it makes itself In arithmetic mechanics, the
demonstration comes to you. You do not think 1t
out except automatically. Real thinking ought TO
he automatic action, and almost unconscious. Tn
der such circumstances, your intmtlOns and your
sudden automatic thinking, nine times out of ten,
will be true; and when you send slOw-foOted Logic
| afterward 10 measure the footsteps and the way
over which your thoughts have Travelled, Logic Will
come back and report Well did not believe it, but
he was right after all So then for sharpness and
accuracy and complexity of thinking in which much
of your life ought 10 lie, you require the best
| conditions of health in the system by which you
think"


The art of eating as means of grace, and con-
dtion of ministerial is illustrated by the
! experience of the author


Next comes the stomach. In regard TO that every
body feels that he must not be guton nor gornand


there very little discrimination and very little Oh
I ffn an


and OF eating Preachers may he divided luto
two great classes the SaDgineOus class, who cannot
eat much II they going TO think speak; and the
dnof .Teak mr. work unIess they do eat ON sunday
morning, when wake, my first thought is that II Is
SUNDAY morning and the very idea of ii takes away my
appetite 20 down drink cup OF coffee. and eat
erg and half slice Of toast. That all eat. There
Is Just enough to sustain my system 1heh preach,
ana If have done very well. am hungry but If
! have done very well cannot eat much dinner That
there is reaction OF the nervous influence OF


Tie system The whole system is WOlklhg 50 lhuCh p!


the brain and the that the stomach does not
| crave anything just groat grief or fear or any


active preaching Ordinarily, take but a moderate


dinner sunday supper WIN me ls az CLOCK IN thS


afternoon, aud usually take cup or tea and small


piece OF cracker. That is all can take. Then go to


am satisfied TO take nothing but orange, which eat


to give my stomach something 10 do unil morning ana
! give one a nightmare quickly as overlooking WILL


Al other times feel strong appetite, ana then eat


Perhaps once of five Sundays eat more just after


preaching morning evening than do all the rest Of


tue day put together me system IN indicates IL, ana
|
| sleep, and digestion goes ON perfectly. ,,,.,,


Now pOint take Is, not that you shall follow this


but that y0u shall find out accurately in regard to your


own eating what obsructs and what does not obstruct


your mental operations Ii you 70 TO your study after


o'clock II before You really get into your work y0n
may be pretty sure that you have overloaded your


stomach. and that the energies OF your system have


been so busy work Of digestion that You could not


call them of To do brau-work Bnl You get up IIom
! the table after comparatively light meal when re-
qures but little digestion, ana when you 20 into your


study find that YOU can apply yOurseu at once TO Your


labor j. because you have eaten IN due proportion 10


the needs your system Eating Is 10 the work OF tine


human body just what the hrAs up OI an engine Is 10
! travelling. Eating is a means to an end IL IS not a


habit nor social custom merely. 1t is not question
| OF luxury DO men eat stupldN, ana Simply because


they are hungry You eat to make working force and


as the engineer keeps his eye ali the time on the steam


gauge 10 know the number OF pounds OF pressure ana TO


regulate the various conditions OF gong up or down


carrying so does a man eat. so ought eat, all
the time gauging himself You have, ID fact, to eat
much little, according 10 the work you have to do.


When YOU back from journey, you must be care
m not To OveTwOrk yourself aud not 10 eat too much
ought 10 know what you shall eat. Your business is TO
eat that You think and work, and not for self
indulgence Only.


The only part of this book in which Mr.. Beecher
does not appear to his usual advantage is in his
tenporaneous answers to the questions propOunded
at the close of the lectures of which it consists Ger
tain spries Of theology among the ingenious
youth of Yale College, enamored of the sound of
their own voices and with more concet than dscre-
tion would badger the speaker with a series of
minute and trivial inquiries, most of which were too
absurd for a reply, too frivolous for elucidation.
Mr.. Beecher receives the senseess platitudes with
infinite patience, and blandy attempts to throw
light on the subject. But if he fails to embroder
cobweb it is not his fault but that Of the material


A treatise on The Ma0netic and Mineral
Springs Of Michigan. by STILES KENNEDY NJ. d. James
q Webb, is devoted account of the mineral wells
recently discovered IN Michigan and OF whose curative
efficacy there has been great boast The subject is
treated with great fullness of detail presenting good