Show WORD OF WISDOM why is it not wisdom to make a common p uc of drink drinking ing tea coff coffi eeor II 11 hor HOT OT D drinks RIX X s of av a ay iy 1 Is i ini s i i physician ph si cian clan philosopher or elder has lias pr s maed us with a direct answer to the fore g qi kestion pe stion estion we refer our readers to a q i 11 i from president youngs sermon p 1 irr r r proof that tea and coffler are nir nor c 1 m us ais and this is reason sufficient u n 1 wisdom to use them an additional reason reaton is that those who use tea and anci coffee generally drink them HOT passing by for the present all the tile deleterious and poisonous effect of tea and on the hu man system we propose a few suggestions on this part of the word of wisdom in its simplest literal sense HOT not DRINKS are not for the body or belly pure HOT WATER is the simplest hot drink with which we are acquainted but even this when hen drank to the extent which most people J tahe take ake of some kind of liquid with their food will relax weaken and enervate all the or gans of the stomach and prevent or hinder the digestive powers in their necessary operations both in preparing the food to nourish nou risho and absorbing the nourishment from the food after it is thus prepared the effect of hot water upon most animal substances is well known for instance a piece of rawhide raw hide leather or meat when immersed or brought in contact with hot water becomes elastic and may easily be drawn into almost any shape and yet has no power to retain that shape until it is cooled again and perhaps dried so with the stomach and all the tile organs of the human system connected with the stomach ac h when saturated with hot water and could we then reach them we could draw them over a saddletree saddle tree or make a trace chain of them as we would of a piece of hide 0 or r leather but they would be of no use until dried any more than would be leather and the organs of the stomach when relaxed with hot water can no more perform the duties naturally assigned them in relation to food connected with the body than a piece of wet rawhide raw hide can perform the duties of a trace and it has been said that a man with such a trace may attach his team to a load of wood and drive till his family freeze before the load would start on account of the stretching of the tile wet trace so might a person take food into a stomach relaxed by hot water and there the food may lie dormant till putrefaction commence commences st before the digestive organs will become cooled and strengthened sufficient to move that food into a position prepared for nutriment agam when those JUICES and FLUIDS which are accustomed to mix with the food in the stomach in order to assist in preparing it for nutriment or for the action of the absorbent vessels become FLOODED ri or intermixed with a quantity of HOT WATER they become weak wea kand and inefficient and are incapable of performing the office assigned them consequently di digestion is retarded and the food must continue to remain in the stomach waiting the operation of putrefaction when headache sickness at the stomach un uneasiness easl easi oppression of the whole man in and fever are the natural consequences frequently ending dixi dill in death 19 it may reasonably be argued that abundance of cold water taken with the food will weaken the fluids of the system as well as ilot hot waa wat water ber ter very true but bat the cold water w will 11 not relax the absorbents and weaken the water ducts so but that they will gather epand convey away the thi surplus waier waler water as the hot water will A moderate quantity only of any kind of liquid is good to be taken with food and none at all is far better and any quantity more than is necessary to produce a proper consistency of the food in the stomach is so much too much but while cold water will the fluids of the stomach in proportion with the hot it will contrary to the hot stimulate the organs of the achand and cause them to act more efficiently after the surplus water is conveyed away therefore it is wisdom to be temperate in drinking cold water with food particularly as welt weli as to refrain from drin drinking drinkins kina hot drinks to any amount while in a healthy state or as an ancient apostle said be temperate in all things when the organs are relaxed and the fluids thinned by hot water the food will remain for a season inert in the stomach and when w hen na ture lure has lias thus thus been imposed upon and its laws transgressed it will seek revenge an and d st strive ri v e 0 to o force that food from the stomach beform before it is is prepared to nourish the body and if lr it succeeds in its exertion vomiting ensues if it does docs not succeed in its revengeful eem eff morts efforts in throwing the food upwards it will force it downwards or if any portion should be prepared for nourishing the absorbent vessels which are some of the most tender and sensitive of the human system are so relaxed by the hot water that they are not capacitated to perform fo rin their office and consequently not nr only ly the food and its nutriment is lost to the eater but the stomach and all the digestive organs are irritated and to a greater or less extent retain their spirit of revenge towards those substances or that food which has so unceremoniously been forced upon them and through them if a sponge is is suspended over a body ot of water with a corner of the sponge in the wa ter the sponge will absorb or draw up the water till it is filled and every part of the sponge will be wet drown or immerse the sponge in water and the water will be forced into every pore in in an instant and all the ar properties of the sponge will be des troyed during the immersion it is drowned dead and if immersed in hot water the sponge in a great degree becomes inert loosing its absorbent powers so it is with the absorbent vessels in the animal economy they may be drowned even with cold water but if they are drown ed in hot water the heat renders them alac cid and useless and while they re remain main maln in that state the body must not nat only remain un nourished but is exposed to any disease which may be presented for its it reception and hence a fruitful source of sickness many people have so corrupted their appe aites with hot drinks that they possess an immoderate appetite called thirst and should they the y banish their hot drinks they would n avant IV ant to drink near as much as they no nov d I 1 and this would be a great improve improvement mient in the domestic economy and tend greatly t health we have carefully avoided technical terni tenni wishing to be understood by all who love truth lruth and although volumes might be writ ten on this subject these few hints must suffice for the present to show that our heavenly father is mindful cfall of all ali his works for good and that when he gives a word of wisdom to his children it is founded on pure philosophic principles and no person can transgress those principles without sus suf suffering fiering the consequent ces of that transgression with how much faith can a saint ask the fountain for more wisdom while that wisdom is neglected which is already voluntarily given will parents continue to give gifts u unto nto their little children while the children are trampling those gifts under their feet which they have previously received or would it be wisdom for parents to do so if not with what confidence can parents ask their father to do for them what they would not do for theirs |