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Show A WHOLE MAN. A'ery few men aiewell balanced; most men are peculiar. One has a crooked nose; another, a snub nose; another, a turn-up nose; still another, a beefy or ugly nose. One is nearsighted; near-sighted; another cross-eyed, and another an-other sore-eyed. The lips of one person per-son are very thin and colorless; of another, an-other, very thick and coarse. One has a beautifully modeled chin, a handsome mouth with clean, regular teeth; another, an-other, is almost chinless, and what he has is receding and only significant of weakness, while the mouth, teeth, lips, etc., are irregular, dirty, coarse. Again, we find the body of one to be poorly made up-a narrow chest, small lungs, weak stomach, a poor appetite, bad digestion with a bad breath, a tendency ten-dency to dyspepsia, cold hands and feet, feeble muscles, and a sleepless, crosj, irritable state of mind. Another is so physically inert, sluggish, and lymphatic that he is inconstant danger of death from apoplexy.- Ooe is jaundiced, jaun-diced, aguey, feverish, or out of sorts in some other way. Can any one thus organized and afflicted claim to be sound either in judgment or in morals? Are not such persons necessarily pee'-i.-h, fretful,, and fault-finding? " Are they WUOLE? . . "But," exclaims a poor, ill formed, half imbecile, "who's to blame? We did not make ourselves. We were born so." Aye, verily; but who, or rather what where, your parent? ;Did they not violate all trie laws ot lite by dissipation? dissi-pation? How then could they hope for healthful, well-formed offspring? To a large extent each human adult is responsible re-sponsible for his looks as well as for his character. He has no right to pollute the atmosphere, or tq spoil his mouth, lips, teeth, or breath, with nasty tobacco, or to bring imbecility, disease, and premature death on his offspring. "Oh, I did not know it." That will not stop the evil consequences. A law of nature has been violated, a sin committed, and it must be atoned for, or punished. The poet spoke the truth when he said: "Of the soul, tho body form doth take, ' For soul is form, and doth the body make," That is to say, the soul or mind precedes', pre-cedes', controls, and gives shape to body and brain. We will before we act, and as we will, so we act, and thus grow in vice or in virtue. We are moral, agents,, free to, choose what course of life we will follow. A clean virtuous, religious life will develope the moral,' intellectual, and spiritual faculties, and subordinate all the passions, pas-sions, holding them in perfect subjection subjec-tion to the will of God. In this case we are sure to grow in grace, comeliness, comeli-ness, beauty. A godly man will not abuse his body; will correct bad habits; regulate his conduct, and live in strict accordance with the laws of life and health. A godless man is self-indulgent, doing what a perverted or an uh-regenorated uh-regenorated appetite inclines him to do. lie indulges selfish and unsanctioned unsancti-oned passions tho lusts of the flesh, sowine the wind and reaping the whirl wind. .During the war, when levies were made for men to go into tho army, it was found on examination that thousands thous-ands of those who passed for well men wero defective and unfit to beat arms. Thi'j icrc not ichole. One had varicose vari-cose veins, and could not march. Another An-other was afflicted with honiia or rupture, rup-ture, and was unablo to sustain long-continued long-continued physical exertion. Another had incipient disease of the heart, etc., and thus it is with thousands of men. llow is it with women? As a rule, they :ire in a more unsound and dilapidated dilapi-dated condition than men. The norv-ons norv-ons headaches caused by bad stomachs; the irregularities, pinal curvatures, etc., caused by tight lacing atid im-pniper im-pniper dirssing: the wan and dejected cxpro.-si'in, shewing the results of nL-htj of dissipation and revelry, the effects of thin shoes, and d noses worn very fw in the neck is it surprising tb:it ihey isoecdije pulseless, (-ed-ridden invalid-? "A tch-ye tc-m-i " where, oh, where may one be found? !he alone is tit to become wife and mother. She will brine iy and ghdnea int" the household." "She is rrieetionate, hcahhy, industrious, ingenious kiod-ly. kiod-ly. jit-t. pruden;, meek, devotion-il, devotion-il, "m ll'-dt n inc. ehariial'l and i. iu-t what her .Maker intended woman no more, no less t! m a whole woman! Compare her with what wc ice everv day on onr str. is! Look it the ariiiieial frauds ' lalsc bair, Ulse forms t---- Ihe rea kr rosy tw P the pictJTO for himsc'.i". "V ho i to blame?" Not Ptity. tut the devil in us. And what is this? A vain, wicked, perverse spirit. It is that which dwarfs, misleads, and ruins the souls an 1 Dodies of men and women. It begets thieves, idiots, imbeciles, idlers, vagabonds, and rebels against the laws of God. Man is weak, warped, insane. Is it to be wondered at when all the circumstances circum-stances of his life are con-idered ? Toung man, take the hint. It is for you to decide whether you will become a tfto?e man, or only a lop-sided, abnormal, ab-normal, crochety eccentric. Young .woman, your future is, in a great measure, in your own keeping. You may become attractive or repulsive, comely or ugly, kindly or selfish, wise or wicked. Do not charge your misfortunes mis-fortunes to orthers, but rather to yourself, your-self, and so think, act, and live as. to be acceptable in life, in death, and in eternity to the God who wills only for the good of liis creatures. "The tissues of the life to be We weave with colons all our otva. And in the Selds of destiny. We reap as we have sown." Phrenological Journal. |