Show PHYSICAL MORALITY the word of god in specific language or in implied direction commands a life of temperance in food ana and beverage a strict restraint upon the licentious appetites regular industry and labor cleanliness of person and apparel and observance of frequent days daya of rest the general moral sense of mankind has given to most of these rules an independent sanction now although the result of such physical morality is not tile the sole object of its injunction in scripture nor all hit the consequences clearly foreseen where the unaided moral sense enjoins it yet th asure tendency of such observances is to bring the entire body to that state where all RP ia parts of blood and bone and muscle of sensitive nerve and organic functions are fitted in their separate and mutual action to give the frame its highest powers of strength and en durance and an fitness for all the peculiar purposes of existence and in the mere physical consciousness of this healthful existence there is a physical happiness it is not nob merely i the absence of pain and uneasiness but a positive feeling of buoyancy and exhilaration and just in proportion as these laws lawi are not observed there is a correspond corre spon ding loss of their physical rewards and a gradual sinking into positive suffering and a rf d disease aisea se even as a s we x walk the streets we meet with illustrations of each extreme here behold a patriarch who of vigor afree score and andt ten en years ea r seem hardly to have impaired his erect r act yf form r his firm step his bis elastic limbs his undimmed senses are so many jewels and orders of nobility with which nature has hag hoil hoti honored ored him for his fidelity to her laws his fair complexion shows that his b blood lood has never been corrupted his pure breath that he has never yielded his digestive apparatus for a cesspool his exact language and keen apprehension that his brein brain never has been drugged or by the poisons of the distiller or tobacconist enjoying his hia powers to the highest he has preserved the power of e enjoying in them despite the moral or at of the schoolboys school boya boys story lie he has eaten his cake and still kept it As he drains the cup of life there are no lees at the bottom his organs will reach the goal of existence together painless ai as a candle burna down dowd low in a its socket so will he expire and a little imagination would convert him into another enoch transplanted trans ave arlt arit ed from earth to a better world with without out the sting t in 0 of death imer cuer mer beins natural goodness |