| Show RELATION OF FOOD TO MORALS CONCLUDED the fine white flour ordinarily used has haa two thirds of the nitrogen ow and mineral nutriment that god put in the wheat taken out unless them deficiencies are made up by wane other foods the exclusive use ot rf flue fine flour bread will leave the nerves and bones poorly nourished inducing Rd dueing in some systems nervous irtle BB dyspepsia and all the physical ON that abil abdow ow these dig diseases eases to fattier with impatience fretfulness md id irritability god intended that 11 mae II ato nutritive properties he put inthe wheat should stay in it for purposes of symmetrical nourishment fine flour bread may be used for purposes of producing heat in the system but it does not feed hungry nerves or starving bones one reason why children fed chiefly on white bread feel hungry nearly all the time and demand so much food between meals is found in the fact that their bodies are insufficiently nourished their bones and nerves not receiving the nitrates and phosphates h Os h tes they need are 8 suffering U afe r n g fro from m hunger un g e r when children are fed with food that thoroughly nourishes their whole system they will seldom desire to eat between meals and thus retard the process of digestion and lay the foundation tor for dyspepsia and all its kindred evils flour made of all the nutriment of pure white wheat unbolted yet without the shell or r husk or bran contains all the elements necessary for the nourishment of the body the flour called graham flour rarely contains these elements there is a great deal of bogus stuff in the market which has brought the genuine article into disrepute and made many thoughtful people disgusted with everything in that line very much that is called graham flour is made up of a mixture of fine bolted flour and the woody fibre fabre of the wheat which has no nutriment in it at all this wretched fabrication has tended to make all whole wheat products unpopular the woody bran is worse than worthless as food or to mix with food you might as well eat the shells of nuts or the husks of corn or the skins of potatoes as the selex coats of wheat to overload the alimentary canal with such foreign indigestible matter has no other tendency but to weaken and debilitate it very few millers trouble themselves to make a perfect whole wheat flour bread leavened or unleavened made out of f what is called the whole wheat flour makes more muscle and furnishes more food for the nerves than any other article of food given to man except the pure gluten of wheat I 1 am not now advocating the views of the extremists tre mists the Gra neither do I 1 counsel the disuse of fine flour bread this latter should be used in connection with unbolted flour but should not be relied on to furnish you with all the nutritious elements that your bodies need there is a golden mean between the extremes of vegetarianism and exclusive flesh diet which the common sense of thoughtful people will find during the warm season a diet made up chiefly of fruits grains and vegetables will be most healthful for body and soul instead of the scrofula breeding pork or ham for breakfast use some one of the great variety of grains especially oatmeal oat meal than which there are few better foods for growing children and hard working adults instead of fried cakes rich pastry and candies use fruit of which there is an abundant variety tenfold ten fold more nourishing than pies or cakes and very cleansing to the blood let brown bread johnnie cake and cornmeal corn meal pudding supplant fine wheat bread as much as possible eat your meals regularly and slowly eating nothing between them eat sparingly of meat at midday mid said day and let it be good fresh beef mutton or fish well cooked let the evening meal be taken not later than six oci ock discard tea and coffee and make your own coffee with browned crusts of bread or burned whole wheat follow these suggestions and you will find very many of the ills of your body departing pa arting and very many ef the troubles you have in behaving yourselves vanishing again we derange our bodies and demoralize our souls by eating too much the great end of life with many of us is to eat the american dining room has become for the most part a place for the indulgence of animalism and not for the development of the affections or social qualities A distinguished american physician said 1 I am sixty six years old and I 1 have eaten enough food to answer my wants for years and yet I 1 am what most people call a small sm alleater eater 11 the popular habit of using inordinately appetizers rs in the shape of the ordinary table condiments begets a false and unnatural appetite the time comes when honest food palls upon the depraved senses the pampered jaded a appetite the no longer finds satisfaction an n simple food flavors the palate must be prompted with pungent things the cook who is never era a physiologist responds to ro the demand for spurs to appetite and finds them in mixtures of spices and peppers and mustards and acids and essential oils and chemicals and multitudes of nonfood non food substances with these and various biting alcohols the delicate lining of the stomach is inflamed inducing a desire for food which passes for what it is not namely honest appetite the palate demands more food than the stomach can digest or the system assimilate simi late poor nature anxious to do the best beat she can adapts herself to the unnatural situation and forces all the other organs to do the same and thus we become accustomed to overeating over eating and do not know it that all who accustom themselves to a stimulating diet to spices and wines and other irritating things consume too much food cannot I 1 think be gainsayer gain sayed the amount and kind of food needed depends upon the individual habits and the kind of waste to be supplied A wholly idle man should thrive well on cucumbers and watermelons water melons which are chiefly water while the hardworking hard working hod carrier would demand several pounds of solid carbon and nitrogen daily it is the sedentary the well to do the man of leisure who suffers most from overeating and it behooves him to carefully avoid all goads and spurs to appetite with the simplest flavors he Is nearly certain to overeat over eat and thus suffer with an appetite stimulated and induced without corresponding outdoor labor to create a genuine need arid and demand for it digestive failure and assimilative bankruptcy is only a question of time tho the sto stomach overloaded performs its ite work imperfectly and thus jm im poses on all organs an extra amount or of work which breaks them down prematurely causing diseases of every kind such as nervous headache sick headache rush of blood to the head apoplexy sore eyes deafness erysipelas neuralgia of the face decayed teeth catarrh bron nausea common colic congestion of the liver and a host of other diseases too unpleasant to mention in some cases there is a disposition of too much fatty matter in the system and many people suppose that fatness is a sign of healthfulness ful ness which is false no one needs any more fat on his body than is essential to form cushions for his tendons and muscles if too much there is a depletion of strength the crowded and overloaded condition of the system makes the body take on very many false manifestations the irritation produced in an overcharged over charged system manifests itself in different forms forma in different individuals in some it produces nervousness making them rack the flesh ot off their bones and keeping them poor and in others it produces prod u cems sluggishness retaining defunct matter in the system making them corpulent As I 1 have said our highly seasoned foods create morbid and abnormal appetites As a consequence we eat too much and too often the system being borne b arne down by overwork in its digestive e department there comes a demand for stimulating drinks and medicines to take off the depression and keep up tone and to make ourselves feel good after having made ourselves feel bad by improper eating I 1 some of us resort to tea and chawee coffee and others to alcohol and then the excitement produced demands a sedative and some of us smoke and others chew a poisonous weed called tobacco thus the poor body subject to these repulsions of unnatural action in overwork and stimulation and sedation is goaded to and unnatural action sending up to the soul no other influences but those which drive it to moral madness and vicious deeds now vice is a morbid exhibition of the vi A ill the will is represented through through the physical org anthe brain and nd t the e brain is straightway affected by the condition of the body and the state of the blood the will is that power of the mind by which we put forth volitions and perform actions if the pressure of bad blood is on the brain that same pressure Is on the will hence a sick man or a diseased man will do a great many bad things through the power of bad blood on en the will vice then is both the result and cause of physical derangement ran gement hence that vice of vices drunkenness drunk en nesa may be caused by bad physical conditions brought about E by y bad habits of eating would it not be well for us to look into bad table habits for one of the reasons why so many of our young men become d drunkards runk ards may there not be some cause working in n the flesh of our youths driving them to intemperance may it not be possible that mat kind fathers and mothers for years have been filling up the awful gap of dead drunkards annually by feeding their children upon stimulating highly seasoned innutritious foods there is no doubt in my mind that every man is a glutton before he is a drunkard if natures laws are violated a mans sensations will be all abnormal and the mainsprings main springs of his life will be befouled and the result will be irregular and vicious expressions of all the appetites both for food and drink I 1 am therefore confident that the widespread appetite for intoxicating liquors is largely due to the false relations that the american people hold to their food we cannot hope much from moral suasion and legal enactments so long as we overlook the physical condition of the drunkard if you would cure disease or vice effectually you must shut off that which nourishes them instead of putting all your force in efforts to antidote them let the wicked forsake his way and then turn unto the lord and he will have mercy on him and to our god and he will abundantly pardon him there are drunkards in the united states of whom go annually to premature graves there are prostitutes tit utes whose average life in their profession emion is four years do you believe this vast army of immortals go willingly willin ly to ruin there are causes lying tack back of mere perversities of soul in the common everyday every day habits of these forlorn ones eating and drinking are always associated with the bar and brothel and if you will take notice the eating is always of that kind of food which goes straight for the animal nature and wakes up in a man inan everything that is beastly the whole tendency of the food furnished at the popular barroom bar room restaurant is to stir the baser elements in humanity and keep up the demand for stimulants no wonder the drinking saloons can afford to give ive what they call a free lunch are care is taken to furnish such auch food as fires the appetite for strong drink and the rum seller gets his pay for his free lunch through the sale of the whisky that must inevitably follow it those who living on stimulating foods but 0 not drink strong drinks will find that the bias of their bodily powers instead of being toward mental and spiritual spheres will be toward animal indulgences dulgen ces dragging the mind and soul into servitude to the flesh and where there are any moral aspirations making the conflict between the higher and lower nature so intense that a vast amount of moral force is wasted in self conflict that ought to go to the worlds redemptive agencies for saving the lost I 1 am confident that the american habit of eating sumptuous and late suppers whether at our homes or church fairs or festivals is damaging the physical mental and moral health of our nation more than any other one thing of its kind more damaging because it has the appearance of and the sanction of our fathers and mothers and some of our pastors furthermore the habit of eating hurriedly or hastily is preying upon the vital and moral foi fo many of us A meal eaten h or nervously under the p press intense mental activity or aft anter tension or great weariness b its work of nutrition under the est possible disadvantages A AL meals should be eaten calmly i deliberately so as to the thorough roul masticate the food and not im on the stomach and viscera the legitimate work of the teeth 1 I the interests of health to soul bodh well as body I 1 enter an earnest fl for more time for eating and ally at noon when most hard ing people take their prin meal clerks business awl and school teachers m machack I 1 labourers labour ers and our child children wl attend tb the e pub lie schools need nm time at noon to properly di dispose N the chief meal of the day y better investment could be made secure the best possible ph payam intellectual financial and w returns than all classes of f peopled take two hours at midda midday mid da day forkal ing and eating dinner selfish gret demands otherwise and M mabob show of gain but the loss is sure come in due time to all parties berned my friends when will we I 1 living fast eating fast working fast dying americans learn the lesson that life is a unit that divine trinity in us na namely m ea the physical intellectual and br r s igual is one life with dif feliM phases of expression and mars one mars the whole anft GAR whatever builds up one most sarf builds up the others ethers all OW powers are many members in baim body with an inter depend dependence bowa which is eternal slight your and you smite your soul and en ener vate the mind corrupt the elbau mi and you debase both body and soa when will those who profess to bt gods children by the ado adoption tion fly the holy ghost catch the his great apostle paul who WW than any other sacred writer 11 mala talked the sanctity of the bt human M body and its subservience to the mind and soul hear him c ft 1 be you brethren by the mercha of god that ye present your bodies bodice ft a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto god which is your reasonable reason service and be not conformed 14 this world but be ye transformed by the r renewing 0 fl g of your mi findly bikk dw that ye may prove what Is ie WA good und and acceptable and perfect will of god I 1 admit the of the holy ghost in the work of re generation but is there not something for us to do in keeping ow W bodies under lest we become cea I 1 J I 1 do not say that all human ellb and ilia 1119 have their primary 0 orf in physical habits but I 1 do say the great mass of im impulsions ft the excited In inflamed flamey over sui body towards the soul ars are the interests of sin the acono of salvation orders otherwise the gospel the body may become temple of the holy ghost B by law of self denial of the new T ment our bodies with all their elements may be made madean an I 1 inSL tion to our souls it to is not the p pi coee of god that a lifetime life time warfare hall be kept k t up between the body wad AM the so soul U ef autere utere T there ought to come to every true christian a day of final victory over his bodily powers in which they will cease their rebellion and come into the sweetest union with the soul in its great work of developing a likeness to christ why are we called upon to present the body a living sacrifice to god if tte he powers are not to be sanctified to holy purposes why should we spend pend all our life waiting for the 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