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Parish of Saint George the Martyr, Southwark.
depended upon, Indeed the border land of eccentricity, or insanity, is constantly ski???
by them, and often incursions made therein. from whence have followed wayward fa???
and grave errors, which have proved the source of wide spread mischief.
A healthy people are not only a contented people, and equal to the performance of
duties required from them; but they possess the power of transmitting a sound const???
with all its inestimable privileges to future generation. We have always posseased
power of living healthier and happier lives, and it would have been well had we
and in our deeds acknowledged, this responsibility. We have found it easier to sit
folded hands, and with more or less of resignation, under the diseases which have la???
heavily upon us, lazily and foolishly attributing them to the Higher Powers, who???
should by indefatigable labor and perseverance hare freed ourselves from them; a???
deavour we are now making, end in proportion to that endeavour will bo our recomp???
We have needed lesson upon lesson to teach us this fact; end as long as correction
necessary, we may rest assured we shall not lack for it. Nature will not spare her st???
but with rigid and impartial severity will lay them upon us, until her wise design???
accomplished.
Many nations of the past, (and probably some tribes now,) were in the habit of ???
troying those born deformed in mind or body: this they did to prevent a deterioration of
race, and doubtless also because of the incumbrance and uselessness of such. Civilization
has abolished the practice, whilst it still continue to produce them. However, increase
knowledge, with the use of it, will abolish this also, so that all hereditary taint will??
course of time be gradually worked out.
Carlyle has said, "I find you cannot get any better definition of what holy means, ???
health, complete health, the sound mind in the sound body and Dr. Samuel Johnson ???
to say, that to be sick, was to make a man become a rascal;" and he spoke from a w???
experience, as he was more or less ailing through the whole of his life. Therefore to g???
and keep health, no sacrifice should be considered too costly, no expense, even the ???
lavish, too great. Health and life are quite beyond monetary value.
We appear to overlook the fact, that our bodies form a very large and important p???
of our organisation, and consequently for our well-being, require rare and attention,
the body be damaged or deteriorated, so will the mind. It is the basis where upon to be
one mental education. Every faculty and function should be heeded, in order to sen
growth and harmony, "It is not a soul we have to deal with, but a man " Health
body will not equalise minds. nor make a weak brain become a powerful brain; but it ???
enable each to attain their full powers, be they great or email The Rev. R. I. Sim???
Hector of St Clement Danes, when attending the Social science meeting held in Glasge
in 1874, after witnessing the results of the Improvement Act of 1866, as carried out the
said; "Never before had I been made to feel how much man was in one sense formed
reformed from matter, or bow much the moral seemed to spring from and be depends
on the material "
During no period of time, and in no country, did bodily organization reach a high
standard than in ancient Gr???, whilst at the same time, the mi ad gave evidences of p???
and culture, not yet surp???, hardly equalled. To this day the greatest set minds of our ???