Vanity, All Is Vanity | Page 5

on the wine when it is red. But a wiser
than he hath decreed that they only who seek after wisdom shall find it,
that fools shall be afflicted because of their transgressions, and that
whosoever refuseth instruction shall destroy his own soul.
He that is capable of reflection must perceive that whatever disorders
the nerves disorders the brain and the mind, also the morals, then it
corrupts society, possibly for generations to come. You must also
perceive that Life and Death, Health and Disease, are alike transmitted
with the germ of the unborn being. That a diseased and poisoned body
can not transmit a healthy germ. You see that the seed of an apple that
grew on a hollow tree will never produce a sound tree. Then why
expect an affected and poisoned body and mind, to produce those that
are active and strong?
It is not on the external condition in which you find your self placed,
but on the part which you are to act, that your welfare or unhappiness,
your honor or dishonor, your health or diseases depends.

When beginning to act that part, what can be of greater interest to you,
than to throw off the poison chains of mental slavery, keeping both
mind and body free from such abject servitude. Freedom of mind and
body insures health, long life and happiness. When the whole of the
machinery, mental and physical, is clean, its strength and elasticity is so
much better, its retentiveness is much more vivid and comprehensive
that one is mostly spared the pain of irretrievable errors.
If instead of exerting reflection in so critical a moment you deliver
yourselves up to levity, sloth and slavery of habit and poison, what can
you expect to follow? Will wisdom tread the path of folly? Can you
thus abuse both the mind and body, and call yourselves unspotted from
the world, or call yourselves the children of a pure God? O thou
spiritual blind guide! Where are you leading the people to by precept
and example? You have led and allowed the nations to walk into the
ditch.
Habit is harder to serve than a king, and its taxes are greater, for they
not only come yearly, but daily and hourly, on body, mind and pocket.
You are bound in her chains and must answer her calls.
O man of sorrow, whose life is interwoven with the ills of the earth!
Could I but speak to you in the language of the truth or had I but room
to draw the picture as it is, I think your reason would revolt at its use,
and break its chains, bidding defiance to the deadly grasp of its
seditious habits.
--- When you become satisfied that tobacco is injurious to you. If you
have not courage to divorce the habit at once and had rather steal away
from its grasp unconsciously and without the desire for tobacco, or the
use of medicine, just send 50 cts. in money or stamps to the office of
the GOSPEL MONITOR. HANNIBAL, MO. And we will send you the
RULINGS OF NATURE. A printed formula showing how nature in
that case restores her own equilibrium, and throws off the former
poison and prevents the craving of a fresh supply. In clubs of 20 or
more, we will send them for 25 cts. each. The rule is short and easily
understood.

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The mind of man is the motive power of the body. There is great
sympathy existing between the mind and body, whatever affects the
body must of necessity affect the mind; versus. Whatever affects the
mind is sure to affect the body. The body is the house that the man lives
in, if the house is damaged in any way the man proper which is the
mind; through sympathy is sure to suffer from such injuries.
The power of the mind over the body both in disease and in health, is
utterly beyond all the modern scientific conceptions. The mind has so
long been clogged and hindered by narcotics and over stimulants, that it
yet remains in its infancy. Every hindrance prevents the growth and
development of the mind. The body may soon attain to its greatest
development, but the mind never reaches its perfection in this sphere.
Age and experience fortifies and strengthens the mind, they give it
greatness and power; every influence possible should be brought to
bear upon the intellect to improve the mind and advance it.--The ages
past have been more to hinder and to cramp the intellect, to hinder
reason and progress than to favor it. But it must be understood now that
mind is capable of getting and bringing information from the
ulter-etherial worlds. Or of mind conversing with mind, even in
separate continents.--Without Telephone, Telegraph,