RULES FOR HEALTH
- SLEEPING rooms should be well ventilated.
- No person should sleep on feathers.
- Clothing worn in the day, should not be worn at night.
- When taken off, it should be thoroughly aired.
- Otherwise effete matters remain in it.
- Sleep is the best restorer of the Nervous system.
- One hour of sleep before midnight is worth two after it.
- Never eat anything between meals.
- Two meals a day is better than three.
- The drink which nature provides is cold water.
- The use of salt may fairly be questioned.
- It has no nutriment in it, and greatly provokes costiveness.
- Persons of constipated bowels will find its disuse advantageous.
- Daily exercise in the open air is an absolute pre-requisite to Health.
- Without Health of body, vigor of mind is not to be expected.
- With feeble body and mind, large spirituality cannot be enjoyed,
- And without this, one cannot be a growing Christian.
- So that Christianity enjoins obedience to Physical law,
- And insists on its sacredness as truly as on that of THE DECALOGUE;
- But Ministers seldom preach on the worth of the Body.
- They preach of the worth of the soul.
- Not thinking that in a sick body, the soul is in prison. 23. And it is more likely to grow depraved than good,
- And to become indifferent to spiritual considerations,
- And willing to exchange them for bodily indulgences,
- So that their preaching and labor is almost useless,
- And needs to be recast, directing itself as,
- Well to Physical habits as to Principles.
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