days held in abeyance if not openly repudiated, yet to me one most natural and accordant with nature and her unfoldings), and the value of a sound body becomes a thing of tremendous import. Here, as just now noted, a defect in bodily organs limits by deprivation the mind. Here a vicious bodily life depraves the mind, and so also limits the mind. How feeble is the mind of the drunkard and the licentious! How ignorant, and gross, and poor, and vile this world would be if all were such! The mind gross but a moment before going out of this world is a gross mind the moment after,-for transmigration is not transmutation.

The Scriptures teach the same doctrine that nature does, to wit, that like assimilates to like throughout the universe. Even the atoms of matter will unite, or coalesce, only under certain conditions, or in definite proportions. Vice transmutes the powers of mind and by that transmutation impairs it. Vice transmutes the powers of the body, and by that transmutation impairs it. The drunkard, the debauchee, changes by his life of vice the very character and constituency of the blood corpuscles on which the growth, development, strength, and efficiency of the body depend, so that at last the body breaks down and disintegrates.

"There shall be a resurrection both of the just and of the unjust," taught the Saviour of men, and unless it can be shown that the mind dies, this must have reference alone to the body. of man. That the mind does not, cannot die, is to me a certainty. Now, "with what manner of body do they come" in the hereafter? Each with body fitted to the place it is to fill.matched to the mind it embowers! Why, that is simply carrying onward the present course of nature. And yet men cry out. against the Bible teaching that hereafter the filthy mind shall be seen and known by its filthy body resurrected and conjoined to it. All created minds are necessarily centralized in a body. Nature makes her environment after the manner of the thing interned. Worlds are fitted for the beings that inhabit them. And minds and their bodies are not merely co-related,

but conjoined each after its manner and kind. Even as to the holy and the blessed of men it is written, that, like as "one star differeth from another star in glory, so also is the resurrection of the dead."

come.

Young man, this ought to give you a solemn pause when you are tempted to vice. Experience here shows that vice will not merely impair but destroy your prospects in this world, because of its impairing and destroying power on the body and mind. And nature and her Creator forewarn you that it will have equally deleterious and unchangeable effect in the life to One is greatly hampered in this life if born with a corrupted or deformed body, however strong or brilliant and noble the mind may be. But to carry an inherited deformed body and an imbecile mind in this world is a trial indeed. Nature here, by locking up the mind, abates the affliction to the innocent victims of others' wrongdoing. Will she be equally sympathetic hereafter to those who here consciously work evil to themselves? Does she not here give such "the reward of their own hands"? What if she carries it out hereafter and it come to pass as prophesied of old, that those "that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt"? Here we pity those who inherit idiocy; and we blame while we pity those who by vicious ways bring idiocy upon themselves, and then,-well, we can't help it, we are forced to put them away from us for care and keeping; if we did not they would so hinder us in our own better life, and then they serve as warnings to us to beware of vice.

Young man, young woman, are you to be only a beacon of warning hereafter, instead of nobly serving him who gave his life for noble ends? This, you, and not another, must determine. To do work effectively here one must have both knowledge and proper tools, and the efficient tool for all our work is the body. A weak, sickly, or defective body puts one at a disadvantage. You should therefore as carefully train, develop, and discipline and use your body as you would the

mind; for through the body the mind is enlarged, and through it, it is yet to be perfected. A great part of our present life is necessarily taken up with the growth and care of the body. Some of the Greek philosophers contended that the body through its appetites hindered right thinking; some of the ancient Hebrews held, as do many moderns, that it hinders right doing and so they seek to make its desires an excuse for an evil life. But the Creator did not make a mistake when he gave us this body. It is a most wonderfully made instrument for doing and learning most wonderful things. But like all his good gifts it must be rightly used. The best bodies, like the best minds, when perverted become the worst and most depraved. For the higher the height, the farther and deeper the fall. A sound body, rightly used, is the best help to the unfolding of the mind here; and upon the proper development of that mind depends the future body we shall have. "Each in his own order," saith the Word. What order shall you and I be in?

Importance of Physical Development.

PROF. A. ALONZO STAGG,

Director of the Department of Physical Culture, Chicago University.

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HERE is nothing more interesting in the world than watching the growth of things, and noting their development. We plant our garden with many kinds of seeds. Eagerly we watch for the appearance of the tiny sprouts, and as eagerly observe their growth. We organize a society or a business scheme and are interested heart and soul in its progress. A baby comes into the family, and we are intensely wrapped up in him. We watch his daily progress and note each sign of increasing intelligence and strength. "My! how you have grown, my lad, since I last saw you. How tall are you, and how much do you weigh?" are questions frequently asked of a growing boy. So the world takes note of the hundreds of thousands of growing youths. Development in any good form is what people are on the watch for, whether mental, moral, or physical. But it is physical growth which calls forth most frequent comment. Everybody can see that. The evidence is presented to their eyes. See the slight form of a girl developing into the symmetrical form of a woman, or a lanky boy filling out into the full vigor of manhood. "How strong he is getting to be also! He can almost wrestle his father, or carry his mother in his arms, or handle a bag of meal." There are a thousand and one things for which a boy needs strength. If a boy, a man surely.

Yes, physical development is what most of us boys are interested in. We want to be as strong or stronger than our fathers. We want to be taller and heavier, to be able to lift more and walk farther. But, my lad, none of these things can be brought

about unless you are willing to work for them, or play for them, if you will. The large frame, the full, deep chest, the strong muscles, do not grow unless they have work and exercise to enlarge and strengthen them. Of course food is necessary to the body also, but we all get that. What we do not all get, however, is proper exercise to develop the physical part of our being to its fullest limit. Some of us have reasons for not taking the proper exercise, but in most cases, if the truth were known, the person has plenty of opportunity to get the exercise, but is either too indolent or too indifferent to take it. Does this hit any of you, my readers?

Now for a word on importance. The importance of anything is measured by its usefulness. The telegraph and telephone have become important because of their service to mankind. Stretch a wire across the continent and attach no transmitter or receiver to the ends of your wire, and it becomes of no practical use, only a resting place for swallows. Build a ship complete in every detail out on the prairie apart from its place of service, and as an aid to mankind it is as useless as Noah's Ark upon the top of Mt. Ararat. The things which are of use to man, the theories which can be crystallized and put to service, the thoughts which assume practical forms,-these are what the world demands, and in the long run these are the only things to which the world will hold fast. Let a Bell invent a telephone, an Edison an electric light, a Froebel the kindergarten method, and prove their utility, and the world will not give them up until another telephone, or electric light, or childtraining method has proved its right to supplant the first. Physical culture has proved itself important and necessary, no matter what differences of opinions as to methods may exist in the minds of educators, and the time has now come when no boy or girl should be able to say like Topsy, "I just growed," so far as his or her physical condition is concerned. But in order not to say this, most young men and young women will need to take the matter of fitting themselves with a fine physique into their own hands. Some states make mental training