Gospel Herald, 1860-12-15

              GOSPEL HERALD.
Oevotetl to <'hi'istiEinity, Morality, the Intei-eslK of  Sa,b>>a.th Hehools, Social IinproveirieiiLt, 'I'einpevanoe, 13dxica.tion, and Oeneral Np!^
BEHOLD,   I   BRING   rOU   GOOD   TIDINGS   OP   OREAT   JOY
ON   EABTH   PEACE,   GOOD   WILL   TOWABD   MEN.'
VOL. 17.
DA.YTON, 0., SATURDAY, DEC. 15,1860
NO.32.
7i KlCrL FiR'S PAMPHLBT.
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of our bodily  organization imd the la'ws u]ion wliii-di ucation, especially among those v^ho are destined to our health anil life depend. become  wivoB  and  mothers.    We often see a lovely
  II.    The Importance of Physical Education.—We ar- pair joined ininarriage, but in afowyearsthe wile falls
gue tbe iniportaneeofpliysieal education,frointhcfact,a   victim to death,  leaving it weeping  hnaband aud
Wog^ve our readers,   this weok,   tlie  introduction t^.^t j^ n^^ny ingt.^^t.yg pliy^j^^l i^„|.j'e^.inggi(,]jQ^,^^ then perhaps some ft-icnd
and   first chapter  of a pamphlet, on the   subject of P''C'Ti<i't'^t''i death, i.s tlie etFect of ignorance antl the vio- tells him tliat God saw fit to do so for his good.    But, „ ,      ,,, ,      r., -¦-     r, ¦  ,      • „„ - I ,    hifion yf the laws upoii which hoaitii and life are sus-perhaiis the husband dies in the midst of his useful-
Education, by  Kldor Philip   Zeigler.    This pamphlet        i  j      u  t i a     , i   . \-   e     ¦\ i       ¦ i. .,   -   ,
'   -^ 1 t> It peiided.    But  some one  may be ready to say,  thatncss;  hia family and society mourn their loss, und at-
will contain about (ifty pages, neatly gotten up,  with such thing.s are coniinon to iiiau, and tbat we cannot tribute it al! to a direct Providenco; but in I'cality, if printed covers, and it will soon bo ready for the   pub-'>-«'-''^"'it ^"t'r "«' '"'0'*l  them.    This may bo the case thoy had  understood .the lawn of health and oboyod
.,.„ ,    „     1       TI- , .'^^ith   some  accidents,   and  with   contagious or   eT.ii-them, they   iniglit have lived together to a tfood old lie     Orders may be addressed to liild,   /eigler,  Wolf ,      ¦    a- o     -i-       i   -    n '¦      n   i        - ¦    'i   n   •'  i>     -i •       I'^i /, „ ,-o
' • "     ' dernic diseases.    But it such is the case in all chronic age, ruised  their lainiJy, enjoyed the comforts of hfo.
Lake, Ind,, or to ua, at   this o'ttici').     Price one  dollar diseases, and ail physical suifering, sickness and prenia-and been a bles.-^ing to society.     We inigiit produce iits   single coov ^^"''' '''¦'¦''''''''i then  man is a being of tale, and destined nian_y samples to prove this   position to bo correct,
" to Buffering and pain, lor wliich he cannot account, and that occurred under onr observation, were it necessary;
1 N^ T R O I) U C T I O N from which he cannot extricate himself; and thoi-e is but this is suftieient lor every thinking inind.    In the
  no use to talk about physical education.    .Bnt aiiother, next place, physical weakness is  (ransmittt'd to our
Man the subject for education, is a physical, moral P'^i'^^'n^^. may be ready to say, that God, in his pi^ovi-olfsiiring. This is evident from the fact that chronic andintelloctualbeing, and a8«uch he is capablcof phys- ^'o'l^o. setixls physical calamities of this kind upon us diseases run in fantilien, and from the fact that man's ical a,ction, locomotion and manual labor; devotion, <'oi' '•»"• S'^'>^1- Tl''s idca-^ve think incorrect, as none of days on earth wore allotted to be three seore years and uprio-htneas and moral government; perception, re-"''^ '"•« ^^''1!'",*,' *» *"^^«'- l»-in, that good may come upon ten, luit at this time bis average age i.s not to c.Nieecd fiect!i'on and mental improvemoiits. The mental pow- ^^^^ • '*'^'' ^'¦''^ .i^enerally niahe use of means to get rid ot thirty years. This shows that tbe race is running crs aro tho crowning part of man's nature. It is by P»'° ^^« ^'^^'^ '« V<^^^^- "R"^ ^s two op].asite iileas-lown, aud how can we account tor it. only that phys- them that we direct our phrsicul power into a channel <^'"""'t^''^''"l'^"»lbf'^'' ^^- true, then it is evident, that i<:al ¦cveakiu-.ss is transmitted to posierity through so as to accumnlaLe tlie comlbrls of life ; and it is by 'i' «^' P''"^*' ''''^t "' '^""^'' ^"^«^^^ iibysical sutteriiig is tlicHuccessive general ions. Physical weakness, in many enlightened inteUect that we get tc wirrecL knowledge of*^^^"'^'^ "'' '' violation of certain laws, tliei, God. in his cases, also iiiijiairs intellectual organization. "Tlio Uic true God. and tbe <luties wo owe to him and our P«'vitlom:e, is not the direct cause; and hence the im-infiueueo of tbe physical frame upon the intellect, follow beings. While wo assert that the intellectual pr-rtance of a knoude.dge oi' the laws upon which ouv morals ami bappinoss of a human being is now univor- facultiesaro the climax of man's nature, we admittliatP''P'''al happiness depends. (God permits miniysally iidiuitted."--Laor. This we think is. ovidenco they arc closely related to iiis moral capacities. Man '^l>''>S« l>t' 'l^'«^' "<'t ilh-ectly do.) The fUet in the easeSullicient to eoiivince every refiect.ing mind of the ira- beiug physical, moral iiiul intellectual in his nature, a'**- ''^'"'   there are, physical laws to obey,  as well asporfcatice of idiysical education among tui.; mass.
correct system ol' ediication must have reibi-euce lo the ""''"i'  '""'^¦. '""' ¦'^''"•» «« '-''"'.V f^'^^^' '"^^''^ ""'^ ^",1*0'     ^^^-     Whereslwuld this Immchof learning be tauglit ,
"culture of the whole man, with all lii.s thculties." But.f?"-'f' '^^alth and length of .lays, but when we violate 1 answer, in all of our common schools. H\,r what win the qncstiotx may arise that if intellect is the polar-star ''''""^ «« '"''"« "P<'" ourselves pain, sickness and pre- be inoi'e bcnclicial to our chihlren than to know somo- of man's nature, why is one part of education called ""^^'^"•^' <'«=^th. Some years ago, a gentleman was thing .ibout the body in which the mind livesand acta, physical, another moral, and another inteUectual. Wo bnihling a mill; the lower part was stoiit*, the upper If our cluldr..-.n were all mind, then wc might (,onflne answer, that this ia the only correct way of treating ^toiy w.as frame; when the workmen were about pul-their training to intellectual education; hnl as such is the subject; for by the term physical educotion xvo.^'"'^ «" ^'^^^ '¦««^'^ <''^^' f^"«™« *«" '«' '^i'^'^g «"»^<* «*' thenot the tiict, all.school.s should be so conducted as to mean a knowledge of our bodily organization, and lav, - " "i-kn-ien and wounding othm^s. Much was said all teach human physiology and hygiene; or, at least, the that govern the same; hy rnoraI education, vvo mean a'•¦'™"g'^ ^'1'" ^''^^^''T'il>'>uf tbe niystericui.s ^^^lvidcneeOutl^le.-i of them, so as to give tho scholars some correct knowledge of God, his laws, his character, his'" <'>'^ muttx,!-, bnt when the facts in the ease were knowledge ot the laws ot health. Until something is attributCH and onr obligation to him and our dnty to'^'"""''h the pillars on which the posts rested that sup-done to inform the cominou mass witi, regard to th«j omhUowmtn and b^ nituhCual uhu itton w „,( uiP'"*"^ ^^^ '"^"'P " * "f tlu fi im wen p uuh mtdc 1 tws of lu ilth uid t\u dutj ihej owe lo tin mselvet, Buchnsefulkuowledgt ashism.tlucctickuncttoom "^d^l^. ^\l) ind the buildmgh id to tdl Ihis nm to th.u ihildun audio tlu u God on this subjttt phjsitd md moiil nitnr.s >ct all this knowledge i'>''^^^i ^^ in illnsUilion to luonnt h i nuu h ol theHKV uun evpi.t to haM he i\ ^ dottoi s bills nuuh must bo icquiicd thiongh the medium ol mtclkct P''> ""^ ^^ ^"f^^""- '''"""'-' "'"'''"'' Audn w ( ombi ^i'1^'h^h indiuimituu deitbs In th, nc^tplitc Butthefal IS m tnj 1 iboi h iid to oduc il< 1 bunsches "'^o™'" "^ thitmin> ji. u^ i.,ro m i i u t tm p ut oftbis hi m h oil n iM I. dj:i should bt t lujcht in the fam mtdlcctuilly md mot lUj \^ bile (hey neglc< t th. hws'i"-?ltTid the pti ph sulhud uuiLh with tlu i.,uo uid'ly <-i'(k \i ith. - hould it ih tin n children Ihe Ol b( dth md then i<li.,iousuliuitionuUmly fLta    but   \^htnlh>   himcdtbcii   w<i   1 mds   mdl^Klh   duhliotiilyc-xunpkiiHlpuo.pl     Every
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