The instruction of the pulpit and Sunday-school may well be
likened to the food provided at the family table. It is, very
likely, abundant in quantity, and nutritious in quality, but
food without exercise makes the sickly, dyspeptic child. Food
without exercise in the church is apt to produce no better
results.
Even the horses in our stables can not long live without
exercise. Fill their cribs ever so full of the best feed, they
must yet do something to keep healthy. This is a natural law,
which is imperative in the spiritual world. There are a great
many dyspeptic Christians in all our churches. They are bilious
and disappointed and hopeless and useless, except as they become
by their continual growling and fault-finding a means of grace
to the pastor and other workers. In fact, they have all the
symptoms of spiritual dyspepsia. Now, the only remedy for this
disease is spiritual activity. “Go to work,” said the famous
English doctor to his rich, dyspeptic patient; “go to work. Live
on sixpence a day, and earn it.”--FRANCIS E. CLARK,
“Proceedings of the Religious Education Association,” 1903.
(1119)
=Food and Work=--See DIET AND ENDURANCE.
=Food and World’s Progress=--See FOOD AND CULTURE.
=Food Economy=--See HEALTH, ECONOMIES OF.
=Food in Prehistoric Times=--See PREHISTORIC WOMAN.