THE Department of Physical

and Moral Education will be devoted to practical suggestions on the prevention of disease, vice, and crime. The laws of physical ard moral development will be emphasized. It is now recognized that the efforts of humanity have been directed too much to effects or cure and not enough to causes or prevention. Our slow physical and moral improvement is due to our holding to the wrong methods of the past. If the causes of disease, vice and crime and other physical and moral defects are removed a more perfect life will be the result.

Most disease is due to preventable causes. If all would eat wholesome food, properly combined and prepared in the best manner to nourish the body; avoid stimulants, narcotics and all kinds of harmful drinks; breathe pure air; let physical and moral sunshine come into the home; indulge in neither too much nor too little exercise; keep the body and the surroundings of the home free from impurities; sleep sufficiently and regularly; be cheerful and

avoid mental states that injure the

body; dress for health, comfort and beauty instead of following the false standards and whims of fashion, health would be the rule and many doctors would be compelled to seek other employment.

Our ancestors for many generations have violated these plain, simple laws of health. Although we now know much more about the laws governing the development of the body than they did, we do not generally practice them. Disease is the result of violating these laws. The efforts for prevention have been. feeble compared with the efforts to cure. This is true everywhere.

In one of the most favorably situated cities in America, where results are perhaps better than the average, the following conditions exist: The city has 60,000 inhabitants. According to the directory for 1902 there are 123 physicians and surgeons, 59 dentists, 9 wholesale and 31 retail drug stores, 15 wholesale and 28 retail cigar stores, besides numerous grocery stores that sell patent medicines, cigars, tobacco, tea,

coffee, and spices that are classed as drugs. There are 92 saloons where alcohol and other drugs are sold. Besides these professional men and drugs to cure physical ills there are 211 lawyers to guard the people's legal rights and adjust moral and social difficulties. That city has 1 lawyer to 284 people, 1 doctor to 500 people, 1 saloon to 750 people, 1 dentist to 1,000 people, 1 druggist to 1,500 people, and one cigar store to 1,500 people, without counting the numerous grocery stores that sell these harmful luxuries.

We cannot deny that dentists are great public benefactors; we also need physicians, surgeons and lawyers; but if natural laws were observed the present number could be greatly reduced. Saloons, tobacco shops, and to a large extent drug stores, are conducive to physical and moral weakness. The professions and businesses mentioned above are among the most lucrative because of our wrong habits. Although there is 1 physician to 500 people in the city referred to above, they are in many instances overworked. The daily paper recently gave an account of a death under the following headlines:- "Died for Want of a Physician.-Doctors Were Too Busy to Attend Mrs. -Doctor says if he had reached her three hours before, her life might have been spared."

In the country conditions are much the same as in the city. Although people are using more

patent medicines and drugs than formerly, and skilled physicians are increasing in number, everywhere disease is very common. Contagious diseases, that might be prevented by observing hygienic and sanitary laws, cause schools and public assemblies to be closed for weeks at a time in many towns.

In a moral way our efforts are still largely in the direction of cure. The laws of heredity and their influence upon the moral progress of humanity are to many a sealed book. In child training most failures are due to a lack of self-control on the part of parents. The moral imperfections of youth are due to bad environment-either to books that produce immoral thoughts, conversations. that poison the mind, obscene pictures that create bad mental images, or other influences that hold before the mind that which leads to low ideals of life.

It is the belief of many that young people should come in contact with evils in order to strengthen their power of resistance; but where one becomes strong by coming in contact with evil many are overcome by the evil and are afterwards unable to resist it. There will be enough negative education if every possible effort is made to surround our boys and girls by a pure, moral atmosphere. It is the duty of parents to set a proper example and to give their children a positive knowledge of the laws of life before they are instructed negatively by vicious or

ignorant persons. This is a duty that is sadly neglected by a large per cent of parents, to their sorrow in after life, and greatly to the injury of the children.

As far as is consistent, the subjects of heredity, personal and social purity will be considered in these columns. For several years the writer has had an opportunity of addressing young men in academies and colleges on these vital subjects. No education has been more neglected than this, and than this, and upon no other does the future welfare of humanity depend more. In physical education we may not be able to surpass the Spartans and Persians. In intellectual and commercial training we have surpassed all previous generations. A wave

of manual training has now struck civilization and will improve our education; but all these without the moral character give a very imperfect preparation for life. Complete living consists of a harmonious blending and development of our physical, social, intellectual, moral and spiritual natures. While we shall not have sufficient space in this department to consider all these phases of development fully, we hope to constantly keep the ideal before us and make suggestions that will be helpful in building up the moral and physical elements in the complete structure of true manhood and true womanhood. These are the foundation of success and happiness.

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boam to have the burdens of the state made lighter on them. "Thy father made our yoke grievous, now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee."

Such was the demand

made on the son and successor of Solomon when the tribes were gathered to Shechem to crown him king. Did we not have the assurance of the scriptures that his course was foreordained, should say without hesitation that Rehoboam acted like a madman.

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Rejecting the counsel of the old men in Israel, he preferred the arrogance of youth and answered, "My father chastised you with whips but I will chastise you with scorpions." It is not hard to understand how a cruel answer like that should have been like adding fuel to the flame of discontent; nor could he have been surprised at the effect it had when the shout went up, "What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse! To your tents, O lsrael! Now see Now see to thine own house, David!"

It was finished. The Hebrew nation was rent in twain, never more to be reunited from then till

the men of Judah and Benjamin), he was about to make war on the insurgents, but the Lord intervened, and through his prophet, Shemiah, commanded the headstrong king and his people to desist and return to their homes.

Left to themselves, the ten tribes displayed a feverish haste in starting on the downward path. Their first act was to crown Jeroboam their king, and from the moment of his accession he started his people on the path of apostacy and ruin. Though in the lifetime of Solomon he had had the assurance of the Almighty that he should reign over Israel, though he had seen that assurance fulfilled in the most complete manner, he had no faith in the Power that had made him. His one everhaunting dread was that if his people should go to Jerusalem to worship in the temple that they would return to their allegiance to Rehoboam. deposing and killing himself. So he made two golden calves for them to worship. Setting up one in Bethel, the other in Dan, he proclaimed to the people, "These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt." How like a rankling weed is superstition, ever springing up in the heart of man to poison his better nature! This was the second time since the exodus that Israel had fallen down to a golden calf, and the punishment for the second sin was to be far more severe than for the first.

If signs could have saved a

people, then Israel did not lack for signs, and should have been saved; but, to use the words of the Master, it was a wicked and adulterous generation, and the more signs that were given it the more determined was its downward

course.

No sooner had Jeroboam made his golden calves and set up his altars than a prophet was sent by God out of Judah to warn him of the sin of which he was guilty and its punishment. When he had heard the warning, instead of repenting, he put forth his hand to seize the man of God and was powerless to take it in again, the member having withered. Then he asked the prophet to entreat the Lord to restore the stricken member, and even after that he and his people persisted in their sin, so that the Lord in his anger decreed the cutting off of the house of Jeroboam, and by the mouth of one of his prophets he foretold the final rejection of the ten tribes in these awful words: "For the Lord shall smite Israel as a reed is shaken in the water; and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the Lord to anger."

Then follows a record of wickedness and anarchy that is appalling. Jeroboam dies, and is followed by his son Nadab. Nadab followed in his wickedness, nay, even out. doing it, until Baasha of Isacher

murders him and all the evil house of his father.

Baasha is even worse morally than the house of Jeroboam, and in his turn is butchered by Zimri. This usurper This usurper reigns but seven days, when he is deposed by Omri, and in his desperation he sets fire to the royal palace and perishes in the flames. Omri, after an infamous reign, bequeathes the crown to Ahab, of whom holy writ says: "And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nahab, that he took to wife Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbael, king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him."

No sooner was the infamous Jezebel established in Israel than she set about the establishing of the worship of Baal and the extirpation of the worship of Jehovah. One of her first acts was to establish colleges of the prophets of Baal and to set on foot a movement for the murder of all the ministers of the religion of the Hebrews.

As if to make one last, great effort for the salvation of his people, the Lord sent Elijah the Tishbite, one of the greatest and grandest of the prophets of any dispensation. Boldly confronting the renegade Ahab, this fearless. servant of Jehovah declared that because of his sins, and those of his people, there should be no rain. fall upon the land in years except as the L rd willed through his prophet. Then by divine guidance he withdrew from the society of