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test of probability, characterises a mind that is | was led into the error of supposing that the confined in its views and limited in its acquire

ments."

The king of Siam ignorantly thought that water must be everywhere as it was in Siam, where it would not permit him to walk on it at any season of the year, let alone an elephant.

same thing existed in all parts of the world.

I have thus far spoken of the mind, with some hints for its culture. But we have not only minds, but bodies. Indeed, the primary fact, the foundation principle in regard to our natures, is, that we are threefold beings, possessed of body, mind and soul, or spirit; and that these should all receive their proper development, and be preserved, singly and collectively, in a harmonious condition. This is what constitutes true health. The term health is in such common use, and its meaning supposed to be so well understood, that it does not seem to require a specific definition. Dr. Johnson, however, on a certain occasion, in conversation with Boswell, who afterwards became his biographer, defined happiness, an equally familiar word, and gave its definition to be, "a multiplicity of agreeable consciousness." I wish you to remember this definition ;-it is so full and expressive, and it is not in his Dictionary, or any other" A multiplicity of agreeable-consciousness."

An anecdote somewhat similar was related by Halliday Jackson in regard to the Indians, among whom he spent some time near the Ohio river. The Indians admire that river-the name Ohio in their language means beautiful. Sitting with them on its banks one day, an Indian expatiated on its great beauty, and asked Halliday if they had any such rivers in his country. It must be remembered, in order to understand the remarks that followed, that there are no tide water rivers in the west, caus. ing the water to flow sometimes in one way and sometimes in another; but the Ohio, Sciota, Mississippi, and all the rivers those Indians ever knew, flow always in the same direction. Halliday answered, that the principal rivers in his country (in the neighborhood of Philadel- Encouraged by this proceeding of Dr. Johnphia) were not exactly like the Ohio-the water son, some years ago, when I was about to prein them flowed part of every day in one way, pare for Sandy Spring Lyceum a Lecture on and part of the day the other way, or back again. that subject, I framed this definition of health, The Indian considered the subject for sometime that "Health is a harmonious condition of the in silence, and then turned to Halliday, and in- multiplied dependencies of the Physical Sysquired, "Do you say that in your country the tem." Remembering how unfavorably the water in your rivers runs part of the day so, bodily health is affected by certain conditions (motioning with his hands down the stream,) of the mind, as in anger, fear, sorrow, gloom or and part of the day so, (motioning up the stream depression, anguish, despair, remorse, it will be with his hands, in order to be sure that he had seen conspicuously that true health consists in the right idea.)" Halliday replied, "Yes, that a harmonious condition of the multiplied deis what I say." "That's a lie," says the In-pendencies of the physical system. dian. Like the king of Siam, he did not believe a state of things could exist anywhere different from what existed at home, or what he had been familiar with; which is a great and common barrier to the acquisition and extension of practical information.

The primary fact upon which what I have now to say to you rests, is, as before remarked, that man is a threefold being-animal, intellectual and spiritual-and that true and sound health requires the proper development and harmonious condition of all these. At their per-original creation, the body was not degraded and the others exalted, as is so frequently the case at the present day; but all were pronounced good-very good-and received alike the blessing of the Creator.

Although I have dwelt upon this point haps unduly long already, I will make another brief reference to the same source of error, under a different phase, by a person of great intelligence. The poet Campbell, in the first chapter of his "Pleasures of Hope," when de scribing the adventures of the navigator Byron in Chiloe, on the western coast of South America, in a little over forty degrees of south latitude, says he

"Pierced the deep woods, and hailing from afar The moon's pale planet, and the Northern Star," when the north star cannot be seen south of the equator; and to Byron, at the time Campbell was describing, it was, permanently, at least forty degrees below his horizon. But Campbell, being used to regarding this star as a guide to seamen in north latitudes, where he was writing,

* Abercombie's Intellectual Philosophy.

What is not much valued is liable to be neglected and abused, and this is too much the case with the corporeal part of our constitution. The incessant injunction to the young is, culti vate the mind; develop, train and strengthen the intellectual faculties; and, although this is all right in its place, it is often done without the least regard to the requirements of the body; and, indeed, frequently at their permanent sacrifice. If the healthful and proper care of the animal system were urged upon children by their parents with that earnestness which a heartfelt conviction of their importance would inspire, and equal to the attention required to I be given to daily occupations, literature and

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science, what a beneficial effect would be pro- | A pair of similar arms, 300 dollars; a pair of duced. artificial eyes, 200 dollars; a set of teeth, 100 Children, particularly boys, are frequently dollars: so that leaving out the cost of artificial pushed on in their mathematics, classics, philo- ears, noses, and covering for the head for those sophy, chemistry and other studies, without any "who have no hair where the hair used to reference whatever to health, or even having grow," we have 1000 dollars at least which we been taught to sit, stand or walk, properly-bear constantly about us in our persons. What that is, in the way good health requires. They the value of the real limbs and eyes is, in commay come to understand astronomy and chem-parison with the artificial ones, I leave my istry, and to possess many intellectual attain- young friends to estimate for themselves. But meats, but what do these avail, if they are all if we had a delicate piece of complicated malost to the world, by the premature breaking of chinery, valued at even 1000 dollars, would we the delicate casket in which the precious trea- be likely to subject it to the exposed, rough and sure is contained, for want of a due regard to careless treatment that we often unnecessarily the laws of health? do our bodies? and if we did, would it be any marvel if it was occasionally, or even frequently out of order?

As remarked a learned writer,* "For the continuance of life a thousand provisions are made. Men cannot draw a breath without the exercise of sensibilities as well ordered as those of the eye and ear. A tracery of nervous cords unites many organs in sympathy, of which, if one single filament were broken, pain and spasm and suffocation would ensue. The action of the heart and the circulation of the blood, and all the vital functions, are governed through means and by laws which are not dependent upon our wills, and to which the powers of our minds are altogether inadequate."

It is a great mistake to think that a highly cultivated mind does not require a strong vigorous body in order for its complete exercise, and the accomplishment of its full amount of useful labor in its particular department. It is true, the intellect may be very bright, and the mind highly cultivated, in an exceedingly frail bodily tenement; and the intellectual powers may in deed seem even brighter by contrast than the same talents and attainments in a robust body; but these bright powers need the strong physi cal constitution in order to secure that enduring effort, which is essential to render such talents and acquirements of their full benefit to mankind. In how many lamented instances has the frail, undeveloped physical system given way in Such is the machine, its delicacy, its value the midst of its useful career, letting the pos- and grandeur, which each one of us possesses! sessors of the brightest intellects down into the Yet it is scarcely, by any, sufficiently apprecitomb, before they had reached the meridian of ated. With some, the body is so over-worked, life-their sun setting in the morning; when, while even young in years, all its muscles so with proper regard to the laws of health, they strained, and the system so frequently exposed might have been enabled to perform their full to wet, cold, loss of sleep, and almost every journey, and to cheer, instruct and bless their hardship, to the neglect of the mind and higher race. To have the body properly cared for, we nature, and the almost total disregard of the must study its value and capabilities. Who laws of health, that they are stiffened and worn among us ever sufficiently estimates the won-out before the period of life at which they derful and complicated structure of this ingenious fabric-this most perfect locomotive machine, with which each of us is furnished, that has been beautifully likened to a harp with a thousand strings, and every string when kept in tone capable of vibrating enjoyment only to its possessor.

To use the modern mode of estimating all things-that is, by dollars and cents-let us see the aggregate cost of the best substitutes that have been contrived for real limbs and other needful appliances.

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Now, a good pair of artificial legs, like the worn by Santa Anna, and captured by Gen. Houston in Mexico, with nicely adjusted springs in the insteps and toes, costs $100.*

* From a Report made to Congress in 1866, it appears that Government had provided 6075 artificial limbs to soldiers-2134 arms, 3784 legs, 44 hands, 9 feet, and 104 other appliances. The cost was 357.720 dollars.

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should be in their prime. Instead of pursuing business in a manner to promote health, as could and ought always to be done in every proper employment, how often is the health sacrificed to business, and the corporeal remains of the brightest and loveliest followed and mourned to an untimely grave.

In the estimation of others-and to how many of us will this apply?-the mind alone is the neasure of the man. Intellect, intellect, intellect, is the great desideratum, first and last. Cerebral or intellectual development in excess is not the normal condition of man. If this excess exists in parents, it is unfavorable to vigorous constitutions of their children. Hence the number of those most highly cultivated intellects who have left no children, or, if any, they are often below mediocrity, both intel

* Bell on the Hand, in the Bridgewater Treatise, page 17.

lectually and physically. The triple compound | between the showers for a walk to the Lake must be maintained in proper balance. A pen- and through the village. The former is exalty attaches to every infringement of the laws

of cur constitution.

(To be continued.)

FALSE PLEASURES.-Pleasure which cannot be obtained but by unseasonable and unsuitable expense, must always end in pain; and pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of an other's pain can never be such as a worthy mind can fully delight in.-Johnson.

quisitely lovely. The next day was still rainy, so we decided, though with great regret, to go on to Edinboro. We left the mountains and their fine scenery behind us, and hoped it had been the same with the clouds, but after a few hours of sunshine, they lowered around us again, as thickly as ever, and we were beginning to wonder if this kind of weather is really the best that Scotland has to offer us-though now the sun is again shining, and we are going

NOTES OF FOREIGN TRAVEL, FROM PRIVATE out for a walk to see the house where once lived

CORRESPONDENCE. No. 3.

PERTH, 7th month, 1866. A rainy "Scotch Sunday" in this ancient town of Perth gives us a little time for writing to our friends at home. We have met in our travels a great deal to exceed anything we have in America in abstract beauty and high cultivation, a great part of which is owing, of course, to the genial climate of England and to the abundance and cheapness of labor. Some of our drives through the rural lanes in the neighbor hood of the Lakes were perfectly bewitching in their loveliness. On the afternoon of the 1st of the present month, we set off in an open carriage, a delightful mode of travelling for short distances, to Keswick, 17 miles, on the shore of Derwent Water, and after a splendid drive of two hours through the same charming scenery we had been enjoying for some time past, over the foot of Helvellyn, and in sight of many lovely little waterfalls, we reached the top of the hill overlooking Keswick, and I think we have scarcely seen a more beautiful picture than lay spread out before us. The Lake is considered one of the finest in England, and the surrounding landscape, united with the softening effect of the evening shadows, made the whole scene one of surpassing harmony and loveliness. As we drove along we were attracted by a large turretted building not far off, which we of course imagined to be the residence of some illustrious noble of the land, and were beginning to invest the place with a great many imaginary and romantic charms, when we found ourselves gradually approaching its entrance, and soon discovered it was a very handsome hotel to which we had been directed. It was splendidly situated, commanding a most extensive prospect, and we were so fortunate as to secure very comfortable rooms, and after taking our tea, we spent the remainder of the evening at the windows enjoying the beautiful prospect, until the scene was varied by the ap proach of a heavy thundergust. Next day was dull and showery, but being able to enjoy so much without leaving the house, there was not much philosophy required to reconcile us to remaining in it for the day. We found time

the "fair maid of Perth," immortalized by Scott, and some other places made memorable by the occurrence of important historical events.

As we approached the northern boundary of England we observed a marked difference in the appearance of the people as well as the country, and no longer saw traces of the neatness that had struck us so forcibly farther south. The peculiar Scottish costume we have as yet seen little of. In Edinboro we selected a very good hotel, close to the monument of Walter Scott, and commanding a view which probably gives a better idea of the city, both old and new town, than could have been commanded any where else. It is kept somewhat in the American style, with a public table for breakfast and dinner and a ladies sitting room, which, as we are out most of the time, we concluded to make use of instead of taking a private parlor, as is our usual custom. Next morning walked to Holyrood Palace, on our way going into the house once occupied by John Knox-a strange old building, containing some curious relics. We saw his study-sat on his chair and were shown the window from which he used to preach. We then went into White house close (or court) in which stands the oldest Hostelrie in the town, and which is famous as the stopping place of Dr. Johnson when in Edinboro. At Holyrood we had a most interesting visit, and I could scarcely believe that we really stood on the spot that poor Queen Mary had made so memorable-that we actually saw her chamber--her bed, all that remained of her blankets, (a piece about 18 inches square)-her workbox covered with her own embroidery, and the baby basket sent her as a present by Queen Elizabeth at the birth of her son James the VI.-that we stood too in the little room where she and her favorite Rizzio were supping the night of his assassination, and were shown the secret door by which the murderers entered. The stone on which she and Darnley knelt at their marriage is also preserved here, as is the Queen's private altar-piece, and they all seemed invested, as we gazed on them, with a charm and reality which we could not dispute. The chapel is now only a ruin, but a very grand and

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Caulton Hill, with its monuments and miles of lovely country scenery spread around the whole, made one of the most perfect panoramas the eye could possibly desire. After admiring it as long as it seemed prudent to remain, we scrambled down and re-entered our carriage for home. Next morning visited, among many others, the monument of Robert Burns, which we entered, and saw a number of his original letters and other interesting relics of the past-all of which were shown and explained by a venerable Scotchman just fitted for his vocation and full of enthusiasm about his talented countryman. We next examined the rich and magnificent monument to Walter Scott. It is 200 feet in

drive through some parts of the city we had not yet seen. The streets are broad and elegant, reminding us of some of the finest in London, but very quiet. Edinboro is indeed a beautiful city, if we see only one side of the picturemost travellers, I suppose, do so; we were unfortunately undeceived. In the morning we took cars to Kinross, a small town on Loch Leven, where we were ferried across to the Castle by a very intelligent man, who was full of enthusiasm in the cause of poor Queen Mary, and told us many things that added greatly to the interest of this melancholy ruin.

(To be continued.)

noble one, and we could readily see traces of its former maguificence, and believe in all the sad and strange histories connected with it in days that are past. Our next visit was to "The Castle" Edinboro's magnificent castle; and we were certainly not disappointed. No one could be, it seems to me, no matter how high their expectations may have been. It is indeed a most wonderful structure, and situation and all considered, it is not at all remarkable that it should have been so long and so completely impregnable. The view from the battlements was extensive and beautiful, commanding the city and many miles of the surrounding country. We were shown many things, possessing no ab. stract interest, but interesting from their his-height, but we did not ascend it, preferring a torical associations. The crown jewels had been kept concealed for more.than a century, from political motives, until in 1817 the king ordered the chest containing them to be opened, and they have ever since been exhibited freely to the public. In returning from the castle, we walked throngh some of the "Closes," and saw enough filth and squalor and degradation to make us almost sick. I do not wish any of our Friends to see what we did, but I believe no one could imagine the reality, without having done so, or conceive the horrible condition of the inmates of these miserable alleys. They are apparently stowed away as closely as they can possibly live, and we saw proofs of entire disregard not only of all cleanliness, but of common decency, and the air in some of them was so terribly foul, that we were glad to escape with a very slight glimpse. It is indeed astonishing how they can live and thrive, as they appear to, in such an atmosphere--and thrive they certainly do-every one looking strong and healthy, and the swarms of children all rosy and bright, as far as we could see through the dirt. Later in the day, we drove through what is called Cow Gate, confessedly the worst part of Edinboro, and really what we had before seen was as nothing to this. Throughout the entire length of the street, many squares, and only wide enough for our carriage, was one constant succession of miserable pictures, composed of every variety we could suppose possi ble of human depravity, and I shuddered to think how much more there was behind those dingy walls than what met our eyes in passing rapidly by them. We were all conscious, I believe, of a sensation of relief when we at last emerged into a brighter and purer air. The recollections of our drive dwelt with us longer than we liked, interfering with our usual sleep. As an antidote to all this, we took a drive up to Salisbury Crag and the far famed "Arthur's Seat." The latter we had to ascend on foot, and we were perfectly charmed by the splendor of the views from the summit. Edinboro, with her wonderful Castle and Holyrood Palace, and

REJOICE ALWAY.

A man may lose all things, in the common acceptation of the term, and yet be exceedingly happy, and blessed of God. A man may be stripped of property, a man may be bereft of friends, a man may lose his health, a man may have the way of usefulness blocked up to him; and yet, he may experience a happiness that is indescribable, if he only has left this thought: "Heaven cannot be touched."

Are there, then, those that suffer in their faithfulness, are conquering in their sufferings, and rising above them? Are there others that in the performance of duty know not only how to labor, but how to speak and bear witness, "I can do something more-I can refuse to labor?" Are there others that know how to gather and administer property, but who can bear witness, "I know also how to do more than that,-I know how to walk unclothed, and lose not one particle of my joy and peace and manhood, and be stronger, more hopeful and more songful than I ever was before?" Are there others that know how to walk in unhealth and pain, and yet be so penetrated with faith and prayer and love that their life is more radiant in sickness than the life of ordinary men of the world is in health? Are there those that know how to administer in the realm of affection, but that, by bereavements and infelicities of life, have learned how to dismiss love, and go widowed

and solitary, and how to do it with such a sweet time past, make a beginning. We have met and noble temper that all men see that they are divers times, and have been, at several of these more lovely without love than they ever were when they were enthroned in its midst? Are seasons, baptized into death, or such creaturely there those in the battle of life who are tempted, abasement as not to be able, for a considerable and who overcome the temptation? Are there length of time, to move forward on any subject. men that are bankrupt, and that are walking in But as we have lain low, and been willing to be obscure places, and that remember the promises with Christ in his depression, his agony, his of God? Be faithful to Christ; be faithful to death, and his burial, we have been livingly the truth; be faithful to your honor and integrity; be faithful to heaven, that is nearer than raised with him in his resurrection, into newwhen you believed; be faithful to all rightness of divine life, and have sensibly known him things that you have been taught; be faithful to be the resurrection and the life' to and in the discharge of every duty; and then rejoice. in our own souls. Then have we gone forward And when you cannot rejoice anywhere else, rejoice in the Lord. Rejoice in the Lord any rejoicing, he going before us. Divers importhow. Rejoice in wealth; rejoice in health; ant matters have been the subjects of these our rejoice in pleasure; rejoice in love; rejoice in religious conferences. We have had much solid activity; and above all rejoice in the Lord; and satisfaction in them, and a belief has been sealed then, when reverses come, and troubles pass on our minds that such opportunities are very upon you, and these other things fade away, your joy in the Lord will stand up like Mount profitable, and might be highly promotive of Sinai, that never shall be moved. H. W. B. the welfare of Society, if rightly encouraged and attended, in the several Monthly Meetings;

FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER. and, perhaps, in some places, members from

PHILADELPHIA, NINTH MONTH 14, 1867. RELIGIOUS CONFERENCES-The views we expressed in a recent number of this paper, on the subject of religious conversation, are applicable, in most respects, to those more public interchanges of thought and feeling which may be termed religious conferences. Some worthy members of our Society feel apprehensive that meetings of this class, which have been held in various places, will not conduce to the spiritual advancement of those engaged in them, nor to the harmony of the body. This feeling, we think, arises, in most cases, from a dread of all innovation, and a supposition that such meetings are without precedent among our predecessors. It appears, however, that deeply concerned Friends of a former generation were led to hold religious communion with each other for the same purpose, and at other times than those appointed for public worship or church discipline.

several Monthly Meetings might usefully attend such conferences."

The benefit to be derived from such meɛtings will depend upon the manner and the spirit in which they are conducted. It is not to be supposed that sincere seekers after truth and righteousness, who are led to confer with each other, or to wait upon the Author of our being, in a devotional frame of mind, will fail to receive edification and comfort. On such occasions the reading of the Scriptures, and other religious books, may, with the Divine blessing, be made instrumental to promote the object intended, by furnishing food for thought and increasing spiritual knowledge. A vacant mind is not the state best adapted for religious growth,-there must be something for the Divine gift to act upon,-as when the prophet was about to bestow a blessing upon the widow who cried to him for aid, he asked, "What hast thou in the house?" And when he found she had a pot of oil, he made use of that as the

In the Journal of Job Scott, under date 1783, means to relieve her and her children. In like we find the following passage, viz:

"A number of well concerned Friends of this Monthly Meeting, from a desire of good to themselves, and to promote the good of Society, having for sometime a desire to meet together, at seasons, solidly to confer together upon such subjects as might appear profitable, did, some

manner, when the blessed Jesus was about to feed the people who had followed him into a desert place, he queried, "How many loaves have ye?" and the five loaves and two fishes, which a lad had brought thither, were multiplied.

He who is intent upon the acquisition of

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