How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie.

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fighter make of Martin Luther nothing to do with his contempt for the dangers awaiting his appear- ance before Charles V. and his Diet of Worms, and which caused him to say he would go there though the devils were as thick as the tiles on the houses ? and with the grand stand he made for the religious light which now shines so freely upon the whole Christian world ? James Guthrie, first tying one hand behind him, with the other could whip any man in Oxford who would also fight one-handed. Who doubts that the vigour so evinced had much to do with the faithful, arduous lifers work he did, and did so well that all Scotland is to-day justly proud of him ? Have the magnificent breadth and depth of Spurgeon^s chest, and hia splendid outfit of vital organs, no connexion with his great power and influence as a preacher of world-wide renown ? Have the splendid physique and abounding vi- tality of Henry Ward Beecher—greater almost than that of any man in a hundred thousand— nothing to do with his ability to attend to his duties as pastor, author, lecturer, and editor—work enough to kill half a dozen ordinary men—and with the tireless industry which must precede his marked success in them all ? Are not the tower- ing form, the ruddy health, and grand, manly vigour
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