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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    of Dr. John Hall weighty elements^ first in putting together, and then in driving home, the honest, earnest, fearless words which all remember who ever heard him speak ? Have not the great bodies of those two young giants of the American pulpit, Phillips Brooks and Joseph Cook, proved most valuable accessories to their great brains ? Is there anything feeble about any of these ? Put the tape-measure around them anywhere you like, and see how generous nature has been with them. Is it all a mere chance that they happen to have splendid bodies? Why is it that we never hear of such as these having “ ministers^ sore throat,^^ and blue Mondays,’^ and having to be sent by their congregations, eveiy now and then, away to a foreign land to recruit their health and keep them up to their work ? Do sound and sturdy bodies, and due attention daily to keeping them in good repair, have nothing to do with their ability to cope at all times with the duty lying next to them—and with their attention to it, too, in such a way as to make them so much more effec- tive than other men in their great lifers work? That the physician himself needs sound health and plentiful strength, few will question; and yet, does he, from his calling alone, do anything to in- sure it? Dragged from his bed at all hours of the night, thrown daily, almost hourly, in contact with p 2
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