Throw open the blinds, dash aside the curtains, and let in the light and sunshine to your homes and hearts. Never mind the carpets; they may be replaced, but you and your children, never! Save your health, if you ruin an old carpet in so doing!
Cholera, dysentery, scrofula, nervous diseases, and consumption prevail more extensively in narrow and darkened, as also in the shady side of streets; also in darkened prisons and hospitals.
A heavy heart walks in dark and cheerless apartments. The cheerful, happy man, the joyous, contented wife, the beautiful, healthy children, dwell and rejoice in homes where flows full and free the pure air and the life-keeping, health-giving sunshine.
Christianity is more likely to take up its abode with the latter. There only green leaves and beautiful flowers can gladden the sight and exhilarate the senses.
Air, water, sunlight! “These three.” Don’t neglect them. So shall you live long, live healthy, and at last die happily!
XXXII.
HEALTH WITHOUT MEDICINE.
| How shall I stay life’s sunny hours? For though the summer skies are clear, Foreboding thoughts steal o’er my heart, And autumn sounds oppress my ear. While heart with hope beats warm and high, And pleasures drink in summer bowers, I know that autumn frosts will come— How shall I stay life’s sunny hours? |