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mean when he says, "I keep my body in subjection in all things," 

 but that he has the mastery in these things. It is said, that as 

 the brute is lower than man, to partake of the flesh has a ten- 

 dency to lower man, and he who uses a great deal of meat is 

 more brutal, as the animal seems to become a part of him. One 

 writer says that actual hunger three times a day is impossible. 

 Dr. Tanner's experience in his two fasts of forty days each, as 

 well as the one hundred days' fast of George Francis Train, 

 shows that people are not in so much danger of starving to death 

 as one might suppose by missing a meal. 



Hygiene is becoming a popular study in this day and age, 

 and who will not say the forerunners are now among us for 

 a better manner of living? Do not the shattered nerves make 

 demands that cannot be ignored? To make this change, there 

 seems to be necessary a certain purity of character — those whose 

 habits are corrupt find it hard to change. The ideal fruit for 

 man is ripe, uncooked fruits. These especially excite him to his 

 highest attainments. Dr. S., of Chicago, says meat-fed children 

 are liable to be cross. A family of children fed upon meat were 

 quarrelsome, and when put upon a grain diet became cheerful, 

 and were also more than ordinarily exempt from colds. But 

 very few older people will give up that to which they are accus- 

 tomed. This is seen in tobacco users. The rising generation 

 must not be an inferior one, which it will be if a change is not 

 adopted. The j T outh of our day are inferior physically to their 

 parents, and should change their habits of living. Being in har- 

 mony with nature will do much to bring us into communion with 

 nature's God. 



All having the care of children should strive to know the action 

 of different kinds of food. The late discovery of a natural cure 

 for drunkenness is worthy everyone's investigation. Drunken- 

 ness is a disease, and the sooner we recognize this the better. 



It may not be best to place a ban upon all meats, but the meat 

 for the family should be well chosen. Ignorance on these ques- 

 tions is the mother of ill health. I have always had a special 

 liking for those varieties of fruit put away by my horticultural 

 father, and with maturer years have come some strong convic- 

 tions, which I have tried to present to you, and which you may 

 take for what they are worth. Horticulture ought to enjoy 

 Divine approbation, and as fruit was in the Garden of Eden, so it 

 may be on our tables. 



Dr. S. H. Peabody,Kegent of the University of Illinois, now 

 favored the audience with an entertaining and elaborate paper 

 on the "Mission of the Sunbeam," which was highly appreciated 

 by all who heard it. It has not been furnished for publication, 

 and a synopsis cannot be given that will do it justice. 



