Special hygienic and medical information for parents . ands of the deca-logue, if you violate the moral code of the Savior,you sin morally; but if you violate any of thelaws of health, you sin physically. If you can bea christian with a diseased body, you can be abetter christian with a healthy body. If our clergymen in the pulpits, instead of de-voting so much time in discussing their theolog-ical dogmas, and wrangling over some unimpor-tant church rite or creed, would devote the same,and more time, in teaching their hearers how tokeep their physical temples pure, their effortswould be crowne


Special hygienic and medical information for parents . ands of the deca-logue, if you violate the moral code of the Savior,you sin morally; but if you violate any of thelaws of health, you sin physically. If you can bea christian with a diseased body, you can be abetter christian with a healthy body. If our clergymen in the pulpits, instead of de-voting so much time in discussing their theolog-ical dogmas, and wrangling over some unimpor-tant church rite or creed, would devote the same,and more time, in teaching their hearers how tokeep their physical temples pure, their effortswould be crowned with greater and quicker suc-cess. PHYSICAL CONJUGAL MATES. Physiology is the true adviser in regard tophysical adaptability. Marriage should never 136 PHENOMENA OF HEALTH. take place when the physical qualities of bothare to either extreme. The true rule to be ob-served is this: if your organism is well balanced;if the mental, the motive and the vital tempera-ments are harmoniously blended in your phys-ical structure, to form a perfectly developed. MARRIED, BUT NOT MATED. manhood or womanhood, select a partner of likestructure; but so far as there is a preponderance,or deficiency of either one of the aforesaidtemperaments, so that true physical unity is dis-turbed, seek a mate that will restore an equi-librium. As perhaps some of the readers do not under- HEREDITARY INFLUENCES. 137 stand what I mean by the aforesaid tempera-ments, I will explain them, somewhat cursorily,


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