PACIFIC HEALTH JOURNAL
1897年7月1日
1、精神疾病
在我们周围有成千生病垂死的人，如果他们愿意的话，本来是会得到健康和生命的，可是他们被自己的想象所困。他们担心劳动锻炼对他们有害处，其实这正是他们康复所需要的改变，否则他们无法康复。他们应当运用意志力，克服疼痛和虚弱，从事有用的劳动，忘记自己背痛，肋旁痛，胸痛和头痛。疏忽全身或部分肢体的锻炼，会造成病态。人体任何一个器官若不活动，就会萎缩并降低肌肉的力量，使血液在血管里流动不畅。 {PHJ July 1, 1897, par. 1}
你家中若有应做的家务，你就认为自己不可能做，却依赖别人去做。有时得到所需要的帮助是极其困难的。你常常花费双倍的精力来计划并寻找人来从事你份内的工作。只要你愿意亲自从事这些小小的活动和家庭义务，你便会得蒙赐福并在这些事上得以加强，你在上帝圣工中的影响力也会远远超过现在。上帝造亚当和夏娃在乐园里，他们周围的一切都是有益且可爱的。上帝为他们创造了一个美丽的园子。园中不乏各样的花草树木，可以使用或当作装饰。人类的创造主晓得祂所创造的人若不作工就不会快乐。乐园可以使他们的心快乐，然而，这还不够;他们必须劳作，以便活动身体的各个奇妙的器官。上帝所创造的器官都是为使用的。倘若快乐在于无所事事，上帝就不会安排处在圣洁无罪状态的人从事劳作了。然而，这位创造人类的主晓得什么会使人最幸福，祂刚刚创造好人便为他们指派了工作。为要获得幸福，人必须劳动。 {PHJ July 1, 1897, par. 2}
上帝给了我们每个人要做的工作。倘若我们认真履行摆在自己道路上的各种职责，我们的生活便会有益处，我们也会得蒙赐福。不仅身体的器官会藉着锻炼而加强，而且藉着运用这些器官，我们的心智也会获得力量和知识。锻炼某一个肌肉并不会使那些未活动的肌肉增强，同样，不断应用的心智的一个器官也不会使那些未被使用的心智器官得以发展或加强。心智的每一能力和每块肌肉都有其特殊的功用，都需要进行锻炼，以便得到适当的发展并保持健康的活力。机体中的每一个器官和肌肉都有工作要做。机器中的每一个轮子必须是活动着的，运转着的。美好而奇妙的自然机体需要不断地活动，以便满足这些器官设计的初衷。每一个官能都与其它官能存在联系，所有的官能都需要锻炼，以便得到适当的发展。倘若身体的某一个肌肉得到了比其他肌肉更多的锻炼，那么得到锻炼的这个肌肉便会增大，这样就毁坏了该身体系统的和谐与美丽。从事各种各样的运动会使全身的肌肉活动起来。{PHJ July 1, 1897, par. 3}
那些虚弱而懒惰的人不应当屈服于不活动的倾向，由于怠惰而使自己丧失空气和阳光，却应当在户外进行身体锻炼，或在园子里工作。他们会变得非常疲惫，但这不会使他们受到伤害。我的姐妹，你会经历疲惫，然而这并不会伤害你;锻炼之后，你的睡眠会更加香甜。不活动只能使你未经锻炼的器官变得衰弱。你使用这些器官时，会感觉疼痛和疲惫，因为肌肉已经变得衰弱了。不要因为在锻炼之时感觉疼痛，就放弃对某些肌肉的锻炼，这并非上策。疼痛往往是由自然机能努力将生命和活力注入那些因不活动而变得毫无生气的部位引起的。活动这些长期闲置不用的肌肉会引起疼痛，因为自然在唤醒它们活过来。{PHJ July 1, 1897, par. 4}
成千上万的妇女苦于找不到能给她们带来活力和身体锻炼的有用工作。她们呼吸得不充分，不够深。他们在户外活动的时间不够长，不能扩张肺部，也不能锻炼四肢。手臂和胸部需要运用。当人们愿意用追求时尚的一半兴趣学习认识健康的定律,以及如何预防疾病，愿意遵从照耀在他们身上健康改良的亮光时，就会有更少的病人，更多的幸福和真正的宗教。{PHJ July 1, 1897, par. 5}
PACIFIC HEALTH JOURNAL
July 1, 1897
Mind Disease
Thousands are sick and dying around us who might get well and live if they would; but their imagination holds them. They fear that they will be made worse if they labor or exercise, when this is just the change they need to make them well. Without this, they can never improve. They should exercise the power of the will, rise above their aches and debility, engage in useful employment, and forget that they have aching backs, sides, lungs. and heads. Neglecting to exercise the entire body, or a portion of it, will bring on morbid conditions. Inaction of any of the organs of the body will be followed by a decrease in size and strength of the muscles, and will cause the blood to flow sluggishly through the blood-vessels.?{PHJ July 1, }
There are domestic duties to be done which many think it impossible for them to perform, and so they depend upon others. Sometimes it is exceedingly inconvenient for them to obtain the help they need; they frequently expend double the strength required to perform the task in planning and searching for some one to do the work for them. If they would only bring their mind to do these little acts and family duties themselves, they would be blessed and strengthened in it. God made Adam and Eve in Paradise, and surrounded them with everything that was useful and lovely. He planted them a beautiful garden. No herb, nor flower, nor tree was wanting which would be for use or ornament. The Creator of man knew that the workmanship of his hands could not be happy without employment. Paradise delighted their souls, but this was not enough; they must have labor to call into exercise the wonderful machinery of the body. The Lord had made the organs for use. Had happiness consisted in doing nothing, man, in his state of holy innocence, would have been left unemployed. But he who formed man knew what would be for his best happiness, and he no sooner made him than he gave him his appointed work. In order to be happy, he must labor.?{PHJ July 1, 1897, par. 2}
God has given us all something to do. In the discharge of the various duties which we are to perform, which lie in our pathway, our lives will be made useful, and we shall be blest. Not only will the organs of the body be strengthened by exercise, but the mind also will acquire strength and knowledge through the action of those organs. The exercise of one muscle, while others are left with nothing to do, will not strengthen the inactive ones any more than the continual exercise of one of the organs of the mind will develop and strengthen the organs not brought into use. Each faculty of the mind and each muscle has its distinctive office, and all require to be exercised in order to become properly developed and retain healthful vigor. Each organ and muscle has its work to do in the living organism. Every wheel in the machinery must be a living, active, working wheel. Nature’s fine and wonderful works need to be kept in active motion in order to accomplish the object for which they are designed. Each faculty has a bearing upon the others, and all need to be exercised in order to be properly developed. If one muscle of the body is exercised more than another, the one used will become much the larger, and will destroy the harmony and beauty of the development of the system. A variety of exercise will call into use all the muscles of the body.?{PHJ July 1, 1897, par. 3}
Those who are feeble and indolent should not yield to their inclination to be inactive, thus depriving themselves of air and sunlight, but should practise exercising out-of-doors in walking or working in the garden. They will become very much fatigued, but this will not injure them; rest will be sweeter after it. Inaction weakens the organs that are not exercised, and when those organs are used, pain and weariness are experienced, because the muscles have become feeble. It is not good policy to give up the use of certain muscles because pain is felt when they are exercised. The pain is frequently caused by the effort of nature to give life and vigor to those parts that have become partially lifeless through inaction. The motion of these long-disused muscles will cause pain, because nature is awakening them to life.?{PHJ July 1, 1897, par. 4}
Thousands of women are suffering for want of useful employment that would give them vigorous, physical exercise. Their breathing is not full and deep. They do not go out enough in the open air and expand their lungs and exercise their limbs. The arms and chest need to be used. When people will study to know the laws of health, and how to prevent sickness, with one-half the interest with which they study the fashion-plates, and will obey the light which shines upon them in regard to health reform, there will be fewer invalids and far more happiness and true religion.?{PHJ July 1, 1897, par. 5}
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