The way to be well / by Horatio Goodday.

  • Goodday, Horatio.
Date:
1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The way to be well / by Horatio Goodday. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    moiily pays more attention to science or some lower objects that affords passing satisfaction than to his own eternal interests. Anything that pertains to religion is shrunk from by many as a cause of melancholy. But, the religion of Jesus Christ is a great reality, the right and permanent anti- dote to that malady. And it is the grand preventive of other forms of mania, and a powerful remedial agent in their chronic form. Growth in the religion of Jesus Christ has a happy influence upon the whole system. The trials of life are surmounted by it, and received as a means of weaning man from the creature, and directing him to the Creator. The very meaning of the word religion implies a privilege. In its original sense, religion means reunion to the object of worship, (re- ligo, to bind again.) Hence, in its secondary meaning, it stands for worship. The more, therefore, we advance in true knowledge and holiness, the more we shall prize and embrace the Sabbath, as a special