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The Benefits of
Exercise
Another precious blessing is proper exercise. There are many indolent,
inactive ones who are disinclined to physical labor or exercise because it
wearies them. What if it does weary them? The reason why they become weary is
that they do not strengthen their muscles by exercise, therefore they feel the
least exertion. Invalid women and girls are better pleased to busy themselves
with light employment, as crocheting, or embroidering, or making tatting, than
to engage in physical labor.
If invalids would recover health, they should not
discontinue physical exercise; for they will thus increase muscular weakness
and general debility. Bind up the arm and permit it to remain useless, even for
a few weeks, then free it from its bondage, and you will discover that it is
weaker than the one you have been using moderately during the same time.
Inactivity produces the same effect upon the whole muscular system. The blood
is not enabled to expel the impurities as it would if active circulation were
induced by exercise.
When the weather will permit,
all who can possibly do so ought to walk in the open air every day, summer and
winter. But the clothing should be suitable for the exercise, and the feet
should be well protected. A walk, even in winter, would be more beneficial to
the health than all the medicine the doctors may prescribe. For those who can
walk, walking is preferable to riding. The muscles and veins are enabled better
to perform their work. There will be increased vitality, which is so necessary
to health. The lungs will have needful action, for it is impossible to go out
in the bracing air of a winter's morning without inflating the lungs.
Riches and idleness are
thought by some to be blessings indeed. But when some persons have acquired
wealth, or inherited it unexpectedly, their active habits have been broken up,
their time is unemployed, they live at ease, and their usefulness seems at an
end; they become restless, anxious, and unhappy, and their lives soon close.
Those who are always busy, and go cheerfully about the performance of their
daily tasks, are the most happy and healthy. T
he rest and composure of night
brings to their wearied frames unbroken slumber. The Lord knew what was for
man's happiness when He gave him work to do. The sentence that man must toil
for his bread, and the promise of future happiness and glory, came from the
same throne. Both are blessings. Women of fashion are worthless for all the
good ends of human life. They possess but little force of character, have but
little moral will or physical energy. Their highest aim is to be admired. They
die prematurely and are not missed, for they have blessed no one
Exercise will aid the work of
digestion. To walk out after a meal, hold the head erect, put back the
shoulders, and exercise moderately, will be a great benefit. The mind will be
diverted from self to the beauties of nature. The less the attention is called
to the stomach after a meal, the better. If you are in constant fear that your
food will hurt you, it most assuredly will. Forget self, and think of something
cheerful.
2T 528-530
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