Life and how to make the most of it : an address at St. James's Hall / by Philip Foster.

  • Foster, Philip.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Life and how to make the most of it : an address at St. James's Hall / by Philip Foster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    our lives will have been a miserable failure. Connect your- selves with some religious body; for the regular attendance at a place of worship cannot fail to have a salutary effect upon your lives. But, above all, let me earnestly impress upon you the importance of a regular study of the Scrip- tures. With this duty let no other object interfere, and have a care lest this become—as things done regularly are apt to do—a mere matter of form. Read them slowly and carefully, with the earnest prayer that God will enlighten your understanding and give you strength to act up to the precepts there enjoined. Our minds imbued, then, with the broad principles of Christianity, let us go calmly on, dis- regardful of the narrow prejudices of society, heedless of what the world may say, doing, through good report and evil report, that which we know to be right, not for what it will bring us, not for the praise and glory of men, but for conscience sake. Whatever may have been the deficiencies and shortcomings of this address, you will, I think, agree with me, that, if we v would only govern our lives on the principles here laid down, when the last scene of the last act approaches, and the curtain is about to fall on the drama of life; when this world and this world’s interests fade into nothingness, and the portals of another—an eternal one—open before us, in that supreme moment the happy consciousness will be ours, that the two great purposes of our existence have been accomplished; we shall be able to look on the past with satisfaction, and to the future with hope. NOTES TO ARTICLE ON HEALTH. 1— As arsenic in wall-paper is a frequent cause, not only of ill-health, but of disease, it ought to be generally known that those manufactured by Mr. William Cooke (of Leeds) are guaranteed to be absolutely free from it. 2— For those who prefer a cold bath to simply sponging the body, one has been invented with a raised centre for the feet, by the use of which, standing in the water, so unpleasant and injurious to many persons, is rendered unnecessary. By the addition of sea, or when this cannot be obtained, common salt, to the water, in the proportions of 3 or 4 ounces , to the gallon, the bath may be made still more refreshing and invigorating. Bernard & Co., Meadow Lane, and Woodhouse Lane, Leeds.