Bishop Simpson on Hygiene.
Bishop Simpson, in laying the corner-stone of the Vineland (N. J.) Seminary, expressed, in a paragraph, a whole volume of meaning on the subject. "I am satisfied," he said, "that many, perhaps a large proportion of us scarcely live one half our days. We have not studied the laws of health, and are constantly violating them. We suffer our systems to grow old when there is no absolute necessity for it. We fail to comprehend the relations of the circulation of the blood to our well-being. We fail oftentimes to have happiness in our families, because we do not understand the effect of impaired nerves, and oftentimes chide when we ought to pity, censure when we ought to encourage and cheer, and mistake the little worryings and restlessness which give rise to, possibly, the hasty expression, for unkindliness of feeling; in ourselves, from hour to hour, we have clouds and despondency, that would not be there if we understood ourselves as we ought, and if we understood our friends and families as we should."