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CONSCIENTIOUS ABUSE OF THE BODY. " What power of prince or penal
law, be it never so strict, could enforce men to do that which for
conscience's sake they will voluntarily undergo ? " Burton, Anatomy
of Melancholy. " Farewell, a long farewell to thee, Arran of my
heart Paradise is with thee; the garden of God within the sound of
thy bells. The angels love Arran. Each day an angel conies there to
join in its services." St. Columra. I AM to set in array some
painful points, appertaining to wrongs conscientiously done to the
flesh for the supposed good of the spirit. That quotation from
Columbkill, or Saint Columba, the hermit of Arran, a bleak, wild
island outside Galway Bay, in the Atlantic, ? Saint Columba, who
could sing a plaintive farewell on leaving the spot where, " with
the wind whistling through the loose stones, and the sea-spray
hanging on his hair," he had abused his body for what he thought to
be the welfare of his soul, ? is certainly not pleasantly
suggestive. The story of religious austerity is a dismal one, for
it is the story of " inhuman wisdom." I shall not attempt to relate
it, but shall simply place before the mind of the reader some of
the things which give a pitiful remarkableness to its contents.
There have been persons, not a few but many, who conceived it to be
their duty to withhold all respect and all culture from their
organic frames. Curious is the inquiry, how the God-created form
has been, under imagined divine approval, abused,? how men,
hungering and thirsting after what they sincerely believed to be
righteousness, have cruelly denied it and oppressed it, macerated
and marred it. In prosecuting this inquiry, one quickly meets the
general fact, that body-abusing saints, more than ten thousand in
number, have miserably lived an...
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