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 Thomas Guthrie, first tying one hand behind him, with the other could whip any man in Oxford who would also fight one-handed. Who doubts that the vigor so evinced had much to do with the faithful, arduous life's work he did, and did so well that all Scotland is to-day justly proud of him? Of Dr. Guthrie and Norman Macleod, Professor John Stuart Blackie says:

Had the magnificent breadth and depth of Spurgeon's chest, and his splendid outfit of vital organs, no connection with his great power and influence as a preacher of world-wide renown? Had the splendid physique and abounding vitality of Henry Ward Beecher—greater almost than that of any man in a hundred thousand—nothing to do with his ability to attend to his duties as pastor, author, lecturer, and editor—work enough to kill half a dozen ordinary men—and with the tireless industry which preceded his marked success in them all?

Is there anything feeble about any of these? Put the tape-measure around them anywhere you like, and see how generous nature has been with them. Is it all a mere chance that they had splendid bodies? Why is it that we never hear of such as these having "ministers' sore throat," and "blue Mondays;" and having to be sent by their congregations, every now and then, away to a foreign land to recruit their health, and keep them up to their work? Do sound and sturdy bodies, and due attention daily to keeping them in good repair,