REV. DR. T TALMAGE.
THE EMINENT DIV DIVINE'S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Bubjeet: The Chariot of Trinmph-Relig-
ion Mepresents Life, Not the Grave
Advice About Physical Health and a
Prescription For Prolonging Life.
[Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1800.)
Wasmixaroy, D. O.—In this discourse
Dr. Talmage gives preseriptions for the
prolongation of life and preaches the gos-
pel of physical health, The text is Psalms
Xei., 16, “With Jong life will satisfy him.”
Through the mistake of its friends relig-
fon has been chiefly associated with siek
beds and graveyards, The whole subject
to many people is odorous with chlorine
snd carbolle acid. There are people who
eannot pronounce the word religion with-
out hearing in it the clipping chisel of the
tombatone cutter, It is high time that
this thing were changed and that religion,
instead of being represented as a hearseto
carry out the dead, should be represented
as a chariot in whieh the living are te
triumph.
Religion, so far from subtracting from
one's vitality, is a glorious addition, It is
sanative, curative, hyglenie. Its good for
the eyes, geod for the ears, good for the
spleen, good forthe digestion, good for the
nerves, good forthe muscles, When David
in another pent of the psalm prays that re-
ligion may be dominant, he does not speak
of it as a mild slokness or an emanciation
or an attack of moral and spiritual cramp.
He speaks ol it as “the saving health of ail
nations,” while God in the text promises
longevity to the plous, saying, “With long
Hie will { satisty him.” The fact is that
men and women die too soon. It is high
time that religion joined the hand of medi-
eal selence in attempting to improve human
longevity. Adam lived 930 years. Methuse-
lah lived 969 years. As late in the history
of the world as Vespasian there were at
one time in his empire forty-five people 1385
years old. So far down as the sixteenth
century Peter Zartan died at 185 years of
age. do not say that religion will ever
take the race back to antediluvian longe-
vity, but I do say the length of lite will be
increased.
It is said in Isaiah, “The child shall die
a bundred years old.” Now, if, according
to Scripture, the child is to be a hundred
years old, may not the men and women
reach to 300 and 400 and 500? The fact is
that we are mere dwarfs and skeletons
compared with some of the generations
that are to come, Take the African race.
They have been under bondage for centur-
jes. Give them a chance, and they de.
velop a Frederick Douglass cr a Toussaint
L’Ouverture., And, if the white race shall
be brought from under the serfdom of din,
what shall be the body, what shall be the
soul? Religion has only just touched our
world. Give it full power for a few con-
turies, and who ean tell what will be the
strength cf man and the beauty of woman
and the longevity of all?
My design toshow that practical religion
is the friend of long life. I prove it, first,
from the fact that it makes the care of our
health a positive Christian duty, Whether
we shall keep early or late hours, whether
wa shall take food digestible or indigesti-
ble, whether there shall be thorough or in-
eomplete mastication, are guestions very
often deferred tothe realm of whimsieality,
Bat the Christian man lifts this whole
problem of health into the accountableand
the divine, He says, “God has given me
this body, and He has called it the temple
of the Holy Ghost, and to deface its altars,
or mar its walls, or erumble its pillars, is a
God defying sacrilege.” Heo sees God's!
caligrapbhy in every page, anatomical
and physiological. He says, “God has
given me a wonderful body for
noble purposes’’—that arm with thirtyiwo
curious bones wielded by forty-six curious
muscles and all under the brain's teleg-
raphy, 350 pounds of blood rushing through
the heart every hour, the heart in twenty.
four hours beating 100.000 times, during
the twenty-four hours the lungs taking in
fifty-seven hogshead of air, and all this
mechanism not more mighty than delicate
and easily disturbed and demolished. The
Christian man says to himself, “If I hurt
my nerves, it I hart my brain. if I hurt
any of my physical faculties, I insult God
and call for dire retribution.” Why did
God tell the Levites not to offer to Him in
sacrifice animals imperfect and diseased?
He meant to tell us in all the ages that we
are to offer to God our very best physical!
condition, and a man who through irregu-
lar or giuttonous eating ruins his health is
not offering to God such a sacrifice, Why
did Paul write {or his cloak at Troas? Why
should such a great man as Paul be anx-
fous about a thing #0 insignificant as an
overcoat? It was because he knew that
with pneumonia and rheumatism he would
not be worth half as much to God and the
church as with respiration easy and foot
free,
An intelligent Christian man would eon-
sider it an absurdity to kneel down at night
and pray and ask God's protection while
at the same time he kept the windows of
his bedroom tight shut agafost fresh air.
He would just as soon think of going out
on the bridge between New York and
Brooklyn, leaping off and thea praying to
God to keesp him from getting hurt. Just
as long as you refer this whole subject of
physical health to the realm of whimsioal-
ity or to the pastry cook or to the butcher
or to the baker or to the apothecary orto
the clothier you are not acting like a
Christian, Take care of all your physical
forees—nervous, museular, bone, brain,
cellular tissue—{or all you must be brought
to judgment. Smoking your nervous sys-
tem into fidgets, burning out the coating
of your stomach with wine logwooded and
strychnined, walking with thin shoes to
make your feet look delicate, pinched at’
the waist until you are nigh eut in two!
and neither part worth anything, greaning’
about sick headache and palpitation of the
heart, which you think came from God,
when they came from your own folly!
What right has any man or womaa to de-
face the temple of the Holy Ghost? What
is the ear? It is the whispering gallery of.
the soul. What ls the oye? It is the ob-
servatory God constructed, its telescope
sweeping the heavens, What is the band?
An instrument so wonderful that, when
the Earl of Bridgewater bequeathed in his’
will $40,000 for treatises to be written on
the wisdom, power and goodness of God,
Sir Charles Bell, the great English
anatomist and surgeon, found his greatest
filustration in the construstion of the
buman hand, devoting his whole book to!
that subject. So wonderful are these
bodies that God names His own attributes
"after different parts of them. His omnis
¢lence—~it is God's eye; His omni
presenee—it io God's ear; His omnipotence
~=fit is God's arm; the upholstery of the
ta heavens —it is the work of God's
fingers; his life-giving power—it is the
breath of the Almighty; his dominion
athe government shall be upon his shoul.
er." ;
A body so divinaiy honored and so di
vinely constructed, let us be eareful not to!
abuse it. When it becomes a Christian,
duty to take care of our health, Is not the
whole tendency toward longevity? If I
toss my wateh about recklessly and drop it
on the pavement and wind it ap any time
of day or night I happen to think of it and
often Ist it run down, while you are care.
ful with your wateh and never abuse it and!
wind it up just at the same hour every,
ni jit and Lut itin a place where it will
from the violent chmages of si«
A wateh will last the longer?
Common sense answers. Now, the human,
body is God's wate, You ses the
of the wate, you ses the [ace of the "ry
bat the bunting of the heart ast the tieki
of the wateh, Be careful and do not joc fe | ns
run
Again ain, I remark shat practical
is a friend of lougevit in the fact religion it
is a protest against d ations, which in!
jure and destroy the health, Bad men and!
women live n very lite, Their sins;
kill them. I know bundreds of good old
old men, Why? They do not get old,
Lord Byron died at Missolonghi at 36 yoara
of age, himself his own Mazeppa, his un.
bridled passions the horse that dashed
with him into the desert, Edgar A. Poe
diad at Baltimore at 38 years of age. The
black raven that alighted on the bust
above his door was delirium tremens
Only this and nothing more.
Napeleon Bonuparte lived only just be-
vond midlife, then died at St. Helena, and
one of his doctors said that his disease was
induced by excessive snuffing. The hero
his foot in the center of Europe shook the
earth, killed by a snuff box! How mubny
people we have known who have not liv ed
out half their days because of thelr disspa.
tions and indulgences! Now, practical
religion is a protest agalost all dissipas
tions of any xina,
“Bat,” you say, “‘prolessors of religion
have fallen, professors of religion have got
drunk, professors of religion have misap-
propriated trust funds, professors ot relig-
fon have absconded. Yea, but they
threw away their religion before they did
thelr morality, If a man on a White Star
line steamer, bound fer Liverpool, in mid-
Atlantic jumps overboard and is drowned,
fa that anytbing agalost the White Star
ling’s capacity to take the man across the
ocean? And if 4 man jumps over the gun-
wale of his religion and goes down never
to rise, Is that any reason for your bellev-
ing that religion has no capacity to take
the man clear through? In the one ease,
ff he had kept to the steamer, his boldly
would have been saved; in the other case,
it he had kept to his religion, his morals
would have been saved,
the defenses and the equipoise of religion,
You have no mors uatural resistance than
hundreds of people who lis in the ceme.
teries, to-day slain by their own vices, The
doctors made thelr ease as kind and
pleasant as they could, and it was called
congestion of the brain or something elas,
but the spakes and the hlue flies that
seemed to crawl over the plilow inthe sight
of the delirious patient showed what was
the matter with him. You, the aged
Christian man, walked along by that un.
happy one until you came to the golden
plilar of a Christian jtfe., You went to the
right; he went to the left. That Is all the
difference between you. If this religion is
a protest against all forms of dissipation,
then it is an lilastrions Iriend of longevity,
“With long life will 1 satisfy him.’
Again, religion is a friend of longevity
in the fact that it takas the worry ont of
our temporalities. It is not work that kills
men; it is worry.
genuine Christian, ie makes over to God
not only his affections, bat his family, his
business, his reputation, bis body, his mind,
his soul, everythiog. Indastrious he wiil
be, but never worrying, because God is
managing his affairs. How can he worry
about business when in answer to his pray-
ers God tells him when to buy and when to
sell?
lose, that is best,
Suppose you had a supernatural neizh-
bor who came in and sald: “Sir, I want
you to call on me In every oxigeney, lam
your fast friend. I could fall back on $20,-
000,000. I can foresee a panic ten vears, |
hold the controlling stock in thirty of the
best monetary institutions of New York
Whenever you are in trouble call on me,
and I will help you, You can have my
money, and you can have my influence,
Here is my band in pledge for it." How
much would you worry about bu
you would say, “I'll
and then I'll depend on my fricad’s
or the rest.”
Now,
Christian business man.
own New York
God says to him:
and London and Nt.
and
California are mine,
I have all the resources
of the universe, and I am vour fast friend,
get In
n Me, and I will help,
Here is My band In . ledge of omnip
How mneh should
Not much.
put his paw on that Daniel? 1s there not
reat io this? Is there not an eternsi vacs-
“0b,” you say, ‘here is a man
a biessing {a acertain
Explain
I will. Yonder is a factory, and one
wheel i= going north, and the other wheal
is going south, and one wheel plays
jateraliy and the other plays verticaily.
urer and I say: "0
your machinery is a con-
Way do you not make all the
“Well,” ho says, 1
and they produce ths right re.
You go down stairs and examine
the carpets we are turning out io this
establishment and you will sea.” I go
on the other floor, and I see the
carpets, and I am obliged to confess that,
and while I am standing thers
old
work together for good te
Is there not a tonic
in that? Is there not longevity in that?
Snppose n man is ail the time worried
about his reputation? Ooe man says he
lies, another man says he is stupid, an-
other saye he is dishonest, and hall a dozen
rinting establishments attack him, and he
s in a great state of excitement and worry
and fume and cannot sleep, but religion
comes to him and says: “Man, God is on
your side. He will take ears of your repa-
tation. If God be for youn, who ean be
against you?’ How muchshould that man
worry about his reputation? Not mueh,
If that broker who some years ago in Wall
street, after bo had lost money, sat down
and wrote a farewell letter to his wile be-
fore he blew his brains out--if, instead of
taking out of his pocket a pistol, he bad
taken out a well read New Testamout,
there would have bean one less suicide,
O mervous and feverish people of the
world, try this almighty sedative! You will
live twenty-five Journ longer under its
soothing power, is not chloral that you
want or morphine that yoo want, It isthe
gospel of Jesus Christ. “With long life
will I satisfy him.”
Again, practioal religion is a friend of
longevity in the fact that it removes all cor.
roding care about a fuoture existence,
Every man wants to know what is to be,
Before I had this matter settled with refer.
ance to my future existence the question
aimost worried me into rained health. The
anxieties men have upon this subject put
together would make a martyrdom. This
8 4 a state of awful unhealthiness, There
18 puople who fret themselves to death
oo ear of dying. I want to take the
strain off nerves and the de.
pression off your soul, and I make
two or tures experiments, Experi.
ment first: When you go out of this
world, it does not makes any difference
whether you have been good or bad,
whether you believed truth or error, you
will go straight to glory. “‘Impossibe,”
you say, “My common sense as well us
my religion teaches that the bad and the
good eannot live together forever. Yon
sive me no comfort in that experiment.”
Experiment the second: When you leave
this world, you will go into an intermediate
state, where you ean get converted and
prepared for heaven, pmpossible, you
id “As the tree falieth, must it
aad I esanot pons o an inter.
our
to have been effected ia this state.” Experis
ment the thirds There fs no future world,
Whefh a man dies, that is the last of him,
Do not worry about what Fou are to do in
A amp of being. You will not do
ything. “Impossible,” you say. There
is something that tells me that death is not
the appendix, but the prefuce to lite,
There is eomothing that tells me that os
this side of the grave I only ~ uried
and that 1 shall § Ko an an jorover, Llosa
10 think says * i my affections say
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4 Story of Ll Hang Chang and
Bie Prisoners,
Hung Chang
told in Chinese society Now
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having
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Indorsed by over
1,000,000 wearers,
ALL LEATHERS. ALL STYLES
THE CESTINE hove W, L. Dongles’
mane and price stamped se boltem,
Take po sabstituies claimed
to bear good. Largest makers
of 88 and 8.50 shoes In the
world, Your deslershould keep
them-if pot, we will send you
8 pair on receipt of price. State
testher, sive and width. Dialn Or cap oe
Cataiogue C Free.
Ww. L. DOUGLAS SHOE CO., Brockion, Mass.
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ving of
Prevents Consumminn,
All Drugrivta 28¢.
KILLER
[YD aq
is thre: times greater than all
The
the other Chill Tonics combined,
Tonic.
FORMU
reason
would not buy their medicine if they knew its
This is a
- MEYER BROS. DRUG CO.
theming hat it dontains.
git m- R dhe people