REV. OR. TALMAGE. THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY DISCQURSE. Subject: What Religion Does For the Prolongetion of Haman Life<Religion is Not » Hearso—Care of the Health a Positive Christian Duty, [Copyright 1860.) Wasmixorox, D. C.—This sermor of Dr. almage presents a gospel for this life us well as the next and shows what religion does for the prolongation of earthly exist- ence; text, Psalm xeol., 16, “With long life will I sutisty 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 ehblorine and earbolle acid. There are Jochle who €annot pronounce the word religion with- out hearing in #t the elipping chisel of the tombstone cutter, It is hign time that this thing were changed und that religion, in. stead of being represented as a hearse to earry out the dead, should be represented a8 a chariot in which the living are to tri- umph, Religion, so far from subtracting from one's vitality, is a glorious addition. It is sensitive, curative, hygienic. It is good for the eyes, good for the ears, good for the spleen, good for the digestion, good for the nerves, good for the muscles, When David, {n another part of the Psalms, prays that religion may be dominant, he does not speak of it as a mild sickness or an emnciation or an attack of moral and spiritual cramp. He speaks of It as “the saving health of all nations,” while God in the text promises longevity to the pious, saying, “With long lite will I satisfy him.” he fact is that men and women die too soon. It is high time that religion joined the hand of medical science in attempting to improve human longevity, Adam llved 280 years: Methuselah Hved 969 years. As inte in the history of the worid as Vespa- sian there were at one time in his empire + forty-five people 135 years old. Sofardown &s the sixteenth century Peter Zartan dled at 185 years of age. I do not say that relig- jon will ever take the race baek to ante diluvian longevity, but I do say that the length of human life will ba greatly im- proved, It is said in Isaiah Ixv., 20, “The child shall die 100 years old.” Now, iI, aceord- fog to Seripture, the ohild fs to be 100 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 sompared with some of the generations that are to come, Tdke the African race. They have been under bondage for cen- turies. Give them n chance, and they de. velop a Toussaint "Ouverture, And {f the white race shall be brought out rom under the serfdom of sin what shal! be the body, what shall be the soul? Religion has only | just touched our world. Give it full power | for a few centuries, and who ean tell what | will be the strength of man and the beauty | ef woman and the longevity of all? My design is to show that practical re. ligion is the friend of longevity. 1 prove it, first, from the fact that it makes the ence of our health a positive Christian daty. Whether woshall keep early or late hours, whether we shall take food digest. | able or indigestable, whether thereshall be thorough or incomplete mastication, are sqaestions very often referred to the realm ofl whimsicality, but the Christian man ilts this whole problem of health inte the accountable and the Divine. He says, "God | bas given me this body, and He has ealled | it the temple of the Holy Ghoet, and to de. faces its altars or mar {ta walls or eramble its pillars Is a'God defying saerilege.” Ha | sees God's caligraplyy in every page—ana- | tomieal and physiological, He says, "God | has given me a wonderful body for noble | purposes.” That arm with thirty-two enr. fous bones wislded by forty-six eurious | muscles, and all under the brain's teleg- raphy — 360 pounds of blood rushing through the heart every hour, the heart in | twenty-four hours beating 100.800 times, during the same time the lungs taking in fifty-seven hogaheads of air, and all this | mechanism not more mighty than desicate | and easily disturbed ana demolished, The Christian man says to himself, “It hurt my nerves, if I burt my bLrals, if hurt any of my physical faculties, I jnsult God spd onl! for dire retribution.” He meant to tell us {on all the ages that we : are to offer to God our very best physical | sondition und a man who through trregnlar | or gluttonons eating ruins his health is not | afferiog to God such a sacrifles. Why did Paul write for his cloak at Trons? Why should such u great maa as Paul be svx- | ious about a thing so insignificant as an overcoat? It was because he koew that with ppeumonia and rhematism he would not be worth half as much to God and the | ehnrch ar with respiration easy and foot | free, | When it bacomea a Christian duty to take } ears of onr health, is pot the whole ten. | denoy toward loogevity? If I toms my | watch about recklessly and drop ft on the | pavement and wind it up at any time of | day or night I bappen to think of it, and | often let it ran down, while you are careful with vour watch and never abuse It and wind it vp ‘ust at the same hour svery might and put itin a place where it will not safer from the vigleat changes of at. mosphere, which watch will just the longer? Common senss answers. © Now, the human body Is God's wateh, You see the hands of the watch. You see the fare of the watol:, but the beatiog of the heart Is the ticking of the watch, Ob, be careful and der Tet It rao down! om) Again, IT romark that practisal reilgion is » Ttinsd of longevity in the fa-t tut it is & protest against dissipations whieh (n jureand destroy the health. Bad men and women live a vory short ite, Their wins thent, I know hundreds of good oid men, but I do not kuow half a dozen bad old men. Why? They do not get old, Lord Byron died at Missolonght at thirty. #ix yours of age, himself his own MAzsbpa, his unbridied passions the horse that ashed with him into the desert, Pagar A, Poe died at Baltimore. at thirty-eight years of age, Tuna black raven that afighted on his bust above his ehamber door was delirium tremens. Only this and nothing more. Napoleon Bonaparte lived only just be youd midlife, then died at St, Helena, and ote of his doctors sald that his disease was induced by excessive snufling. ‘The heto of Austeriitz, the man who by one step of his foot {a the center of Jurdhe shook the hb, killed by a snufflbox, Oh, bow many ple we have known who have not lived out hall their days because of thelr dissi. patiogs asd indulgeness, Now practical ] a protest J agninst all dissipation of no we . “Put,” vou say, “professors of religion have fallen, pro rs of religion have got drunk, professors of religion have misap- Pe rinted trust fands, professors of relig- ave absconded.” Yes, but they threw away their religion before they did thelr morality, If a man on a White Star line Shatmer bound for Liverpool in mid-At. : Jamps overboard and Is drowned, Is that anything against the White Star Hue's Amy to take the man aeross the ocean? it a man jumps over the gunwale of religion and Joes down never to rise is any reason for your believing that re. Bo capacity to take the man éar through? In the one ease if he had to the steamer his body would have saved; in the other sass if he had kept fon his morals wonld have been ers are aged poople who would have dead twenty-five years ago but for defanses and he a a of ro « no natural resistance than 4 bi le who lie TE The own “ L made thelr as kind t » dalirious patient showed what was the matter with him. You, the aged Obristian man, walked along by that unhappy one untli you eame to the golden pillar of the Christian life, You went to the right; he went to the left, That is all the differance between you, Oh, if this religion is a pro- test against all forms of dissipation thenit is an illustrious friend of longevity! “With long lite will I satisty him," a Agaln, religion is a friend of longevity in the fact that it takes the worry out of our temporalities. It is not work that kills men; it Is worry. When a man boecomos a genuine Christian, he makes over to God not only bis affections, but his family, his business, his reputation, Lis body, bis mind, bis soul-—everythlog., Industrious he will be, but never worrying, because God 1s managing his affairs, How can he worry about business when in answer to his prayers God tells him when to buy and when to sell, and, it he gain, that is best and, il he lose, that is best? Supposa you had a supernatural neighbor who came in and said: *'8ir, I want you to call on me in every exigenoy. fast friend. I could fall back on 000. I hold the sontroiling stock in thirty of the best monetary institutions of this country, Whenever vou are in any trouble call on me, and 1 will help you. have my money, and fluence, ness? Why, you would say, “I'll best I can, and then I'll depend on friend's generosity for the rest.” Now, mora than that is promised to every Christian business man, to him: and California are Mine, [ can foresee a panic 1000 years. I have all the resources | of the universe, and I am your fast friend. When you get In business troable or any deliverance.” How much should that man worry? Not mueh., What lion will dare to put hispaw on that Daniel? Is | there not rest in this? aternnal vacation In this? “Son,” you ssfy, “here Is aman who asked God for a blessing In 8 cartain enterprise, and he lost $5000 in it. Expiain thet.” “I will. is gong north and the other. whee! is ing south, and one wheel laterally and the other plays vertically. I go to the mange | facturer, and Isay: “Oh, manufacturer, | your machinery is a contradiction. Why way?" go in opposite directions on purpose, and | they produce the right result, You go | floor, and 1 see the carpets, and 1 am { obliged to confess that though The wheels in that factory go in opposite directions they turn out a beaatifal result, and while I am standiog thers looking at the exquls. ite fabric an old Seripture passage comes | into my mind—*"All things work together Isthears | Is thers not tealo 12 that? Is there not longevity in that? Suppose a man about his reputation. One man says he lies, | is dishonest, and hall a dozen printing es. | tablishments atiaek him, and ho fs ins fumas and cannot sleep, bat religion comes “Man, God Is on your How much should that man worry Not mush, If that 3 ron?” wrote a farexail letter to his wife bafore | be blew bis bralos out; If instead of taking | out of his poeket & pistol he hud taken out | thers would | have been one less sulelide, Ob, nervous and mighty sedative! Yon will live twenty-five years logger under its soothing power. [It ix not chloral that you want or morphine Cohrist. "With long fe will I satisfy him.” | Again, practical religion is a friend of : corroding eare about a future existence. Every man wants to know what is to be. | If you get on board a rail | train, you want te koow at what depot it It you get on board a! ship, you want to know into what barbot | me you have no Interest ino whatis to be! your futurs destiny I would in as polite a way as I know how tell you I did nat be. Hove you. Before I bad this matter settiod | question almost worried me into ruined | health. The anxieties men have upon this i subject put together would make a martyr. dom... This is a stale of awful anhealthi- people who fret them. seives to death for fear of dying. i Accept that sacrifies and quit worryisg. Take the tonic, the Inspiration, the jong. evity of this truth, Raligion l= sunshine; that is health. Religion is fresh air and pure water; thev are healthy. Religion fs warmth; that bb healthy, Ask all the doe. tops, and they will tell you that a quiet eopasience and pleasant antieipations are hygiente. I offer you perfect peace pow | avd herealter, Well, you defeat ms in my three axpori- ments. I have ouly one more to make, apd if you defeat me in that I am exhausted, A mighty one on a knoll back of Jerusalem one day, the skies filled with forked light. nings and the earth with voleoanie disturb. aneos, turned His pale and agonized face toward the heavens and sald: *'I take the sins and sorrows of the ages lato My own Goart, Tam the expintion. Witrhess earth aad heaven and hell, I am the sxpiation.” And the hammer struck Him and the spears punctured Him, and heaven thundered. “The wages of sin is death!” "The soul that sinmeth It shall die!™ “I will by no means clear the guilty!” Then there was silenes for hall an hour, and the Nablniogs were drawn back into the scabbard of the sky and the earth ceased to quiver and all the colors of the sky be. gan: to shift themesives inte a rainbow woven oul of the failing tears of Jesus, and thers was red aa of the bloodshedding, and there was blue ss of the bratsing, and there was green as of the heavenly foliage, and there was orange as of the duy dawn, And along the line of the blae I saw the words, “I was brulsad for their iniquities.” And slong the line of the red I saw the words, ‘The blood ol Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin.” And along the Hae of the green 1aaw the words, “The loaves of the tree of lite for the healing of the nations.” And along the line of the orange I saw the words, "The day spring from on high bath visited us.” What do yot: want is the future world? Tell me, and you shall have ft. Orshards? There are the trees with twelve manner of fruits, yielding fruit every month, Water scenery? There is the river of life, from under the throne of God, clear as crystal and the sea of glass mingled with fire. Deo you waut musin? There is the oratorio of the Creation led on by Adam, and the ora. torio of the Rad Sea led on by Moses, and the oratorio of the Messiah lad on by St, Paul, while the archangel, with swinging baton, eontrols the one hundred and forty. four thousand who make tp the orchestra, Do yeu want reanlon? There are your dend eblidren waiting to kiss you, ing to embrace you, waiting to twist eariands in your hair. You have been secustomed to open the door on this side the sepuloher, I open the door om the other side the sepuloher. You haye besn accustomed to walk in the wet grass on the top of the grave, 1 show you the underside of the rave, The bottom has fallen out, and the ropes with which the pallbearers lot down your dead let them olear through into heaven. Gi he to God for this robust, healthy religion. d, ot Ei satialy You Cnn Mave It Also, “Red Cross” anda “Hubinger's laundry starch, It is easy to make your- seif an objest of envy also. Ask your grocer, he ean tell you just how rou “Hubinger's Best" proamiums, two panels, printed in with tho Shakespeare beautiful starch, beautiful twalve cols endar, all for Se, . wn am—— —————— Mortality, One of the counties of the state of who, though poorly furnished with those little refinements usually met with in polished goclety, was an ener- getic, ghrewd man, and a promising lawyer. A neighbor of his was about to give away his danghter in marriage, and having a deep-rooted dislike to the clerical profession, and being de- termined, as he said, “to have no par gon in his house,” he sent for his friend the judge, to perform the cere- mony. The judge came, and, the can- didates for the connubial yoke taking their places before him, he addressed the bride: “You swear you will marry this man?” “Yes, sir,” was the reply “And you (addressing the bridegroom) swear you will marry this woman?’ “Well, I do.” sald the groom. Then.’ sald the judge, I swear you're mar- ried!" Ne Woader., Tom Her infatuation was Jack—Was he a heart- Tom-—-No; a penniless Judge. short lived. fess brute? gxint, Deauty Is Blood Deep. Clean blood mesns a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im- surities from the body. Begin today to PE pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets,—beauty for ten cents. All drug- gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 2c, 50. Int 1000 « 140. 1 ime of war France puts 370 out of ey { ber population ia the fleld ; Germany, asain. 2 Denfaness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to oure deafness, and that is by constitu. tional remedies. Deafness [s cansed by an in- flamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in- flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper. feot hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness (s the result, and unless the inflam. mation oan be taken out sad this tube re stored to ita normal condita, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nips wses out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in. flamed condition of the mucous surfaces We will give One Hundre! 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Wear, during the night, old, loose kid gloves, with the finger ends cut off and air holes cut in the palms. For red, rough, chapped hands, dry, fissured, itching, feverish palms, with shapeless nails and painful finger ends, this treatment is simply wonderful, and points to a speedy cure of the most distress- ing cases when physicians and all else fail. : - Sore Hands 8 Years Cured. Pain So Intense Would Nearly Twist Fingers From Sockets. Hands Pafied Up Like a Toad, Water Ran Through Bandages to Floor. Had to Walk the Floor Until Would Fall Asleep. Fingers Would Peel Like an Onion. Doctors Could Not Cure. Eight rears agn I got sore hands. commencing with a burning sensation on my fingers and on top of the hand. When | rubbed them, vou could soe little white pimples. | felt like twisting my fingers out of their sockets. I had high fever, and cold chills ran over we, and so | kept it going unt# I was tired out. Nights, | had to walk the floor until 1 fell asleep. My hands peeled like an onlon, the finger nails got loose. and the water ran out, and wherever there was a little pimple there the burning fire was — that happened at least ten times. 1 am running a blacksmith shop, horse. shoeing, and I would not shut up the shop for anybody, but it was hard. My hands puffed up worse than a toad. When | drove horse nails, the water from my hands rau through the bandage, on to the floor. My cus tomers refu to look at my hand. | had a friend take me to the doctor: hie gave a solution of something to bathe my hands. 1 went to another doctor, I think, for a year. 1 found your advertisement in a Utica news- paper, and 1 got the COTICURA remedies. As soon as | used them 1 began to gain, and after using a small quantity of them | was entirely cured. | would not take fifty dollars for a cake of CUTIOURA SOAP if | could not get any more. i would not suffer any more as I did, for the whole country, Feb. 22,1868. 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