Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-04
Sick Beds ard Grave Yards, Chlorine
and carboIlc Acid, the Asso-
GATES Of Religion.
Mazeppa was Biron, Snakes Slew
Edgar 4. Poe, snuif.Box
Killed Napoleon.
Inc Hot,om Of the Grave e out aud Gle
PaiIbenrers' Ropes Have Lei your
Loved Does through into Heaven.


ppooKlY, n. s., Jan. 8.--At The Brook
lyn rtbernacle ibis morning the Rey. =,
DeWnt TMmnge D. D., gave notice taat
M w0nld shortly begin seriesoi sabbath
morpin di.coaiHes on the marriage ring,
treating from Il religious standpoint me
follb,ylas fopiess The choice 81 husband
and vile. clandestinc marriages mud esca-
pideg dunes of husbands 20 wives. dn-
lex Of wives 10 busbsed-, the wrong waSs
of women. costume and morals cOmpc-
tent house wlfery, sensiiile young woman
hood, Womrn who aid pass life single, IN
huencc 81 sistens over brothers, the mod
ern novel ard woman boarding houses
aud hdsl llfa aud the treatment Of man
seryanta and ulald-seryant.
Dr Talmages sermon to-day was on
Long Liie, ami the text was taken from
Exodns XIX, ". "That thy dnys may be
long ap IN me land which ths Lord Thy
Cod giyeth theen Following IS the ser
mon ID iull
January thlrd, 1851 The old almanacs
and the oid meinoraudums lung aside,
Everything TO remind Us Of the fact that
another yoiune la the history Of time has
begun, and eW'ry thoughtiul man and wo-
man at such tiine discusses HE length or
the bhufncs4 % human NO. Faithful dis
charge 81 duiy Is ID 10Y bszt SGT forth as
having mucu to DO with tue length OF our
earthly stay Ihrungh the mistake Of r.
frleuds, religion has been chiefly associ,i-
Ted with sick beds and graycyards. TINS
whole subject 10 many people Is odorons
with chlorine and carhOlic acid. Ihefe
are people who cannot pronounce the
word 'reli6ioun without hearing IN
It the cllpptng.chlsel OF the tombstone
O. lsfA fHuf fHlu tnlnff
were changed and that religion instead Of
being represented as hearse TO carry out
the dead should be represented as q
chariot In which the living are to triumph.
Religion so inr from snhtractlng from
one'r vitality r. a glorious addition. II Is
sanaiiye curative, hygieuic. ~ Is good
for the eyes, good for She ears, good for
the Spleen, good for the digestion, good
for The nerves, good for the muscles
When David ia the P-nlms prays that re-
llziun may be- dominant b, does not speak
Of itas mild sickness Ur ~ cancellation,
or au atmck Of moral and spiritual cmmp;
hc speaks Of 70 as 'thc snyiug health Of
al nations" While God pronounces long
lite 20 The pioua, saying "With long lie
will satisfy thee"
The TACT IL That men and women die
too soon II N high time that religion
Joined The hand OF medical science Ia at
tempting 81 Improve human longevity
Adam lived $50 years MetbHsaleh lived
800 gears. "a late In tbs history OF the
world as Ytspaslnp, there were no one
timo 10 ns empiro forty-lye people 1873
years old Sn lat down as the aiXteeuth
century Peter Tartan died st 1855 years Of
aye | do not say that religion viii ever
tuke the race back tOantcdilaypn longey-
isv, but do say the length OF human NE
win be- greatly improved. 10 is said In
Isaiah Ky, 29 "The child shall die Il
hundred years old" Now, II, according
10 the scriptures, the child Is 90 be- hun.
bred years old, may not the men and wo-
men reach 20 three hundred and four nun
dred and nvU hunurcd? The fact is that
we are mere dNarls aud skeletons, com
pared with some OF the generations that
are t0 come.
Take the African race They have
been under bondage for centuries.
Give them a chance and they develop a
Frederick Douglassor Toussaint ~ uyer-
ture. Aud II the white race shall be
brought out from under the serfdom OF
ain, what shall be the body2 What shall
be the SOUR Religion has only just
touched our world. Give II full power
AoI lew HbhAuN*Fet hNu WIZ Niu Atil
what viii he the strength OF man and the
beauty OF woman, aud the long life Of allf
My design is TO show you that practical
religion Is the friend Of long life, and |
prove It first from the fact that IL makes
the care Of our physical health positive
Christian duty Whether we shall keep
early or late hours, whether wo shall
take food digestible or indigestible,
whether there shall be thorough or in.
complete masticatlon, are questions very
often deferred TO the realm Of whimsical.
ity; but the Christian man lifts this
whole problem OF health into the account
able and the divine. He says, "God has
given me this body aud he has called II
the temple Of the Holy Ghost, and TO de.
face its affairs, or mar Its
walls, crumblc It's pillars
is God-defying saorllege." II,
sees Gods caligraphy in every page
anatomical and Physiological ile says
"God has given ms a wonderful body foi
noble purposesn That arm with thirty
two curious bones, welded by forty.sii
curious muscles, aud all under the brall
telegmphy; three hundred and Mt
pounds OF blood rushing through TIA
heart every hour; the heart IN twenty
four hours beating one hundred thousau,
times, during the twentyf0ur hours over
coming resistance amounting TO PA ,00l,
600 pounds weight; during the same tim
the lungs taking m illty.seyen hogshcad
OF mir; and all this mechanism not NOR
mighty than delicate, aud easily disturbe,
and demolished, The Christian mau s,S
10 himself III | hurt my nerves, II
hurt my brain, II hurt amy Of my phys
cal faculties, insult God and call for dir
retrihntlon" Why did God tell the Lex
ties not 10 offer to Him In sacrifice an
mails imperfect or diseAsedy II
meant 20 tell us IN all th
ages, that wo are 60 offer I
God our very best physical condition; an
man who through Irregular OF gluttor
GUS eating ruins his health, Is not Offer
Ing to God such sacrifice. Why did Pau
write for his cloak at rroas? Why Shout
such great man as Paul bn anxious abou
thing so Insignificant as an oyercoat
II was because he knew that with pneu
monia and rheumatism he would not b
worth half as muchto God and the churc
as with respiration easy and foot free
An intelligent Christian man would Cor
slider II an absurdity to kneel down d
night aud pray aud ask Gods protection
while ut the same tIme he kept the VIII
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