Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-04

praying 70 GOd 70 keep blul fFvih tchinH
hurt Just as long as you defer TINS
whole subject Of physical health % tne
realm Of whimsicallty, Or 70 the pastry
coUE, or to tbs butcher, or TO the baker,
or " the apOthccaFy, o. 70
the clothier, yOn are not acting IKE
Christian Tie care Of an your pfysicai
iofces--neTyons, muscular, bone Drain,
cellular, tissue--f0r all yon must be
brought 70 Judgment. smoking your
nervous system Into ddgeis, burning ou{
the coating of your stomach win wine,
l0gwOoded aud strychniped; walking Hltn
thin shoes 70 make your feet look deilcatei
plnched at the waist until you are n'Eh
cut ~ two, aud neither part worth any
thing: grooming about sick headache ana
PUBLICATIONS OF the heart, which you think
come from God, when they come from
your own folly what right has any man
OF any wOmsn 70 dciace the temple OF the
Holy GhDst2
What Is the carr Why, it IS Che wills.
perug gallery oi the human soul WDst
IS the eyer II is the observatory COO
constructed, It's telescope sweeping
the heavens. What h Che hanff
An instrument 10 wonderful thst
when the earl OF Brdgewater
bequcathed "a biz WEI $4,000 for treat
l,es 70 be written On The wisdom, power
and goodness Of Cud, sir Charles Bell,
the great English anatonitst and surgeon,
found his greatest illustration ln the con-
suuouon Of the human hand deYoling
his whole book 70 mat SUBJECT. 50
wonderful are these bodies that Cod
names His own attriputes after the differ
emf parts His omniscience y God's
eye. His omniprtsence --it Is Gods ear.
His 0mnipotence--it Is G0d'r arm. The
upholstery Of the midnight heayens--it Is
the work Of Gods fingers. His liie-eiy-
Ing power--lL is the breath Of the Al
mighty. HIS dominion government
shall be upon His shoulder. a body so
diqnely hoaorpd and so dlvinely con-
sifucted. let ug be careful not 10 abuse IT,.
When ID becomes Christian duty 10 take
care Of our health, Is not the whole tend
ency towards long life u ] toss
my watch about recklessly, and
drop IL on the pavement, and
wind Il up any time Of
day OF night happen 70 think Of IL, aud
often let Il run down, and @hile you are
careful with your watch and never abuse
It, and wind il up at Just the same hour
every night, eRd put It IN place wnrre
Il viii not suffer from the violent changes
of atmosphere, which watch VIII last the
longer? Common sense answers. Now,
the human body Is Gods watch. You
see the hands OF the watch, you see the
face Of the watch; but the beating Of the
heart 81 the tickiug OF the watch. On, be
careful and do not let It run down.
Again, | remark that practical religion
is a friend Of long life IN the facl that It is
protest agaiEgt all the designations
which injure aud destroy the health. Bad
men aud women live very short life
Their sins Kill them know hundreds
Of good old men, but DO not know half
q dozen bad old men Why? They 90
not get old. Lord Byron died
at Mlssolonghi at thirty-six years
OF age, himself his own 3Ialrppa, his I'M
bridlrd passions the horse That dashed
with him into the desert Edgar A Poe
died at Baltimore al thirty-eight years Of
age The black raven that alighted on the
bust above the chamber door Was dellri-
1m trcmens;
"only life and nothing MORE
Napoleon D0naparte lived only just be-
yond mid-liie, then died ~ 81 Helena,
and one OF his doctors said that his dis
ease was induced 10y excessive snuiiing.
The hero OF Ausieriltz. the man who 10y
one step OF his foot IN the center OF Eu-
rope shook She earth, killed by a snuff
box! ON, how many people we have
known who have not lived out half their
days because Of their designations and in
dulgeHces Now practical religion Is q
protest agalnstall dissipation Of any Kind.
"But, you say, "proiessors OF religion
have fallen, professors OF rellg-
Ion have got drunk, profess
surs OF religion have misappro-
prOpriatOd Trust funds, professors of re-
legion have ahscOnded Yea, but they
threw away their religion before they did
their morality. If a man on a White Star
llne steamer, bound for Llyerpool,ln mid
Atlantic jumps overheard and is drowned,
Is that anything against the White Star
line's capacity TO take the man across the
ocean, And i man jumps over the gum
wale OF his religion aud goes down never
20 rise, Is shat any reason for your be.
lieylng that religion has no capacity to
take the man clear through In the one
case, II he had kept To the steamer, his
( body would have been saved in the otner
case, II he had kept 70 his religion, his
I morals would have been saved. There arc
D AHfh lcblic III LUIS hbuN1 tbFhhN WIZ
would have been dead twenty i've years
I ago but for the defenses and eQuipoise OF
religion. You have no more natural re-
slstance than hundreds Of people Who lie
/ ia the cemeteries to-day, slain by theii
own vices. The doctors made their casei
as kind and pleasant as they could
and 1t was called congestion d
the brain or something else, but III,
/ snakes aud the bluo-nies that seemed Il
crawl over the pillow In the sight OF III,
dclirnus patient, showed what was Tn,
matter with him, You, the aged Christiar
/ man, walked along by that unhappy one un
Ill you came TO the golden pillar Of Ia Christ
Ian life. You went TO the right; he went G.
the left That is All the difference between
you. Oh, II this religion Is a protes
against all forms OF dissipation, then II i
an illustrious friend Of long lifel
| Again religion Is friend OF long lie Ii
the fact that II takes the worry out Of GU
temperatures. IL Is not work that Kill
men, II Is worry. when man become
a genuine Christian, he makes over 4
God not only his affections, but his fam
lily, his business, his reputation, hi
body, his mind, HIS soul, everything. III
dustrious he will be but never worrying
because God Is managing his affairs
How can he worry ahOut bpsinogs 1Vhpr