Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-11
n, Possibility Of the Return OF The
Human Race to Antediluvian
Longevity.
.. ara Mers Dwarfs and Skeletons
compared with Sons Of the G eners.
tioEs that Are TO Come.
,,E,tt TaImaEe Argues that Practical
E.uEion Is the Friend SO Physical De-
TslopRent and Long Life,

s,,,eruacle this morning, after expound-
4 =, some passages Of Scripture in regard
/ ~,.e diet OF Daniel and his abstemlous
80, the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage
In, gave out the hymn beginning:
Glory to God on high,
Let heaven and earth reply.
Ne announced as the subject Of his
4 anon: "Does Religion Prolong Life?r
4 "a presched from the text found in
5SrIulsI, Y. IS: "With long life will l
/ sIsty him" Following is the discourse
! through the mistake of It's friends re-
] e,0D MSS been chiehT associated with
1 r,s beds and ereVeysrds. The whole
rti3c. 10 many people is odorous with
1 ,.I6rine and cArbolic acid. There are
I ..oDle who cannot pronounce the word
I ,sTgIon Without hearing in 1t the clipping
4 ,s;s.l Of the tombstone cutter. II is
4 ,,5l tine that this thing were changed
~ hist religion, instead OF being repre-
4 rr,ed SIS hesrse to carry out the dead,
i .)uld be represented Es chariot In
inch the living are to triumph.
Religion, so far from subsusctipg from
! mes vitality, IS glorious addition. Il
1 gansuve, curative, hYgienic. Il is good
Il, TIE eyes, good for the ears, good for
] Ne spleen, good for the digestion, good
] M the nerves, good for the muscles.
4 Tssn David in another part Of the
4 P.ms, prSys that religion may be domi-
1 uH. he does not speak Ct it as
4, mild sickness, or an emaciatioD,
H. Gn attack Of moral and
] pItusl crAmp; he speaks OF it as
oas saving health OF all nations;"
/ vile God, in the text, promises longev-
IN 20 the pious, saJiEg: "WiiA long life
viii satisfy him"
Tie Ilc! Is that men and women die too
Dou. l. is high um3 that reii2ion ioined
Z he hsnd Of medical science in attempting
improve human longevity. Adam lived
lIe hundred and thirty ye'.rs. Methuse-
i, lived nine hundred and sixty-nine
Jssfs. As late in the history of the world
Yespssisu, there were at one time in
lis empire f0rtJ five people one hundred
sud thirty five years old. So far down as
Il tie slI zenith century, Peter Tartan died
Eore hundred and eighty i've years of
.ge. do not SAY that religion will ever
A nke the race back to sntediluvian Iongev-
4 IT., but do say the length OF human life
VII De greatly improved.
lis s.id in Isaiah: "The child shall
aeS hundred years old" Now, If &C
4 Mriilg 10 Scripture the child is to be 8
.1ldIed years old, may not the men and
Elren reach to three hundred and four
1ndred and five hundredl The fact is
IL we sre mere
DWARFS AND SKELETONS
4 .mpsred with some of the generations
4 G;s are to come. Take the African race.
T1sy have been under bondage for centu-
! res. Give them s chance and they de-
TsOps Frederick Douglass or Tous-
1 g.nt L'0uverture. Aud II the white race
snail be brought from under the serfdom
Of sin, what shall be the body7 what shall
.e the souli Religion has only Just
blcled our world. Give 1t full power
t9Es few centuries, and who can tell
Ehst will be the strength OF man and the
beauty Of woman, and the longevity OF
LII
Ny design is to show that practical re-
-sOn is the friend of long life. 1 prove
L iFst, from the fact thst it makes the
ae OF our health 3 positive Christian
duty, Whether We shall keep early OF
ST. hours, whether we soall take
food digestible or iudigestible,
whether there shall be thorough
oilcomplete masticAtion, are questions
very often deferred to the realm of whim-
Ec,lity, but the Christian man lifts this
Whole problem of health into the account.
sole and the divine. He says: "God
.N given me this body, and He has called
The temple OF the Holy Ghost, and to
.eisce its sltars, or mar its walls, or
tumble its pillars is God-defying sac
'lege"
he sees Goes caligraphy in every
ise-anStomicAl sad physiological. he
ISIS: "G)d has given me q wonderful
'2dy for noble purposes
I1atsrm with thirty-two curious bones,
Welded BY forty six curious muscles,
md sl under the bTaih's teIegr6phY; $50
pounds Ci blood rushing through the
2tsft every hour, the hesrt in twenly four
LOUIS beating 100 600 times, during the
'Wsn'y-iour hours overcoming resistaucvs
mounting to 224, 100000 pounds Of
weight, during the same time the lungs
We lakiDg in fiity-ceven hogsbeads of air,
sluau this mechanism rot more mighty
aln delicate easily disturbed and demol-
lsaed
HE Christian nan says TO himself:
y! hurt my nerves, II hurt my brain,
~ ourt any OF my physical faculties
.sUlt God and call for dire retribution."
way did God tell the LeVites not to sffer
lin in sscrihce animsls
IArRRFECT AND DIsIAsKD2
as meant to tell US in all she ages tina.
We are to offer to God our very best
kl!sicsl condition and man who through
.ttsulsr or glutonous eating ruins his
.taIth is not Offering to God such sacri-
-.s' Why did Paul write for his cloak a.
65toast Why should such great man as
tsaI De anxious about thing SO insig-
tSRcant as sn overcost7 1t WAS because
= anew that with pneumonia and rheu-
-Ausm he would not be worth half as
sucn to God and the church as With res
PIANon easy and foot free.
an intelligent Christian man would co.,
.i1ef l. sn GbsurditY to kneel down ST
~s3t and pray and ask Gods protection
a. ,-!e st the same time he Kept the win
SsHs OF his bedroom tight shut against
%ssa air. he would just as soon think
y gong cut on the bridge between New
VIZ VIZ AND Brooklyn, leaping OF and then
ss,aying to God to keep him from getting
wi wi, Just as long IS you defer this
.aoIe subj ct Of physical health to the
, IAN OF Wh!msicality, CT 10 the pastry
=. or to the butcher, or to the baker,
~ ~, 10 the spothecary, or 70 the clothier,
wv are not acting like Christian, Take