The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-06-22
RELIGION AND HEALTH.
Dr.. Talrna9e Discourses on Relig.
ions Good Effect on Health.
Christtaa health Doctrines Worry aud
Troubles Not in Christian LIves-Godrs
Ways Always Bese-fae Joys
of the Future.

of the Future.
In u late sermon IN the subject: "Cces
Religion Probing Lifes'' DR.. Talmage TOOK
his text from Psalms xci. l6: w til long Lille
will satisfy him. He said:
Through the mistake OF i.s friends reil-
Elon has been chiefly associated with sick
beds and graveyards. The whole subjec.
70 many people is GLORIOUS with chlorine
and carbolic acid. There are people who
can not pronounce the word religion with
Out hearing it in the Oh piping chi sci Of the
sombsfone cutter. II u niga time that this
y4ing were changed and that re igion. in
stoad OF being represented a. a hearsc to
carry out the deaf. should be represented
as chariot IN which the living are to
triumph. Religion, SO far from subtract
ing from ones vitality, Il . glorious ad
0.iion. 1t is sanative. curative. hygienic. II
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, in another part Of the
Psalms, prays that religion may oe DOM
inant he does not speak Of it As . mild sick
ness, or en- emaciatiou, or an attack Of
moral and spiritual cramp: he speaks Of it
as 1.-The saving health of ali nations"
while God. in tue text, promises longevity
30 the pous SAYING: with long life will
satisfy him.
The fact is that men and women die too
eooa.-Itis high time that religion joined
the hand Of medical science in attempting
20 improve human longevity. Adam lived
$50 years. MethuseIah lived $50 years.
A. late in the history Of the world as YES
paeian, there We're at one time in his en-
pdre forty five people l35 years old. So far
down as the sixteenth century. Peter Ear
tan died at 1S5 years of age. do not say
that religion will ever take the race back
20 antediluvian longevity. but do say the
length Of human life will be greatly ill.,
creased.
II Is said in Isaiah: "The child shall die
a hundred years old" Now. if according
TO scripture the child Is to be hundred
years old, NAV not the men and women
reach to three hundred and four hundred
and five hundreds The fact is that we are
mere dwarfs and skeletons compared with
some of the generations that are 10 come.
Take the African race. They have been
under bondage for centuries. Give them
chance and they develop a Frederick
Douglass or Toussaint L Overture. And
IL the white race shall be brought from I'M
body! what shall 6e the soul: Religion has
only just touched our world. Give it fail
power for a few centuries aud who can tell
what will be the strength OK man and the
beauty OF woman, and the longevity OF ali.
Ny de,igu is to show that practical
religion is the friend Of long life. Iprove
i, fret. from the fact thu. it makes the
care Of cur health a positive Christian
duty. Whether we shall keep early or
late hours, whether we shall take food
d;gestible or indGestIble. whether there
shan be thorough or incomplete masttca-
lion. are questions often deferred to the
realm ct whimscal;ty: bat the Christian
Fan FITS this whole problem OF health IN
10 the accountable ami the divine. He
says: God has given me this body, and
he has called il the temple Of the Holy
Ghost, and to detace its affairs or mar its
walls or crumble Its pillars is God-defy-
ing sacrilege."
He sees Gods csiigraghy in every page
Anatomical and pay astrological. He says:
God has gwen NE q wonderful Dolly for
noble purposes
That arm with thIrtv-two curious bones
welded by forty-six curious muscles, and
al under the brains teiegrsphy: $50
pounds Of blood rushing through the heart
every hour. the heart in twen:y-four hours
beating 100 90 times. during the twenty
-FOUR hours overcoming resis;aaces amount
lDE to 224, 0060O0 pounds OF weight, during
the same time the lungs taking in fifty
seyen hogsheads OF air, and all this
mechanism not more mighty than delicate
and easily disturbed and demolished.
The Christian man says to himseit: 'If
burt my nerves, if ! hur. my brain. If
hurt any Of my physical faculties Insult
Sod ard call for dire retribution.'' Why
DID God tell the Leviies not to otter to Him
% sacrifice animals imperfect and dis
eased: He meant to tell Us in al ages
ina: we are to offer to God cur very best
physical condition. and . man who through
irregular or giuItouous eating ruins his
hesith is act ohering to God such ssc-
ri6ce.
Why did Paul write for his cloak at
Troas. Why should such Q great man as
Paal be anxious about a thing so insignii-
cant IS an overcoat! II Was because he
knew that with pneumonia and rheuma-
Gsm he would not be worth half as much
TO God and the Church IS with respiration
easy and foot free.
An intelligent Christian man would con-
sider il an absurdiry to knee, down at night
and pray and ask Gods protection while at
the same time be KEEP. the windows OF his
bedroom tight shut against fresh air He
would just as soon think of going out on
the bridge between New York and Brook
.yn- leaping Oh and then praying to God to
xeep him from getting hurt Just as long
rs you defer this whole 81 iect of physical
health TO the realm o. wEimsicality or to
the pastry cook or to the butcher OF to the
baker or 10 the apothecary or to the clo.hier
you are not acting l:ke Christian. Take
care Of all your physical forces-nervous.
muscular, bone, brain. cellular. .issue-tor
-sit you mus, be brought TO Judgment.
Smoking your nervous system into
hGgets. burning out the coating Of your
stomach with wine logwoodej and strych-
mined, walking With thin shoes 10 make
YOUR feet loos delicate, pinched a. the
wais: until you are nigh cut in two, and
neither part worth srv thing, groaning
shout sicX headache and palp;tation Of the
heart, which you think came from God,
when they came from your own folly.
What right has any man or woman to
deface the temple of the Holy Ghost.
VIVA. is the ear. Why, it is the viii ,per.
Jag gallery of the human soul. What i,
he eye! Il is the observatory God coz
stracted. it's telescope sweeping the
heavens. What is the hsndl Au instru-
merit 80 wonderful that when the Ear OF
Bridgewater beq1eatned IN his will <il.UU
Tor treatises TO be written on the wisdom.
power and goodness OF God Sir Charles
Bel. the great English anstomist and sur
geon. found his greatest illustration in the
construction OF the human hand, devo,.ng
his whole BOOK 10 that subject.
So wonderful are these bodies tba. God
names His oyn attributes after Different
parts OF them. His omniscience-it is Gods
ere. HIS omnipresence-it Is Gods ear