The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1888-08-17
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE's Sun
DAY SERMON
sa5jecf. Does Religion PrOlons
Life 2''

Ky y ifh long lfs uit s1ttsI 2
ntul. Palms 1et- u
IhHough the mistake n is friends religion
has -s=sr chiefly associaie.i with sick beds and
EraFegerds The whole subject % many
Ieafl- s 0dorous sith chlorine and earbolc
ecd lher6 are people who cannot pro
u1unne lie word religion without hearing IN
z tie Clipping el4lsal OF the tombstone cut
-. u high tine that this thing were
ctanEel and that religion, instead Of being
re4reseaisd IS d hearse 70 carry out the dead.
Eaau.d h. rerrls MED as q chariot in WLi1h
tle uFlns arr 20 triumph
Religion, - far from subtractiug from
one salty. Is q gauriaus addition Il IS
nauaflrr curative hygisnie. i j. good for
fhe eTes- good far the ear, good for the
srisen god fer the digestion, good for the
li'rres- good for the uluseies. v hen David,
il enafier part ~ the Psalms. prays that re-
lgiau aay b. dominant he does not speak Of
. as a mid sickness. uf an einaciatlon, or an
attars ~ moral and spiritual craInp. he
sI-aEs 70 b as the saving health u all ma
tons ulle God IN the text. promises
loasesity 10 the pieus, saying. with long
he ula z sstisiy hiin-'
Tie fact l. that men ami women die TOO
so1n T. Is high me that religion joined the
hand ~ medical scienae in attempting u inn
prove human lougefity Adam lived nine
hundred aud tairiY years. Methuselah lived
nine luulr-i ami sixty nine years As late
ir H. history q the word a. Aespasian,
there were az one time in his empire forty
tF- ferEl IL oue hundred and fhirty-hve years
Cd - FAR down o. the Sixteenth century,
Peter Tartan diei a. one hundred and eighty
tve sears 0f age DO not say that IeliEio
ali ever take the Taee back 10 ante-d .luvian
lnnsrtlty but Do say the length Of human
lie Oil b. Greatly improved
10 -aii u Isaiah THE child shall die a
Elnlrrl yrafs Old Now. II according 70
90
Old NAY not tie men and women reach 70
TIRES hundred and four hundred and i've
hun1rclt The fact Is that We are mere
dHarfs and skeletons compared with some Of
tle generatians that are 10 come. Take the
Afrienn raae They have hesn under bond
EE= for centuries. Give them d chance and
they leY-lor o Fred rick Douglass or a T0us-
SAINT \ luysrtune- And Il the white rar-
shall b. brought from under the ssrldom OF
an. What shall he the bodyi WHIST shall he
Tie sui. Religion has oHiy just touched our
world. Give IL flh power FOR a few centuries,
and who can Tell what wil be the strength
~ man and the beauty o. woman and the
iou-eg.tF n an
Ay design is 70 show that practical re-
Lyon Is tie frieni u ong life 1 prove It,
trzl. from tls fact that il makes the care q
our health : positive Christian duty.
II better ae shall keep early or late hours,
whether We shall take food digestibls or in
digest be whether there shall lie thorough or
Incomplete mast ration. are questions very
often deferred - the realms u whimsicality
Tut the Christian man Lifts tins whole
problem o. heaita into the accountable and
fle divine He says. God has given me
TINS loiF. and He has called il the temple Of
rils folF Ghost, ADD . deface its altars or
mar - Hails Or erumble lis pillars Is God
lelFiug saCrl-Fe
Hs 49, God caligraphv in every page
anatQmicai and physiological He SAYS:
'ilol has gwen NE a wonderful body for
lolle purpaS=s
Thai arm with thirly-two curious bones
E.eiae3 hy forfY--iU curious muscles, and all
under flle brains telegrgnhy. pounds Of
blood rushing through the heart every hour,
the heart IN twenty four hours beating l00-
80 umes during the tWenty-four hour.
overcoming resistanoss amounting 10 2a.
o. .oQl pounds ~ weight during the same
time The lungs taking in fiftyseven hogs
beds Il air, and ali this mechanism not
more mighty team deiIczte and easily dis
;uriad and demolished.
The Christ an man says 20 himself: IF
hart my nerves II hurt my brain, II hurt
any q my physical faculties insult God and
call for dire rstrihution Why did God tel
tis LeFifes not 70 offer 70 him in sacridcs
animals imperfect and diseased He mean
= tell us ~ ali the ages that ae are 70 ofei
70 God our very bsst physical coalition and
q man who through irregular or gluttonou'
aating ruins his health b not offering to God
such a sacrlnee Why dld Paul write for his
cioak al Jroas, Why should such a great
man 1s Paul b. anEious about thing 50 in
sEnifaenf o. an oEereoats L was hecauss
b. kuep that with pneumonia and rheuma
tisIa BE- would not he worth half as much q
God and tie church a. wiki respiration easy
and foli free.
An Int liizeuf Christian man would con
sider i au ahsurdity 70 knasl down at night
and pray AM asg Gods prot-ction while al
tie same time be kept the windows Of hi
Led room fiEhr shut against fresh air. II,
world iEsf o. soon think 4 going out on th,
tridre between Kew y ork and Brooklyn,
lelpiuE 81 and then proving - God 70 keel
him lfuIn getting hurt Just as long as yoi
dafer tbs irlaie SUB eat Of physical health L
tie realm of N-lulsicalitv or 10 the pastry
cook orf 70 the butcher or 70 the blker or q
~ lfutbecary or O. the clotlier- you are uo
eetIng Ike q CHRISTIAN. Take care Of al
your physical forees-nerT Gus, muscular
hona. briin cellular iIssle-for al you mus
u brought 20 Judgment
smoking vuur nervous system into tidgets
Turning out tie coating Of your stomach
with vine lnsWoodei and strychnined, walk
inE with tain shoes % make your Zee; loo
deIicafe rinch-f ~ the waist until y9u ar
vel niEn cut lu two and neither fart worrl
anything. groaning about sch headache an
falfitalol Of the heart. uhlch ylu thiu
came from God. when they came from you
cuu folly.
- hat nqht has any man or woman % De
face tle tenn j. Of the Holy Ghost What
rae eari Why. il Is the Nhisperlng CALLER
81 fhe human soul " har D. the eye 10
til= observatory God coustru ted, its teie
cope sweeping the heareas. What is tn
hEuli An instrument - wonderful tina
ri At fanaN
nis vii SO 9l0 for lreafises % be written %.
tte wisdom, power and go01nsss Of God
8 Charles Eel. the great English anata
mist and surgeon, f0ull h.s greatest Illus
trlti1n lu the construction Of the humli
L1nl, deF0tluE his whole book % that sub
tr- So wonderful are these bod.e- that
Tod laines bis usu attn butf-s after uifereai
parts " them. His commissioner is Coli
efe. his osunip-e--nca 1t is God ear. Hi
cnuipI t-nee-i1 is Coils arm The uphol
ef-rr ~ the midnight heavens-it is the wora
70 Gais hurers His LIE giving powell
s rhr hr-llh Il the Almighty. HIS do
ulInl1l- tAe government shall be upon hi
sl1a.ier A body 80 diyinely hunorsd AMI
. divine y elllstru TED, let Us be careful no
h ahIlss H.
Nhen Il b-comes a Christian duty b TAX,
care Of our health, u not the whole tsnlen ;
toward longevity n toss my Waten n5oul
rses.issiiT and drop it un she pavement an
u-ui D. ~ any time Of day or night hap
r-l fo mink u b.. and often lei it run down
aa.lr you are careful with your watch ami
ue er ablss i anl Wind Il up Just al fhf
same hour every night and put ia a plact
sa-ze i vii not suffer from the violent
chauses o. atmosphere, which watch will last
To- luu-erf Common sense answers Nov
fls human body is Gods watch You SCI
t1e har,is q the watch you sc the face OF
fhs watch. but the beating Of the heart Is
10 tiezing d the watch Oh. be careful
ani 20 not II il run dosni
Again. ] remark that practical religion i
e fr.-1i Of longevity in the fact that IL is a
Trltesf against dissipations which iniure and
destroy the health Bad men AMI women
ilr- a very -hor. life Their sins Kill them.
] kaos hundreds Of good old men. but do
NJ kuoW hak dozen bad old men WHY
They Do nos get Old Lord Byron died al
Nl=Qaushi at thirty SIX years Of age. him
s.if BIZ own Ma.eppa, bis unhridled passions
tle l1ras that dashed with him into the
desert Elsar A. Poe died at Baltimore at
taiTtT-eieht years OF age Tbs black raven
that alslifel On the bust above his chamber
DOR zas lelirium trernens-
Only this .nd nothing more
Nanoieon Bonaparte live only Just beyond
rrri'Ifs then died AZ St Helena anil ono u
81 doctors said thnt his dissess was induced
hr excessive snufing The hero II Auster.
liir fh- man VINO by one step OF his foot IN
tie center Of Europs shook thu earth. killei
hy snuff box Oh. how many people We
have known who have not lived ont bali
Their DAYS be,ause q their ssipatinus and
inlugeuoes, Nov practical religion Is a
pro-asf against al si7s PISTON Of any kind
Put you say. professors Of religion
have flli-H. rr1fess0rs II religion have got
drunk. rrolas71rs 81 religion have IN isanpro-
Friafe trust funds. professors 81 raiig on