Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-06-16
TABERNACLE SERVICES.
REV. 7. DE WITT TALMAGE'S SUM-
DAY MORNING DISCOURSE.

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s DAY MORNING DISCOURSE.
Religion Is sanativc, Curative, nyricnIc.
1t Einy Not Give to tho Human Race
Antcdiinvl;,n Longevity, but VIII Greatly
Lcngthcn Our Lives.
BROOKLYN, June 10-At the Tabernacle
this morning, after expounding some pas
saSes Of Scripture in regard to tho dict of
Daniel and his nbstemo1s habits, the Rev.
T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., gave out the
LYNN beginning:
Glory to God on high,
Let heaven and earth reply.
He announced as the subject of his sermon:
"Docs Religion Prolong Lifcf' and preached
from the text found in Ps xci, lG: with
long life will satisfy him." Following is
lii, ia. discourse in full:
Through tbs mistake of its friends religion
has been chiefly assS .s leu e, yth sick beds
and graveynrds. Thowhole subject to lhlftsss,
peoples 5odorous with chlorine and carbolic
acid, There are people who cannot pro
nounco tho word relig ion without. hearing in
1t tesclipping cliisel Of tiie=tombstone Gutter:
It is high time that this thing werc changed
and that religion; instead of being repre-
Gcntedas hearse to carry out the dead,
should be represented as a chariot insyvhich
the living are to triumph.
Religion, so far from subtracting from
ones vitality, is u glorious addition 1t is
sanative, curative, hygienic. 1t is good for
the eyes, COOL for the cars, good for tho
spleen, good for the digestion, good for the
nerves, good for the muscles. When David,
in another part Of the Psalms, prGys thatrc-
liSion may be dominant he does not speak of
it as mild sickness, or an c;naciation,, CT al
attack of moral and spiritual cramp; he
speaks of it MS ''tlle saving health OF all M
tions;' while Cod, in tho text, promises
longevity to the pious, saying: "With long
life will satisfy him"
Tue fact is that nlcn and women Tie too
soon 1t is high time tl,atrcligion joined tho
hand of MEDICAL science i'll Attempting to i'm
prove human longevity Adam lived nine
hundred and thirty Years. Mcthuselal lived
nine hundred and siXty-nilic years. As latc
in the history Of tho world rs Vcspasan,
there were at ono time in his empire forty
five people one hundred and tl;rty-fvc years
old. So far down as the Sixteenth century,
Peter Tartan died at ono hundred and
eighty-fivc years Of age do not say that
religion will ever take the race back TO ante
diluvian longevity, but do say the length
of human life will be greatly improved
1t is said i'll Isaiah: Tho child shall die
hundred years old" Now, if according to
Scripture the Child is TO be hundred years
old, may not the men and women reach to
three hundred and four hundred and five
hundred! The fact is that We are mere
dwarfs and skeletons compared with some OF
the generations that ere to come Take the
African race. They have been under bond
age for centuries. Give them chance and
they develop Il Frederick Douglass or Tous-
saint L'Ouverturc. and If the white race
shall be brought from under tho serflonl of
sin, whit shall be the body! What shall DO
the souls Religion has only just touched our
world. Give it full power for /. few centuries,
and who can tell what will be the strength
Of man and the beauty of woman end the
longevity of ala
My design is to show that practical re-
ligion is the friend of long life. provo it,
first, from the fact that it makes tic caro- of
our health a positive Christian duty.
Whether we shall Keep carly or late hours,
whether we shall take food digestlblo or indi-
often deferred to the realm Of whimsicality,+
but tho Christian man lifts this whole
problem of health into the accountable and
the divine. He says: .God has giveHs,Inc
this body, and he has called it the temple OF
the Holy Ghost, and to defacc its affairs or
mar its walls or crumble its pillars is God
defying sacrilege."
He sees Gods caligraply in every page
anatomical and physiological. He says:
"God has given me q wonderful body for
noble purposes"
That arm with thirty-two curious bones
welded by forty-siX curious muscles, and all
under the brains tcleglaphy; $50 pounds OF
blood rushing through the heart every hour,
the heart in twenty-four hours beating lOO,-
roo times, during the twenty-four hours
overcoming rcsistances amounting to 22234,-
600, 900 pounds of weight, during tho samo-
time the lungs taking in fifty-sevcn hogs
heads of air, and oil this mechanism not
more mighty than delicate and easily dis
turbed and demolished
Tho Christian man says to himself: "lt
hurt my nerves, if hurt my brain, if hurt
INV of my physical faculties 1 insult God and
call for dire rctribution." Why lid Col tell
The Ieyites not to offer to him i'll sacrifice
animals imperfect and diseased: He meant
TO tell us in all tho ages that we are to ciIer
TO God our very best physical condition, and
-ttiirlu wuu ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS or CluttOnOi1S
eating ruins his health is not offering to God
such a sacrifice. Why dill Paul write for lis
clouk at Troas7 Why should such a great
ID. l. OH - IL
significant rs nh overcoat. 1t was because
be knew that with pneumonia and rheuina-
tism lie would rot be worth half rs much TO
God and the church as with respiration easy
and foot free
An intelligent Christian man would con-
slider it M allsurdity to l:necl down at night
and pray and ask Gods protection while at
the samo time he kept the windows OF BIS
bed room tight shut against fresh ar tie
would Just rs soon think of gong ou5 on TIC
bridge between New York and Brooklyn,
lcaping off and then praying TO Cod to Eeep
him from getting hurt. just rs long rs you
defer this whole subject Of physical health to
the realm OF whinsicality or to the pastry
cool, or to the butcher or to the baker or TO
the apothccary or to the clotiiier, you are not
. acting like Christian Take care OF Gil
your physical forces-neryous, muscular,
bone, brain, cellular tissue-for all you must
DO brought to Judgment. !.
Smoking your nervous system into fdgets,
burning out the coating Of your stomach
With wine logwooded and strychnined, walk
ing with thin shoes to mako your feet look
delicate, punched at the waist until you are
we'll nigh cut in two and neither part worth
anything grooming about sick headache and
paiptation of the heart, which you think
came from God, when they cainc from Your
own folly.
What right has any man or woman to de
face the temple OF tile Holy Ghost? What IS
the earl Why, it IS tie whispering gallery
of the human soul. What is the eye: 1t is
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