The Forrest City times., 1888-06-16
THE DIET OF DANIEL.
TlLnlGs'S SUNDAY MORNING DISCOURSE.
The Great Divine Breaches from the Text.
 Docs Religion Prolong Life2"


 The Great Divine Breaches from the Text.
 Docs Religion PrOlong Lifsr
 The hisooncsp,ion Placed Upon Religion
 by Its Friends-so Far Frcm subtrac,ing
 From Ones Vitality, Is Glorious Addi-
 .fon.
 BRooKIYy.June 1o.--At the Tabernacle this morning, after expounding come pass. ges ot Scripture in regard to the diet of Daniel and bis abstemious habits, the Rev. I. Dewitt Iaimage, D. D., gave out the hymn begin- ninxi
 'Tiory to God on high,
 . Let heaven and earth reply"
 He announced as the subject of his sermon Docs Religion Proiong l. fei' and preached from the text found in Psalm gl. V. I6: "with long life win satisfy him" Following Is the discourse in full,
 Through the mistake Of ita friends religion has been chiefly associated with sck beds and grsveyards The whole subject to many peo p'e Is odotuus with chlorine and carbolic acid There are people who cannot pronounce the word religion without hearing in 1t the clip ping chsel of the tombstone cutter It is high time that this thing were changed and that religion. instead of being represented as q hearse to carry out the dead, should be rep resented as chariot tn which the living are to triumph.
 Religion, 60 far from subtfactlhg from cne's yiiality,is A glorious addition. tt is sanative, curative, hygieni& It is good for the e. good for the spleen, good for -" oi,,estion' gpcd TOT the nerves. good for the muscles mnen Dsvic m smother part of the Psalms, tnst religion may be dominant he doss not speak of 1t as a mild slckuess. or an ema. ciation, or an attack of moral and spiritual crampi he speaks of fit as the saving health of si ha;ious,S while God, in inc text, promises longevity to ,se pious saying; "With long life will satisfy him"
 The fact is that ti,so and women die too soon. V is high ti.ne that religion joined the hand Q, medical science In sltempsiug to i'm hundred and thirty years. Metbuselah lived nine hundred and sixty nine years, As late in the history of the word as vespasisn, there were at one time in his empire fofty-hve people one hnndrvJ ard thirty i've years old So far ecwn as the sixteenth century, Peter ZaT,an died at one hundred aud eighty five years Of age. do not say that religion will ever take the rac- back to Rutediluvian lon. gevty. but do say the length of human life will be greatly improved.
 huad.S sfa a.., S I'es ss ead .,sh,na sh. die Scripture the child Is to be hundred years old, may not the men aud women reach to three hundred aud four hundred and five hun. dredf 1hc fact is that we are mere dwarfs and skeletons compared with some of the generations that arc 10 come. Take the African race. They have been under bondage for centuries. Give them chance and they develop Frederick Douglass or A Tpnssaint L0uveriure. And if the white race shall be brought from under the serfdom Of sin, what shall be tho bodyi what sbail Be the soul. Religion has only itst touched our world. Give it fil power for few centuries and who can tell whatwill be the strength Of man and the beauty of woman, and lhe longevity of Ny design is to show that practical religion Ia tie friend of long life. l prove 1t first. from the fact that 1t makes Inc care of our health . positive Christian duty. Whether VIC shall keep cary or late hours. whether we shall take food iigestible or indlgest be, whether there shall be thor ough or incomplete mastication, arc ques- tions very often deferred to the realm of wh mslcallty; but the ChristlanmsH lifts this whole problem of health into the accountab and the divine He says. 'God has gwen me ihs body, and He has called it the temple of the Holy Ghost, and to defsce its altars or mar ils walls or crumble it's pillars is q God-defy ng sacriIege." f He sees Gods cal graphy in every page anatomical snd physiolog cal. He says. "Gud has given me wonderful body for noble purposes"
 That afin with thir.y-two curious bones yielded by. forty six curious muscles, and all under the brain's telegraphy: three hundred ! and fifty pounds of blood ru hing through the heart every hour the heart in Twenty four hours beating i0QOUo times during the twenty.four hours overcoming resisl apces amounting 10 "A 0 0.O0J pounds Of weight during the same time the lungs taking in ffty-seven hogsheads of air, and all this mechanism not more mighty than delicate and eas ly disturbed and demolished. The Chr stian man says to himself; "1f hurt m. nerves, if hurt my bran, if l hurt any of my physical faculties insult God and | cal for dire rrtribdtion." Why did God ell l the Ley,tes not to offer to Him in sacrifice animals imperfect and dlseasedt He me nt to tell us in all ages that we are to offer to l God our very best phys,cal condition, and a man who through irregular or giuttouous t. | ing ruins his health Is not offering 10 God such sacrifice. Why did Paul writs for his cloak at Troasi Why shodd such great man as Paul be ans ons about thing So in because he knew that with pneumonia and rheumatism he would not be worth half as much to God and the Church as with | respiration easy and foot free.
 | An intell gent Christian man would consid | CT 1t an absurditv to kncei down at nlght and pray anu ASK uOub pfOttctiou WUtlt at tDe | same time he kept the windowe of his bed l room tight shut against fresh air. He would ! just as soon think Of going out on the bridge between New York aud Brooklyn, lesping of and then praying to God to keep him from | getting hurt Just as long as you defer this whle subject of ph sical health to th realm of (ns,callty or to the pastry cook or to | the, Atchvr or 10 the baker or to the apothecary or to the clothier, YOU are not act l ing like Christian. Take care of all your | physical forces-nsrvous, muscular. bone, brain, cellular tissue-ior all you must be brought to Judgment.
 Smoking your nervous system Into hdgets. | burning out the coating Of your stomach win | wine logw coded and strychuyned. walking l with thin shoes to make your feet lonk dell cate, pnehed al the waist until you are nigh cut in two, and neither part worth an, thing, | grooming about sick headache and pslpitation | of the heart, which you think came from | God, when they came from your own folly. What right has any man or woman to de- face the temple of the lloi, Ghosts What IS the earl Why it is the hisper ng gallery of l the human soul What Is the eyel II is the observatory God constructed, its telescope | sweeping the heavens. What IS the handf An instrument 60 wonderful that when the l Earl of Bridgewater bequeathed in his wlll l f40 0OQ for Urea ,ises to be written on the wis dom, power and goodness of God. Sn Charles Bell, ibe great English anstomist and surgeon | found his greatest illustration in the ] construction of the human hand de- voting his whole book to that subj ct So wonderful are these bodies that God names his own attributes after different parts | of them. His omnlscience-it is God eye, His omnipresenc---it is Gods ear Ills om- nIpotence--it is Gods ariu. The upholstery | Of ihe m alright hesvens-it Is the work ol Goi,s fingers. His lfe-giv ng power-tt is the breath Of the Almighty. Ills dominion-
 .'the government shall be upon Is shoulder. Y A body so divlnely honored and so diyinely | constructed, let us be careful not 10 abuse it
 When it becones s Christian duty to take care Of our beslih, it is not the whole ten denc, toward longeviiyi If toss my watct about reckiessly and drop it on ihe pavemen, and wind lt up any time of day or night happen to think of Ii, and often let it run down, while ,oa arc careful with your watel and never abuse it and wind it up just at the same hour every night and put 1t in plnet where it will not suffer from the violent changes of atmosphere. which watch will ias the ong-ri Common sense apswers Now
 inc human body Is Gods watch. You see thu hands of the watch, YOU see the face ot th' watch. but the beating Of the heart Is ih' tick ng of the watch. Oh. be careful and d' not let it run downl ] Again: remsrk that practical religion |