Telegram-herald., 1888-06-11

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he aaaoanesd a. tie sue b.es sf bis sermon:
sDoas Rsiixion Proleng l1feF and preached
from TIE tsxt fouad IN Fs xei. -: With
lag ia ~ili I study Ain-H Foliosing Is
the tisooEuss
Nv design Is 20 slow that prsefical re-
lizion . tie frisnd of long Ilfs prove il,
drst, from tie fact taas Il Iaakes tia care Of
cur health a positive CsElstian dary.
Waether - shall Keep early or late hours.
whistler ss sA2ll taks food digsstlbls or indi-
gestlbls, shsthef there shAA DO thorough OF
ineompiets m2ssloatioa. afe questions very
often deferred 70 the realm of whimsicalfy;
but ths Christian man lifts this whole
probism Of kszl1h into the accountable and
the divine He as: God has given mo
this body, 2nd he haA called it the temple Of
ths Holy Gh3st, and 20 defaee is affairs or
n4ar rs walls or crumbs ia pillars Is God
dsfytng saeFilegs"
Hs sees Gods ealigraphy in every page
anatomical and physiological He says:
God has given me wonderful body fer
noble purposes
That arm with thirty-two curious bones
uieldei BY forty-six curious muscles, and all
under tho brains telegraphy; $50 pounds Of
blood rushing through the heart every hour,
the heart IN twenty-four hours beating ioO,-
600 times, during the twenty-sour hours
overcoming resistances amounting 10 "a
600 coo pounds 0f weight, during tho same
time the lungs taking in fifty-seven hogs
heads Of air, and all this mechanism not
more mighty than delicate and easily dis
trrbed and demolished
The Christian man SAYS TO himself "1f I
hurt nay nerves. II hurt my brain, II hurt
any of my physical faculties insult God and
call for dire retribution.r Why did God tell
the Levites not 70 offer 20 him in sacrifice
animals imperfect and diseascdi He uesnt
20 tell Us in ell the ages that we are 70 offer
70 God cur very best physical condition, and
a man who through irregular or giuttonous
eating ruins his health Is not offering TO God
such a sacrifice Why did Paul write for his
CLOAK &C Troasi Why should such a great
man "a Psni bs anxious about a thing 50 In
significant as an overcoa,' IL was because
be knew that with pncumonia and rheuna-
tism he would not be worth half as much TO
God and tho church a. with respiration easy
and foot free.
An intelligent Christian man would con-
slider il an absurdity 20 kneel down ct night
and pray AMI ask Gods protection while at
the same time he kept the windows Of bis
bed room tight shut against fresh air He
would just as soon think of going out on the
bridge between New York and Brooklyn,
leaping OF and then praying TO God 70 keep
him from getting hurt. just as long as you
defer this whole subject OF physical health to
the realm OF whinisicality or TO the pastry
cook or TO the butcher or to the baker or to
the apothecary or 10 the clothier, you are not
acting like n Christian. Take care Of all
your physical forces-nervous, muscular,
bone, ain. cellular tissue-for all you must
b. brought TO Judgment
Smoking your nervous system into f1gets,
burning out the coating Of your stomach
with wine logwooded and strychnined, walk
Ing with thin shoes to make your feet look
delicate, pinched at the waist until you are
well nigh cut in two, and neither part worth
anything, groaning about sick headache aud
palpitation Of the heart, which you think
came from God, when they came from your
own folly.
What right has any man or woman 10 do
face the temple Of the Holy Ghostl What is
tire cart Why, it is the whispering gallery
OF tho human soul What is the eyes Il is
tho observatory God constructed, its tele-
scope sweeping the heavens. What IS the
handl An instrument 50 wonderful that
when the Earl Of Bridgevatsr bequeathed in
his viii $4,000 for trcatises 70 be written en-
the wisdom, power and goodness Of God,
Sir Charles Bell, the great English anat-
omist and surgeon, found his great
est illustration in tho construction OF the
human hand. dsvoting liis whole book TO that
subject So wonderful are these bodies that
God names his own attributes after different
parts OF them. His ornniscience-it is Gods
eve His omnipresencc--it is Gods ear. His
ornipotence-it IS Gods arm. The uphol-
stery Of the midnight heavens-it is the work
Of Gods fingers. His hfe giving power-it
- the breath Of ths Almighty. His dominion
-ssthe government shall be upon his shoul-
der A body so divineiy honored and 50
divinsly constructed, let ns De careful not 70
abuse IL.
Again, remark thnt practical religion IL
/
protest against dissipatiors which iniure and
DESTROY the health. Bad men and women
live a very short life. Their sins kin them.
know hundreds Of good old men, bus I do
not know half a dozen bad old uen. Whyi
They DO rot get old Lord Byron died as
Missolonghi at thirty-six years Of age. him
self bis own Mszeppa, his unbr1dled passions
the horse thar dashed with him into the
desert Edgar A. Poe died st Baltimore at
thirty-eight yesrs - &c. The black raven
that alighted on the bust above his chamber
door was delirium tremsns-
Oulr this and nothing more.
rridiife, then died st st Helena. and one of
| his doctors ssid That his disease was induced
hy excrsslv- suufline- The hero of Auster-
htx. the nan who by one step q his foot IN
the center Of Europe shook the Earth. killed
| BY sunfr box on. how many people We
have known who have not lived cut half
their days because of taeir disEipations and
indniGencesi Now. practical religion IS a
protest against AL dfssi rstion II any kind
Bat. you saY. professors - religion
have fslien. professors ~ religion have g1t
drunk. professors ~ religion have miSappro-
priated trrtst fsnSs. profezzc~s 81 religion
have shsconsird Yes. hut thev threw away
their r.i.-ion before thev dii their morality
r. a nan ON Wits stsr iine steanaer hosud
| fer Liverpool in ruisi- Atlantic jumps over
beard and Is drowned rs that anything
against the Write star lin~'s capacity 70 take
| tbe man across re ocpan7 Asd 4 man
| frTaus c~er the gtlawale Il his reii ixfon and
rces down never - rise. = that anv reason