Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-06-17

cook, or 10 the butcher, or 10 the baker,
Or 10 the apothecary, or TO the clothier,
you are not acting like Christian. Take
care Of all your physical force,--nerVous,
bone, brain, cellular tissue
Tor all YOU must be brought to judgment.
Smoking your nervous system into tid-
yets, burning out the coating Of your
stomach with wine logwooded and
walking with thin shoes &c
make your feet look delicate, pinched at
the waist until you are nigh cut in two,
and neither part worth anything, groan.
ing about sick headache and palpitaiion of
the heart, which You think came from
your own folly.
What right has any man or woman r.
deface the temple of the Holy Ghost
What is the eari Why, it is the whisp-
ering gallery of the human soul. What
is the eye? 1t is the observatory God
constructed, its telescope sweeping the
heavens. What is the hand, An instru-
ment so wonderful that when the Earl of
Bridgewater bequeathed in his will $40.
900 for trcatises Ia be written on the wis.
dom. power and goodness Of God. Sir
Charles Bell, the great English anatomist
and surgeon, found his greatest illustration
in the construction OF the human hand.
devoting his whole book TO that subject.
So wonderful are these bodies that God
names his own attributes after different
parts Of them. His omniscience-it j.
Gods eye. His omnipresence-it is Gods
ear. His omnipotence-it is Gods arm.
The upholstery Of the midnight heavens
it is the work of Gods fingers. His
life giving powcr-it is the breath of the
Almighty. His dominion-'the govern.
ment shall be upon his shoulder" A
body so dIvinely honored and so divinely
constructed, let US be careful not to
abuse it.
When ii becomes n Christian duty 10
take care Of our health, is not the whole
tendency toward longevity: II l toss my
watch about recklessly and drop it on the
pavement, and wind il up any time Of
day or night happen to think of it, and
often let ii run down, while you are care
full with your watch and never abuse il.
and wind it up just at the same hour
every night and put il in place where
il will not suffer from the violent changes
of atmosphere, which watch will last the
longerg Common sense answers. Now,
the human body is Gods watch You
see the hands of the watch, you see the
face of the watch; but the beating of the
heart is the ticking Of the watch. Oh,
be careful and do not let it run down!
Again, remark that practical religion
is friend Of longevity, in the fact that
it is protest against dissipations which
iniure and destroy the health. Bad men
and women. hive very short life. Their
sins kill them. / know hundreds of good
old men, but do not know half dozen
bad old men. Whyl They do not get
old. Lord Byron died at Missolonghi at
thirty-six years of age, himself his own
Mazeppa. his unbridled passions the
horse that dashed with him into the
desert. Edgar A. Poe died at Baltimore
at thirty-eight years Of age. The black
raven that alighted on the bust above his
chamber door was delirium tremens-
Only this and nothing more,
Napoleon Bonaparte lived only just be-
yond mid life, then died at st. Helena,
and one Of his doctors said that his dis
ease was induced by excessive snuffing
The hero Of Austerlitz, the man who by
one step Of his foot in the center of Eu-
rope shook the earth, killed by a snuif-
box! oh, how many s'ople we have
known who have not lived out half their
days because of their designations and in
dulgences! Now practical religion is a
protest against all dissipation Of any kind.
But" you say, professors Of religion
have fallen, professors Of religion have
got drunk. professors Of religion have
misappropriated trust funds. professors
OF religion have absconded. Yes, hut
they threw away their religion before
they did their morality. If a man ON a
White Star line steamer bound for Liver
pool in mid-Atlantic jumps overheard
and is drowned. is that anything against
the White Star lines capacity 10 take the
man across the ocean, And If a man
jumps over the gunwale Of his religion
and goes down never to rise, is that any
reason for your believing that religion
has no capacity to take the man through!
In the one case if he had kept to the
steamer his body would have been saved;
in the other case il he had kept to his re-
ligion his morals would have been saved.
There are aged people who would have
been dead twenty-five years ago but for
the defenses and the equipoise If religion.
You have no more natural resistance than
hundreds Of people who lie in the ceme-
teries today. slain by their own vices.
The doctors made their case rs kind and
pleasant MS they could, and il was called
congestion Of the brain. or something
else, hut the snakes and the blue flies that
seemed TO crawl over the pillow in the
sight Of the delirious patient showed what
was the matter with him. You, the
aged Christian man. walked along by
that unhappy one until you came TO the
golden uiliar of a Christian life. You
went to the right; he went 20 the lett
That is all the difference between you.
Oh, il this religion is protest against all
forms of dissipation, then Il is an lllustrl-
Gus friend Of longevity. with long
life will / satisfy him.
Again. religion is a friend Of longevity
in t6c fact that il takes the worry out Of
our tcmporalities II Is not work that
kiIls men. ID Is worry. When a man be-
comes a genuine Christian 'e makes over
to God not only his affections hut his
family. his business, his reputation, his
body. his mind his soul-Cycything.
industrious he win lie, hut mover worry
ing. because God is managing his affairs,