The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-06-15

strychnined. walking with thin shoes I,
make your feet look delicate, pinched a
the waist until you are nigh cut in two
and neither part worth anything, groan
ing about sicl; headache and palpitation o
the heart. which you think came from
your own folly.
What right has any man or woman t.
deface the temple Of the Holy Ghost
What Is the earl Why, 1t Is the whisp
ering gallery of the human soul. What
is the eye? It is the observatory Goo
constructed, its telescope sweeping the
heavens. What is the handa An instru
ment SO wonderful that when the Earl OF
Bridgewater bequeathed in his will 49,,
900 for treatises to be written on the wis
dom, power and goodness of God, Sii
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 Ia
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 power-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 it becomes a Christian duty to
take care of our health, is not the whole
tendency toward longevity? If toss my
watch about recklessly and drop it ON the
pavement, and wind it up any time of
day or night happen to think of it, and
often let it run down, while you are care
full with your watch and never abuse it,
and wind it up just at the same hour
every night and put II in place where
it will not suffer from the violent changes
Of atmosphere, which watch will last the
longer? 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 designations which
injure and destroy the health. Bad men
and women live very short life. Their
sins kill them. I know hundreds of good
old men, but do not know half dozen
bad old men. Why9 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-
ond 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 snuff
box! Oh, how many people we have
known who have not lived out half their
days because Of their designations and in
dulgences! Now practical religion is
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
trust funds, professors
Of religion have absconded." Yes, but
they threw away their religion before
hey did their morality. If man on
White Star line steamer bound for Liver
,ool in d-Atlantic jumps overheard
md is drowned, is that anything against
he White Star lines capacity to take the
nan across the ocean? And if man
jumps over the gunwale of his religion
md goes down never to rise, is that any
eason for your believing that religion
las no capacity to take the man through?
n the one case if he had kept to the
teamer his body would have been saved;
n the other case if he had kept to his re-
igion his morals would have been saved.
There are aged people who would have
zen dead twenty-five years ago but for
he defenses and the equipoise of religion.
You have no more natural resistance than
of people, who lie in the ceme-
cries today, slain by their own vices.
made their case as kind and
Daald and it was called