Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-06-23

"iNiouS dpoul II tnlng SO lnslgnlllcant q
an oVercoat? 1t was because he knew
that with pneumonia and rheumatism h
would not be worth halt as much To Coz
and the church as with respiration easy
and foot free.
An intelligent Christian man woui(
consider it an absurdity TO knccl down "A
night and pray and ASA Gods protection
While at the same time he kept the win
COWS OF his bedroom tight shut against
fresh air. He would Just as soon think
OF going out on the bridge between New
lork and Brookly n, leaping oil and then
praying to God 10 keep him from g%cttiue
huit. Just AS long as you defer thi.
Whole subject of physical health 10 The
realm of whimsicalily or to the pastry.
COOK or 10 the butcher or to the baker OF
to the apothCcary or TO the Clothicr, YOU
are not acting like a Christian. Take
care Of all your physical forces-nervous
muscular, bone, brain, cellular tissue
for all you must be brought to judg.
mcnt.
Smoking your nervous system into fd-
gets, burning ont the coating of your
stomach with wine logwoodcd and
strychnincd, walking with thin shoes To-
tA'NN p'I l'1L 'tli'dl', lIllNI'N az
the waist until YOU are nigh cut in two.
anl neither part worth anything, groan-
inc about 81 + headache and palpitation
Ct the heart, which you think came from
GOD, when they oalnc from your own
folly.
What right has any man or woman to
deface the temple Of the Holy Ghost
What is the ear? Why it is the whisper
in,r ,. ~ ,,,r ,c 4I,. l,n,.., eA,Iy AAI.s 4.
the eye? 4 is the observatory God on
structed, rs telescope sweeping the hcay-
ems. What is the handy I'm instrument
So wonderful that when the Ear Of
Bridgewatcr bcqucathcd in his will $40
900 for treat!scs 70 be written on the VS..
dom, power and goodness of God. Sir
Charles Bell, the great English anatomist
and surgeon, found his greatest illuStra-
ton in the human hand, dcYoting his
whole book TO that subject.
50 wonderful are these bodies thai God
names His own attributes after different
parts OF them. His omniscicncc-it IS
Gods eye. His omniprcscnce-i is Gods
ear. His om~nipotcmcc-it is Gods arm.
The upholstery of the acknowledgements
il is the work of Gods fingers, His life
giving power ii is the breath Of the
Almighty. His dominiOn-'lhr govern
mcnt shall be upou his shoulder. a
body SO d~ivincly honorcd and so diyincly
constructed, let US bccarctuln0t to abuse
it.
When it becomes "A Christian duty to
take care Of our health, is not the whole
tendency toward longevity II | toss
my watch about recklcssly and drop il
on the pavement and wind it 4p any time
Of day or night | happen TO think OF it,
and often let IT run down, while YOU are
careful with your watch and never abuse
il and wind il up just at the same hour
every night and pat ii in a place where
il viii not suffer from tie violent changes
OF atmosphere, which watch viii last the
longer? Common sense answers. Now,
the human body is Gods watch. You
see the hands oi the watch, You see the
face of the watch. but the breathing OF
the heart is the ticking Of the watch. ON,
bc careful ana do not let il run down!
Again: | remark that practical religion
Is a friend of longevity in the face that is
a protest against dis,ip4tiUnS which in
jurc and destroy the health, Bad men
and women live in a very short life.
Their Sins Kill them. know hundreds
Of good old men, but ! 90 not know noli
"a dozen bad old men. Why? They 30
noi get Old. Lord Byron died at MiSso-
longhi at So years Of age, himself his own
Ma2cppa, his unblidlld passions the
horse that dashed with him into the
desert. Edgar 4. Poe died at Baltimore
at IS years Of age. The black raven that
alightcd ON the bust above his chamber
door was dclirium trcmens-
"Only. this and nothing more"
Napoleon Bonaparte lived only just be
yond midlife, then died at st. Helena.
and one of his doctors said that his dis
ease was induced by excessive shutting.
The hero e Austeriit2. the man who by
one step OF his foot in the centre Of Eu-
rope shook the earth, killed by q snuff
box, oh, how many people we have
known who have not lived out half their
days because Of their designations and in
dulgenccs. Now practical religion is "a
protest against all dissipationof any kind.
But You say. professors Of rcli-
zion have fallen; professors Of religion
have got drunk, professors Of religion
have inappropriate trust funds, pro
fcss0rs Of religion have ~absconded.
Yes. but they threw away their religion
before they did their morality. If a man
ON a White Star line steamer. bound for
Liverpool, in mid Atlantic, jumps over
board 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 gunwalc Of his re-
ligion and goes downncvcr 10 rise, IS that
any reason for your believing that reii
gion has no capacity to take the man
clear through? In the one case if be bad
kept TO the steamer his body would have
bcen saved; in the other case, if he had
kept 70 his religion his morals would have
been saved.
There are aged people who would have
been dead twenty-five years ago bat for
the defenscs and the cquipoise Of religion.
You have no more natural resistance than
hundreds of people who lie in the Gene
tcrics today, slain by their " vices.
The doctors made their case rs kind and
pleasant us they could. and il was call&
congestion Of the brain. or something
else, but the snakes and the blue flies that
seemed 10 crawl over the pillow III the
sight of the deliriOus patient showed what
was the matter with him. You, the aged
Christian man. walked along by that un-
happy one until you came 10 the golden
pillar sf n Christian life. You went 10
the right. he went to the left. That is all
the difference between you. Oh. if this
rniirinn iC a nrniact a.raipGt oil fnrnc nG