West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-06-21
POPULAR ERRORS.
NOT THE GOOD WHO DIE YOUNG.
Rev DIR. ralmage Argues that True
Religion ProIongs Life

through the mistake OF it's friends religion
mas been chiefly associated with sick beds and
RraVeyards. The whole subject 70 many
people Is odorous with chlorine and carbolic
ACID There are people who cannot pro
n0unce the word religion without hearing in
~ the clipping chisel of the tombstone cut
Ter. IL is high time that this thing were
changed and that religion, instead OF being
represented as a hearSe to carry out the dead
should be represent as a chariot in VIII ID
the living are to triumph.
religion, so far from subtracting from
ones vitality, is a glorious addition It is
hanative curative hygienic. IL is good for
the eyes. good for the ears, good for the
spleen good for the digestion, good for the
nerves, good for the muscles When David,
In another part OF the Psalms, prays that re.
hgion may be dominant no does not sneak of
~ as mild sickness, or an emaciation. or an
attack OF moral and spiritual crainp: he
speaks OF 1t as ''the saving health OF all ma.
Tons, lions; while God, in the text, promises
i,songevlty TO the pious, saying: with long
LIE viii satisfy him.
The fact is that men and women die too
soon; II is high time that religion Joined the
hand OF medical science in attempting Co inn
prove human longevity. Adam lived nine
hundred and thirty years. Methuselah ived
nine hundred and sixty-nine years As late
IN the history OF the world as Vesoasian
there were at one time in his empire forty
nve people one hundred and thirty-five years
Old 80 far down as the Sixteenth century
Peter Tartan died at one hundred and eighty,
five years of age. / do not saw that reI3a-'9n
VIII ever take tho race back to ante-diluvian
longevity, but / do say the length of human
Ire VIII be greatly improved
IL is said In Isaiah: HThe child shah die n
nunurefi years old" Now, il according to
scripture the child is TO be a hundred wears
OLD, may not the men and women reach to
ttnree hundred and four hundred and five
55unuredf The fact is that we are mere
dwarfs and skeletons compared with some OF
tne generations that are to come Take the
African race. They have been under bond
age Tor centuries. Give them n chance and
salnt LOuverture. And IL the white race
Shall be brought from under the serfdon Of
sin what shall be the body1 What shan ba
the soult Religion has only Just touched our
WoIia Give 1t full power for a few centuries
and who can tell what will be the strenotb
OF man and the beauty of woman and fha
longevity of all 49,
:, My design is TO show that practical re-
ngion is the friend of long life. / prove IL
, ms~ rom the TACT that it makes the care Of
our health a positive Christian dirty
whether we shall keep early or late hours.
whetner we shall take food digestible or i'm,
digestible, whether there shall be thorough or
iniconplete mastication, are questions very
1l.en deferred to the realms of whimsicalitv.
but the Christian man lifts this SSbola
problem OF health into the accountable and
tne divine. He says: "God has given ma
TINS BODY, and He has called it the temple of
1he holy Ghost, and TO deface its affairs or
mar ITS walls or crumble its pillars Is a God
detying sacrilegen
de sees God caligraphy in every page
anatomical and physiological. He saws.
S9d mas given me a wonderful body Tor
noble purposes"
That arm with thirty-two curiop. bcDos
welded by forty-six curious muscles and Ali
uhuer the brains telegrRphy; $50 pounds az
blood rushing through the heart every bou-
ono 1ears IN twenty -four hours beating 100
wv uhlesi during the twenty-four hours
overcoming resistances amountinS 20 Oh
VOOOOO pounds of weight, during the Same
time the lungs taking in flfty-seven hos.
neads OF air, and all this mechanism not
t'rbed and demolished.
The Christian man saws to himself. ore
hurt my nerves, IL hurt my brain. IL hurt
any OF my physical faculties Insult God anJ
eau Tor dire retribution.n Why did God tell
the Levites not to offer to him i'm sacriSna
animals imperfect and diseased, He ,,lan,,t
20 Ten US IN all the ages that we are to offer
10 TOD our very best physical condition and
man who through irregular or pluttonous
eaoing RUNS his health is not Offering TO God
sucn saerlticat Why did Paul write for his
cIoaS at Troasi Why should such a great
tp'-n as Paul be anxious about a thing 50 in
Significant as an overcoatl 1t was becansa
ne knew that with pneumonia and rheuma-
Ism ne would not be worth half as much to
Sod and the church as with respiration easv
and foot free S'-'y
An intelligent Christian man would con-
slider 1t an absurdity to kneel down at niobt
and pray and ask Gods protection while Mt
me she same tlme he kept the windows of his
pei room tight shut against fresh air. He
would just as soon think Of going out on tho
Dfldge between New York and BROOKLYN.
leaping of and then praying to God to keen
MR. from getting hurt. just as long as YOU
u o, TINS whole subject OF physical health to
the realm OF Whimsicality or 10 the nastrv
cook or TO the butcher or 10 the baker or To
the apOthecary or TO the clothier, you are not
acting like a Christian. Take care of ali
your physical forces-nervous, muscular
bone, brain cellular tissue-for ali Won must
be brought to Judgment.
smoking your nervous system into fidgets
burning out the coating OF your stomach
WIN VINE logwooded and strychnined, walk
ing with thin shoes 60 make your feet look
delicate, pinched at the waist until you are
well nigh cut In two, and neither part worth
anything, groaning about SIGH headache and
palpitation 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 Holy GhOstl What IL
tne earl Why, IL Is the whispering gallery
OF the human soul. What is the eyef 1t Il
the observatory God constructed its tele-
scope sweeping the heavens What is the
Manu- An instrument so wonderful that
When the Earl Of Bridgewnter beule tined in
his viii $4,000 for treatisos to be written on
Sne wisdom, power and goodness Of God
~ Charles Bell, the great English anato-
mist and surgeon, found his greatest illus
sfadon IN the construction OF the human
hand1 devOting his whole book 70 that sub.
Jet 30 wonderful are these bodies that
zoo names his own attributes after different
paris o. them. His omniscience-it is Gods
eye. Ills omnipre8ence-it IS God 8 ear. His
omnlputence-it Is Gods arm The upbol-
steTy Of the midnight beavens--it Il the work
pt 1ode fingers. His life giving power-it
y tne breath Of the Almighty HIS do
ltinign--. the government shall be upon his
bnOulder." A body 20 divinely honored and
- - oiyineiiy constructed, let us be careful not
When II becomes Christian duty 70 take
care Of our health, is not the whole tendency
toward longevityl II toss my watch about
reckle5siy and drop Il on the pavement and
VIM % up any time Of day or night hap
pen 70 tnink q it, and often Jet it run down.
while you are careful with your watch and
never abuse IL and wind IL 10 iust ut the
SINE nour every night and put in a place
Where - VIII not suffer from the violent
changes OF atmosphere. which watch viii last
tne iJngerf Common sense answers Now
tne human body is Gods watch Won eco
ne hands ~ the watch you see tho face Of
the watch, but the beating Of the heart IA
ne tlcking ~ the watch Oh, be careful
anil do not let It run down.
Again, ] remark that practical religion Is
= friend Or longevity iu the fact that III Il. "a
protest against dissinations which iniirro ana
destroy the health Bad mon and women
I'VE very short life. Their sins XIII Thorn
} know hundreds of good old men. but do
not Know haif "A dozen bad old men. EVhvf
hey 40 not get old. Lord Byron died az
"t..Yl Yhkhi 81 thirty SIX years Of age HIM