New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-16
is 1T PROFITABLE?
That's the Question that Or. Talnago Asks Re

preached a discourse on the subject: aDoes
Religion Pay2"
The text was: Goodness is profitable
unto all things, having promises of the life
that now is and of that which is to come
I. Tim, w., g. Dr. Talmage said:
a happy New Year to one and all.
There is gloomy and passive way of wait
ing for the events of the opening year to come
upon US, and there is a heroic way of going
out to meet them, strong in God and fearing
nothing. When the body of Catiline was
found on the battle- field it was found far in
advance of all his troops and among the
enemy; and the best way is for us not to lie
down and let the events of life trample over
4us, but to go forth in Christian spirit de-
stermined to conquer.
The papers were made out, and some ofyou
have just entered into business partnerships
and Others of you take higher positions in the
commercial establishment where you were
engaged, and others have entered upon new
enterprises, and there were last week in these
cities 10000 business changes. You are ex-
pecting prosperity, and / am determined, SO
tar as have anything to do with it that you
shall not be disappointed: and therefore I
propose, as God may help me this morning,
to project upon your attention new element
of success. You will have in the business firm
frugality, patience, industry, perseverance,
economy-a very strong business frn-but
there needs to be one member added mightier
than them all, and not silent partner either
the the one y introduced by my text, Goodness
which is profitable unto all things, having
the promise of the life that now is as we'll as
of that which is to come
suppose you are all willing to admit that
Godiness is important in it's eternal relations;
but perhaps some Of you say: "All want
de a0a al Win g 1ay pnsysr before
many people who suppose that if they can
finally get safely out of this world into bet
ter world, they will have exhausted the en-
tlre advantage OF our holy religion. They
talk as though religion were a mere nod of
recognition which we are able to give to the
Lord Jesus on our way up to a Heavenly
mansion; as though it were an admission
ticket, OF no use except to give in at the
door of Heaven. And there are thousands of
people who have great admiration for a
religion of the shroud, and religion of the
coffin, and q religion of the hearse, and a
religion OF the cemetery, who have no appre-
ciation of q religion for the bank, for the
factory. for the warehouse, for the jewelers.
shop, for the brokers' Office. Now, while I
would not throw any slur on q post-mortem
religion, want this morning and on the
first Sabbath ofthe new year, to eulogize an
ant ortem religion. religion that is of
no use to you while you live will be OF no use
TO you when you die. Goodness is profit
able to all things, having the promise of the
life that now is as we'll as that which is to
come And have always noticed that
when the grace is very low in q mans heart
he talks q great deal in prayer meetings
q thG ay,H oh oI,o
graves, and about churchyards. have no.
ticed that the healthy Christian, the man
who is living near to God and is on the
straight road TO heaven. is full of jubilant
satisfaction, and takes about the duties of
ethls life, understanding we'll that if God helps
aim to live right He will help him to die
right
Now. in the first place, remark that God
illness is good for a mans physical health
4 do not mean to say it will res tore a broken
down constitution, or drive rheumatism from
the limbs, or neuralgia from the temples, or
spieurisy from the side; but do mean to say
that it gives one such habits and puts one
TN such condition as is most favorable for
health. That / believe and that
avoW. Everybody knows that buoyancy of
spirit is good physical advantage. Gloom,
unrest, detection are at war with every pull
sation of the heart. and with every respira-
fion of the lungs. 1t lowers the vitality,
1t slackens the circulation, while exhlaration
of spirit pours the very balm of heaven
all the currents of life. The sense of
,insecurity which sometimes hoyers over an
un9enerate man, or pounces upon him with
'the blast Of 10000 trumpets of terror. is
most depicting and most exhaustiug while
'the feeling that all things are working to-
.gether for my good now, and for my ever
Tasting welfare. is conducive to physical
health.
You will observe that Goodness induces
industry which is the foundation of good
health. There is no law of hygiene that will
keepa lazy man well. Pleurisy will stab
him, erysipelas will burn him, jaundice will
discolor him, govt will cripple him, and the
Intelligent physician will not prescribe anti
septic, or tebrifuge, or anodyne but saws
and hammers and yardsticks and crowbars
sand pickaxes There is no such thing as
+goad physical condition without posi- live I.
Work Of some kind, although you should sleep
.on down ofIswan, or ride in carriage of soft
est upholstery. or have on your table all the
Injuries that were poured from the wine
watts of Isaphan and Shiraz Our religion
Gays: Away to the bank away to the field!
something that will enlist all the energies Of
your body, mind and soul" 'Diligent in
tbusiness fervent in spirit, serving the
Lord while upon the bare back of the
'idler and the drone comes down the sharp
siash of the apostle as he says: If any man
y
Oh, how important in this day, when so
-much is said about anatomy and physiolo-
sgy and therapeutics and some new style of
imedicine iR ever and anon springing upon
-the world, that you should understand that
othe higest school of medicine is the school of
Christ, which declares that goodness is
profitable unto all things. having the prom
Use of the life that now is as well as of that
which is to come So if you start out two
men in the world with equal physical health,
and then one of them shall get the religion of
the Lord Jesus Christ in his heart, and the
other shall not get it. the one who becomes
a son of the Lord Almighty will live the long
-er. with long life viii satisfy thee, and
show thee my salvation"
Again, remark that goodness is good FOR
the intellect. know some have supposed
that just as soon as man enters into the
Christian life, his intellect goes into dwarf
ing process. So far from that, religion will
give new brillancy to the intellect, new
strength to the imagination new force to
the will, and wider swing to all the intellect
aal faculties. Christianity is the great central
a1re at which philosophy has lighted it's
shriuhtest torch The relirion Of tha I ord