The morning times., 1896-01-06
Peace and Good Will.
New York Telegram.

with tie Supreme icy q dIiai reunion IN
heaven whore happinesst h eternal and with
oIt alloy. M
Dr. Talmage. II isN uplersiCod, has re-
oeiycd many nvitatiors u Ircach at morn
ing services a, oiE,r chusthes than his own,
but il s In u Q e'r ;rd Upder consideration
ly tie rustccs, session. and doongrcgation of
the First Presbyterian Church, 10 have the
distinguished rreacLcr assist at tie morn
ing services at tina; ebCIch.
Els EN ENING SERMON
DR.. TalmaEe's evening sermon at tie
First Presbyterian Church was appropriate
to the new year. He s3id in part:
The Egyptian capital was the focus
of the wor.:l's wealth. In ships and barges
there had been brought To it from India
frankinc,nse, and cinnamon, ana ivory,
and diamonds: from the north, marble and
iron: from Syria, purple and silk; from
Greece, some of Tie finest horses of the
world, and some OF tie most brilliant
chariots: and from all the arth that which
could test please the eye, and charm the
ear, ami crafty the taste.
1T was to this capital and The palace of
Pharaoh that JaCob. the shepherd, came
TO meet his son Joseph, who had become
prime minister in the royal apartment.
Pharaoh and Jacob met, dignity and rus
ticity, the gracefulness of the court and the
plain manners of the field. The king, want
ing to make the old countryman at ease,
and seeing how white his beard is and
how feeble his step, looks familiariy IN his
face, AMI says to the aged man: How old
art thou?"
Il do not now solicit any literal response to
this question, for people who are truthful
on every other subject lie about their ages.
but the text introduces the subject OF Lon
gevity." theme appropriate for this first
Sabbath of the New Year.
DEATH OF THE YEAR.
Last Tuesday night the gate of eternity
opened to let in, amid the great throng OF
departed centuries, the soul of the dying
year. Under the twelfth stroke of the
brazen hammer of the city clock the
patriarch fell dead, and the stars of the
night were the funeral torches.
january 3, 1S96! The old almanacs
and the old meniorandums flung aside.
Everything to remind us of the fact that
another volume i'm the history OF time has
begun, and every Thoughtful man and wo-
man at such time discusses the length or
the shortness of human life.
Through the mistake OF its friends re-
ligion has been chiefly associated with sick
beds and graveyards. This whole subject
to many people is odorous with chlorine and
carbolic acid. There are people who cannot
pronounce the word religion without hear
ing in it the clipping chisel of the tom bstone
cutter. 1t is high time this thing were
changed, and that religion, instead of being
represented as a hearse to carry out the
dead, should be represented as chariot in
which the living are to triumph.
"Religion, SO far from subtracting from
ones vitality, is glorious addition.
at is a sanative, curative, hygienic. 1t
is good for tue eyes, good for the ears, good
for the spleen, good for the digestion, good
for the nerves, good for the muscles.
OUR LIVES TOO SHORT.
"The fact is, that men and women die too
soon. 1t is high time that religion Joined
the hand of medical science in attempting
to improve human longevity. Adam lived
nine hundred and thirty years. Methusaleh
lived nine hundred and sixty nine years. As
late In the history of the world as v espaslan
there were at one time in his empire forty
five people one hundred and thirty-fiye
years old.
my design is to show you that practical
religion is the friend OF long life, and prove
it first from the fact that 1t makes the
care Of our physical health a positive
Christian duty. whether we shall keep
early or late hours, whether we shall tabe