Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1899-10-12
Or. IAlMAGt'S SERMON.
PREPARED ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG
AND OLD

Subject: The Chariot OF TrIumph-Eelig-
ion Represents Life. Not the Grave
Advice About Physical Health and
Prescription For Prolonging Life.
rCopyrigh, Louis Klopsch. lsee1
WASHING ron, D. C.-In this discourse
pr. Talmage gives prescriptions for the
proiongation Of life and breaches the Cos
pei OF physical health. The text is Psalms
1ci.. l6. with long lie will satisfy him"
Through the mistake OF its friends relic-
ION has been chiefly associated with sick
beds and .grayeyards. The whole subject
10 many people is odorous with chlorine
and carbolic acid. There are people who
cannot pronounce the word religion with
out hearing in it the clipping ehisel OF the
IFS thing were changed and that religion,
instead OF being represented as Il hearseto
carry ont the dead. should be represented
as chariot in which the living are to
trium ph.
r Religion. so fa- from subtractins from
ones vitality, is glorious addition. 1t is
sanative, curative, hygienic. 1t 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 psalm prays that re-
ligon may be dominant, he does not speak
Of it as a mild sickness or M emanriation
or an attack OF moral and spiritual cramp.
He speaks of it as the saving health Of all
nations" while God in the text promises
longevity to the piOus, saving With long
life will satisfy him. The fact is that
men and women die too soon. 1t is high
time that religion joined the hand OF medi-
cal science in attempting to lmprc fe human
longevity. Adam lived $50 years, Methuse-
lah lived 800 years. AS late in the history
of the world as NespasiaL there were ar
one time in his empire forty five people l35
years old. SO far down o. the sixteenth
century Peter Tartan die>i at lS5 year. OF
age. l do not say that religion will ever
take the race back to antedluvian longe-
witty, but do say tbs length Of life will be
increased.
It is said in Iso.ah The child shall die
hundred wear. Old Now if. accordin.
to Scripture, the child is to be hundred
years old. Elay not the men and women
reach to 200 ana 400 and 500? The fact is
that VS. mere Iwarfs and skeletons
compared with some of the generations
| that are to come Take the African race.
They have been under bondage for centur-
| les. Give them chance, and they de-
velop Frederick ouglass CT a Toussalnt
L'Ouverture. And, if the white race shall
| be brought from under tie serfdom Of sin,
| what shall be the body, what shall be :he
soul' Religion has only just touched our
| world. Give it full power for few ccn-
| turies, and who can tell what will be the
strength CT man and the beauty Of woman
| and the longevity OF all?
| My ItSlSu 10 SHOW tlldl pIdcticat religion
is the friend of long life. prove it, first,
from the fact that it makes the care of our
health positive Christian duty. Whether
! we shall keep early or late hours, whether
| we shall take food digestible or indigesti-
BILE, whether there shall be thorough or in
! complete masticatiOn, are questions very
often deferred to the realm Of whimsicalty.
But the Christian man lifts this whole
| problem OF health into the accountable and
the divine. He says, "God has given mo
this body. and He has called it the temple
| Of the Holy Ghost, and to deface its altars.
or mar its walls, or crumble its pillars, is r
God defying sacrilege." He sees Gods
ealgraphy in every page, anatomical
and physiological. He says, 'Go,A has
/ given me wonderful body lor
noble purposes that arm with thirtytwo
, curious bones welded by forty-six curious
muscles and all under the brains teleg-
raphy, $50 pounds Of blood rushing through
the heart every hour. the heart in twenty
four hours beating 100 900 times, during
the twenty-four hours the lungs taking in
flfty-seven hogshead OF air, and all this
mechanism not more mighty than delicate
and easily disturbed and demolished The
Christian man says to himself, If l hurt
my nerves, if I hur. my brain. il l hurt
any Of my physical faculties, / insult God
and call for dire retribution." Why did
God tell the Levites not to offer to Him in
sacrifice animals imperfect and diseased?
=
are to offer to God our very best physical
condition, and man who through irregu
lar or gluttonOus eating ruins his health is
not Offering to God such a sacrifice. Why
did Paul write for his cloak at Troas? Why
should such a great man as Paul be anx
ious about thing so insignificant as ar
! overcoat? 1t was because he knew that
with pneumonia and rheumatism he would
not be worth half as much to God and the
church as with res spiration easy and foot
free.
An intelligent Christian man would con
slder ii an absurdity TO kneei down at might
and pray and ask Gods protection while
at the same time he kept the windows 0
his bedroom tight shut against fresh air
He would just as soon think % going on
on the briige between New York anC
Brooklyr leaying of and then praying t
God to keep him from getting hurt. Jus
as long as you refer this whole subject 0
physical health to the realm OF whims sical
itv or to the pastry cook or to the butche
or to the baker or to the apothecary or L
the clothier YOU are not acting like
Christian. Take care Of all your phrsica
| forces-neryOus. muscular bone, brain
cellular ti5sue-for ali you must be hrouCh
toiud2ment. Smoking your nervous sys
TEN into ndgets. burning out the coatin
, OF your stomach with wine logwooded an
strychnined walking with thin shoes t
make your feet look delicate pinchei a
the waist until You are nigh cut Ia tw
and neither part worth anything, gr0anin
about sick headache and pal ipitation q II
heart, which You think came from God
when they came from your own folly
What right has any man or w0mantc de
iace the temple Ok the Holy Ghost: p'aa
is the ear II Is the whispering ga ietv
the soul. What j. tie eye: /. i tie ot
seryatory God constructed. its te.e-coI
sveeiing the heavens What Is the hand
{ An instrument 80 wonderful that. whe