Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-10-04

Rev. DR.. Calnlaee
Subject: The Chariot of Triumph-Ksne-
ion Represents Life. Not the Grave
Advice About Pbysicai Health and
Prescription For ProlonginE Lifs.--
Copyright. Louis Klopsch. 1891
WASHING ron. D. C.-In this discourse
DR.. Taimage gives prescriptions for the
prOlongation OF life and breaches the Cos
pei OF physical health. The text Is Psalms
xci., 16, "With long life will I satisfy him. %
Through the mistake OF its friends relig-
ion has been chiefly associated with sick
to many people Is odorous with chlorine
and carbolic acid. There are people who
canuot pronounce the word religion with
out hearing in It the clipping chisel of the
tombstone cutter. 1t 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 represeu ed
as IA chariot In which the living arr to
triumph
Religion, so fnr from subtracting from
ones vitality, Is glorious addition. 1t Ia
sanative, curative. hygienic. II Is good for
spleen, good for the digestion, good for the
nerves, good for the muscles. When David
In another part OF the psalm prays that re-
ligion may be dominant, he does not speak
OF 1t as a mild sickness or IN emauciation
or an attack OF moral and spiritual cramp.
He speaks OF 1t as "the saving health of all
nations" while God in the text promises
longevity to the pious, saying, with long
life will satisfy him." The fact is that
men and women die too soon. It fs high
time that religion joined the hand OF medi-
cal science in attempting to improve human
longevity. Adam lived $50 years. Merhuse-
lab lived 969 years. As late In the history
of the world rs Vespasian there were at
one time in his empire forty-five people 1856
years old. So far down as the sixteenth
century Peter Tartan died at 1856 years Of
age. l do not say that religion will ever
take the race back to antedilu yian longe-
witty, but do say the length of life will be
Increased.
1t Is said in Isaiah, ''The child shall die
a hundred years old" Now, il, according
to Scripture, the child is to be "a hundred
years old, may not the men and women
reach to 500 and 400 and 500? The fact is
that We are mere dwarfs 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 a Frederick ID douglass or Toussalnt
L'Ouverture. And, II the white race shall
be brought from under the serfdom of sin, j,
what shall be the bodv. what shall be the
soul? Religion has only just touched our
world. Give 1t full power for a few con-
turies and who can tell what will he the
.trenoth cf man and the benntw Of woman
and the longevity OF all?
My design to show that practical religion
II the friend Of long life. prove IL, first,
from the fact that 1t makes the care of our
health positive Christian duty. Whether
we shall keen early OF late hours. whether
we shall take food di0estfble or indipesti-
bIe. whether there shall be- thorough or i'm
com nlete mastication are Questions very
often deferred 10 the realm OF whimsicaiity.
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