Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1899-09-30
TO ENJOY LONG LIFE.
A Prescription Prepared by Rev.
DR.. Talmage
ReIigion VIII onset the Dissipstiens
and Destroyer. OF Life-lhe
Gospel n Chariot for
the Living.
Copyrighted. 1859. BY Louis Klopseh.)
Warrington. Sept Il.


prescriptions for the prolongation OF
life and breaches the gospel of physical
health. The text is Psalms 81, 10, With
long life will l satisfy him"
Through the mistake Of its friends re-
ligion has been chiefly associated with
kick beds and graveyards. The whole
subject TO many people is odorous with
chlorine aud carbolic acid. There are
people who cannot pronounce the word /
religion" without hearing IN II the clip F.
ping chisol Of the tombstons cutter IL i
Is high time that this thing were /
char ged and that religion. iustead OF
being represented as "A hearse 10 carry /
out the dead. should be represented as
chariot in which the living are TO tri- I
umph.
Religion. so far from subiracting
from ones vitality. is glorious aoo1-
tion. 1t is sauative, curative, hygienic.
1t is good for the eyes, good for the
ears. good for the spleen, good for ths
digestion. good for the nerves. good for
the muscles. When David in another
part of the psalm prays that religion
may be dominant. he does not ~pelk OF
IL as mild sickness or an emaciatiOn or
an attack of moral and spiritual cramp-
He speaks OF il as ~the saving health Of
alnations." while God in the text prom
iscs longevity TO the pious, saying:
with long life will ] satisfy him" The
fact II that men and women die too
soon. II is high time that religion
ioined the hand OF medical science IN at
tempting TO improve human longevity
Adam lived go years; Methuselah lived
500 years. As late in the history of the
world as Nespasian there were at one
time in his empire IS people l35 years
old. SO far down as the sixteenth cen
tury Peter Tartan died at ls5 years of
age. / do not say that religion will ever
take the race back TO antSdlluvian lon
Cevity. but ] do say the length Of ihs
will be increased.
IL is said in Isaiah: THE child shal
die a hundred years old Now. n, &C
cording 10 Scripture, the child is 10 b'
n hundred years old. may not the meI
and women reach TO 500 and 4ooF IN
fact is that we are mere dwarfs an'
skeletons compared with some OF tn
generations that are To- come. Tax
the African race. They have been un
der bondage for centuries. Give ieer
a chance. and they develop Frederic
Douglass or a Toussaint L'Ouvertur'
And. IL the white race shall he brough
from under the serfdom OF sin. wha
shall be the body. what shall be III
soul? Religion has only just tOuche
our world. Give IL FUN power for te
centuries. and who can tell what viii I
the strength Of man and the beauty I
women and the longevity OF all"
Nv design il TO show that practical r
ligion is the friend OF long life. pro-
il first from the fact that il makes Il
care of our health positive Christi'
duty. Whether we shall keep early
late hours. whether we shall take fo'
digestible or indigestible. whether the
shall be thorough or incomplete mas
cation. are questions very oftcn
ferred to the realm OF whimsicality. II
the Christian man lifts this whole pre-
lem of health into the accountable "a
the Divine. lie says: God has Civ
me this body, and He has called il I
temple OF the Holy Ghost, and 10 (
face it's affairs or mar its walls or cru
BILE it's pillars is God defying sac
lege." He sees Gods caligraphy
every page, anatomical and physiol
Zeal. Hesays: "God has given me a w
derful body for noble purposes'-tl
arm with o< curious DONcS--WlcAuC
46 curious muscles and all under
brains telegraphy. s50 pounds of BIZ
rushing through the heart every he
the heart in "a hours beating 100
times, during the "a hours the IN
taking in 81 hogsheads of air. and
this mechanism not more mighty &
delicate and easily disturbed and
molished. The Christian man say
himself: "If hurt my nerves, II
nv brain, II hurt any of my phys
faculties. insult God and call for
retribution." Why did God tell the
vites not TO offer 10 Him in sacrifice
mails imperfect and diseased? lie m
10 tell uS in all the ages that We al
offer TO God our very best physical
dition, and a man who through II
ular or gluttonous eating ruins
health is not Offering to God such a
rifice Why did Paul write for his c
at Troas? Why should such a {
man as Paul be anxious about
40 insignificant as an overcoat? II
because he knew that with pneun
and rheumatism he would not be v
half as much TO God and the ehur
with respiration easy and foot free
An intelligent Christian man v
consider il an absurdity 10 kneei
at night and pray and ask Gods pl
ticn while at the same time he kei