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4 HEALTHY RELIGION
OR. TALMAGE ON THE GOSPEL OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
What II Does For the ProIongntion
of Earthly Existence and How 1t
Makes Its Dcyotces Happier.
Copyright, Louis lllopsch. 1901


Copyright, Louis l<lopsch. 1901
WAsnINGroN, Feb 1S.--This sermon
of DIR. Talmage presents n gospel for this
life as we'll as the next and shows what
religion does for the proongstion Of
earthly existence; text, Psalm Xci IL,
with long life will satisfy him.
Through the mistake of its friends re-
lision has been chiefly associated with
sckbcds and gravcyards. The whole
subject to many people is odorous with
chlorine and carboic acid. There are
people who cannot pronounce the word
religion without hearing in it the clipping
chiscl o. the tombstone cutter. 1t is high
time that this thing were changed and
that religion instead Of being represented
IS hcarsc to carry ont the dead should
hc represented as a chariot in which the
living are to triumph.
Religion, so far from suhtracting from
unc's vitality. is a glorious addition. 1t
l. Sanitivc. curative, hygicnic. 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 mus
Ties When David, in another part Of
the Psalms. prays that religion may he
mild sickness or an cmaciation or an at
tack of moral and spiritual cramp. He
fpcuks of it as "thc saving health Of all
tJtions." while God in the text promises
longevity to the pous, saying, with
aung life will satisfy him."
Tho fact is that men and women die
800 soon It is high time that religion
ioined the hand of medical science in at
tempting to improve human longevity.
Adam lived $50 years. Mcthusclab lived
$50 years. As late in the history of the
world as Nespasian there were at one
Time in his empire Al people 100 years
CID SO far down as the sixteenth cen
fury Peter Tartan died at 80 years Of
age. do not say that religion will ever
take the race back to antodiuvian lon-
eovity. but | do say that the length OF
human life will be greatly improved.
IT is said in Isaiah Ky, 20, THE child
shall die hundred years Old Now, if,
according to Scripture, the child is 20 be
a hundred years old. may not the men
end women reach to 800 and 400 and
FOO? The fact is that VIC are mere
dvarfs and skeletons compared with
some of the generations that are to come.
Take the African race. They have been
under bondage for centuries. Give them
n chance and they develop a TOussaint
rOuvcrture. And if the white race
shall be brought out from under the serf-
dom Of sin what shall he the body
What shall be the soul? Religion has only
lust touched our world. Give it full pow
cr for n few centuries. and who can tel
what vii, be the strength of man and
the beauty of woman and the longevity
of all?
Religion and Longevity.
NV design is to show that practical re-
l.gion is the friend Of longevity; | prove
il. first, from the fact that it makes the
care Of our health a positive Christian
duty. Whether we shall keep early or
late hours, whether we SHALL take food
digostible or indiges'ible. whether there
shall be thorough or incomplete mastica-
ton, are questions very often referred &c
the realm of whimsicalty, but the Chris
tan man lifts this whole problem of
health into the accountable and the di-
rine. He says, God has given me this
body and he has called it the temple Of
the Holy Ghost, and to dcface its affairs
or mar its walls or crumhle its pillars is
: God dcfying sacrilcge." He sees Gods
caligraphY in every page-anatomical and
phvs- loeicai. He says. cod has givci
ne a wonderful body for noble purposes.
That arm with 80 curious bones welded
ty 4G curious muscles, and all under the
brains tclcgraphy-35 pounds Of blood
rushing through the heart every hour
the heart in - hours boating 100000
times, during the same time the lungs
taking in - hogshcads of air, and all
this mechanism not more mighty than
lnlcate and easily disturbed and de
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