The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24
IN CHRIST.
Ice Speaks of the Benefits
q Religious Existence.
axes Itn DevOtees Happier
|SeaI Religion the Friend
.enEevity - Gospel OF
Everyday Life.
M. 1900, by Louis Klopscho
Washington,

I|.lt, lbUVs Dy |ouie
Washington,
.tmon of DR.. Talmage pre-
tspel for this life as well as
nd shows what religion does
|,folongation of earthly exist
III, Psalm xci., 16: with long
| i satisfy him."
Ia the mistake of its friends
Has been chiefly associated
|Itbeds and graveyards. The
Inject to many people is odor-
chlorine and carbolic acid.
IL people who cannot pro-
Inc word religion without
ia it the clipping chisel OF
|,stone cutter. 1t is high time
Thing were changed and that
instead of being represented
|arse to carry out the dead
be represented as a chariot in
be living are to triumph.
bn. SO far from subtracting
les vitality, is a glorious add
IL sanitive, curative, hygiene.
|od for the eyes, good for the
boa for the spleen, good for
|estion, good for the nerves,
II the muscles. When David,
her part of the Psalms, prays
|irion may be dominant, he
| 4 speak of it as a mild sick
an emancipation or an at
moral and spiritual cramp.
ks of it as "the saving health
|ations," while God in the text
s longevity to the pious, say
with long life will l satisfy
|fact is that men and women
soon. 1t is high time that re-
|oined the hand of medical SCI
attempting to improve human
|tH. Adam lived $50 years.
|elah lived 900 years. AS late
history of the world as Vespa-
Ire were at one time in his en-
people 1876 years old. So far
rs the sixteenth century Peter
died at 1856 years of age. l do
II that religion will ever take
|e back to antediluvian longev-
i do say that the length of hui
he will be greatly improved.
said in Isaiah lxv., 20: 1.-The
hail die a hundred years old
Il, according to Scripture, the
Is to be a hundred years old
|ot the men and women reach
and 400 and 500? The fact is
IA are mere dwarfs and skele'
with some of the gen
that are to come. Take the
4 race. They have been under
|e for centuries. Give them {
and they develop a Toussain'
Eture. And if the white race
By brought out from the serf
Il sin what shall be the body
hall be the soul? Religion ha
LIST touched our world. Give i
|bwer for a few centuries, ant
la tell what will be the strength
Il and the beauty of woman ant
|gevity of all?
Resign is to show that practice
Ia is the friend of longevity;
|it, first, from the fact that i
the care of your health a posi
hristian duty. Whether we shal
Early or late hours, whether w
lake food digestible or indigest.
|hether there shall be thoroug
|omplete mastication, are que'
Very often referred to the realI
|msicality, but the Christian ma
his whole problem of health int
Ecountable and the divine. Ii
"God has given me this bod.
Il has called it the temple of tn
|Ghost, and to deface its altar
II its walls or crumble its pillar
Eod-defying sacrilege." He SCI
caligraphy in every page-al
bal and physiological. He says
has given me a wonderful bod
bile purposes" That arm wit
|rious bones welded by 46 C,
muscles, and all under tt
b telegraphy-35o pounds
Flushing through the heart ever
Ethe heart in "a hours beatir
b times, during the same tin
Engs taking in 81 hogsheads
hid all this mechanism not mo.
IN than delicate and easily di
II and demolished.
i Christian mai says to himsel
hurt my nerves, if I hurt n
if 1 hurt any of my physic
Hes, insult God and caN f
fetribution." Why did God t.
Eevites not to offer to Him.
Ice animals imperfect and d
I? He meant to tell us in
|ges that we are to offer to G.
|ery best physical condition, al
b who through irregular or gil
Es eating ruins his health, is n
Ing to God such 3 sacrifice. w
|aul write for his cloak at Troa
should such a great man as Pa
bxious about a thing so insight
as an overcoat? 1t was becaI
new that with pneumonia a
|matism he would not be wor
as much to God and the chur
! tn respiration easy and foot FIR
intelligent Christian man wol
der it an aPsurdity to kneel do'
light and pray and ask Gods p
|pn while at the same time he Ike
windows of his bedroom tight 81
hist fresh air. He would just
think of going to the top of
e and leaping off and then pr
10 God to keep him from getti
Just as long as you refer t
|e subject of physical health
realm of whimsicality, or to
nv cook, or to the butcher, or
baker, or to the apothecary, or
|clothier, you are not acting i
bristian. Take care of all "
|ical forces-nervous, muscul
brain. cellular tissue-for all