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REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE'S SUN
DAY MORNING DISCOURSE.
llt-ligioit I SanntlrA, Cnrellvf, Hygienic
It Mny Not i:ive Ant;!llivliiii longevity
to Human I law, but Will Greatly
J-ii(;tIifii Our IJvra.
liKoOKLYN.-Jimc 10. At the Talxr
li:icl thin morning, after exounding
omo ias.-:ifs of Scripture in regard to
tho diet of Daniel an.l liU abstemious
habits, the llev. T. Do Witt Talinage, D.
D., gavo out the hyinri lieginning:
( ilury to (iixl on liijrh,
lt licaTcn nut I eurtli reply.
lie announced in tho subject of his
sermon: 'Ioe IJeligion Prolong Life?"
and preache 1 froui tho text found in Pa.
xr, 10; "Whli long-life will I satisf j
liim." Following i.i tho discourse in
full:
Through tho mistakes of its friends re
ligion has lein chiefly associated with
hick beds and graveyards. Tho whole
subject to many people is odorous with
chlorine and carbolic acid. There are
people who cannot pronounce the word
religion without hearing in it the clipping
chi:;el of the tomlstone cutter. It is high
time that this thing were changed and
that religion, instead of being represented
as a hearse to carry out tho dead, bhould
jg represented as a chariot in which the
living are to triumph.
Religion, bo far from subtracting from
one's vitality, is a glorious addition, It
is sanative, curative, hygienic. It is
good for tho eyes, good for the ears, good
for the Fpleen, good for the digestion,
pood for tho nerves, good for the muscle.
AVhen David, in another part of the
I'salm, prays that religion may bo dom
inant lie does not speak of it as a mild
sickness, or an emaciation, or an attack
of moral and spiritual cramp; ho speaks
of it ns 4-the saving health of all na
tions;'' while Ctod, in tho text, promises
longevity to the pious, saying: "With
long life" will I satisfy him."
The fact is that men and women die
too soon. It is high time that religion
joined tho hand of medical science in
attempting to improve human longevity.
Adam lived nine hundred and thirty
years. Methuselah lived nine hundred
.and fcixty nine years. As late in the his
tory of tho world aa Vespasian, there
were nt one time in his empire forty-live
i i r .. -
people one hundred ana iiuriy-uve
old. a"r uown as the Sixteenth cen
tury, Peter Zartan died at one hundred
and eighty-five years of age, do not
pay that religion will ever take the race
back to antediluyian longevity, but I do
say the length of human life will be
greatly improved.
It is sai4 in Ialah: ''The child shall
die a hundred years old." Now, if ac
cording to Scripture tho child is to be a
hundred years old, may not the men and
women reach to three hundred and four
hundred and five hundred? 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- cen
turies. Give them a chance and they de
velop a Frederick Douglass or aTou?saint
L'Ouverture. And if tho white raco shall
bo brought from imder the serfdom of
cin, what shall be the body? what shall
ho the soul? Iteligion has only just
touched our world. Give it full power
for a few "centuries and who can tell
what will be the strength of man and
the beautv of woman, and tho longevity
' of all?
My design is to show that practical re
ligion is the friend of long life. I prove
it, first, from the fact that it makes tho
care of our health a positive Christian
duty. Whether we 6liall keep early or
late hours, whether we shall take food
digestible or indigestible, whether there
shall be thorough or incomplete mastica
tion, arc question very often deferred
io tho realm of whimsicality; but the
Christian man lifts this whole problem of
health into the accountable and the di
vine. He says: "God has given me
this body, and "ho has called it the temple
of tho Holy Ghost, and to deface its
altars or mar its walls or crumble its pil
lars is a God defying sacrilege."
He sees God's caligraphy in every page
-r- anatomical and physiological. He
eays: "God lias given mo a wonderful
body for noble pun-"
That arm with thirty-two curioti3 bones
wielded by forty -six curious muscles, and
all u--ider the brain's telegraphy; S30
pounds of blood rushing through the
heart everv hour, the heart in twenty
four hours' beating 100,000 time3, during
tho twenty-four hours overcoming re
" sL-tanccs amounting to 224,000,000
pounds of weight, during the same time
the lungs taking in fifty-seven hogsheads
of air, and all this mechanism not more
mighty than delicate and easily disturbed
and demolished.
The Christian man eays to himself: "If
I hurt inv nerves, if I hurt my brain, if
I hurt anv of my physical faculties I in
tuit God and call for dire retribution."
Vv'liv did God tell the Levites not to offer
to him in sacrifice animals imperfect and
diseased? He meant to tell us in all the
ages thr.t we are to offer to God our very
liest phvsicd condition, and a man who,
through irregular or gluttonous eating,
!:! a l.ordih. is notcflerinc: to God
such a sacrifice. Why did Paul write for
liis cloak at Troas? Why should such a
great man as Paul be anxious about a
thing so insignificant as an overcoat? It
was"because"" he knew that with pneu
monia and rheumatism he would not be
n-nriii liilf sis much to God and the
church as with respiration easy and foot
free.
An intellirent Christian man would
consider it an absurdity to kneel down at
nisht and pray and asK uoa s protection,
r-iT;t ot tlio cnm time he kept the win-
A AAVy m.
liis liedrooni tiirht shut against
fresh air. He would just as soon think
of going out on the bridge between New
-v-t- Timrlrlvn. leaDins: off and then
A ' x w
- rraving to God to keep bun from getting
hurt. Just as long uo
ct,v.4nft of rthvsical health to the
" realm of whimsicality, or to tho pastry
VL or to the butcher, or to xno uuKer,
a itv , n-wlipcarv. or to the clothier,
,r ore not acting liko a Christian. Take
1 ' . ,,r rthvsical forces nervous,
mentiQk.nc b'ain ceuuiar tissue
.fSr svl voli faust be brought to judgment.
eir-oliin? your nervous system, into hd-
-Aton "mlrettfiut tho coatirg ox jour
loswooded and
strychnined, walking with thin shoes to
make your feet look delicate, pinched at
the waist until you are nigh cut in two,
and neither part worth ' anything, groan
ing about sick headache and palpitation of
tho heart, which you think came from
your own folly.
What right has any man or woman to
deface the temple of tho Holy Ghost?
What is tho ear? "Why, it is the whisp
ering gallery of the human soul. What
r the eye? It is the observatory God
constructed, its telescope sweeping the
heavens. What is the hand? An instru
ment so wonderful that when the Earl of
Bridgewater bequeathed in his will $40,
000 for treatises to bo written on the wis
dom, power and goodness of God, Sir
Charles Bell, tho great English anatomist
and surgeon, found his greatest illustration
in tho construction of tho human hand,
devoting his whole book to that subject.
So wonderful are these bodies that God
names his own attributes after different
parts of them. His omniscience it is
God's eye. His omnipresence it is God's
ear. III? omnipotence it is God's arm.
The upholstery of the midnight heavens
it is the work of God's fingers. His
life giving power it is the breath of the
Almighty. Ills dominion "the govern
ment shall bo upon his shoulder. " A
body so divinely honored and so divinely
constructed, let us bo careful not to
abuse? it.
When it become3 a Christian duty to
take care of our health, is not the whole
tendency toward longevity? If I toss my
watch about recklessly and drop it on the
pavement, and wind it up any time of
day or night I happen to think of it, and
often let it run down, while you are care
ful with your watch and never abuse it,
and wind it up just at the same hour
every night and put it in a place where
it will not suffer from the violent changes
of atmosphere, which watch will last the
longer? Common sense answers. Now,
the human body is God's watch You
see the hands of the watch, you see the
face of tho watch; hut he beating of the
heart is tho ticking of tho watch. ' 0h,
be cartful and do not let' it run down I
Again, I remark that practical religion
i3 a friend of longevity, in the fact tliat
it is a protest against dissipations yvhich
injure and destroy the health. Bad' men
and wouien live a very" short life. Their
sins kill them. I know hundreds' of good
old men, but I do not know half a dozen
bad old men. Why? Th dq' tfcjt
thirty-six years of w
Jlaz"" " ...i nisei f his own
r-j, liis unbridled passions the
horse that dashed with him into the
desert. Edgar A. Foe died at Baltimore
at thirtyeight years of age. The black
raven that alighted on the bust above his
chamber door was delirium tremens
Only this and nothing more.
Napoleon Bonaparte lived only just be
yond mid life, then died at St. Helena,
and one of Ids doctors said that his dis
ease was induced by excessive snuffing.
The hero of Austerhtz, the man who by
one step of his foot in the center of Eu
rope 6hook the earth, killed by a snuff
box 1 Oh, how many people we have
known who have not lived out half their
days because of their dissipations and in
dulgences! Now practical religion is a
protest against all dissipation of any kind.
"But," you say, "professors of religion
have fallen, professors of religion have
got drunk, professors of religion have
misappropriated trust funds, professors
of religion have absconded." Yes, but
they threw away their religion before
they did their morality. If a man on a
White Star lino steamer bound for Liver
pool in mid-Atlantic jumps overboard
and is drowned, is that anything against
the White Star line's capacity to take the
man across the ocean? And if a man
inmn3 over the gunwale of his religion
and goes down never to rise, is that any
reason for your believing that religion
has no capacity to take the man through?
In the ono case if he had kept to the
steamer his body would have been 6aved;
in the other case if he had kept to his re
ligion his morals would have been saved.
There are aged people who would hav
been dead twenty-five years ago but for
the defenses and the equipoise of religion.
You have no more natural resistance than
hundreds of people who lie in the ceme
teries today, slain by their own vices.
The doctors made their case as kind ana
pleasant as they could, and it was called
congestion of tho brain, or something
else, but the anaKes ana tne uiue mes mat
seemed to crawl over the pillow in the
sight of tho delirious patient showed what
was tho matter with him. You, the
aged Clu-istian man, walked along by
that unhappy ono until you came to the
golden pillar of a Christian life. You
went to the right; ho went to tho left.
That is all tho difference between you.
Oil, if this religion is a protest against all
forms of dissipation, then it is an illustri
ous friend of longevity. "With long
life will I satisfy him."
Again, religion is a friend of longevity
in the fact that it takes the worry out of
our temporalities. It is not work that
kills men, it is worry. When a man be
comes a genuine Christian he makes over
to God not only his affections but his
family, his business, his reputation, his
body, his mind, his'60ul everything.
Industrious he will b, but never worry
ing, because God is managing his affairs.
How can he worry about . business when
in answer to hi3 prayers God tells him
when to buy and when to sell; and if he
gain that is best, and if he lose that is
bet?
Suppose you had a supernatural neigh
bor who came in and said: "Sir, I want
you to call on me in every exigency; 1
am your fast friend ; I could fall back on
$20,000,000; I can foresee a panic ten
years; I hold the controlling stock in
thirty of the best monetary institutions
of New York; whenever you are in
trouble call on me and I will help you;
you can have, my money and you can
have my influence; hero is my hand in
pledge for it."- How much would you
worry about business? Why, you would
sav: "I'll do the best I can, and then
I'll depend on my friend's generosity for
the rest."
. Now more than that is promised to
every Christian business man. God says
to him: "I own New ork and London
and St. Petersburg and Pekin, and Aus
tralia and California are naine; I can for
see a panic a million years; I have all the
resources of the universe, and I am your
fast friend: when you get in business
trouble or any other trouble, call on me
aiidvj will help; Irro is my hand in
pledgcff omnipotent deliverance." How
much Bhould that5, man worry? Not
much. What lion will dare to put his
paw on that Daniel?. Is there not rest in
this? Is there not eternal vacation in
this?
"Oh," you say, "here is a man who
asked God for a blessing in a certain en
terprise, and he lost five thousandl dol
lars in it. Explain that." I will. Yon
der is a factory, and one wheel is going
north and the other wheel is going south,
and one wheel plays laterally and the
other plays vertically. I go to tho manu
facturer and I say: "Oh, manufacturer,
your machinery is a contradiction. Why
do you not make all the" wheels go ono
way?"
"Well," he says, "I made them to
go in opposite directions on purpose, and
they produce the right result. You go
down stairs and examine the carpets we
are turning out in this establishment and
you will see. " I go down on tlie other floor
and I see the carpets, and I am obliged
to confess that though the wheels in that
factory go in opposite directions, they
turnout a beautiful result ; and while I
am standing there looking at the exquis
ite fabric an old Scripture passage comes
into my mind: "All things work to
gether for good to them who love God."
Is there not rest in that? Is there not
tonic in that? Is there not longevity in
that?
Suppose a man is all tho time worried
about his reputation? One man says he
lies, another sayidie is stupid, another
says he is dishonest and half a dozen
printing establishments attack him, and
ho is in a great state of excitement and
worry and fume, and cannot sleep; but re
ligion comes to him. and says 5 Mun, God
is on your side; ho will takecaro of your
reputation; if God be for you, who can
bo against you?" How much should
that man worry about his repu
tation? Not much. If that broker
who some years ago in Wall street,
after heliad lost money, sat dV7i &d
wrote a farewell letter o hs w'ife before
he blew, his brains put if instead of tak
ing put of his pocket a pistol ho had taken
out a well read New Testament there
would have been one less sipchs. O,
nervous and feverish petopie. p the, world,
try this, fdtnighty' sedative. You will
live wenfy'-five years longer under its
soothing power. ' It is nqt chora haj
you want, or morTjiiue. yitt Yrr
is the Gospel of 'X$&i tiV.-' -, it
Imiglife: vaa'Ii'' . "With
..ty him."
v,.ii, practical religion is a friend of
longevity in tho fact that it removes all
corroding care about a future existence.
Every man wants to know what is to be
come of him. If you get on board a rail
train you want to know at what depot it
is going to stop; if you get on board a
ship you want to know into what harbor
it is going to run, and if you should tell
me you have no interest in what is to be
your future destiny, I would in as polite
a way as I know how tell you I did not
believe you. Before I had this matter
settled with reference to my future exist
ence, the question almost worried me
into ruined health. The anxieties men
have upon this subject, put together,
would make a martyrdom. This is a
state of awful unheal thiness. There are
people who fret themselves to death for
fear of dying.
I want to take the strain off your nerve a
and the depression off your soul, and I
make two or three experiments. Experi
ment first: When you go out of this
world it does not make any difference
whether you have been good or bad, or
whether you believed truth or error, you
will go straight to glory. "Impossible,"
you say; "my .common sense as well as
my religion teaches that tho bad and the
good cannot livo together forever. You
give me no comfort in that experiment."
Experiment the second: WTien you leave
this world you will go into an intermedi
ate state where you can get converted
and prepared for heaven. "Impossible, "
you say ; "its the tree falleth so it must
lie, and 1 cannot postpone to an interme
diate state reformation which ought to
have been effected in tlm state. " Ex
periment the third: There is no future
world; when a man dies that is the last
of him. Do not worry about what you
are to do in another state of being; you
will not do anything. "Impossible, " you
say; "there is something that tells me
that death is not the appendix, but the
preface; there is something that tells mo
that on this side of the grave I only get
started, and tliat I shall go on forever;
my power to think says 'forever,' my
affections 6ay 'forever,' my capacity to
enjoy or suffer, 'forever.' "
Well, you defeat me in my three ex
periments. I have only ono more to
make, and if you defeat me in that I am
exhausted: A mighty Ono on a knoll
back of Jerusalem one day, the 6kies
filled with forked lightnings and the
earth filled with volcanic disturbances,
turned his pale and agonized face toward
the heavens and said: "I take the sins
and sorrows of the ages into my own
heart. I am the expiation. Witness
earth and heaven and hell, I am the ex
piation." And the hammer struck him,
and the spears punctured him, and
heaven thundered: "The wages of sin
is death 1" "The soul that sinneth, it
shall die!" "I will by no means clear
the guilty!" Then there was silence
for half an hour, and the lightnings were
drawn back into the scabbard of the sky,
and the earth seemed to quiver, and all
tho colors of the sky began to shift them
selves into a rainbow woven out of the
falling tears of Jesus, and there was red
as of the Lloodshedding, and there was
blue as of. the bruising, and there was
green as of the heavenly foliage, and
there was orange as of the day dawn.
And along tho fine of the blue I saw the
words: "I was bruised for their iniqui
ties." And along the line of tho red I
saw tho words: "The blood of Jesus
Christ cleanseth from all sin." And
along the line of tho green I saw the
words: "The leaves of the tree of life
for the healing of the nations." And
along the line of the orange I saw the
words: "The day spring from on high
hath visited us.'
And then I saw the storm was over
and the rainbow rose higher and higher,
until it seemed retreating to another
heaven, and planting one column of its
colors on one side the eternal hill and
planting the other column of its colors on
the other side tho eternal hill, it rose up-
ward and upward, "and behold there was
a rainbow about the throne. '
Accept that sacrifice and quit worry
ing. Take the tonic, the inspiration, the
longevity of this truth. Keligion is sun
shine, that is health. Keligion is fresh
air and pure water, they are healthy.
Religion ij warmth, that u healthy. Ask
all tho doctors and they will tell you that
a quiet conscience and pleasant anticipa
tions are hygienic. I offer you Hrfect
peace now and hereafter.
What do you want in tho future world?
Tell mo and you shall have it.. Orchards?
There are tho trees with twelve manner
of fruits, yielding fruit every month.
Water scenery? There is tho river of
life from under tho throno of God, clear
as crystal, and tho sea of glass min;led
with lire. Do 3ou want music There
is the oratorio of the Creation led on by
Adam, and tho oratorio of the lied Sea
led 011 by Moses, and the oratorio of tho
Messiah led on by St. Paul, while tho
archangel with swinging baton controls
the 144,000 who make up the orchestra.
Do you want reunion? There are your
dead children waiting to. kiss you, wait
ing to embrace you, waiting to twist
garlands in your hair. You have lecn
accustomed to en tho door on this tide
the sepulcher. I open the door on tho
other side the sepulcher. You have leen
accustomed to walk in tho wet grass on
the top of tho grave. I show you the
under side of the grave ; the bottom has
fallen out and the long ropes with which
tho pall bearers let down your dead let
them clear through into heaven.
Glory bo to God for this robust, healthy
religion. It will havo a tendency to
make you livo long in this world, and in
the world to come you will have eternal
life. "With long life will I satisfy him."
MULTUM IN PARVO.
llerlin Is to have a now c..tiC.":I.
Silver has turned up in South Africa
to a degree to produce a new mining
fever.
There are laws ftpst Uc,lng profane
langungo ' j, telephone in all states except
C'coectleut.
Tiio receipts of tho London Zoological
Gardens have decreased $10,000 in the
past year and tho manage blamu P.uf
falo liiU'a f.how- for. the loss!
Kansas has a genuino phiUnthr-
Stephen Richardson, of Iio i-ist.
has planted thX im'" ' e-v c"n,,-v'
tho puhU'v) ",of l'tach trees 111
vJvw"'"' .0iway for the benefit of
-.S.
The Turkish government will not allow
the writings of Dante. Byron, Voltaire
and Paley to enter its domains, for these
authois speak disrespectfully of Moham
medanism. Europe has a new coin. It is the coin
of the present German emperor and bears
his profile. The die was actually pre
pared in the lifetime of the last emperor.
A Paris journal asserts that an Eng
lish ex-hangman has been hired by an
American manager for a lecture tour in
the United States, ana is to receive $40,
000 over his expenses.
Experiments at Capo Town in signal
ing with electric light reflected from the
clouds were a complete success. Ex
periments were also made with a vessel
at sea, with the result of flashing a signal
fifty miles away.
Bismarck received 101 plovers' eggs
on his recent birthday. Plovers' eggs
are a favorite delicacy with the chancel
lor, and every year 011 his birthday a
largo number are sent to him from the
country.
Georgia, according to Tho Athens (Ga.)
Banner Watchman, furnished three
regiments of soldiers to the Federal arm'
during the civil war. The soldiers came
from the mountain counties of the state.
The uncertainty concerning titles is
thought to be a cause of dullness in New
York real estate. Many of the old family
properties were settled in a careless man
ner, and in some instances heirs have re
appeared, causing perplexity and con
fusion. The inhabitants of Rodriguez, an island
of the Indian ocean belonging to Great
Britain, were recently threatened with
starvation, owing to their isolated posi
tion and the failure of crops. A relief
expedition from tho Mauritius, 400 miles
away, finally reached them with 1,000
Ixigs of rice.
A convention of parrots will soon be
held in Turin, and a great many learned
old fellows are expected to be present.
Prizes will he given to the best singer,
tho brightest conversationalist and the
finest orator. A great uiany queer stories
have been told about parrots, but the
coming show will give the world a chance
to know precisely what they have to say.
The New Jersey court of chancery has
rendered a decision which deprives Henry
George, tho land agitator, of a bequest of
property aggregating in value about i?10,
000. It had been bequeathed by William
Hutchings, an eccentric admirer of Henry
George, who recently died in Camden
county. Its object was to aid Georgo in
the dissemination of his peculiar land
doctrines.
An interesting report of the death of a
native was recently mado by a coroner's
jury in India. The native had had the
misfortune to meet a tiger, and the re
port says: "Pandu died of the tiger eat
ing him. There was no other cause of
death. Nothing was left of Pandu save
6ome fingers, which probably belonged
either to the right or left hand."
London royalty is about to organize a
charitable fete in imitation of that car
ried to success by the Princess Metternich
in Vienna. Tho three little Princesses of
Wales are to appear as Yum Yum. Pitti
Sing and Peep Bo in "The Mikado"' trio.
A Scotch ballet will be danced by titled
ladies, and it will wind up with a panto
mime in which all the players will take
part.
Mustard Plasters for Truants.
The Ladies' Protection and Relief so
ciety has just issued its report for 1SS7.
The lady president was seen tho other
day, and said that at present there are
200 boys and girls in the institution,
while 3G'2 children have been cared for
during the past v ear. Considerable diffi
culty has been experienced of late with
the young boys who play truant from thti
institution, climbing fences and going
bathing at North Beach, or running
around the neighborhood. Various
remedies have been tried, among them
the dressing of the boys in girls' clothes,
but the latest device has proved effective.
Half a dozen voungsters played truant
not long ago, and on returning received a
warm welcome. The matron ouietlv 1
ordered the toys to take off their jackets. (
and then she applied a mustard plaster to J
each of the boys' backs, and now they j
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