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Exeter Advocate, 1900-2-22, Page 74r AM1 ;'two i G II { � �: ' � r � presence --it is God's ;ear, is ornnt- R �( i pole ee---it is God's arse. The tip- GI(� � � � � �� � � � � �� I it r f the nldnl"ht heav ns---lt C J o x .a- "' e "With Long Life Wilf I Satisfy THE GOSPEL OF EVERYDAY LIFE Sew. Dr. Talmage Shows. What It Does Fur the Prolongation of Earthly E_- lstence uud How to Blake its Devotees nappy, Washington.: -Feb. 18. — This ser mon 01 1)r. a,luntee presents a gos- pel for this life as ;well as the next and shows that religion does for the ' prolongation of earthly existence ; ,text, I'salin xci 16, "With long life'' vill 1 satisly him. Through the mistake of its friends religion has been chiefly associated with sickbeds slid graveyards. '1'he whole subject to many ;people- is od- orous with chlorine and carbolic acid. There: are people 'vho, cannot pro- nounce the word religion without hearing in it the clipping chisel of the tombstone cutter. It is high tiine That this thing were changed and that religion instead of being .repre- sented as a hearse to carry out the dead should be represented as a chariot in which the living are to triluulih. Religion, so far from subtracting from one's vitality, is .a glorious ad- dition. It is sanitive, curative,- hy- gienic.. It is good for the eyes, good for the ears, good for the spleen, good for the digestion, good for the nerves, good for the muscles. When avid, in another part of the Psalms *aye that religionmay be dominant, he does not speak of it as a mild sickness or an emaciationor an at- tack of moral and spiritual' cramp. I -Is speaks of it as "'thesaving health.l of all nations," while God in the text promises,, longevity to the pious, say- ing, "With long life will I` satisfy hirci,' The fact is that men and women die too soon. It is high time that religion joined the hand of . medical science in attempting to improve hu- man longevity. Adam lived 930 years. Methuselah lived 969 years. As late in the history of the world as Vespasian there were at one time in his empire 45 people 135 years old. So far down as, the sixteenth century Peter ZarLan died at 185 years of age. 'I do not say that re- ligion will ever take the race back to antediluvian longevity, but I do say that the length of human life will be greatly improved. It is said in Isaiah lxv, 20, "The child shall die,a hundred years old." Now, if, according to Scripture, the child is to be a hundred years old, may not the men and women reach to 300 and 400 and 500? The fact is that we are mere dwarfs and skel- etons, compared with some of the generations that are to come. Take the African race. They have been under bondage for centuries.' Give them a chance and they develop a Toussaint l'Ouverture. And if the white race shall be brought out from underthe serfdom of sin what shall be the body? What shall be the soul? Religion has only just touch- ed our world. Give it full power for a few centuries, and who can tell at will be the strength of` man athe beauty of woman and the gl ofa , evit ll" • My ,design is to .show that practi- cal religion is the friend of longe- vity; I prove it, 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 digesti- ble or indigestible, whether there shall be thorough or incomplete. niers tication, are questions very often re- ferred to the realm of, whimsicality, but the Christian man lifts this whole problem of health into tha account- able and the divine. He says, eGod has given me this body, and he has called it the temple of the Iloly Ghost, and to deface its altars or mar itswalls or crumble its pillars is a God defying sacrilege." IXC sees God's caligraphy in every page—an- atomical and physiological. I -le says, "God has given me a wonderful body for noble purposes." The Christian Mari says to himself, "If I hurt my nerves, if I hurt my brain, if I hurtanyof my physical Phys ca faculties, I insult God . and call for dire retribution." Why did God tell the Levites'not to offer to him in sacrifice animals imperfect and dis- eased? He meant to tell us in all the ages, that we are to offer to God our very, best physical` condition, and a man who through irregular or glut- tonous eating ruins" his health, is not offering to God such a sacrifice. Why did Paul write for his cloak at .Troas? Why should such a great Inan as Paul be anxious about a t 'ng so insignificant as an over - c at?It was because he knew that; with pneumonia' and rheumatism •he would not be worth half as :much to God and the church as yvith respira- tion easy and foot free. An intelligent Christian man would consider it an absurdity to 'kneel down at night and pray and ask God' protection while at the same' time he kept the windows of his bed- room tight shut against fresh air. nijle would just as soon think of go- :40Tng to the top of his house and leape ing off and 'then praying to God to keep him from getting hurt. Just as long as you refer this whole subject of physical health to the realm of whimsicality, or to the pastry cook, or to the butcher, or the baker, or to the apothecary, or to the clo- thier you are riot acting like a Chris- tian. 'Take care of all your' physical' forces — nervous; muscular, bone, "brain, cellular tissue for all you must bo brought to judginent. What right has any man or woman to deface the temple' of the IToly Ghost? What is the ear? Why, it is tlio`whispering gallery of the Iiti- nha.n soul, What is the eye? It is, the observatory God constructed, its telescope sweeping the heavens. So wonderful tire' these bodies th•tt God names hie own attributes after dif-, feren;t parts of them.: Tris oiiinis- cionce-i.t is God's eye. His omni - is the Work of God's fingers. His life giving powox—it as the breath. of the, Almighty, 1 -lis dominion -- "the government shall be upon his shoulder." A body so divinely hon- ar'ed and so divinely constructed let us be careful not to abuse It. When it becomes a -Christian duty to take care of our health, is"not the. whdle tendency toward, longevity? If 1 toss :my watch about recklessly and drop it on the pavement and wind it. up any time of day or night I hap- pen tothink of it and often let it run down while you are, careful 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 vio- lent changes of atmosphere, .which on unlatch' will last the `longer? Com - I �i sense answers. Now, the hu- roan body is God's watch. , You see the hands of the watch. You seethe face .'of the watch, but the beating of the heart is the ticking, of the watch. Oh, be careful and do not let it run down! Again, I remark that practical re- ligion is a friend of longevity in the fact that it is a protest against dis- sipations which injure and destroy the health. Bad men and women live a very short life. Their sins: kill them. I know hundred "' of good old men, but I do not know half a dozen bad old men. Why? They do not get old. Lord Byron died at Mi ssolonghi at 30 years of age, him- self of his own kazeppa, r his un- bridled passions the horse that, dash- ed with him into the desert. Edgar A. Poe died at Baltimore at 38 years of age; The black raven that aligh- ted on the bust above his chamber door was delirium tremens, Only this and nothing more. arid wrote a farewell letter to his 'wife before he blew out his lnrd2s— if, instead of taking ing out of his pock- et a pistol, he had taken out a well read lieey Testament, there would have been one less suicide. 0 ocr vows and feverish people of the everld, this almighty sedative. you �i'lll live 25 years longer under its, sooth- ing power. It.is not chloral that you want or ulo•phine that you want:- it is the gospel of Jesus Christ. "With long life will I satisfy him," I want to take the strain off your nerves and the depression off your soul, and I make two or three experi- ments. Experiment the fleet: When you go out of this world, it does not Snake any difference whether you have been good or bad, or whether you be- lieved truth or error, you will go straight to, glory.. "Impossible," you say. "My common` sense as well as my religion' teaches that the bad and the, good cannot live together for- ever. You give me no comfort in that experiment," Experiment the second: When you leave this world, you will go into an intermediate state where you can get converted and prepared for heaven, "lmpossi- ble,'',you .say; "as the tree falleth, so it must lie, and I cannot postpone to an intermediate state that reforma- tion eformtion which ought to have been effect- ed in this state.'' Experiment the third: There is no future world. ' When a - man dies, that is the last: of him. I)o not' worry about what you being; are to, do in snorkel state c of Ue t„ you will not do au,ythieg. 'Inipossi- ble, you say. "'There is''someth .ing that tellsme that death is not the appendix, :but the preface; there is something that tells me that ori this side of the grave I only get started and that I shall go on forever. My power to think says forever, my af- fections say forever, my capacity to enjoy or suffer forever. Well, you defeat me in my three ex- periments. I have only one niore to make, and if you defeat inc in that I am exhausted. A nighty; one on a knoll back of Jerusalem one day, the skies filled with forked lightnings and the earth filled with volcanic 'dis- turbances, turned his pale and agon- ized face towards, 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 expiation," And 'the hammer struck hint and; the ,spears punctured hirer, and heaven thundered, "The wages of - sin is death! ''The soul that sinneth it shall die!" "I will by no means clear the guilty!" Then there was si- lence for half an hour, and the light- nings were drawn back into the scab- bard of the sky and the earth ceased to quiver and all the colors of the sky began to shift themselves into a rainbow woven out of the falling tears of Jesus and therewas reel as of the bloodshedding 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. the Ifrie of the blue I saw the words, "I was bruised for their iniquities. Acrid along the line of the red I saw the `words, "The blood of .Tesus Christ cleanseth from all sin." And, along' the line of the green 1 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 ori high hath visited 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 col- umn of its colors on one side the eternal hill and planting the other column of its colors on the other side the eternal hill it rose upward and: upward, and, behold, there was a rainbow about the throne. Accept that sacrifice and quit wor- rying. Take the tonic, the inspira- tion, the ' longevity, of this truth. Ileligion is sunshine; that is health. Religion is fresh air and pure water; they are healthy. Religion is warmth; that is healthy. Ask all the doctors, and they will tell you that a quiet conscience and pleasant an- ticipations'are hygienic. ':I offer you perfect peace now and hereafter. What do you want in the future world? Tell me, and you shall have it. -'Orchards? ,There are trees with 12 manner of fruits, yielding fruit every month. Water scenery? There is the river of life, from ,under the throne of God, clear as crystal, and the sea of: glass mingled with fire:. Do yott want music? Thereie are the I "Creation,"on oratorio of theled by Adam, and the oratorio of the "Red Sea," led on by Moses, and the oi•a torio of the "Messiah," led on by St. Paul, while the archangel, with swinging baton, controls the 144,000 who nhake up the orchestra. Do you want reunion? `There are your dead children waiting to :kiss you, waiting to embrace you, wait- ing to ait-ing;to twist garlands irr, your hair. You have ' been accustomed to , open the door on this side the sepulcher; I open the door onthe other side,the sepulcher. You have been accustom- ed to walls in the wet grass on the top of the grave;I show you the un- derside of the grave. The bottom has fallen out, and the long ropes with which the pallbearers let down your dead let them clear' through into heaven. Glory be to God for this robust. 'healthy, religion! It will have a -tendency to hnake you. `'live long in this world, and inthe world to come you will have eternal life. "With long life will I satisfy him:" There are aged people who would have been dead 25 years .ago but for the defenses and the equipoise of re- ligion. You have no more natural resistance than hundreds of people who lie in the cemeteries to -day, slain by their own vices. The doctors made their case as kind and pleasant as they could, and it was called con- gestion of the brain or something else, but the snakes lend the blue flies that seemed to crawl over the pillows in the sight of the delirious patient showed what was the mat- ter with hint. You, the aged Chris- tian man, walked along by that un- happy one until you came to the golden pillar of :.the Christian life. You went to the right; he went to the left. This is all the difference bettivicen you. ` Oh, if this religion is a protest against all form of dis- sipation, then it is an illustrious friend of longevity. "With long life will I satisfy 'him.'; Again, religion is a friend of lon- gevity in 'the fact that it takes the worry out of temporalities. It is not work that kills men, it is worry, When a man becomes a genuine Chris- tian, he makes over to God not only his affections, but his family, his bu- siness, his reputation, his body, his mind, his soul—everything. Indus- trious he will be, but never worry- ing, because. God' is managing his af- fairs. How can he worry about business when in answer to his pray- ers God tells him when to buy and when to sell, and if he gain that is best and if he lose that is best? Suppose you had a supernatural neighbor who came in and said: "Sir, I want you to call on me in every exigency. I am your fast :friens; I could fall back on $20,000,000; : I can foresee a panic ten years; I hold the controlling stock in 30 of the best monetary institutions of this country; whenever you are in any trouble call On me and I: will help you; you can have my, money and you can have my influence; here is my hand in pledge of it." How much would you worry about business? Why, you would, say, "I'll do the best I can, and 'then l'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 York and London and St. Petersburg and Pek- ing and Australia and California are mine; ,I can foresee a panic a thous- andh resources a l ears; I have y I the of the universe; and I ani your best friend; when you get in., business trouble or any other trouble, call on. me and I will help; here is my handin pledge of omnipotent ftdeliv er anceee How much should that man worry? Not :much. What lion will dare to put his paw on that Daniel? Is there not rest in this? Is there not an eternal vacation in this? "Oh," You say, "here is a man who asked God for a blessing in a certain enterprise, and he lost $5,000 in it. Explain that." I will. Yonder is it 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 the manufacturer, and I say: "0 manufacturer; your machinery is a contradiction. Why do you not inake all the wheels_ go one way?" ; "Well," he says, "I made them to, go in op- posite directions on purpose, andtlley produce the right result. You go downstairs and examine the carpets we are turning out in this establish- ment, and you will see. I go down on the other floor, and I'see the car- pets, and I am obliged to confess that,though the wheels in that fac- tory go in opposite directions, they turn out a beautiful result, and while I am standing there looking at the exquisite fabric an old Scripture passage comes into my mind, "All things work together 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 the time Wor- ried about his reputation? One man says he lies, another says he is strip-' id, another says he is dishonest, and half a dozen printing establishments attack hien, and he is in a great state of excitement and worry and fame and cannot sleep. But religion comes to hien and says: "Man, God is on your side. lle will take care of your reputation, If God be for you, who can lie against you?'' How . much should that man worry' about his reputation? Not ,Much. If that brok- er who some .years a:gto i.n Wall street, after; he had • lost money sat down Eooten: lttateet. The Scottish American has a story of a noi'th country servant girl, who was living with an English family in the neighborhood of Oxford. One wet day she. happened 40 step into a hemp of diirc and returned home with her clothes much soiled. "What have you been doing?" asked her mistress. "Oh," said she, "I stepped into a dumplock o' glaur." "And what's glour?" "Just ciente," said the girl. "But what's clairts?" ''It's just like clabber.,' "But, dear hue, what, is clabber?" "Clabber is drookit stout." "But what is drool it stour?" in- sisted the amazed lady. "\Neel, 'tveel," said the girl, '''ave 001) p0t.len r.e Wi',ye Wee, Y e suit ken ne 'e1ecl a.e me., les just ',Vat dirt,." 66 !mala rea est e d ouse i THAT WiLL MAKE HE �w r e y. ,r NEW IMPROVED 1 P THE HEAVIEST CROPPER KNOWN Yielded 100 bush. 20 lbs. per acre at Erandon Experimental Farm in 1889. The Improved "Ligowo" Oat is a large, plump, white variety, with a branching head and stiffstraw, a vigorous grower, very prolific, and exceedingly early. It has been grown and tested at all the 1xperimental'Farms, and has given as a result of four years' trial an average crop of 64 BUSH., 6 LBS. PER ACRE. With such favorable results as above reported by the Dominion Experimental Farms, we were induced to procure a supply of seed stock from the ori- ginal source in France, and now offer for the first time the Improved Ligowo Oats grown from imported stock. Price per lb., 25c,• 5 lbs. for $1 (post-paid) ; r,' bush., $1.25; bush,, $2.00 ; 5 bush. lots and over, $1.90 per bush.; bags, 20e. each extra. RE "SENSATION" o=AT Very large Grain, Bost Quality,'. Strong Straw It Is Impossible to over-estimate the good qualities of this New White Branching Oat. It has been grown in this vicinity the past year with extraordinary results. The grain is of good size, the hulls arethin, and the kernel Is the largest In proportion to tho size of the'oat we have yet seen, making it the best variety grown for feeding and milling purposes. The Sensation stools ont well, and the straw is very strong, and does not lodge, even when others with a less weight of head go down.: ` 2t is a very vigorous' grower, quite noticeably so when seen growing beside other varieties. It is bound to take a leading place, and will, no doubt, become a very popular variety. Price per lb., 15e.; 4 lbs., 50e. (post-paid); bush., Sl; 5 bushlots, 96c. per bush.; 10 bush Iots and over, 90e, per bush.; bags, 20c. each extra IMPROVED "AMERICAN" OAT This splendid oat has already proved itself to be entitled to rank among the very first and best varieties. It is a heavy growing strong strewed variety, and is of such vigorous constitu- tion as to be almost proof against rust and other diseases. 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