Life expectancy at birth in the United States in 1901 was 49 years. At the end of the century it was 77 years, an increase of 57%. People must have been reading their Bible more in the 20th century
Bible reading is great but so is modern, God given medicine.
Psalm 90:10 The days of our lives are seventy years;And if by reason of strength they are eighty years, Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.