The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-17


so wonderful that when the Earl of
Bridgewater bequeathed in his will $40,-
600 for treatises to be written on the
wisdom, power and goodness of God,
Sir Charles Bell, the great English an
atOmist and surgeon, found his greatest
illustration in the construction of the
human hand, devoting his whole book to
that subject. So wonderful are these
bodies that God names His own attri-
butes after different parts of them. His
Omniscience-it is Gods eye. His Omni-
presence-it is Gods ear. His Omnipo-
tence-it is Gods arm. The upholstery
of the midnight heavens-it is the work
of Gods fingers. His life-giving power
lit is the breath of the Almighty. His
d0miniOn-"the Government shall be
upon his shoulder" A body so divinely
hOnored 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 whole tendency
toward longevity If toss my watch
about recklessly, and drop it on the
pavement, and wind it up any time Of
day or night happen to think 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 violent
| CuduB6S VI dGLuOSpu6lcJ WuACn "dICu
will last the longer? Common sense
answers. Now, the human body is Gods
watch. You see the hands of the watch.
You see the face of the watch; but the
beating of the heart is the ticking of
the watch. o, be careful and do not let
| it run dOwni t[
Again, remark that practical reli-
| giOn isa friend of longevity in the fact
that it is protest against all the dissi-
| patiOns which injuTe and destroy the
| health. Bad men and women live very
| short life. Their sins kill them. l
know hundreds of good old men. but l
Whyp They do not get old. Lord Byron
died at MissOlOnghi at thirty-six years
of age, himself his own MaZeppa, his
unbridIed passions the horse that dashed
with him into the desert. Edgar A. Poe
| died at Baltimore at thirty-eight years
of age. The black raven that alighted
on the bust above his chamber door was
delriuim tremens-
''Ony this and nothing more"
Napoleon Bonaparte lived just beyond
mid-life, then died at st. Helena, and
one of his doctors said that his disease
was induced by excessive snuffing. The
hero of AusterlitZ, the man who by one
| step of his foot in the center of Europe
shook the earth, killed by Snuff-bOX
/ o, how many people we have known who
have not lived out half their days be-
cause of their dissipations and indul-
gencesl Now, practical religion is a
protest against all dissipation of any
kind. But" you say, professors of re-
ligiOn have fallen, professors of religion
have got drunk, professors of religion
have misapprOpriated trust funds, pro-
| fessOrs of religion have abscOnded." !"
Yes; but they threw away their religion
| before they did their morality. If man
on White Star Line steamer bound for
Liverpool, in mid-Atlantic jumps over
board and is drowned, is that anything
against the White Star Lines capacity
| to take the man across the ocean? And
if man jumps 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
| clear through? In the one case, if he
had kept to the steamer, his body would
have been saved; in the other case, if he
had kept to his religion, his morals
would have been saved. There are aged
people who would have been dead twen-
| ty-five years ago but for the defenses
and the equipOise of religion. You have
no more natural resistance than hun
| dreds 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
| congestion of the brain, or something
else, but the snakes and the blue flies
that seemed to crawl over the pillow in
the sight of the delirious patient showed
what was the matter with him. You,
the aged Christian man, walked along
by that unhappy one until you came to
the golden pillar of Christian life.
| Won Tuonf fn tho rinhts ho uont IN tho
left. That is all the difference between
you. Obi if this religion is a protest
| against all forms of dissipation, then it
is an illustriOus friend of longevity.
with long life will satisfy him."
Again, religion is friend of longeyi-
ty, in the fact that it takes the worry
out of our tempOralities. 1t is not work
that kills men; it is worry. When a
man becomes a genuine Christian, he
tiOnS, but his family, his business, his
reputation, his body, his mind, his soul
I-every thing. Industrious he will be,
but never worrying, because God is man
aging his affairs. How can he worry
about business when, in answer to his
prayers, 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 supernatural neighbor, who came
| III anu OIL mdnG yOu w Cdll Uu
me in every exigency. 1 am your fast
friend. could fall back on 100000 600
l can foresee panic ten years. 1 hold
the controlling stock in thirty of the
best monetary Institutions in New York
Whenever you are in any trouble call on
me, and will help you. You can have
my money, and you can have my influ.
ence. Here is my hand in pledge fol
1t" How much would you worry about
business?" Why, you would say: 'T'll dc
the best can, and then I'll depend on
my friends generosity for the rest. ,
Now, more than that is promised to
every Christian business man. God says
to him: 81 own New York and London
and st. Petersburg and Pekin, and Aus
tralia and California are mine; / can
fOresee a panic a million years; 1 have
all the resources of the universe, and ]
am your fast friend; when you get in
business troubles, or any other trouble,
call on me and i will help you. Here
is my hand in pledge of Omnipotent de-
/ liverance." How much should that man
worry? Not much. What lion will dare
to put his paw on that DanielP If you
could take a thermometer and thrust it
in Shadrach's furnace, it would never 20
upoyer seyenty-fiye degrees. Is there
not rest in thisp Is there not an eternal
vacation in this? ''0h!" you say, "here