The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-20

he hands of the watch, you see the face
II the watch; but the beating of the heart
Is the ticking of the watch. Oh, be careful
Ind do not let it run down! a n
Again, remark that practical religion
Is friend of long life, In the fact that 1t is
\ protest against all the designations which
injure and destroy the health. Bad men
and women live a very short life. Their
sins kill them. ! know hundreds of good
old men, but do not know. half dozen
bad old men. Why? They do net got old.
Lord Byron died at MissolosgM q thirty
xix years of age. himself his own Hazspps,
his u,bridled passions that dashed VITA
him into the desert. Edgar A. Poe died at
Baltimore at thirty-eight years Of age.
The black raven that alighted e1Et6e bust
above his aAeMhpr deMawss delifium treI
'uens. 80 IL III In a
Is Eps,y tbis sna noshIns more Z
Napoleon Bonaparte lived only just be.
yond mid life, then died at St. Helena, and
one of his doctors said that his disease was
induced by excessive ssnuffings The hero
Of Austerlitx, the man who by one step q
his foot in the center Of Europe'shodk Ne
earth, killed by q snuff box! Oh, Ih1w
many people we have known who haxe rot
lived out half their days because * theif
designations and indulgencesl Now, prac-
tical religion ia . protest against all dissi-
pationi of any kind. "But,', you say,
professors of religion have fallen. pro-
fessors of religion have got drunk, pro-
fesiors Of religion hove MisspPropsiatsA
trust fund sHnGeSs6s al Religion lava ah.S
sconded.nn Yes, but they threw away their
religion before they did their morality. II
q man on a White Star Line steamer bound
forLiyerpool, in mid Atlantic jumps over.
board and Is drowned, is that anything
against the White Star, Lines capacity to
take the man across the oceany Aud il :
man jumps over the gunwale Of HIS re.
lligion md xbss dom asvai n rise,s y
that any reason fpr, your believing thatre-
ligi0n. has no, capacity to take the man
clear through In the one csse, II he bad
kept to the steamer his bodysssvodld have
been saved; in the other case, IL he had
kept to his religion his morals wound have
been saved. There are aged people in this
house to-day who would have been dead
twenty five years ago but for the defenses
and the eQuipoise of religion, You have
no more natural resistance than hun
dreds a. people wh6 lie iAthe ceH1eterieS
to-day, slainby theft own ytces The doc.
tors made their cases as kind and pleasant
as they could, and 1t was called conges-
ton Of the brain or something else, bat the
snakes and blue flies that seemed 70 crawl
over the pillow In the sight of the. delirious
patient showed whSt was the matter with
him. You, the aged Christian man, walked
along by that unhappy one until you came
to the golden pillar of a Christian life. You
went to the right, he went to the left. That
is not all the difference between you. Oh,
ifthis religionfs = protest against AL forms
Of dissipation. then \ = an illvstrious
friend of long life.
Again, religion is friend Of long life I.
the fact that Il takes the worry out Of our
temporalities.s Il ~ not work that kills
men, it is w0ry. When , man becomes :
genuine Christian ne makes over 70 God
not only his affections, bat his family, bio
business, his, rspufation, his body, his
mind, his ul--evsrything. Industrioua
he will be, bst never worrying, because
God is mana sing hls Affairs. How cal he
worry about business when, in answer to
his prayers, God tells him when to buy and
when to sell, and II he gaia, that q best,
and If he lose, that u best9 nv ;
Suppose you had supernatural neigh.
Dor who came In and said: .'Sir, want
you to call on me In every EFFICIENCY. an
your fast friend; could TALL back on so,
100000; can foresee panic ten years; ]
hold the controlling stock In thirty Of III
best monetary institutions of 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 influence;
there is my hand in pledge Tor it," How
much would you worry about business'
Why you would say am do the best
can and then III depend upon my friends
generosity for the rest" Now, more than
that is promised to every Christian bust.
ness man. God says V him: ~ own New
York ard London and st. Petersburg, and
Pekin and Australia and California are
mine; can foresee panic q million years;
have all the resources of the universe
and ! am your fast friend; when you gel
! in cuisines. trouble or any other trouble
call on me and will hear, and will help
here is my hand in pledge Of omnipoten'
deliverance." How much should that mar
worry, Not much. What lion viii dare t.
put his paw on that Daniel. If you could
take a thermometer and thrust 1t int
Shsdrach's Furnace, It would never Cd "
over seventy Ave degrees. Is there mo-
rest in this. Is there not an eternal vaca
tion in this. aif .a- af.c4Iilv4 -a
"Oh," you say, "here is the man WIT
a.ked God for blessing upon a certain
enterprise, and he lost 5000 In IL. Elk
plain that" will. Yonder is fac.
tory, and one wheel is going north and tn
other wheel j. going south, and one whee
plays lateraIly and the other plays verti
cally. I go to the manufacturer and
say: 40, manufacturer, your machiner,
is contradiction. Why do you not max
all the wheels go one wayy"f SWELL" h
says, III made them to go in opposite di
rections on purpose, and they produce tn
right result. You so down stairs and ex
anime the carpets we are turning out il
this establishment, and you will see.n'
go down On the other floor. and see tn
carpets, a id am obliged to confess that
though the wheels in the factory so in op
I posite directions, they turn ont a beautiful
result: and while l am Standing Their
looking at the exquisite fabric, an oil
Scripture passage comes into my mind