Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-04


What right has any man or any woman
to deface the temple OF the Holy Ghosty
What is the ear? Why, it is the whis-
pering gallery of the human soul. What
is the eyer 1t is the observatory God
constructed, its telescope sweeping the
heavens. What is tho hand? An instru-
ment so wonderful that when the Earl Of
Bridgewater bequeathed in his will $4,000
for treaties TO be written on the wisdom,
power and goodness OF God, Sir Charles
Bell, the great English anatomist 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 attributes after the differ
ent parts. His 0mniscience-it is Gods
eye. His Omnipresence-it is Gods ear.
His omnipotence--it Is Gods arm. The
upholstery Of the midnight heavens--it is
the work OF Gods fingers. His life-giving
p0wer--;t is the breath of the
Almighty. His dominion, the govern
ment, shall be upon his shoulder. A body
SO dlVinely honOred and so diVinely con-
structed, let us be careful not to abuse 1t.
When it becomes "A Christian duty to
take care OF our health is not the whole
tendency towards long life? If ] toss my
watch about recklessly and drop it on the
pavement and wind IL up any time of
often let IL run down, aud while you are
careful with your watch, and never abuse
it, and wind 10 up at lust the same hour
every night, and put IL in place where
il will not suffer from the violent changes
OF atmosphere, which watch will last the
Il0nger? 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
hoo 10 Nf.,.s s.f~F. .,,fk H.. 10.
careful and do not let it run dOwnl
Again, remark, that practical reli-
giOn is friend of long life, in the fact
that 1t is protest against all the dissi-
patiOns which injure and destroy the
health. Bad men and women live very
short life. Their sins kill them. | know
hundreds OF good old men but l do not
know half dozen bad old men. Why?
They do not get old. Lord Byron died at
Missolongbi,at 36 years Of age, himself
his own Ma2eppa, his nnbridled passions
the horse that dashed with him into the
desert. Edgar A, Poe died at Baltimore
at 80 years Of age. The black raven that
alighted on the bust above his chamber
door was delirium tremins:
"Only this and nothing more"
Napoleon BOnaparte lived only lust be-
yond mid-liie, then died at st. Helena,
and one of bis doctors said that his dis
case was induced by excessive snuffing
The hero Of Austerlitz, the man who by
one step of his feet IN the centre Of Eu-
rope shook the earth, killed by a snuff
boXl Oh, how many people we have
known VINO have not lived out half their
days because OF their designations and in
dulgencesl 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, pro-
fessors of religion have absconded." Yes,
but they threw away their religion before
they did their morality. If man on a
White Star line steamer bound for Liver
pooLoin mid-Atlantic jumps overheard
and is drowned, Is that anything against
the White Star lines capacity to take the
man acrosss tue ocean? And if
a man jumps over the gun
vale of his religion and goes
down never TO rise, is that any reason for
your believing that religion has no capac-
ity 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
bis morals would have been saved. There
are aged people in this house to-day who
would have been dead % years ago butfor
the defeDses and the equipOise Of religion.
You have no more natural resistance than
hundreds OF people who lie in the ceme-
teries to-day, slain bytheir ownVices. 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 thesight OF the delirlous
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 "A Christian life.
You went 10 the right; he went 10 the left.
That is all the difference between YOU.
Oh, If this religion Is a protest against all
forms Of dissipation, then it is an illus
trious friend OF long lifel
Again religion is friend OF long life in
the fact that it takes the worry out of our
tempOralities. 1t is not work that kills
men, it is worry. When man becomes a
genuine Christian be makes oyer to God
not only his affections, but his family, his
business, his reputation, his body, his
mind, his sOul-eYeryth Industrious
he will be hut never worrying, because
God is managing bis affairs. How can he
worry about business when, In answer to
mis- prayers, God tells him when 10 buy
and when TO sell, and II he gain. that Is
best, ami il he lose that Is best?
Suppose you had a supernatural neigh
Dor VINO came In and said: "Sir, | want
you to call on me in every eXigency. /
am your fast friend. / could fall back on
twenty million dollars. / can fOresee a
panic ten years. | hold the controlling
stock in thirty of the best monetary insti-
tutiOns OF New York. Whenever YOU afe
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 for it" How much would YOU
worry about businessI Why, you would
say: "I'll do the best can and then pn
depend upon my friends generosity tor
the rest" Now, more than that is prom
ised TO every Christian business man.
God says to him: ~ own New York and
London and ST. Petersburg, and PeSin
aud Australia and California are
mine; ! can fOresee panic million
years; / have all the resources OF
the universe, and ! am your fast friend;
when YOU get In business trouble or any
other trouble. call on me and / will hear,
and 1 will help; here is my hand in pledge
Of OmnipOtent dellyerance." How much
should that man w0rryl Not much.
what lion will dare 10 put bis paw on
that Danielp II you could take a ther-
m0lneter and thrust IL into sha6rach's
furnace, II would never 80 up over %
degs. Is there not rest la thisY Is there
not an eternal vacation In thisg
"Oh." you say, "here IL man wf0
asked God for blessing upon certain
enterprise, and he lost $1,000 IN II. Tx
plain that.D I will. fOndor IA a factot y,
arT enc tyhoaI a 0alun M.Ffh uUI "a.