The Brookhaven leader., 1886-01-21

wind it up at just the same hour every
night, aud put it in place where it will
not suffer from the violent changes of the
atmosphere, which watch 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. Oh, be careful
and do not Let it run down!
Again, remark that practical religion
is a friend Of long life, in the fact that it is
protest against all the designations which
iniure and destroy the health. Bad men
and women live a very short life. Their
sins kill them. l 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 Mis- ,olonghi at thirty
six years of age. himself his own Mazeppa,
his unbridled passions that dashed with
him into the desert. Edgar A. Poe died at
Baltimore at thirtv-eight years of age.
The bla k raven that alishted on the bust
above his chamber door was deirium tre-
mems.
! Only this and nothing more.
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 snutiing. The hero
/ of Austeritz, the man who lv one step of
his foot in the center of Europe shook the
earth. killed by a snuff box. Oh, how
many people I'VE have known who haze not
lived ont half their days because of their
designations and indulgences. Now, prac-
teal religion is protest against all dissi-
/ Of Il,,t
professors OF religion have fallen, pro-
fessors of religion have got drunk, pro-
fessors of religion have misappropriated
trust funds. professors of religion have alb
/ seconded" Yes, but they threw away their
| eligion before they did their morality. If
a 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 re-
ligion and goes down never to rise, is
that any reason for your believing that re-
| ligion has no capacity to take the man
clear through: In the one case if he had
kept 70 the steamer his body would have
been saved; in the other case, ii he had
kept to his religion his morals would have
been saved. There are aged people in this
house to-day who would have been dead
twenty years 20 bur for the defenses
ana 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 doc
tors made their cases as kind and pleasant
as they could, and it was called conges-
tiOD of the Ip1iy1 n at HING alSp but no
snakes and 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 a.ed Christian man, walked
along by that unhappy one until you came
to the golden pillar Of a Christian life You
went to the right, Il, went to the left. That
is not all the difference between you. Oh,
if this religion is a protest against ell forms
OF dissipation, then it is an illustrious
friend OF long life.
Again, religion is a friend of long life in
the fact that it takes the worry out of our
temperatures. 1t is not work that kills
men, il is worry. When a man becomes
genuine Christian he makes over to God
not only his affections, but his family, his
business, his reputation, his body, his
mind, his soul-everythng. Industrious
he will be, but never worrying, because
God is managing 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?
Suppo e you had a supernatural neigh
Dor who came in and said: "Sir, want
! you to call on me in every exigency. ! am
| your fast friend; / could fall back on S20,-
/ 100000; can foresee panic ten years; |
/ hold the controlling stock in thirty of the
| 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 for it." How
much would you worry about businesst
Why you would say: an do the best l
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 TO him: 81 own New
York and London and st. Petersburg, and
Pekin and Australia and California are
mine; l can fOreSee panic million years;
have all the resources of the universe,
and | am your fast friend; when you get
in bushes trouble or any other trouble,
/ l. L
here is my hand in pledge of omnipotent
deliverance." How much should that man
worry: Not much. What lion will dare to
put his paw on that Daniel? If you could
take thermometer and thrust it into
Shadrach's furnace, it would never go up
over seventy-fiv degrees. Is there not
rest in this? Is there not an eternal vaca-
tOn in this?
"Oh," you say, "here is the man who
a.ked God for blessing upon certain
enterprise, and he lost 5000 in it. Ex-
plain that" l will. Yondor is a fac
tory, and one wheel is going north and the
other wheel is going south, and one wheel
plays laterally and the other plays verti-
cally. | go to the manufacturer and /
say: 80, manufacturer, your machinery
is contradiction. Why do you not make
all the wheels 90 one way"' "Well," he
says, 81 made them to go in opposite di-
rectiOns on purpose, and they produce the
right result. You go down stairs and ex-
anime the carpets we are turning out in
this establishment, and you will see."
GO down on the other floor. and | SEQ the
carpets, and am obliged to confess that,
though the Wheels in the factory go in OPP
posite directions, they turn out beautiful
result; and while l am standing there
looking at the exquisite fabric, an old
Scripture passage comes into my mind:
IAN things work together for good to
them who love God" Is there not rest in
that: Is there not tonic in hat? Is there
not longevity in that?
Suppose a man is all IL. time worried