Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-22

"o I'LL Inc upholstery Of the mia
night is the work Of Cod.
myers HIS ~life-giving power-,t ia ~
Dreatn OF the Almighty. His dom;nionN
the Government shall be upon His shonldar
"A oooySo dlvlnely honored and so divinelv
constructed, let US be careful not To ah,,sa
IL. When it becomes q Christian dn+u ~
take care of our health, is not the wl,o,o
tendency toward long life? If toss NV,
watch about recklessly and drop + m +hs
pavement and wind it up any time Of DIV
or night happen to think of it, and ofton
let It run down, and while YOU are careful
with your watch md never abuse II ona
WIND 1t up at just the same hour ever,
~ ho' II put it in a place where IL vii,
ho' surfer from the violent changes of the
atmosphere, which watch will Inst tho
longer! Common sense answers. Now
one human body is Gods watch. You see
tne 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, l remark that practical, re1;a;o,
Is a friend Of long life, in the fact that T. ia
protest against all the designations which
in)ure and destroy the health. Bad men
ana women live q very short life. Their
SINS XIII them. l know hundreds of good
old men, but l do not know half q dozen
bad Old men. Why? They do not get old.
Lord Byron died at Missolonghi at thirty-
six years of age, himself his w Mazeppa.
his unbridled passions 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 delirium tire.
mems.
Only this and nothing more.
Napoleon Bonaparte lived only just be.
You'd mid-life, then died at st. Helena. and
one of his doctors said that his disease was
induced by excessive shutting. The hero
OF Austerlitz, the man who by one step of
his foot in the center of Europe shook the
earth, killed by a snuff box! Oh, how
many people we have known who have not
lived out half their days because Of their
designations and indulgences! Now, prac.
tlcal religion is a protest against all dissi-
patton of any kind. "But," you say,
professors of religion lave fallen, pro-
fessors of religion have got drunk, pro-
fessors of religion have misappropriated
trust funds, professors of religion nave alb.
seconded" Yes, but they threw away their
religion before they did their morality. If
a man on a 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 a
man jumps over the gunwale of his re-
llglon and goes down never to rise, is
That any reason for your believing that re-
ilglon 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, il hi 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-five years ago but for the defenses
and the cquipoisc of religion, You have
no more natural resistance thar 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-
ton of the brain or something else, but the
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 aged Christian man, walked
"o'0 ~ UAoo unhappy III uIull you came
to the golden pillar of q Christian life. You
went to the right, he went to the left. That
is not all the difference between you. Oh,
ifthis religion is a protest against all 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, it is worry. When q man becomes a
genuine Christian he makes over to God
not only his affections, but his family, his
business, his reputation, his body, his
mind, his soul-everything. 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 II
when to sell, and if he gain, that is best,
and if he lose, that is best?
Suppose you had a supernatural neigh
Dor who came in and said: "Sir, l want
you to call on me in every exigency. l am
your fast friend; l could fall back OH $780,
100000; 1 can foresee a panic ten years; I
hold the controlling stock in thirty of the
best monetary institutions of New York;
whenever you are in any trouble call on
AAS "a - - Jou, you So huVO "y
money, and you can have my influence;
there is my hand in pledge for it." How
much would you worry about business?
Why you would say: 'IIl do the best I
a 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 10 him: 81 own New
York and London and st. Petersburg, and
Pekin and Australia and California are
mine; l can ~foresee a panic a million years;
1 nave all the resources of the universe,
and I am your fast friend; when you get
in business trouble or any other trouble,
call IN me and l will hear. and l will help;
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? II you could
take a thermometer and thrust it into
Shadrach's furnace, it would never go up
over seventy-ive degrees. Is there not
rest in this? Is there not an eternal vaca-
tion in this?
'Oh," you say, 'here is the man who
a.ked God for @ blessing upon a certain