The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-10
! the heart is the ticking Of the watch Oh. be
| careful and do not let it run down!

the heart is the ticking Of the watch. Oh, be
/ careful and do not let it run down!
Again, / remark that practical religion is
friend Of long life in the fact that it is protest
| against all the designations 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 do not know
get old. Lord Byron died at Missolonghi at
thirty-six years of age, himself his own Mazeppa,
| his unbridled passions the horse that dashed
him into the desert Edgar A. Poe died at Bal
raven that aliehted on the bust above his cham
Der door was delirium tremens,
Only this and nothing more.
Napoleon Bonaparte lived only just beyond
mid life, then died at St Helena, and one of his
/ doctors said that his disease was induced by ex
man who, by one step Of his foot in the center
of Europe, shook the earth, killed by snuff
box! Oh. how many people we have known who
| have not lived but half their days because of
their designations and indulgences! Now, prac-
teal religion is 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 misappro-
absconded." Yes, but they threw away their
If man on a White Star-line steamer,
bound for Liverpool, in midatlantic jumps over
board and is drowned, is that anything against
| the White Star lines capacity to take the man
/ across the oceanY And if a 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 his religion his morals
| would have been saved. There aged people
in this house to-day who would have been dead
fyyap a. hrffo DO IofaN aud
| equipoise of religion. You have no more natural
resistance than hundreds of people who lie in
the cemeteries to-day slain by their own vices
The doctors made their cases as kind and pleas
ant 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 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 golden pillar
of Christian life. You went to the right; he
went to the left That is all the difference be-
tween you. Oh, if this religion is a protest
against all forms Of dissipation, then it is an il
lustrious friend of long life
Again, religion is friend Of long life in the
fact that it takes the worry out of our temporal
tiles. 1t is not work that kills men, it is worry.
When 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-everything Industrious he
will be- but never worrying because God is
managing MS aHalrS. HOW can ne 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 bestl
Suppose you had supernatural neighbor who
came IN and said: "Sr, want you to call on
me in every exigency. I am your fast friend;
could fall back on $50 coo 900; 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
car inf &c ham
pledge for it." How much would you worry
about businessa Why, you would say: I'll do
the best can and then I'll depend upon my
friends generosity for the rest" Now, more
than that is promised to every Christian bust
ness man. God says to him. II own New York,
and London, and ST. Petersburg, and Pekin, and
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 into business trouble, or any other
trouble, call on me and will hear, and 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 Danlell If you should take
| thermometer and thrust it into Shadrach's fur
mace, it would never go up over 7oo. Is there
rot rest in this? Is there not an eternal vaca-
ton in this9
''Oh," you say, ''here is man who asked God
for blessing upon certain enterprise, and he
lost So, 900 in it. Explain that" will Yon-
der is factory, and one wheel is going north
is
wheel plays laterally and the other plays ver
tically. go to the manufacturer and | say:
20 manufacturer, your machinery is contra
diction Why do you not make ali the wheels go
one way" We'll" he says, II made them to go
in opposite directions on purpose, and they pro
duce the right result You go down stairs and
examine the carpets we are turning out IN this
establishment, and you will see." go down
the other floor, and see the carpets. and am
obliged to confess that, though the wheels in
that factory go in opposite 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: "All
things work together for good to them who love
God" Is there not rest in that Is there not
tonic in thats Is there not longevity in thatl
Suppose man is all the time worried about
his reputation One says he lies, another
says he is stupid, another says he is dishonest,
and half a dozen printing establishments attack
him, and he IS IN greater state OF excitement,
and worry, and fume, and cannot sleep; but re-
ligion comes to him and says, MAN. God is
on your side; He will take care of your reputa-
| tion If God be for you who can be against
| your How much should that man worry about
his reputation Not much. If that broker who
few years ago in Wall street, after he had lost
his money sat down and wrote farewell letter
to his wife before he blew his brains out, it, in
stead of taking out of his pocket pistol, he had
| taken out well-read New Testament, there
| would have been one less suicide. O nervous
| and feverish people of the world try this AL
mighty SeuatiVe' you Will i've twenty-five years
longer under its soothing power. 1t is not choral
| that you want, or more time that you want it is
the gospel of Jesus Christ.
| Again, practical religion is a friend of long
! life in the fact that it removes all corroding
| care about future existence. Every man
wants to know what is to become of him. If you
get on board railroad train you want to know
at what depot it is going to stop; if you get on
| board ship you want to know into what harbor
it is going to run; and if you should tell me you
have no interest in what is to be your future
| destiny, would, in as polite way as l know
how, tell you l did not believe you. Before
had this matter settled with reference to my flu
ture existence. the question almost worried me
into ruined health. The anxieties men have
upon this subject if put together, would make
martyrdom. This is a state of awful unhealthi-
ness. There are people who fret themselves to
death for fear of dying. / want this morning to