The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-03-19

ies that God names his OWN attributes
after the different parts, His omHfscience
1T is Gods ear. His omnipotence-t 10
Gods arm. The upholstery of the mid
night heavens-it is the work OF COOS
fin gers. His life-giving power-it is the
breath of the Almighty. His dominion
the Government shall be upon His shoulder
A body so divinely honored and SO divineiy
constructed, let US be careful not to abuse
IT, When il becomes q Christian duty 70
take care of our health, Is not the whohe
,tendeucy toward long life: II toss my
watch about recklessiy and drop = ON tine
pavement and wind it up any time OF day
or night happen to think OF IL, ana %
let ID run down, and while you are careful
with your watch and never abuse It's anu
wind it up at just the same hour sFery
night, and put it in a place where ie whi
not suffer from the violent changes OF tne
atmosphere, which watch will last sne
longer: Common sense answers. Nov,
the human body is Gods watch. You SEQ
the hands of the watch, you see the lace
of the watch; but the beating of tho 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 II IS
q protest against all the dissipati ous which
injure and destroy the health. Bad men
and women live a very short life. Their
sins kill them. / know ks,ndreds of good
old men, but I do not know half dozen
bad old men. Whyy They do not Act Old .
Lord Byron died at Missolonshi at e'irty-
six years of age. himself his own Maze, ,pa,
his unbridled passions that dashed ". Ia
him into the desert. Edgar A. Poe died A
Baltimore at thirty-eight years OF age.
The black raven that alighted on the bust
above his chamber door was delirium tre-
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 snuffing. The hero
of Austerlitx, the mnn 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-
teal religion is protest against all dissi-
",
professors of religion have fallen, pro-
fessors of religion have got drunk, pro-
fcssors OF religion have Incorporated
trust funds, professors Of religion have alb
seconded" Yes, but they threw AWAY their
religion before they did their morality. II
q man on White Star Line steamer bound
for Liverpool, in mid-Atlautic jumps over
board and is drowned, is that anything
against the White Star Lines capacity to
take the man across the ocean: Aud il q
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, il he had
kept to the steamer his body would have
been saved; in the other casa, 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 five years ago but for the defenses
and 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-
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
along by that unhappy one until You came
to the golden pillar Of q Christian life. You
is not all the difference between you. Oh,
If this religion is a protest. against all forms
Of dissipation, then It 10 an illustrious
friend of long life.
Again, religion is friend of long life in
the fact that it takes the worry ont Of our
It Ii not work that kills
men, it is worry. When . man becomes q
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 win 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 II he gain, that Is best,
and il he lose, that IL besty
Suppose you had . supernatural neigh
Dor who came in and said: sSir, want
You to call on me in every EFFICIENCY. 1 am
your fast friend; could fall back on 3d.
OOO,0 900; 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 win 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 business.
Why you would say: "I,n do the best I
can and then III depend upon my friends
generosity for the rest" Now, more than
that Is promised to every Christian busi-
ness man. God says 70 him: 81 own New
York and London and st. Petersburg, and
Pekin and Australia and California nre
mine; can foresee panic million years;
| have al the resources of the universe,
and am your fast friend; when you get
in bushes, trouble or any other trouble,
call On me and l viii hear, and win help;
here is my hand in pledge Of omnipotent
How much should that man
worry? Not much. What lion will dare to
put his paw on that Daniel! II yoa could
take Thermometer and thrust it into
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