The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-11

| eye. His omnipresence-it is Gods ear.
His omnipotenCe--it is Gods arm The
upholstery cf the midnight heavens-it is
the work of Gods fingers His Ii e-giying
! power--it is the breath of the Almighty.
His dominion" the government shall be
upon his shoulder" A body so divmey
honored and so dlvinely constructed. let us
be careful not to abuse it,
w hen 1t becomes christian duty to take
| care of our health, is not the whole tendency
toward longevity If | toss my watch
about reckleSsly and drop it on the pave
ment and wind it up any time Of day or
night happen to think of 1t, and often let
1t run down, while you are careful with
your watch and never abuse it and wind it
up just at the Same hour every night. and
| put it in place where it will not suffer
from the violent changes of 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
friend of longevity in the fact that it is II
protest against dissipations which injure
and destroy the health. Bad men and
women live a very short life. Their sins
kill them. | know hundreds Of good old
men, but | do not know half dozen bad
! old men. Why4 They do not get old Lord
Byron died at Mssolnngh at SO years Of
age, himself his own Mazeppa, his unbridled
passions the horse that dashed with him
into the desert. Edgar A. Poe died at
Baltimore at So years Of age. The black
raven that alighted on the bust above his
chamber door was delirium tremens-
"Only this and nothing more"
\ L.
yond mid-life, then died at St Helena, and
one of his doctors said that his disease was
induced by excessive snuffng. The hero of
AusterlitZ, the 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 out half their days because of their
dissipations and indulgencesl Now, prac-
tical religion is protest against all dissipa-
ton of any kind
But you say, professors of relig ion
have fallen, professors of religion have got
drunk, professors of religion have misap-
propriated trust funds, professors of religion
have absconded.n Yes, but they threw
| away their religion before they did their
morality. If man on White Star line
| steamer bound for Liverpool in mid-At-
lantic jumps overheard and is drowned, is
that anything against the White Star lines
capacity to take the man across tho ocean}
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 re-
ligion has no capacity to take the man
| clear throughl In the one case if he had
kept to the steamer his body would have
been saved in the other case il he had kept
to his religion his morals would have been
saved.
There are aged people 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
hundreds of people who lie in the cemeteries
to-day, slain by their own vices. The doc
tors 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 the sight of the
delirious patient showed what was the mat
ter 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 to the right; he
went to the left. That is all the difference
between you. Oh, if this religion is a pro
test against all forms of dissipation, then it
is an illustriOus friend of longevity. "With
long life will satisfy him"
Again, religion is friend of longevity, in
the fact that it takes the worry out of our
temporaties 1t is not work that kills
men, it is worry. When 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 and
when to sell; and if he gain. that is BEST
and if he lose, that is best9
Suppose you had supernatural neighbor
who came in and said. "Sir, | want you
to call on me in every exigency; am your
fast friend; could fall back on $40, 600, 900;
| can foresea a panic ten years; hold the
controlling stock in thirty Of the best pay
ing monetary institutions of New York {;
whenever you are in trouble call on me,
and | will help you; you can have my
money and you can have my influence;
here is my hand in pledge for it," How
much would you worry about business
Why. Won would say: ''Il do the best
can, and then I'll depend on my friends
generosity for the rest.n
Now more than that is promised TO every
christian business man. God says to him:
81 own New York and London and St
Petersburg and Pekin, and Australia and
California are mine; | can foresee a panic a
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 help; here is
nv hand in pledge OF omnipotent deliver
ance." How much should that man worryl
Not much What lion will dare TO put his
paw on that Daniell Is there not rest in
this2 Is there not an eternal vacation in
thisl
ooh" you say, there is a man who asked
God for blessing in certain enterprise,
and he lost five thousand dollars in it. Ex-
plain that" | will Yonder is a factory,
and one wheel is going north and the other
wheel is going south, and one wheel plays
laterally and the other PLAYS vertically. |
go to the manufacturer and l say: 80
manufacturer, your machinery is contra
diction. Why do you not make all the
wheels 20 one wayP well" he says, II
made them to go in opposite directions on
purpose, and they produce the right re ,ult.
You 90 down stairs and examine the car
pets, we are turning out in this establish
ment and you will see." l go down on the
other floor and see the carpets,
and | am obliged TO confess that
though the wheels In that factory 20 in OPP
posite direction s, they turn out IA beautiful
result; and while am standing thero look
ing at the exquisite fabric an old Scripture
passage comes into my mind "All things
work together for gool TO them who love
God Ia there not rest in thati Is there not
tonic in thati Is there not longevity In thatl
Suppose a man is all the time worried
about his reputationi One man says he
lies, another says he is stupid, another says
he fs dishonest and half a dozen printing