The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-06-14

strychnined, walking with thin shoes to
make your feet look delicate, pinched at
the waist until you are nigh cut in two,
and neither part worth anything, groan-
ing about sick headache and palpitation Of
the heart, which you think came from
your own folly.
What right has any man or woman to
deface the temple Of the Holy Ghost?
What is the ear? Why, it is the whisp-
ering gallery of the human soul. What
is the eve? It is the observatory God
constructed, its telescope sweeping the
heavens. What is the handa An instru-
ment so wonderful that when the Earl Of
Bridgewater bequeathed in his will $40,-
900 for treatises to be written on the wis
dom, power and goodness of God, Sir
Charles Bell, the great English anatomist
and surgeon, found his greatest illustration
in the construction of the human hand,
devoting his whole book to that subject.
So wonderful are these bodies that God
| names his owD attributes after different
| parts of them. His omniscience-it is
Gods eye. His omnipresence-it is Gods
ear. His omnipotence--it is Gods arm.
The upholstery of the midnight heavens
it is the work of Gods fingers. His
life giving power-it is the breath of the
Almighty. His dominion-''th govern
ment shall be upon his shoulder" A
body so divinely honored and SO divinely
constructed, let us be careful not to
abuse it.
When it 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
pavement, and wind it up any time of
| day or night l happen to think of it, and
often let it run down, while you are care
full with your watch and never abuse it,
and wind it up just at the same hour
| every night and put it in a 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 a friend Of longevity, in the fact that
it is a protest against dissipations 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 half dozen
bad old men, Why? They do not get
old. Lord Byron died at Missolonghi at
thirty 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 thirtyeight years Of age. The black
raven that alighted on the bust above his
chamber door was delirium tremens-
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 dis
ease was induced by excessive snuffing.
The hero of AusterlitZ, the man who by
one step of his foot in the center of Eu-
rope 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 designations and in
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
misappropriated trust funds, professors
of religion have absconded.." Yes, but
they threw away their religion before
they did their morality. If man ON a
White Star line steamer bound for Liver
pool in mid-Atlantic jumps overheard
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 religion
and goes down never to rise, is that any
reason for your believing that religion
has no capacity to take the man 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 to his re-
ligion 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 ceme-
teries today slain by their own vices.
The doctors made theiF case as kind and
pleasant as they could, and it was sailed
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 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
went to the right; he went to tha left.
That is all the difference between yau.
Oh, if this religion is protest against all
forms of dissipation, then it is an illustri-
Gus friend Of longevity. "With long
life will T satisfy hin.'
Again, religion is friend of longevity
in the fact that it takes the worry out Of
our tempafaiities: II is not work that
kills nen, it is worry. When q man be-
comes genuine Christian ne 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 worry
ing, 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
. ga;,. Il. that IL best, and If he lose that is
best?
Suppose you had supernatural i,,eigh-
Dor who came in and said: s'Sir, want
you to call on me in every exigency;
, am your fast friend; could fall back on
$40, 900, 900; l can foresee a panic ten
years, 1 nOlu Iuo CbnCIolllHS suoCh Hi
thirty of the best monetary institutions
of New York; whenever you are in
, trouble call on me and 1 will help you
you cen have my money and you can
have my influence; here is my hand in
J pledge for it.'' How much would you
worry about business? Why, you would
say: ''I'll do the best l can, and then
! III depend on my friends generosity for
, the rest"
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 Aus
tralia and California are mine; l can for
= see panic 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 my hand in
I pledge of omnipotent deliverance." How
] much should that man worry2 Not
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