Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-06-16

where it will not suffer from the yiolen!
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 tile watch Oh, be careful
and do not let it run down.!
! Again, I remark that practical religion is
a friend of longevity in the fact that it is O
protest against 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 I dc
not know half dozen bad old men. Why's
They do not get old. Lord Byron died ut
Missolonghi at thirty-six years Of age, him
self his own Mazeppa, his unbridled p ssions
tho horse that dashed with him into the
desert. Edgar A. Poo died Mt Baltimore at
thirty-eight years OF age. The black raven
that alighted on tho bust above his chamber
door was deliriunl tremens-
Only this and nothing more.
Napoleon Bonap artesl lived only Just beyond
s .s, died ut ST. Nele6aS and aone OF
,l9,lle 49, = Is induced
\ his
Fly excessive The .sHaes 4
llitz, the man who BY one step off
thc.centerof Europe Shook the earth lills5
by snuff box. Oh, how many people y,
shavc known who have not Lived out hall
their days because OF their designations snnd
iIdulgencesi Now, practical religion is O
protest against Ill dissipation OF any kind.
'But," you say, professors of religion
have fallen, professors Of religion havo got
drunk, professors of religion havo misappro-
priated trust funds, professors OF religion
have absconded." Yes; but they threw away
their religion leforc they did their morality.
Ii man OIL White STIR line steamer bound
for Liverpool in nid-Atlantic jumps over
board and is drowned. Is that anything
against tho White Star line'scapacity to take
the man across the ocean? And if 4 maHa
jumps over tho gunwalc Of his religion and
goes down never to rise, is that any reason
for your believing that religion has no ca
racity to take the man clear through: In the
one case if lie had kept to the steamer his
body would have been saved; IN the other
case, if lie had kept to his religion his morals
would have been saved
There arc aged people who would have
'
dcfcnscs md the equipoisc of religion. You
have no moro natural resistance than hun.
drcds of people who lie in the cemeteries to-
day, slain by their own vices. The doctors
mado their case Us kind and pleasant as they
could, and it was called congestion of the
brain. or something else, but the snake: and
tho blucllies that seemed TO crawl over tie
pillow in tho sight of the dclrious patient
showed what was the matter with him. You,
tho aged Christian man, walked along by
that unhappy one until You came tc tho
golden pillar Of Christian life. You went
to the right; he went to the left. That is all
tho difference between You. Oh, il this re-
ligion is q protest against all forms of dissi-
patton, then it is an illustrious friend of
longevity. "With long life will I satisfy
linn"
Again, religion is friend Of longevity in
tho fact that it takes tho worry out of our
tcmporalities. 1t is not work that kills men,
it is worry. When man becomes genuine
Christian he makes over to God rot only his
affections but his family, his business, his
his body, his mind, his soul
everything. Industrious he will be, but
never worrying, because Cod is managing
his affairs. Ho.gerr,ese lie worry about bust
ness when in answer to his prayers God tells
him when to buy and when to sell: and IL he
na 1aa 9es Il es Sse Fhaf = Ssssa
friend: I could fall bacl, OF $40, 100000; I can
fcresee q panic ten years; l hold tho control
ling stock in thirty Of the best monetary IN
situations of New York; whenever you arc
in trouble call on mo and will help you;
YOU can have my money and you can hare
nv influence; here is my hard in pledge Tor
itn How much would you worry about
business Why you would say: I'll do the
hest I can, and then I'll depend Oh my
friends generosity for tho rest"
Now more than that is promised to every
Christian business man. God says to MN:
81 own New York and London and st.
Petersburg and Pellin, and Australia and
California are mine; can foresee panic a
million wears; have all the'rcsourccs OF the
universe, and AM your fast friend; when
You ret in business trouble or any other
trouL;c. call on mo and 1 will help; hero Is
nv baud in pledge of omnipotcnt deliver
oncc.n How much should that man worrys
Not much. What lion will dare to put his
nav on that Daniel! Is there not rest in
tlis7 Is there not III eternal vacation in thlsf
"Oh.n you say, "hcro is man who asked
Cod for a blessing i'll q certain enterprise,
and he lost five thousand dollars IN 1t. TX
plain that" I will Yoadcr is factory,
aud one wheel is going north and tho other
wheel is going south, and one wheel pays
:e,o.oil,- --,.i-Ai, etl,or l'io5S NerIicaily. -
90 TO tho manufacturer and Isay: 10 manu-
facturcf, your machinery is Il contradiction
Why do you not make ell tho wheels SO one
ways WELL" hc says 81 made them to go IL
opposite directions on purpose, n;id they pro
ducc the right result. You so downstairs
aud examine the carpets VIC arc turning OF,
in this establishment and You Will sec.
co down OH tho other floor and SCI
the carpets, and I am obliged to confess that
though the wheels i'll that factory 60 Ill oD'
nosite directions they turn ont beautiful re-
sult: and while am standing there looking
Mt tho exquisite fabric all old Scripture
massage comes into my mind, "All things
work together for good to them who love
G;od.n Is there not rest III that! Is teere
NOT tonic in that. Is there not longevity in
that2
Supposc :, man is all the timo worried
about his reputation? Ono man says no lies
another SAYS he is stupid, another says he is
dishonest, and half dozen printing estao-
lishmcnts attack him, and ho is in great
state of excitement and worry and f,llnc, and
cannot sleep; but religion comes to him and nd
saws: s.Man, God is. on your side; he viii
talc care of your reputation; if God be for
Won. who can be against you" How much
Should that man worry about his reputation:
Not much If that broker who some years
ago in Wall street, after he had lost money
sat down and wrote farewell ict-
t.r to his wife before he blew bis
brains outfit instead of taking out OF his
nocket a pistol he had taken out q we'll read
New Testament there would have lecn one
less suicide. Oh, nervous and feverish people
Of the world, try this almighty sedatlve'
You will live twenty-five years longer Under