The Brookhaven leader., 1888-06-21
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and surgeon, found his greatest illustra--
tion in the construction of the human
hand, devoting his whole book 10 that
subject. So wonderful are these bodies
that God names his own attributes after
different parts OF them. His OmDiscience
1T is Gods eye. His omnipresence
it is Gods ear. His omnipotence-it Is
Gods arm. The upholstery Of the mid
night heavens-it Is the work of Gods
fingers. His giving pOwer-it Is the
breath of the Almighty His dominion
1.-THE government shall be upon his
shoulder" A body so divinelv hOnored
and so divinely iconstructed-let us be
careful not TO abuse it.
When it becomes a Christian duty to
take care Of our heath, is not the wholc
tendency toward longevity II toss my
watch about recklessly and drop it ON the
pavement ard wind it up any time OF day
or night happen 10 think of it, and often
let it run down, while you are careful
With your watch and never abuse it, and
wind it iip fist at the same hour every
night and put it in Z plsce where it will
not suffer from the violent chanses of at
fliosphere, which watch will last ths
l6ngery Common sense answers. Now,
the human body is Gods watch. You see
the hands of the watch, you see the face
of the watch, hut the beating Of the heart
is the ticking of the watch. Oh, be care
trl and do not let it run DOWN
Again: trAmark that practical religion
is friend of longevity in the fact that ii
is protest against dissipatiGrs whieh In
jure and destroy the health. Bad men and
women live a very short life. Their sins
kill them know hundreds Of good old
men, hht do not know half dozen bad
old men. Whyr They do not get old
Lord Byron died at MssGi"nShi at thirty
six years OF age, himself his OWL Mazep-
pa, his unbridled passions the horse tina
dashed with him into the desert. Edgar
A. Poe died at BaltimTrs at thirty -eigh
years of age. The black raven tina
alighted on the bust above his chamber
door res aelirium tremens-
Only this and nothing more.
Napoleon Bonaparte lived only just be
yond mid life, and died at St Helena, aD'
one of his doctors said that his disease
was induced by excessive shifting Tb'
hero 81 husterlitz, the man who, by on
step of his foot ii the centet of Europe
shook the earth, killed by snuff box
Oh, how many people we have known rh'
have pat lived out half their days becaus
of their designations and indulgences
Now practical religion il protest agains
all dissipation of any kind.
"But," you say, professors of religion
have fallen, professors of religion hay
got drunk, professors of religion hav
tiisatpfrpristed trust funds, professor
religion have Abscendsd." Yes, but the
threw away their religion before they di
their morality. If a man on White Sta
Line steamer bound for Liverpool in mid
| Atlantic Jumps overheard and is drowned
! is that afly thing against the White Sta
Lines capacity to take the man across tn
ocean? And if man jumps over the gun
vale Of his religion and goes down neve
| to rise, is that any reason for your bel1eV
| ing that religion has no capacity to TAX
| the man clear through: In the one case
| he had kept tn the steamer his body wOul
have been saved; in the other case if b
had kept to his religion his morals woul
| have been saved.
There are aged people who would hay
been dead twenty five years ago but fc
the defenses and equipoise of religion
| You have no more natural resistance tina
hundreds of people who lie in the cemt
teries to-day, slain by their own vice
The doctors made their Case as kind an
pleasant as they could, and it was ralle
congestion of the brain, or somethiti
! else, but the snakes and the blue flies thu
seemed to crawl over the pillow in tt
| sight of the delirious patient showed whf
was the matter with him. You. the age
Christian man, walked along by that ut
happy one until you came TO the golde
pillar of a Christian life. You went
| the right; he went to the left. That is a
the difference between you. Oh, if TIL
| religion is a protest against all forms {
| dissipation, then it is an i1lustriots frien
of longevity. 'With long life will sal
| isfY him."
Again, religion is friend of iongevit
| In the fact that it takes the worry out c
our temperatures. 1t is not work tha
kills men; it is worry. When a man be
comes genuine Christian he makes owe
to God not only his affections, but hi
family, his business his reputation, hi
body, his mind, his soul-every thing
Industrious he will be, but never worry
ing, because God is managing his affairs
How can he worry about business, whe
in answer to his prayers God tells hir
when to buy and when to sell; and if b
gain that is best, and if he lose that
best:
Suppose you had a supernatural neigh
Dor who came in and said:
"Sir, want you to call on me in ever
eSigency; am your fast friend; coul
fall back on $4,000, 900; can foresee
panic ten years; l hold the controlling
stock in thirty of the best monetary inst
tutions of New York; whenever you are i
trouble call on me and l will help you
you can have my money and you can hav
my influence; here is my hand in pledg
for it"
How much would you worry about bust
ness: Why, you would say:
'I'll do the best / can, and then T.
depend on my friends generosity for tn
rest"
Now, more than that is promised (
every Christian business man. God say
to him:
81 own New York. and London, and S
Petersburg, and Pekin, and Australia an
California are mlne; l can foresee
panic million years; l have all the re
| sources of the universe, and l am you
fast friend; when you get in busines
trouble, or any other trouble, call on II
and will help; here is my hand in pledg
of omnipotent deliverance."
How much should that man worry? N,
much. What lion will dare to put b
paw on that Daniel? Is there not rest
this? Is there not an eternal vacation i
this?
"Oh," you say, "here is a man WI
asked God for a blessing in certain Ell
terprise, and he lost five thousand dollar
| in it. Explain that" l will Yonder
a factory, and one wheel is going mort
and the other wheel is going south, al
| one MhAal nlnvs vertically I 90 To Il