The Russellville Democrat., 1888-06-21

1ure ana destroy t1e utdthH. Dda HUI Nt.>' women live very short life. Their sins kill them l know hundreds of good oin men. but do not know half dozen bad old men. Why? They do not get old. Lord Byron died at Missolonghf at thirty 1 six years of age, himself his own Mazep- pa. his unbridled passions the horse that | dashed with him into the desert. Edgar | A. Poe died at Baltimore at thirty-eight 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, and died at St. Helena, and
 one of his doctors said that his disease was induced by excessive snuffing. 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 indulgences
 Now practical religion is protest against all dissipation of any kind.
 "But,o you say, "professors of religion have fallen, profess of religion have got drunk, profess of religion have misappropriated tru nds, professors religion have abscond. Yes, but they threw away their religion before tAey did | their morality. If man on White Star l Line steamer bound for Liverpool in mid Atlantic jumps overheard and is drowned, ! is that any thing against the White Star | Lines capacity to take the man across the ocean? And if a man jumps over the gum vale of his religion and goes down never 1 to rise, is that any reason for your beliey- 1 ing that religion has no capacity to take | the man clear throughp In the one case If | he had kept to the steamer his body would | have been saved; in the other case if he | had kopt 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 equipoise of religion. l You have no more natural resistance than | hundreds of people who lie in the ceme- | teries to-day, slain by their own vices. | The doctors 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 matter with him. You. the aged l Christian man, walked along by that un- | happy one until you came to the golden
  | the right; he went to the left. That is all the difference between you. Oh, if this religion is a protest against all forms of dissipation, then it is an illustrious friend of longevity. sWith long life will I sat | isfy him."
 | Again, reli zion is Q friend of longevity 1 in the fact that it takes the worry out of our temperatures. It is not work that | kills men; it is worry. When a man be- comes a genuine Christian he makes over | to God not only his affections, but his | family, his business, his reputation, his l body, his mind, his soul--eyery thing. | Industrious he will be, but never worry l ing, because God is managing his affairs. | How can he worry about business, when 1 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 best?
 Suppose you had a supernatural neigh | bor who came in and said:
 s'Sir, want you to call on me in every exigency; am your fast friend; could
 fall back on $20.000,000; I can foresee a
 panic ten years; I hold the controlling stock in thirty of the best monetary insti- tutions of New York; whenever you are in trouble call on me and 1 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 busi-
 nessf Why, you would say:
 sI'll do the best I can, and then I'll depend on my friends generosity for the rest"
 Now, more than that is promised to every Christian business man. God says to him:
 "I own New York. and London, and St. Petersburg, and Pekin, and Australia and California are mine; l can foresee a panic million years; 1 have all the re- sources of the universe, and l 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 pledge of omnipotent deliyerance."
 How much should that man worry? Not
 much. What lion will dare to put his paw on that Daniel? T. there not rest in this? Is there not an eternal vacation in this?
 "Oh," you say, 'shere is man who
 asked God for blessing in q certain en . terprise, and he lost fy thousand dollars in it. Explain that" I will. Wonder is a factory, and one wheel is going north and the other wheel is going south, and
 one wheel plays vertically. l go to the
 manufacturer and l say: 'Oh, manufact-
 urer, your machinery is a contradiction. Why do you ,ot make all the wheels go one way?"
 "Well," he said, 'I made them go in opposite directions on purpose, and they produce the right result You go down. stairs and examine the Narpets we are turning out in this establishment and you will see." ge down on the other floor
 and see the carpets, and l am obliged to
 confess that though the wheels in that factory go in opposite directions, they
 turn out a beautiful result; and while l
 am standing there looking at the exquis-
 ite fabric an old Scripture passage
 comes into my mind: "All things work
 together for good to them who love God" Is there not rest in that? Is there ot
 tonic in that? Is there not longevity in
 that?
 Suppose a man is all the time worried
 about his reputation? One man says he
 lies, another says he is stupid, another
 says he is dishonest and half dozen
 printing establishments attack him, and
 he is in a greas state of excitement and
 worry and fume and can not sleep, but
 religion comes to him and says; Man,
 
 your reputation; if God be for you, 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
 letter to his wife before he blew his brains
 out--if instead of taking out of his pocket
 pistol he had taken out Q well read New
 Testament there would have been one less
 suicide. 0, nervous and feyerish people
 of the world, try this almighty sedative
 You will live twenty-five years longer
 under it's soothing power. It is not chloral
 that you want, or morphine that you want;
 it is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. With
 long life will 1 satisfy him.
 Again, practical religion is a friend of
 longevity in the fact that it removes all
 corroding care about future existence.
 Every man wants to know what is to be-
 come of him. If you get on board mail