Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1888-06-16


Tho upholstery of the midnight heavens
1T Is the work Of Gods fingers. His
life giving powcr-it Is the breath Of the
Almighty. His dominion-''thc govern
ment shall be upon his shoulder" A
body so divinely lionored and SO divinely
constructed. let us he careful not to
abuse II.
When It becomes q Christian duty to
take caro- Of our health, Is not the whole
tendency toward longevity: II toss my
watch about recklessly and drop 1t Oh the
pavement. and wind It up any time Of
day or night happen to think OF it. and
often let It run down, while YOU are care
ful with your watch and never abuse it.
and wind It up just ut 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
$50 the hands Of the watch, you sec the
face of the watch; but the beating Of the
heart In the ticking Of the watch. Oh.
be CAREFUL and do not let Il run downi
Again. ! remark that practical religion
Is friend Of longevity, in the fact that
II Is u protest against designations which
ipjurc and destroy the health. Rad men
and women live very short life. Their.
sins kill them. know hundreds Of good
old men. bat do not know half dozen
bad old men. Why! They do not get
old. Lord Byron died ut Missolonghi ut
thirty.six years Of age. himself his own
Mazeppa. his unbridle,l passions the
horse that dashed with him into the
desert. Edgar A. Tse died at Baltimore
at thirty.cight yeah, f age. The black
raven that alightc,i 1hc bust above his
chamber door was .; Fium trcnr
Only this and not.--i Is more. -
Napoleon Bonaparte lived onl, ,dst he.
yond mid life. then died. at st. Hclena.
and one Of his doctors said that his dis
ease was induced by excessive snuiling.
The hero Of Austcrlitz. the man who by
one step Of his foot in the center Of En-.
rope shook the earth. killed by n snuif.
box! Oh. how many people VIC have
known who have not lived out half their
days because Of their designations and in
dulgences! Now practical religion is u
protest against nll dissipation Of any kind.
But" YOU say, professors Of religion
have fallen, professors Of religion have
got drunk. professor Of religion have
misarpropria,cd trust funds. professors
Of religion have abscontied. Yes. but
they threw away their religion before
they did their morality. II man on u
White Star line steamer bound for Liver
pool in ihid.Atlantic jumps overheard
and Is drowned. Is that anything against
the White Star limos capacity to take the
man across the ocean: And IL n man
jumps over the gunwalc of his religion
and goes down never to rise. il that any
reason for your believing That religion
has no capacity TO take the inan through:
In the one case IL lie had kept To- the
steamer his body would hnvc been saved:
in tho other case II he had kept Ia his re-
ligion his morals would have been saved.
There are aged people who would have
! nrrre-'Aad twenty-five years ago bnt for
the defens.'s and the equipoisc of religion.
You have no more natural resistance than
hundreds Of people who lie in the Gene
tcrie-' to-day. slain by their own vices.
The doctors made their ease rs kind and
pleasant as they could, and it was called
congestion of the brain. or something
else, hut the snakes and the blue flies that
seemed to crawl over the pillow in the
sigh, OF the ,lclirious patient showed what
was the matter with him. You, the
aged Christian man. walked along 10y
that unhappy one until you came To the
golden pillar Of Christian life. You
went to the rights he vent TO the left.
That is all the difference between you.
Oh. il this religion is u protest against all
forms of dissipation. then il Is an illustri-
Gus friend of longevity. with long
lifcw satisfy him."
Again. religion is q friend Of longevity
in the fact that il takes .hc worry out OF
0ur tcniporaltics. IL is not work that
kills men. il il worry. When man ht-
comes u genuine Christian he makes over
TO God not only his affections but his
family his business. his reputation. his
lo,ly. his mind. his soul-evcrything.
Industrious he will bc, but never worry.
ing. because Col is managing his affairs.
How can hc worry about business when
in answer to his prayers Cod tells him
when t0 buy and when to sell; and il he
gain that IL best. and IL he lose that is
bcstl
Suppose you had supernatural neigh.
bor who came In and said: Sir. I want
you To call on me in every cxigcncy;
am your fast friend; could fall back on
I; 500. 900. 900; can foresce panic ten
years; I hold the controlling stock in
thirty ~ the best monetary institutions
OK New York; whenever you arc in
trouble call on mo 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 businessi Why. you would
say: "rli do the best can. and then
I'll depend OH my friends generosity for
the rest"
Now more than that Is promised to
every Christian business man. Gcd says
to him: II own New York and London
AMI st. Petersburg and pckin. and Aus
tralia and California nrc mine; can for
sec panic million years; have all the
resources 81 tile universe, and nm your
fat fricnd: when you gc, IN business
trouble or any other trouble. call on me
aud I Will help; here il ray hnnd In
'lledgc of omnipoient .lcliverancc. How
.sucl; should that man worry! No1
much. What lion will dare 70 put his
paw on that Daniel? Il there.not rest 81
this? i there not eternal vacation 81
this!
"oh." YOU say. ''hcrc is n man who
asked Col for blessing In certain en-.
terpriSc. and he lost five thousand dol
lars in il. Explain that" will. Yon-
,lcr is factory. and one wheel Is going
north and the other wheel il going south,
and one wheel plays laterally and the
other plays vertically. go To the manu-
facturcr and say: "Oh, manufactures.
your machinery Is n contradiction. Why
do you not make all the wheels go one
wayi"
WELL" he says, al made them TO
go in opposite directions on purpose. and
they nrnsl,,ce fl,e RIGHT ras,ilt Won IN