The Forrest City times., 1888-06-16

t~sf " ne ual kfpl to us FciiLluu ni. ulOTAs would have been saved
 There are aged people who would have been dead t~entt-fiye years ago but for the de- lenses ant thr eQuillose of religion You have no more natural resistance than hu n- dreds of tenplc who lie in the cemeteries io- dss.slain ts the.r os vices. The doctors made their case as kind an pleasant as they could, and it was eailei congestion of the brain. or something else but the snakes and the blue flies that seemed 10 crawl over the pillow In the sisbt of the del rious patent showed what was the matter with him You, an srrd Chris,ian ,nsn. walked along by that unhap't que usiui you came to tue golden pllar or Christian life. Ton went 10 the r,ght: he went to the left. That is ell the difference between you. Oh, fl this religion Is protest against all forms of dissipation, then ft is an nlustrfous friend of longevity With long life will satisfy him.
 Again; religion is friend to longevity in the fact that It takes the worry out Of our temErsliiies It Is not work that kills men, it is worry. When a man becomes a genuine Chr stfsn he makes over 10 God not only hi. affection but hs family, his business hs reputation. hls bodv, h hs mind his soul everything. Industrious he will be. but never worrying. because God is managing hs affairs. How can he worry about business whea in answer 10 his travers God tells him wben to huy and and when to sell; snd fl he gain that Is best and fl he lose that h bcsi
 Suppose you had . supernatural neighbor who came in and said: ''Sir 1 want you to call on me iu every eyigency; am your fast friend; coutl fail back on 20 00D, ,UO0; can foresee psnic tea yearsj hold the con. trolling stock iH thirty of the best monetary instiiutlOns of New York; whenever you are In trouble call on me and I II help von; you can have ms money .aa YOU can have my ~r-..,-; nere is my nd lu pledge for t." How much would you worrs about busi- ncssi Why, you would say: ''iii do the best l can an then m depend on my friends generosity for the restn
 ., Nov more more ,su'., than that is nroinis- York and London and st. Petersburg and Pekin. and Australia and California are mine; can foresee a panic million years; have Tll the tesoTtees Of the uuitrrsa, and Am yuut fast friend; when vou get in business trouble or any other trouble, call on me and l aiIl help; here Is my hsni ;n pledge Of om nipotent delIvrrance." How much should that man worryi Not much. What lion will dare to rut his paw on that Danieli Is there not rest in thisi Is there not an eternal vacst on in thst
 'Oh" you say, here is man who asked God for a blessing in q certain enterprise, and he lost five thousand dollars in 1t Ex- plain that.' l will. Wonder is factory, and one wheel Is going north. and the other wheel Is going south, and one whrel plays
 
 to tile manufacture and say: 70 manufac- turer, your machinery is contradition. Why do YOU not make all the wheels 20 one wavf' "Wcli, " he says, .l made them go in oppo- ste directions on pur ose, and they produce the right result You go downsta rs aud ex- amiue the carpets We are turning out in this establishment and YOU will see" l go down on the other floor and see the carpets. ani am obliged to confess that though the wheels in that faciory go in opposite drer, tlpns, they turn ont heautiftl resiilt: aud while I afp standing fhere looking at the exadlsite fabric an old Scripture passage comes into my mind: .AlI things work to- gether for gooi to them who love God" Is there mol rest in thati Is there not tonic in ihati Is there not longevity in thail
 ried about his reputstioni Que men says he lies, another sas he Is stu. pid another says he Is dishonest. and half dozen printing establishments nt- tack him, and he Is in great state Of excite inent and worry and fume, and cannot sleep; but religion comes to him and says: Man. God is on your side; He will take care of your reputation; 1T God be for you, who can be against vonp' How much should that man worry. sbout his reputstonf Not much. If Street, after he hal lost money, sat down and wrote a farewell letter to his wife before he blew hls brains out--if Instead of taking out of his nock"t a D stoi te had takn out we'll read New Testament there woull have been one less suicide 0 nervous and feverish peo- pie of the world, try thls slm ghty sedafive. Ton will live twenty. five years longer under its soothing power. 1t Is not chlura that YOU vant. or niorfhine that yuu want; 1t Is the Gospel of Jesus Christ With long life will 1 satisfy him.'
 Again. practical religion is a friend of long evity in tue fact that it removes all cof- rodlng care about future existence. Every man wants 10 know what is to become of hin If y9u get on board a rail train you want to know at what depot it gong to ston; If you get on board q ship you want 10 know into what harhor it Is going to run. and If you should tell me you have no interest in what is to be your future destiny, l would in as polite a way as know how, tell you did not believe you. Before had this matter settled with reference 10 my future existence, The question almost worried me Into ruined hea The anxietes men have upon this subject put together would make matrydom. This is state of awful unhealihiness. There are reople who fret themselves to death Tor fear of dying.
 waut to take the strain of your nerves and the depression of your soul, and l-make two or three experiments. Experiment first: When YOU go out of this world 1t does not make any difference whether you have been good or pad, or whether you believed truth or error, you will go straight to glory. "Impossibe," YOU say; "mv common sense as well as my religion teaches that the bad and the good cannot live together forever. You I've me no comfort in that eIperiment" Experiment the second. When yUu leave this world you will 20 into sn intermediate state where you can get converted and be pre- pared for heaven. ''fmpossible," you say; 'As the tree falieth soit must lie, and l can not post pone to an intermediate state reform alton which ought 10 have been affcced in this state.n Experiment the third: There Is no future world; when man dies that is the last Of him, Do not worry about what you gre to do in another state of being: you will not do anything, Impossible you say; -there is something that tells me that death is not the append hut the preface; iberc Is something that tells me that on this side of thegrave l only get started and that shall go on forever. my power 10 think says f0rever,' my capsc tr to enjoy or suffer, forever
 Vel you befeSt me In my three expert ,iefeat me in that am exhausted: A mighty One on a knoll back of Jerusalem enc day, the skies filled with forked liebtnings and the earth flied win volconic disturbances turned his pale and agonized facs toward the heavens and said; ''I take the sins aud sorrows of the ages Into my own heart am the ex iation. Witness earth and heaven and hell, l am the exliatlon." And the hammer struck him, and tine spears punctur- ed him, and heaven thundered: "The wages of sin is deathi' The soul that sinneth fl shall dIer 'I will by no means clear the guiliyw Then there was silence for half an hour, and the lishtnings were drawn back into the scabbsrd Of the sky, and the earth ceased to quiver, aud all the colors of the sky began to shift themselves into . rainbow woven out of the falling tears of Jesus, and there was red as of the bloodshedding. end there was blue as of the hruising. and there was green as of the heavenly foliage, and ihere was orange as of the dsv-6awn. Aud along the line of the blue l saw the words: q was bru sei for their iniquitlrs." And along the line of the red ] saw the worist "The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin.n And along the line of the green saw the words. '.lbe leaves of ibe tree of iifs for the healire of all nations" And along the line of he orange I saw Inc words: The day spring from on high hath visited us
 And then saw the storm was over snd the ra nbow rose higher aud higher until fl seem ed retres ing to another heaven, and plant ing one column of its colors on one sd the eternal hill md planting the other column of it's colors on the other side the eternal hill, ft rose upward and upward and "behold there was rainbow about the throne"
 Accept that sacrifice and quit worrying. Take ihe tonic, the inspiration. the longeyi y of thls truth. Religion is sunshine. that is health. Religion is fresh air and pure water, they are healthy. Religion is warmth. that is healthy. Ask all The doctors and