The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-06-22
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Agate: remark that practical religion
! 10 . friend OF Longevity in the fact that It
| is . protest against dissipaiioas which In
! jure and destroy the health Bad men and
women live very short life. Their sins
kill them. l know hundreds OF good old
men, but do not know hall . dozen bad
Old men. why's They do not get old.
Lord Byron diei at Missolonghi at thirty.
six years Of age. hims-N his own Mszeppa.
! his unbriiled passions the horse that dashed
| with him into the desert Edgar A Poe
died at Baltimore at thirty-eight years OF
age. Tue 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 mldIife, then died at st. Helena and
one Of his doctors said that his disease was
| induced b. excessive snufing. The hero
Of Austcrlitz. the man who by one step OF
bis foot IN the center OF Europe shook the
earth, killed by q snuff box, Oh, how many
people We have known who have not lived
out half their days because OF their dissi.
pations AMI indulxeuces! Now practical
religion is a protes: against ali dissipation
CT Gny kind.
''But," you say. ''pr fcssors OF religion
have fallen; professors Of religion have
got drunk: professors Of religion have mis-
appropriated trust funds: professors of re-
lig,on have absconded.'' Yes, but they
threw away their religion before they did
their morality. II . man on White Star
line steamer bound for liverpool in mid
Atlantic iuulrs overheard and il drowned
Is that any thing against the White Star
lines capacity 10 take him across the Oce an!
And il man jumps over the gunwale OF
his religion anu goes down never to rise, is
that any reason for your belle ing taat re-
ligon has no capac " to take the man clear
through. In the one case if he had kept to
the steamer his body could have been
saved: ia the other case If he had kept to
his religion his morals would have been
saved.
There are aged people who would have
been dead twenty-five years ago but Tor
the defenses and the eQuipoise of religion.
You have no more natural resistance than
hundreds OF people VINO lie in the GENE
teries to-day, slain bv 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 thu. 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 Christian man. walked
along BIZ that unhappy one until you came
to the golden pillar of Christian life. You
weat to the right: he went to the left.
That is all the difference between you. U,
if t1s religion is protest against all forms
Of dissipation, then it is an lllustrious
friend of longevity. With long life will
satisfy him.
Again. religion is friend OF longevity
in the fact that it takes the worry out Of
our temperatures. 1t is not WORT. that
kills men, 1t Is worry. When man be-
comes genuine Christian he makes over
to GoG not only his affections but his
family. his business, his reputation. his
body, his mind, his soul-every thing. In
dustrious he will be, but never worrying,
because God is managing his affairs. How
can he VERY about business when in
answer to his prayers God tells him when
TO buy and when to sell: and il he gain that
is best, and If Ire lose that Is best
Suppose you had a supernatural neigh
Dor who came in and said: Sir, l want
you to call on NE in every exigency; am
your fast friend; could fall back on So
oo0H9: l can foresee panic ten years; l
hold the controlling stock in thirty OF the
best monetary institutions in New York;
whenever you are in trouble call IN me and
will help you: you can have any money
and you can have any influence; here is
my hand in pledge for it,. How much
would you worry about business. Why,
you would say: "l'Il do the best can,
and then I'll depend on my friends gener.
osity for the rest
Now more than that is promised to every
Christian business man. God says to him:
Il own New YORK and London and ST.
Petersburg and Pekin, and Australia and
California are mine; / can foresee = panic
q million years; have all the resources OF
the universe, and am your fas. friend:
when you get in business trouble or any
other trouble. call on me and will help;
here is nv hand IN pledge OF omuIpotent
Geliverance."
How much should that man worry! Not
much. What lion will dare 10 put his paw
on that Danielf Is there not rest in this.
Is there not an eternal vacation in this.
TO-" you say, here IS q nan who ASKED
God for blessing in q certain enterprise.
and he lost five thousand dollars in it. Ex-
pam that" / will Wonder is a factory
and one wheel is going north and the other
wheel is going south. aud one wheel plays
laterslly and the other plays vertically. l
60 TO the manufacturer and / say: 20,
manu- facturer. your machinery IS a contra
dictiou. Why do you not make all the
wheels 60 one way.' WELL he
says, Il made them to 60 in op-
posite directions on purpose. and
thew produce the right result. You 60
down stairs and examine the carpets we
are turning ont in this establishment and
you viii see" l go down on the other
floor and see the carpets and am obliged
10 confess that though the wheels in that
factory go II opposite directions. they turn
cut a beautiful result: and wtile ! am
standing there locking at the exquisite
fabric an old Scripture passage comes in
to my mind: All things work together for
good 10 them who love God" Is there not
rest in that. Is there not tonic in that! Is
there not longevity IN that.
Suppose 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 es-
adjustments attack him, and be Is in a
great state Of excitement and worry and
fume, and can not sleep: but religion comes
TO him and says: Man. God is on your side:
He will take care of your reputation: if God
be for you. who can be against you." How
much should that man worry about his
reputation. Not much.
If the broker who some years ago in Wall
street, after ne had lost money. sat down
and wrote farewell letter before he blew
his brains outfit instead Of taking out Of
his pocket pistol he had taken cut q well
read New Testament there would have
been one less suicide. o, nervous and fe-
verish people OF the. world. try the al
mighty sedative. You will live twenty-five
years longer under Its soothing power 1t
IS not choral that you want. or mo rphine
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