New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-06-20

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protest against designations which impure and
destroy the health Bad men land women
live a short life. Their sins kill them I
know hundreds 6f good old men, but ] do
not know half a dozen bad old men. Why?
They do not get old. Lord Byron died in
NJ is solonghi at SO years Of age, himself his
own Mazeppa, his unbridled passions the
horse that dashed with him into the desert.
Edgal A. Poe died at Baltimore at So years
OF age The black raven that alighfed on
the bust above his chamber door was de-
lirium tremens-
Only this and nothing more.
Napoleon Bonaparte lived only Just be-
yond mldlIfe, then died at st. Helena, and
one Of his doctors said that his disease was
Induced by excessive shutting. 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 peo-
pie 1--WE have known who have not lived out
half their days because of their dlsslpations
and lndulgencies! Now practical religion
is protest against all dissipation of any
kind. 81
HBut," you say, stprofessors Of religion
have fallen. professors of religion have got
drunk, professors of religion have misap-
proprlated trust funds, professors of reIi gion
have absconded.o Yes; but they threw
away their religion before they did their
morality. If man on White Star line
steamer bound for Liverpool in id-Alantic
Jumps overheard and is drowned, is that
anything against the White Star lines ca
pacity to take the man across the ocean?
And II man jumps over the gunWale of his
religion and goes down never to rise is
that any reason for your believing that re-
lig1on has no capacity to take the man clear
through? In the one case, if he had kept to
the steamer his body would have been saved !;
n ft,nr~ L. I, lyo,, l.
llglon his morals would have been saved. 8
There are aged people who would have
been dead Twenty-Five years ago but for the
defenses and the equipOiSe of religion. You
have no more natural resistance than hum
dreds OF people who lie in the cemeteries
to-day, slain by their own vices. The doc
tors made their case as kind and pleasant as
they could, and it was called congestion of
the brain or omething else, but the snakes
and the blue flies that seemed to crawl over
the pillow in the sight of the delirious pa
tIent showed what was the matter with him.
I on, the aged Christian man walked along
by that unhappy one until you came to the
golden pillar of a Christian life. You went
to the right; he went to the left. That is
all the difference between you. Oh, if this
religion is protest against all forms of dis
sipation, then il is an illustrious friend of
longevity. .l@With long life will ] satisfy
him"
Again, religion Is a friend OF longevity in
the fact that it takes the worry out Of Our
temperatures 1t is not work that kills
men, it is WORRY. When man becomes a
genuine Christian he makes over to God not
only his affections but his family, his bust
ness, his reputation, his body, his mind, his
soul-eyerything Industrious he will be,
but never worrying, because God is manag-
ing his affairs. How can he worry about
business when in ans wer to his prayer God
hon, to n
j he gain that is best, and if he lose that Is
best.
Suppose you had a supernatural neighbor
who came in and said: ..Sir, am your fast
friend; / want YOU to call on me in every
exigency; could fall back ON $4,000, 900; i
can foresee panic zen years. 4 hold the
controlling stock i'll thirty of the best mon
etary institutions of New York whenever
you are in trouble call OIL me 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 business? Why, you would
say: "I'll do the best can and then Pill de-
pend on my friends generosity for the rest"
NOW more than that is promised to every
CHRISTIAN business man. God says to HIM:
II own New York and London and ST.
Petersburg and Pekin, and Australia and
California are mine: can foresee panic
million years; have all the resources of the
and l am your fast friend; when
you get in business trouble or any other
trouble call on me and l will help; here is
my hand in pledge Of omnlpotent deliver
ance." How much should that man worry?
Not much. What lion will dare to put his
paw on that Daniel? Is there not rest in
this? Is there not an eternal vacation in
this?
"Oh, you say, ''here is q man who asked
God for blessing in certain enterprise
and he lost $4,000 in it. Explain that" I
VIII. 1onder is factory, and one wheel is
going north and the other wheel is going
south, and one wheel plays laterally and the
other plays vertically, go to the manufac-.
turer and say: sob. manufacturer, your
is a contradiction. Why do you
not make all the wheels go one way?''
IVY ell, = he says, II made them to go in OPP
poslte directions on purpose and they pro-
duce the rightresult. You 60 down stairs
and examine the carpets we are turning out
in this establishment and you will see'' L
go down on the other floor and see the
carpets, and | am obliged to confess that
though the wheels in the factory go in oppo.
site directions, they turn out beautiful
result; and while am standing there look
ing at the exquisite fabric an old scripture
passage comes into my mind: Gall things
work together tor good to them who love
God.'' LIS there not rest in that? Is there
iIOC .oAiS LII tult! tuelc IOt 9lOuSGflCp LII
that?
Suppose a man isall lifetime worried about
his reputation. One man says he lies, another
says he is stupid, another says he is dishonest,
and half dozen printing establishments at
tack him, and he iSin a great state of excite
ment and worry and fume and can not sleep;
: Man, God is on your side: he will take care
but religion comes to hun and says
Of your reputation; if God be for you VINO
can be against you?" How much should
that man worry about his reputation? Not
much. Ii that broker who some years ago
in Wall street, after he had lost money, sat
down and wrote farewell letter 10 his wife
before he blew his brains QUIT, instead of
taking out of his pocket a pistol, he had
taken out a well-read new testament there
would have been one less suicide. Oh, nery-
Gus and feyerish people of the world try
this almighty sedatlye. You will live
twenty-five years longer under i is soothing
power. I'll not choral that you want, OF
morphine that you want; it is the gospel of
Jesus Christ. with long lite will { satisfy
him."
Again, practical religion is friend Of
longevity in the fact that it removes. all COR
roding care about future existence. Ey.
cry man wants to know what is to become
of him. If you get on board rail-train you
want to know at what depot it is going to
stop; if yor get on board a ship you want to
know into what harbor it's going to run;
and, if you should tell me you have no in
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