Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-11

nyued, walking with thin shoes to max
your feet look delicate, plnched a. tn
waist until you sre nigh cut IN tive, anC
neither part worth anything, groaninE
about sick headache and palpitation @
the heart, which you think came from
God, when they came from your OWL
folly.
What right has any man CT woman to
defsce the temple of the Holy Ghos,
Wnatis the ear? Why, 1t is the whisper
ing gallery OF the human soul. What is
thu eyer Il is the observatory God con-
structed, its telescope
SWEEPING THE HEAVENS.
What Is the hand? An instrument 30
wonderful that when the Earl of Bridge
water bequeathed in his will $4,000 for
treatises TO be written on the wisdom,
power and goodness Of God, Sir Charles
Bell, the great English anatomist and
surgeon found his greatest illustration in
the construction CT the human hand, de-
voting his whole book to that subj sct. So
wonderful are these bodies that God
names His own attributes after di6arent
parts Of them. His omniscience-!t is
Gods eye. His omnipresence-it is G ,d's
ear His omnipotence-it is Gods arm.
The upholstery OF tie midnight heavens
1t Is the work of Gods q igers. His life
giving poHer-it is the breath Of the Al
mighty. His dominion-"the government
shall be upon his shoulder" A body SO
divinely honored and so divinely con-
structed, let Us be careful no: to abuse 1t.
When it becomes Christian duty to
take care of our health, is not the whole
tendency toward longevity? II toss my
watch ABOUT cecklessly and drop it on the
pavement and wind 1t up any time CT day
or night happen to think
Of 1t, and often let 1t run
dow, whl!e you are careful with you.
watch and never sbuse Il and wind /. up
st jast 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 see the hands Of the
watch, you see the face Of the watch; but
the beating Of the he.rt is the ticking Of
the watch. On, be careful and do not let
II run down!
Again, remark that practical religion
ls friend of longevity In the fact that 1t
Is protest against designations which In
jure and destroy the health. Bad men
and women live very short life. Their
sins kill them. know hundreds Of good
old men, but 60 not know half dozen
bgd old men. Why7 They do not get
old. Lord Byron died at Missolonghi at
thirty six years OF age, himself his own
Mazepps,
HIS UNBRIDLBD PASSIONS
the horse that dashed With him into the
at RAJ
at thirty eight years Of age. The black
chamber door was delirium tremens-
Only this and nothing more.
Napoleon Bonaparte lived only Just be-
yond m!dlife, then died at ST. Helena, and
one of his doctors said that his disease
Was induced by excessive snufflng. The
hero of Austerli'z, the man who by one
step Of his foot in the center Of Europe
shCok the Garth, killed by Ia snun-
box! On. how many people we have
knowl who have not lived out half their
days because of their designations and in
dulgences. Rjw practical religion is q
protest sgain st au dissipation Of any kind.
but" you say, professors Of religion
have fallen, professors Of religion have
got drunk, professors of religion have
missppropriated trust funds, professors
CT religion have aosconded." Yes; but
they threw away their religion before they
did their morality. II a man on White
Star Line steamer bound for Liverpool in
midAtlsntic jumps overheard and is
drowned, is that anything against the
White Star Lines capacity to take ths
man across the ocean, And II man
jumps over the gunwale of his religion
aud goes down never TO rise is
that any reason for your believing that
religion has no capacity to take the man
clear through In tee one case II he had
kept to the steamer his body would have
been saved in the otner if he had kept to
mis- religion his morals would HAYS been
saved.
There are aged people who would have
been dead twenty i've years ago but for
the defenses and the equipoise OF religion.
You nave no more natural resistance
than hundreds Of people who lie in the
cemeteries to-day, slain by their own
vices. The doctors made their case IS
kind and pleasant AZ they could, and Is
was called congestion of the brain, or
something else, but the snakes and the
blue fles that seemed to crawl ever the
pillow in the sight of the delirous
patient showed what was the matter with
MIN. You, the aged Christian man,
walked along by that unhappy one until
you came to the golden pillar of q Chris
tain life. You went TO the right; he went
to left. That is sill the difference be-
tween you. o., II this religion is a pro-
test against
ALL FORMS OF DISSIPATION,
then 1t is an illustrlous friend Of long
evity. "With long life will l satisfy
him.
Again, religion is friend OF Longevity
In the fact thst IL takes the worry out of
our temperatures. Il is not work that
kills man, it is worry. When q man
becomes 8 g.nuine Christian he makes
over to God not only his affections but
his family, his business, his reputation,
his body, mis- mind, his soul-everything
Industrious he will be, but never worry
ing, because God is managing his aisirs.
How can he worry about business when
in answer to his prayers God tells him
when to buy and when to sell; and II he
gain that is best, and II he lose that is
best?
Suppose you had a supernatural neigh
Dor VINO came in and said: "Sir, want
you to call on me in every e1igencJ; II
am your fast friend; could fall back on