Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1899-09-30

the clotEicr you are not acting IKE
Christian. Take care of oil your physi-
cal forces-nervous. muscular. bone.
brain, cellular tissue-for all YOU must
be brought 20 Judgment. Smoking your
nervous system into fidrets. burning
out the coating OF your stomach with
wine iongwooded and strychnined.
walking with thir shoes to make your
feet took delicate. pinched az the waist
until you are nigh cut in two and nei-
der part worth anything, groaning
about sick headache and pa,pitation Of
the heart, which you think came from
God, when they came from your own
folly!
What right has any man or womanfo
dcface the temple of the Holy Ghost7
What Is The ear2 It is the whispe ring
gallery OF the soul What ia the eye2 IL
is the observatory God constructed. its
telescope sweeping the heavens. What
Is the hand? An instrument 30 wonder
ful that, when the earl Of Bridgewater
beoueathed 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
Z surgeon. found his greatest illustration
.
dsvoting his whole book 10 that subject.
So wonderful are these bodies that God
/ names his own attributes after different
parts of them. His omuiscience-it is
Gods eve; His omripresence-it Is
Gods ear; His omnipotence - II Is
Gods arm: the upholstery OF the mid
night hcavens-it is the work OF Gods
fingers: His life-giving pOwer-it IS
Il. a..
ion-"the government shall be upon his
shoulder"
But" YOU say. professors OF religion
have fallen. professors OF religion have
got drunk. professors of religion have
misappropriated trust funds. professors
OF religion have abSconded." Yes, but
they threw away their religion before
they did their morality. Il a man on a
= White Star line steamer, bound for
Liverpool. in mid-Atlantic jumps over
board and is drowned. is that anything
against the White Star lines capacity
; to take the man across the ocean, And
+ il a man jumps over the gunwale OF his
u religion and goes down never 20 rise
Is that any reason for your beiievinl 8
l- that religion has no capacity 10 tak'
& the man clear through? In the on
case. IL he had kept 10 the steamer
ID his body would have been saved; II
e. the other case. IL he had kept 30 his re
'e ligion. his morals would have bee
saved.
ie There are aged people who woul
io have been dead 25 years ago but for IN
le defenses and the equipoise OF religion
'e Nou have no more natural resistauc
IL than hundreds OF people who lie
III the cemeteries to-day slain by their ow
x vices. The doctors made their case
e kind and pleasant as they could. and
NJ was called congestion Of the brain
Al something else. but the snakes and a
ne bluefies that seemed TO crawl over q
eo pillow iNsthe sight Of the delirious p
2" tient showed what was the matter wi
De him. You. the aged Christian ma
OF walked along by that unhappy one u
til you came 10 the golden pillar OF
re- Christian life. You went TO the rigi
we he went 10 the left. That is all I
ne difference between you. II this re
AN gion is protest against all forms
or dissipation. then il is an Illus trio
'oo friend OF longevity. With long
ere will | satisfy Him
su- suppose you had suPernatu
ue neighbor who came in and said: =
Du' l want YOU 10 call on me in every e
oD gency. I am your fast friend. l Co
ano fall back on 10000, 900. | can fore
ven a panic ten years. / hold the contr
'he ing stock in 30 of the best monetary
oe- stitutions OF New York. Whenever
UNI are in trouble call on me. and / '
eri- help you. You can have my mon
III and YOU can have my influence. II
iog- is my hand In pledge for it," b
'oh- much would you worry about busint
.ha' Why, you would say: III do the
oy can. and then I'll depend on
tne friends generosity for the rest"
'ooo Now, more than that Is promise,
ou,' ' every Christian business man.
''ooV saws 10 him; Il own New York
.Hss London and St. Petersburg and Pek
: al and Australia and California are m
nan can foresee paaic hundred "
have all the resources OF the univ'
70 and am your fast friend. When
H"' get in business trouble or any O
siV"' trouble call on me, and I
U'iS help. Here is my hand in pledg
omnipotent deliverance." How Il
should that man worry? Not N
What lion viii dare 20 put his pa
that Daniel? Is there not rest in
~o Is there not an eternal vacation In
oh" you say, here is a man
ms asked God for blessing in ce
a sac an4arDr;s. aDd he lost IS 600 In IL