Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-09-30
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on the wisdom. power and goodness OF
God, Sir Charles Bell, the great Eng
lish anatonist and surgeon, found his
greatest Illustration in the construc-
ton of the human hand. devoting his
whole book to that subject. SO won
derful are these bodies that God names
his own attributes after different parts
Of them. His Omnlscience--it is Gods
eye; his omniprescnce-lt Is Gods ear;
his omnipotence-it is Gods arm; the
upholstery Of the midnight heavens
it is the work Of Gods fingers; his life
giving power-it is the breath Of the
Almighty; his domnion-"the govern
ment shall be upon his shoulder"
A body so dvinely honored and so
divnely constructed. let us be care
full not to abuse 1t. When 1t becomes
q Christian duty to take care Of our
health, is not the Whole tendency TO-
ward longevity? If toss my watch
about rccklessly and drop 1t on the
pavement and wind II up any time of
day or night happen to think of ii and
often let ii run down, while. you are
careful with your watch and never
abuse 1t and wind it up just al the
same hour every night and put 1t in
place where 1t will not suffer from
the violent changes of atmosphere,
which watch will last the longer!
Common sense answers. Now. the hu.
man body is Gods watch. You see the
hands of the watch. you see the face
of the watch but the beating Of the
heart is the ticking of the watch. BE
careful and do not let it run down.
Sin kills Quickly.
Again, remark that practical re-
ligiun is a friend Of longevity In the
fact that it is n protest against dlssi-
pations. which injure and destroy the
health Pad men and women live q
very short life. Their sins kill them.
l know hundreds OF good old men. but
| do not know half i dozen bad old
men. Why? They do not get old.
Lord Byron died at Missolonghi at 3G
years Of age. himself his own Mazep-
pa, his unbridled passions the horse
that dashed with him into the desert.
Edgar A. Poe died at Baltimore Mt 80
years OF age. The black raven that
allghted on the bust above his door
was delirium trenens-
Only this and nothing more.
Napoleon Bonaparte lived only just
beyond midlifc, then died at st. Hele-
nj. and one Of his doctors said that his
disease was induced by excessive
snui;ing. The hero Of Austerlitz, the
man who by one step of his foot in the
center Of Europe shook the earth. kill
ed by a snuff boX How many people
we have known who have not lived out
half their days because Of their dissi-
patlons and lndulgences! Now, prac-
teal religion is a protest against all
designations Of any kind.
But" you say, professors OF re-
liglon have fallen, professors OF re-
ligion have got drunk, professors of re-
ligion hnye misappropriated trust
funds, professors of religion have alb
seconded" Yes, but they threw away
their religion before they did their
morality. If man on White Star
line steamer bound for Liverpool, In
mid-Atlantic jumps overheard and is
drowned. is that anything against the
White Star lines capacity to take the
man across the ocean? And if man
jumps over the gunwale Of his religion
and goes down never to rise. is that
any reason for your believing that re-
lgion 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; in 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 % years ago but for
the defcnses and the equipoise of re-
ligion. You have no more natural re-
sistance than hundreds Of people who
lie in the cemeteries today slain by
their own vices. The doctors made
their case as kind and pleasant rs they
could and IL was called congestion Of
the brain or something else, but the
snakes and the blue flies that seemed
to crawl over the pillow in the sight
of the delirous patient showed what
was the matter with him. You, the
aged Christian man. walked along by
that unhappy enc until you came to
the golden pillar of Christian life.
You went 10 the right; he went to the
left. That is all the difference be-
tween you. If this religion is a pro-
test against all forms Of dissipation,
then it is an illustrious friend of
longevity with long life will | sat-
isfy him."
Worry Saps YiEOr.
Again, religion is friend OF longeyl-
ty in the fact that it takes the worry
out of our temperatures. 1t is not
work that kills men: ii is worry. When
man becomes genuine Christian. he
makes over to God not only his aifec-
tions. but his family. his business his
reputatic I. his body. his mind his soul,
everything Industrious he will be,