Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1899-10-12

body is Gods watch You see the hand.
OF the watch you see the face Of the watch:
but the beating II the heart Is the ticking
OF the watch. BE carefal and do not let il
Hun down.
Again. l remark thar practical religion
IS a friend OF longevity in the fa-, rha, II.
is "A protest against dIs-lpations which 10.
jare and destroy he health. Bad men ane
women live very short life. Their sins
Kill them. l know aHundretis Of good ole
men, but 10 no, know half dozen bad
old men. Why? They 10 not get old.
LORD Byron died At Missolonghi at 81 years
OF age. himself his own Mazeppa. his un-
bridled passions the horse that dashed
with him into the desert. Edgar A. Poe
died at Baltimore at 3S years of age. The
above his door was delirium tremens-
Only this and nothing more
Napoleon Bonaparte lived only Just De-
sond midlife. then died at St Helena and
one OF his doctors said that his disease was
Induced by excessive snuffng. 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, How many
people we have known who have not lived
oat half their days because OF their disspa-
ttons and indulgences! Now, practical
religion is a protest against all dissipa.
tions Of any kind.
But YOU say. "professors OF religion
have fallen, professors OF religion have got
drunk, professors Of religion nave misap-
proprated trust funds professors o: reig-
ion have absconded." Yes but they
threw away their religion before they did
their morality. If a man on Il White Star
line steamer, bound for Liverpool, in mid
Atlantic jumps overheard and-is drowned.
IS that anything against the White Star
mes capacity to take the man across the
ocean? And il a man jumps over the gun
vale OF bis religion and goes down never
TO rise. IS that any reason for your believ-
Ing that religion has no capacity to take
the man clear Through! In the one ease
if Ne 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 Twenty-Five years ago but for
the defenses and the equipoise OF religion.
You have no more natural resistance than
hundreds OF people who lie in the ceme-
teries. to-day slain by 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 ami the blue flies that
seemed to crawl over the pillow in the sight
Of the delrious patient showed what was
the matter with him. You, the aged
Christian man, walked along by that un-
happy one until You came to the golden
pilkH OF a Christian life You went to the
right; be went to the left. That Is all :he
difference between You. If this religion is
protest against all forms OF dissipation.
then il is an illustrious friend Of longevity.
with long life will satisfy him.
Again, religion is a friend OF longevity
in the fact that 1t tax kas the worry out OF
our tempOraities. Ii is not work that kills
men; it Is worry When a man becomes a
genuine Christian. he makes over to God
not only his affections, but his family his
business, his reputation, his body, his mind,
his soul, everything. Industrious he will
be- but never worrying, because God is
about business when In answer to his pray
ers God tells him when to buy and when TO
sell? And II be gain, that Is best, and if he
lose, that is best.
Suppose you had a supernatural nei sh-
Dor who came in and said: Sir want
you to call me in every eXigency. am
| your fast friend. l could fall back on $50, :
| 900 900. / can !oresee panic ten years.
| hold the controlling stock i'll thirty of the
| best monetary institutions OK New Ao1k
"nenesec you are In trouble call on me,
! and l 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 bus!ness2
| Why, you would say, I'm do the best /
can. and then III depend my friend ;
generosity for the rest
| Now. more than that is promised to every
! Christian business man. God says 10 him:
81 own New York and London and st
! Petersburg and Pekin. and Australia and
| California are mine. l can foresee n panic
a hundred years. | have all the resources
o!the universe, AMI ah your fast friend
| When you get in business trouble OK any
other trouble call on Ne, and will help
| Here is Iy hand in pledge of omnipoten,
delive rance How much should that man
| worry Not much. What lion will dare tc
| put his paw on that Daniel? Is ther. no,
rest in this Ia there not an eternal vaca
| tion in this! Oh YOU say here is rna
| who asked God for blessing Ia IA certaiI
enterprise, and he lost 5000 In it Explail
| that
| will. Yonder is a factory, and one
wheel Is going north, and the other whee
is going south. and wheel play:
laterally aud the other plays vertically
| 20 to the manufacturer aud l say: "t
manufacturer. your machinery Is con
tradiction, Why do you not max. ali tn.
wheels go one way We'll. " he says, :"
made them TO 60 In opposite directions ol
suit. You go down stairs and examine
the carpets We are turning cut In thi
establishment and you will see" / <
down on the other floor. and | see tn
carpets, and am Obliged to confess III at
| though the wheels In that factory q II
! opposite directions. they turn out beauti
uiresult and while l am standing th-r,
looking at the exquisite fabric Al oil
| Scripture passage comes into my min {!
"All things work together FOR good I
them who love God" l. there not toni
in that? Is there not longevity IN that
suppose a man il all the time worrie
about his reputat.onf One man savs Il
lies another man says ne Is stupid Il
other says be Is dishonest. and ha.t ! oze
printing est ablIshIen.- attack him ant b
IS Ia great state .! exegtefu-l. and 1rr
and tume and cauuo. sep, tut r%ligio
comes 10 him aui says N.o, God !. 0
your side. He viii sak" care D: y1lr rep
tatt1a. l. God ba Tor you, WI cau d
against yo1: Eos much should tia. n 4
worry aoJ4. III, r-pQta,!oa, x M :.
l. that broker wSo some vear- a.1 ii II :.
street, after he hal I0st money, sat ! &
and wr3t. farewell letter - II, wife ..
fore he bleN his trains out-it. icsteai
taking out Q. his pocket a pistol, h- q
taken out a well read Nev Ie-ta-1e.l
! there would nave been ole less suicide.
y nervous and tryer4,l I@ople - :.
| worl3 tryt tli- almighty -eia.ivs, Y3a w
live twenty-five yrar- !yLS-r under
-0o.A AZ p,ger. 1: i .: chl2-ai that '.
wan: 1r morphine that y1l want. Il i 4
gospel o. Jesus Chrlst. with IoCs II
vii | satisfy him.
Again. practical religion ia friend
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