Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-10-04

Napoleon Bonaparte lived only just oe-
vond midlife, then died at st. Helena, and
Que of his doctors said that his disease was
| Induced by excessive snuffing. The hero
! Of Austerlitz, the man who by one step of
his foot in the center OF Europe shook the
earth, killed by snuff boxi How many
people we have known who have not lived
out half their days because OF their disspa-
tions and indulgencesI Now, practical
religion is u 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 have misap-
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threw away their religion before they did
their morality. If a man on White Star
line steamer, bound for Liverpool. in mid
Atlantic jumps overheard and is drowned,
lines capacity to take the man across the
ocean2 And II a man jumps over the gun
vale OF his religion and goes down never
20 rise, Is that any reason for your believ-
ing that religion has no capacity to take
:he maR clear through? In the one case.
would have been saved; in the other case,
II 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 1t 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 delirious 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
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right; he went to the left. That Is all the
difference between you. II this religion is
protest against all forms of dissipation,
then it is an illustrious friend of longevity.
"With long life will satisfy him."
Again, religion Is friend of longevity
In the fact that 1t takes the worry out OF
our temporalities. 1t Is not work that kills
men; 1t 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 il
managing his affairs. How can he worry
about business when in answer to his pray
ers God tells him when to buy and when to
seii2 And II he gain, that is best, and If he
lose, tiat Is best.
Suppose you had n supernatural nei III
Dor who came in and said: "Sir, 1 want
you to call on me in every exigency. lam
your fast friend. / could fall back on 500
900, 900. 1 can foresee a panic ten YEAR. l
hold the controlling stock in thirty of the
best monetary institutions of New York.
Whenever you are in trouble call on me,
and l will help you. You can have nv
money, and you can have my influence
Here is my hand in pledge for it." How
much would you worry about businessg
Why, you would say, I'm do the best
can, and then I'll depend on my friends
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 panic
| q hundred years. have all the resources
| of the universe, and am your fast friend.
When you get in business trouble or any
/ other trouble. call on Me, aud will help.
| Here Is My hand In pledge of omnipotent
deliverance. How much should that man
worry? Not much. What lion wilrdnr0 to
ss paw on that 1Anipif e thers not
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