The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-09-27
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is the hand? An instrument so wonder
fci that, when the Earl of Bridgewater
bequeathed in his will $4,000 for trea-
tises 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 con-
struction 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 omniscience-it is Gods
eye; his omnipresence-it 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 dominion-''th government shall be
upon his shoulder"
A body SO. divinely honored and so di-
vinely constructed, let us be careful not
to abuse it. When it becomes a Chris
tan duty to take care of our health, is
not the whole tendency toward longevity?
Religion Friend Of Longevity.
Again, [ remark that practical religion
is friend of longevity in the fact that it
is protest against designations, which
injure and destroy the health. Bad men
and women live a very short life. Their
sins kill them. / know hundreds of good
old men, but do not know half dozen
bad old men. Why? They do not get
old.
But you say, professors of religion
have fallen, professors of religion have
got drunk, professors of religion have
Incorporated trust funds, professors
of religion have absconded.' Yes, but
they threw away their religion before
they did their morality. If man on
White Star line steamer, bound for Liv-
erpool, 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 religion
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 twenty-five years ago but for
the defenses and the equipoise of relig-
ion. You have no more natural resist
ance than hundreds of people who lie in
the cemeteries 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 and the
bluefiies 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 unhappy one until you came
to the golden pillar of a Christian life.
You went to the right; he went to the
left. That is all the difference between
you. If this religion is a protest against
all forms of dissipation then it is an illus
trious friend of longevity. with long
life will satisfy him."
1t Takes Out the Worry.
Again, religion is friend of longevity
in the fact that it takes the worry out Of
our ttemporalities. 1t is not work that
kills men; it is worry. When man be-
comes 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. In
dustrious he will be, but never worrying,
because God is managing his affairs.
How can he worry about business when
in answer to his prayers God tells him
when to buy and when to sell? And if
he gain, that is best, and if he lose, that
is best.
Suppose you had supernatural neigh
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