Connecticut western news., 1899-09-28


 pavement and wind 1t up any time of day or night happen to think of it and often let 1t run down, while you are careful with your watch and never abuse 1t and wind it up just at the same hour every night and put 1t in a place where it 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, I remark that practical re- ligion Is friend of longevity in the fact that 1t Is protest against dissi- pations, 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 a dozen bad old men. Why? They do not get old. Lord Byron died at Missolonghi at 36 years of age, himself his own Mazep- pa, his unbrldled passions the horse that dashed with him into the desert Edgar A. Poe died at Baltimore at 38 years of age. The black raven that alighted on the bust above his door was delirium tremens-
 Only this and nothing more.
 Napoleon Bonaparte lived only just beyond midlife, then died at St. Hele- na, and one of his doctors said that his disease was induced by excessive snuffing. The hero of Austeriitz, the man who by one step of his foot in the center of Europe shook the earth, Kill ed by snuff box! How many people we have known who have not lived out half their days because of their dissi- pations and indulgences! Now, prac- tical religion Is q protest against all dissipations of any kind.
 But" you say, professors of re ligion have fallen, professors of re- ligion have got drunk, professors of re ligion have misappropriated trust funds, professors of religion have ab- sconded." Yes, but they 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, 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- ligion 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 25 years ago but for the defenses 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 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 delirfous 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 Christian life. You went to 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 1t Is an illustrious friend of longevity. with long life will I sat isfy him."
 Worry saps vigor.
 Again, religion is friend of longevi- ty in the fact that 1t takes the worry out of our temporalities. It Is not work that kills men; it is worry. When a man becomes genuine Christian, he makes over to God not only his affec- lions, but his family, his business, his reputation, his body, his mind, his soul everything. Industrious 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 neighbor who came in and said: "Sir, I want you to call on me in every ex- igency. am your fast friend. could fall back on $200O0,OOO I can foresee a panic ten years. hold the con- trolling stock in 30 of the best none tary institutions of New York. When ever you are in trouble call on me, and I 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 business? Why, you would say, I'll do the best I 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 to him: q own New York and London and St. Petersburg and Picking, and Australia and California are mine. I can foresee panic hundred years. 1 have all the resources of the uni verse, and am your fast friend. When you get in business trouble or any oth CT trouble, call on me, and I will help. Here Is my hand in pledge of om- nipotent deliverance." How much should that man worry? Not much. What lion will dare to put his paw on that Daniel? Is there not rest in this? Is there not an eternal vacation in this? "Oh," you say, 'here is man who asked God for a blessing in cer- tain enterprise, and he lost 5000 in 1t! Explain that"
 I will. Wonder is a factory, and one wheel is going north, and the other wheel is going south, and one wheel plays laterally and the other plays vertically. I go to the manufacturer and say: 70 manufacturer. your ma chinery is a contradiction! Why do you not make all the wheels go one wayw Well" he says, Il made them to go in opposite directions on pur- pose, and they produce the right re- suit You go down stairs and examine he carpets we are turning out In this