The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-09-29

the heart, which you think came from
God. when they came from your own
! folly!
What right has any man or woman To
deface the temple OF the Holy Ghost +?
What is the ear? 1t is the whispering
! gallery Of the soul. What is the eye? II
is the observatory God constructed, its
! telescope sweeping the heavens. What
! is the hand? An instrument so wonder
] full that. when the earl of Bridgewater
bequeathed in his will $4,000 for
/ trcatises 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 construction of the human hand.
| devoting his whole book TO that subject.
| So wonderful 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 - il is
Gods arm; the upholstery of the mid
night heayens--it is the work of Gods
fingers; His life-giving power-it is
the breath of the Almighty; his domin-
ion-"the government shall be upon his
shoulder"
But" you say, professors OF religion
have fallen, professors of religion have
got drunk, professors of religion have
misappropriatedt trust funds, professors
of religion have absconded" Yes, but
they threw away their religion before
they did their morality. II man on a
White Star line steamer. bound for
Liverpool, in mid-Atlantic jumps over
board and is drowned, is that anything
against the White Star lines capacity
to take the man across the ocean? And
if a man jumps over the gunwale OF his
religion and goes down never 10 rise.
is that any reason for your believing
that religion has no capacity TO take
the man clear through? In the one
case, il he had kept TO the steamer,
his body would have been saved; in
the other case. IL he had kept TO his re-
ligion, 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 religion
You have no more natural resistance
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 il
was called congestion Of the brain or
something else, but the snakes and the
bluehies that seemed TO crawl over the
pillow in the sight OF the delirious pa
tent showed what was the matter with
him. You, the aged Christian man,
walked along by that unhappy one un.
ill you came TO the golden pillar of a
Christian life. You went 10 the right,
he went to the left. That is all the
difference between you. IL this reli-
gion Is a protest against all forms of
dissipation, then it is an illustrious
friend of longevity. with long life
will l satisfy Him."
Suppose YOU had supernatural
neighbor who came in and said "Sir,
l want you TO call on me in every ext
gency. | am your fast friend. | could
fall back on $4,000, 600. | can foresee
| a panic ten years. ! hold the CONTROL
ing stock In 30 of the best monetary In
situations of New York. Whenever YOU
are III lIOuDlt fdll on me. anu l VIII
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'm do the best
| can, and then I'll depend on my
| friends generosity for the rest"
Now, more than that is promised TO
| Ihriaft,p h,tgfpaa.
says TO him: az own New York and
London and st. Petersburg and Picking,
and Australia and California are mine.
| can foresee panic "A 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, and | will
| help. Here is my hand in pledge OF
| omnipotent deliyerance." 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 a man who
asked God for a blessing in a certain
| enterprise, and he lost $1,000 in il. Ex-
| plain that"
| will. Yonder is a factory, and one
wheel is going north, and the other
wheel is going south, and one wheel
plays literally, and the other plays YER
tically. go TO the manufacturer and
| say: 30 manufacturer, your ma
chinery is contradiction! Why do
| you not make all the wheels 90 one
way?" "Well," he says, II made them
! go in opposite directions on purpose,
and they produce the right result. You
! go downstairs and examine the car
| pets we are turning out in this estab-
| lishment, and you will see" 90 down
on the other floor. and see the car
pets, and am obliged 10 confess that,
though the wheels in that factory 90 in
opposite directions, they turn out a
beautiful result. and while am stand
ing there looking at the exquisite fab
ric an old Scripture passage comes into
my mind: "All things work together
| for good to them who love God" Is
there not a tonic in that? Is there not
| longevity in that?
Suppose man Is all the time wor-
ried about his reputation? One man
says he lies, another says he is stupid.