Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-09-25

any luluS. SEOduIHS dDOuI Slch uedu-
ache and palpitatiOn of 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? 1t is the observatory God
constructed, it's telescope sweeping the
heavens. What is the hand? An in
strument SO wonderful that, when the
Earl of Bridgewater bequeathed in his
will $4,000 for treatises to be written
on the wisdom, power and goodness OF
God, Sir Charles Bell, the great Eng
lish anatOmist and surgeon, found his
greatest Illustration in the cOnStruc-
ton 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-"the govern
Iuout Sud1l De upon LIS S1OuIOSI.
A body so divinely honored and SO
divinely constructed, let us be care
full not to abuse it. When it becomes
a Christian duty to take care Of our
health, is not the whole tendency to-
ward longevity? If I toss my watch
about recklessly and drop it on the
pavement and wind it up any time of
day or night happen to think of it and
often let it run down, while you are
careful with your watch and never
abuse it and wind it up just at the
same hour every night and put it 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 hui
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.
Sim Kills Quickly.
Again, l remark that practical re-
ligion is friend of longevity in the
fact that it is a protest against dissi-
pations. which injure and destroy the
health. Bad men and women live a
very short life. Their sins kill them.
L know hundreds of good old men, but
I do not know half a dozen bad old
men. Why? They do not get old.
Lord Byron died at Missolonghi at SO
years of age, himself his own MaZep-
pa, his unbridled passions the horse
that dashed with him into the desert.
Edgar A. Poe died at Baltimore at 3S
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 midlfe, then died at st. Hele-
ma, and one 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, kill
ed by a 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-
teal religion is a protest against all
dissipations of any kind.
But" you say, professors of re-
ligion have fallen, professors Of re-
Hgion have misappropriated trust
funds, professors Of religion have alb
sconded." Yes, but they threw away
their religion before they did their
morality. If a man on a 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 % 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 it 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 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 be-
tween you. If this religion is a pro-
test against all forms of dissipation,
then it is an illustrious friend of