The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24

rames his own attributes aiter VII
ferent parts 81 them. His omniscience
it is Gods eye. His omnipresence-
II 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
government shall DC
upon his shoulder" A body so divine
" honored and 50 divinely constructed
let us be careful not to abuse IL.
When it becomes a Christian duty
to take care of your health, is not the
whole tendency toward longevity II
| toss my watch about recldessly ana
drop it on the pavement and WIND IL
up any time of day or night L nap
pen to think of it and often let IL run
down while you are careful with your
watch and never abuse it and wind IL
up Just at the same hour every night
and put it in a place where 1t VIII
not suffer from the violent changes OF
atmosphere, which watch Will last the
Longer? Common sense answers
Now, the human body is Gods watch
You see the face of the watch, but the
beating of the heart is the ticking OF
the watch. Oh, be careful and do not
let it run down!
Again, remark that practical re-
ligion is a friend of longevity in the
fact that it is protest against dissi-
pations which injure and destroy tne
health. Bad men and women i've
very short life. Their sins kill them.
7 know hundreds of good old men, but
7 do not know half dozen bad old
men. Why? They did not get OLD,
Lord Byron died at Missolonghi at
SO years of age, himself his own Ma
zeppa, his unbridled passions the morse
that dashed with him into the desert.
Edgar A. Poe died at Baltimore at 80
wears of age The black raven that
alighted on the bust above his cham
her door was delirium tremens.
| Only this and nothing more
| Napoleon Bonaparte lived only JUST
beyond midlife, then died at St
Helena. and one of his doctors SAID
that his disease was induced by eX'
cessive snuffing. The hero OF Austen
litz, the man who by one step OF ms
foot in the center of Europe shoof
the earth, killed by snuff box! ON
how many people we have known who
have not lived out half their days
because of their designations and in
dulgences! Now, practical religion Il
a protest against all dissipation OF an!
kind.
But" you say, professors OF re
ligion have fallen, professors OF re
ligion have got drunk, professors o
religion have misappropriated trus
funds, professors of religion have an
seconded" Yes, but they threw ava.
their religion before they did thei
morality. If man on White Sta
line steamer bound for liverpool, i
mid-Atlantic jumps overheard and
drowned, is that anything against Tn
White Star lines capacity to take In
man across the ocean? And if a ma
, Jumps over the gunwale of his rel
gion and goes down never to rise,
that any reason for your believing tina
,, religion has no capacity to take tn
man clear through? In the one cas-
, if he had kept to the steamer n
body would have been saved; IN IN
other case if he had kept to his rel
| zion his morals would have bee
. saved.
There are aged people who woul
: have been dead 25 years ago but II
the defenses and the equipoise OF r
ligion. You have no more natural r
: sistance than hundreds of people WI
lie in the cemeteries to-day, slain [
i their own vices. The doctors mac
their case as kind and pleasant
they could, and it was called congo
o ton of the brain or something els
e hut the snakes and the blue flies tn
7, seemed to crawl over the pillow in Il
e sight of the delirious patient shove
s what was the matter with him. 70
s the aged Christian man, walked alol
IS by that unhappy oBe until you can
l. to the golden pillar of the Christi;
!: life. You went to the right; he we
y to the left. That is all the ditferen
h between you. Oh, if this religion
l. a protest against all forms of dlsslp
re ton, then it is an illustrious friend
If longevity. with long life will l Sc
y isfy him..
g Suppose you had a supernatui
he neighbor who came in and said: "s
u l want you to call on me in every e.
re gency. I am your fast friend; cou
s. fall back on $2O000,000; l can fol
see a panic ten years; l hold the &C
+: trolling stock in 30 of the best MOI
~ tary institutions of this countr
al whenever you are in any trouble C
Dr. on me and 1 will help you; you
III have my money and you can have I
in influence; here is my hand in pied
s. of it." How much would you wor
III about business? Why, you would sa
ID "I'n do the best 1 can, and then
Id depend on my friends generosity
IL the rest"
OF Now more than that is promised
ny every Christian business man. u
S? saws to him: II own New York
ul London and ST. Petersburg a
fl Picking and Australia and Califorl
se are mine; 1 can foresee a panic
nd thousand years; 1 have all the
tn sources of the universe; and L
CHI your fast friend; when you get
ee. business trouble or any other trout
I'D call on me and / will help you; h
vn is my hand in pledge of omnipot'
ro- deliverance." How much should Il
pit man worry? Not much. What
nut will dare to put his paw on that ID
as iel? Is there not qest in this?
his there not an eternal vacation in th
~ "Oh," you say, 'here is man