The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-02-24

must be brought to judgment.
Smoking your nervous system int
fdgets, burning out the coating O
your stomach with wine logwoode'
and s~trychnined, walking with thil
shoes to make your feet look delicate
pinched at the waist until you ar
nigh cut in two, and neither par
worth anything, grooming about sicl
headache and palpitation of the heart
which you think came from God
when they came from your W folly
What right has any man or woman
to deface the temple of the Holy
Ghost? What is the ear? Why, it il
the whispering gallery of the human
soul. What is the eye? 1t is the OBJ
servatory God constructed, its tele-
scope sweeping the heavens. So won
derful are these bodies that God
names his own attributes after diff
ferent 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 government shall be
upon his shoulder" A body so divine
ly honored and so divinely constructed
let us be careful not to abuse it.
When it becomes a Christian duty
to take care of your health, is not the
whole tendency toward longevity? If
l toss my watch about recklessly and
drop it on the pavement and wind it
Up any time Of day or night l hap
pen 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
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.
There are aged people who would
have been dead 25 years ago but for
the defenses and the e~quipoise of re-
ligion. You have no more natural re-
sistanca than hundreds of people who
lie in the cemeteries to-day, slain by
their w vices. The doctors made
their case as kind and pleasant as
they could. and it was called conges-
ton 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 the Christian
life. You went to the right; he went
to the left. That is all the difference
between you. Oh. if this religion is
a protest against ali forms of dissipa-
ton, then it is an illustrious friend of
longevity. With long life will 1 sat
isfy him.
Suppose you had a supernatural
neighbor who came in and said: 'Sir.
/ want you to call on me in every ext
gency. | am your fast friend; | could
fall back on $40, 1000, 900; | can fore
see a panic ten years; l hold the con-
trolling stock in so of the best none
larry institutions of this country;
whenever you are in any trouble call
me and will help you; you can
have my money and you can have my
influence; here is my hand in pledge
it. How much would you worry
about business? Why, you would saw:
III do the best l can, and then I'll
depend on ms friends generosity for
the rest
Now more than that is promised to
every christian business man. God
to him: 81 own New York and
London and St. Petersburg and
and Australia and California
are mine; l can foresee a panic c
thousand years; l have all the re-
sources of the universe; and 7 am
your fast friend; when YOU get in
trouble or any other trouble,
All on me and | will help YOU: here
$ my hand in pledge of o~mnipotent
lehyerance.' How much should that
nan worry? Not much. What lion
vii dare to put his paw on that Dam
Ell? Is there not rest in this? Is
mere @ an eternal vacation in thisp
Oh You say, here is a man who
-sked God for a blessing in a certain
Enterprise, and he lost $1,000 in it.
Explain that" l will. Yonder is a
actory, and one wheel is going north.
nd the other wheel is going south,
ND one wheel plays iatcrally, and the
'ther plays vertically. | 90 to the
manufacturer, and | say: 80 manu- +
acturer' your machinery is a contra |
lehon. Why do you not make all the
vheeis go one way?' Well he saws. y
l make them to go in opposite direc- q
on purpose, and they produce I
ne right result. You go downstairs q
M examine the carpets we are turn.
out IN this establishment. and Won v
VII see l go down On the other
poor' and see the carpets. and I am I
'pi'ged to confess that, though the ,
'aeels IN that factory go in opposite +
lrectlons. they turn out a beautiful {
eSult. and while ! am standiny +hor. q
boxing at the exquisite fabric an old \
'crlpture passage comes into nv s.
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