Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-03-30

your stomach with wine logwooded
and strychnined, walking with thin
shoes to make your feet look delicate,
pinehed at. the waist until you are
nisn cut in two, and neither part
worth anything, grooming about sick
headache 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? Why, it is
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 longevityP If
! toss my watch about recklessly and
drop it on the pavement and wind 1t
up any time of day or night | 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 1t
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 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 equipoise of re-
ligion. You have no more natural re-
sistance 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 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 all forms of dissipa-
ton, then it is an illustrious friend of
longevity. with long life will l sat
isfy him.
Suppose you had supernatural
neighbor who came in and said: Sir,
/ want you to call on me in every ext
gency. l am your fast friend; | could
fall back on $2O,000,00O; | can fore
see panic ten years; | ho,d the con-
trolling stock in 30 of the best none
tary institutions of this country;
whenever you are in any trouble call
on me and | will help you; you can
have my money and you can have my
influence; here is my hand in pledge
of it," How much would you worry
about business? Why, you would say:
"I'll do the best | 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: 81 own New York and
London and ST. Petersburg and
Picking and Australia and California
are mine; can foresee panic a
thousand years; | have all the re-
sources Of the universe; and ! am
your fast friend; when you get in
business trouble or any other trouble,
call on me and | will help you; here
is my hand in pledge of omnipotent
deliverance.' How much should that
man worry? Not much. What lion
will dare to put his paw on that Dan
iel? 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 certain
enterprise, and he lost $4,000 in it.
Explain 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 vertically. l go to the
manufactures, and | say: 80 manu-
facturer your machinery is a contra
diction. Why do you not make all the
wheels go one way?" well" he says,
81 make them to go in opposite direc-
tons on purpose, and they produce
the right result, You go downstairs
and examine the carpets we are turn.
ing out in this establishment, and you
will see" | go down on the other
Hoo, am | see the carpets, and ! am
obliged to confess that, though the
wheels in that factory go in opposite
directions, they turn out a beautiful
result, and while am standing there
looking at the exquisite fabric an old
Scripture passage comes into my
mind: 'All things work together for
good to them who love God" Is there
not rest in chat? Is there not tonic
in that? Is there not longevity in
that?
Suppose a man is all the time worried
about his reputation One man says he
lies. another says he is stupid, another
says he is dishonest, and half a dozen
printing establishments attack him,
and he is in great state Of excitement
and worry and fume and cannot sleep.
But religion comes to him and says:
Man, God is on your side. He will take
care of your reputation. If God be
with you, who can be against your"
How much should that man worry