Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22

the ncart when you think came from
God, when they came from your own
folly.
What right has any man or woman to
dcfacc the temple Of the Holy Ghost?
What is the ear? Why, it is the whis
pcring gallery of the human soul What
is the eye? 1t is the observatory God
constructed, its telescope sweeping the
heavens SO wonderful are these bodies
that God names his own attributes after
different parts Of them. His omniscicnce
it is Gods eye. His omniprcsence--it
is Gods ear. His omnipotence--it is
Gods arm. The upholstery of the mid
night hcavens--it is the work of Gods
fingers Ills life giving power--it is the
breath of the Almighty. His dominion
"the government shall be upon his shout
der" 4 body so divncly honored and so
divincly constructed-let us be careful not
to abuse it.
When it becomes a Christian duty to
take care of our health, is not the whole
tendency toward longevity? If ] toss
my watch about rccklcssly 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
il and wind it mp just at the same hour
every night and put it in place where ~
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
sec the hands of the watch. You see
the face of the watch, but the beating
Of the heart is the ticking OF the watch.
Oh. he careful and do not let it run
down!
Protest Against Dissipation.
Again, remark that practical religion
is a friend of longevity in the fact that it
is n protest against designations which
iniurc and destroy the health. Bad men
and women live very short life. Their
sins Kill them. know hundreds of good
old men, but do not know half II 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 chamber door was
delirum tremens.
Only this and nothing more.
Napoleon Bonaparte lived only just be-
yond midlife then died at st. Helena,
and one of his doctors said that his dis
ease was induced by excessive snutling
The hero of Austerltz, the man who by
one step of his foot in the center of Eu-
rope shook the earth, killed by snuff
box. Oh, how many people we have
known who have not lived out half their
DAYS because Of their designations and
indugences. Now. practical r. s.on is a
oil Il INIT Tim AT
kind
"But." YOU say, professors OF religion
have fallen. professors of religion have
rot drunk. professors of religion have
misappropriated trust funds, professors
of religion have absconded." Yes, but
they threw away their religion before
they did their morality. If n man on a
White Star line steamer hound for Liver
pool, 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 il man
Jumps over the gunwale of his religion
and goes down never to rise. is that any
reason for your believing that religion
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 IL 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 de-
fcnses and the equipoise of religion. lou
have no more natural resistance than
hundreds of people who lie in the Gene
terics 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 the Christian life. Yod
went to the right; he went to the left,
That is all the difference between you.
Oh, if this religion is n protest against al!
forms of dissipation, then it Is an illus
triors friend of longevity. with long
life will | satisfy him."
Takes Away Worry.
Again, religion is friend of longevity
in the fact that it takes the worry out OF
our temperatures. 1t is not work that
kills men, it is worry, When a man be
comes genuine Christian. he makes
over to God not only his affections but
his family. his business his reputation
his body his mind. his soll-everything
Industrious he will be, but never worry
ing, because God is managing his affairs
How can he worry about business wher
in answer to his prayers God tells hin
when to buy and when to sell, and If HI
gain that is best and if he lose that il
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