Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-02-19

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in two and neither part worth any
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, it's tele-
EcOpe sweeping the heavens. So Won
,derful are these bodies that God names
his own attributes after different parts
of them. His omniscience- is Gods
eye. His omnipresence-it is Cod S
ear. His omnipOtence-it is Gods arm.
The upholstery of the midnight heav-
ens-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 Shout
DER A body so divinely honored and
so dfyfpely constructed, let us be care
full not 10 abuse it.
Christian Duty.
when it becomes Christian duty to
take care Of our health, is not the
Whole tc1tuGi1Eg tOWdId lOuScNlly Ii i
toss my watch about recklessly and
drop it on the pavement and wind it
up any time Of day or night l happen
to think of 1t, and often let it run
down, while you are careful with your
watch and never abuse 1t 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 at
mosphere, which watch will last the
longer? Common sense answers. Now,
the human 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.
Oh, be careful and do not let it run
down.
Again, l remark that practical reli-
gion is Il friend of longevity in the fact
that it is protest against designations
which injure and destroy the health.
Bad men and women live a very short
life. Their sins kill them. 1 know
hundreds of good old men, but do not
know half dozen bad old men. Why?
They do not get old. Lord Byron died
at Missolonghi at SO years of age, him
self his own Mazeppa, his unbridled
passions the horse that dashed with
him into the desert. Edgar A. Poe
died at Baltimore at SO years Of age.
The black raven that alighted on the
bust above his chamber door was de-
lirium tremens.
Only this and nothing
Napoleon Bonaparte lived only just
beyond midlife, then died at st. Hell
ena, 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 snuffbox! Oh, how many peo-
pie we have known who have not lived
out half their days because of their
designations and indulgences. Now
practical religion is a protest against
NIL dissipation of any kind.
But" you say, professors of reli-
gion have fallen, professors of religion
have got drunk, professors of religion
have misappropriated trust funds, pro-
fessors of religion have absconded."
Yes. but they threw away their reli-
gion before they did their morality. II
man on 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 a 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
c,fO hi, bn6
saved; in the other case if he had kept
to his religion his morals would have
been saved.
A Healthy Balance.
There are aged people who would
have been dead % years ago but for
the defenses and the equipoise of reli-
gion 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 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 protest against
all forms of dissipation then it is an il
lustrious friend of longevity! with
long life will satisfy him."
Again. religion is a friend of longev-
ifx in I,n foa hof TO TIC 10
out of our temperatures. 1t is not work
that kills men; it is worry. When a
man becomes a genuine Christian, he