The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-03-16

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Smoking your nervous system into
fdgets. burning out the coating of
YOUR stomach with wine logwOoded
and strychnined, walking with thin
shoes to make your feet look delicate
piuchcd at the waist until you are
nigh cut in two, and neither part
worth anything groaning 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 hoiy
Ghost? What is the ear? Why, 1t Is
the whispering gallery of the human
soul. What is the eye? 1t is the oD-
servatory God constructed, its tele-
scoue sweeping the heavens. SO won
derful are these bodies that God
names his own attributes after dit
fercnt parts of them. His omniscience
1t is God's eve. His omnipresence-
il 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" \ body so divine
lv bonored and so divinely constructed
let MS be careful not to abuse it.
When il becomes a Christian duty
to take care of your health, is not the
whole tendency toward longevity II
toss nv watch about recklessly and
drop it on the pavement and wind II
up any time of day or night nap
pen to think of il and often let 1t run
I down while you are careful with your
watch and never abuse it and wind II
ND lust at the same hour every nght
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 il run down.
There are aged people who would
have been dead 25 years ago but tor
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-
tion of the brain or something else
but the snakes and the blue flies that
seemed TO crawl over the pillow in the
sioht 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
70 the golden pillar Of the Christian
life. You went TO the right; he went
70 the left That is all the difference
between YOU. Oh. if this religion IS
a protest against All forms Of dissipa-
tion. then IL is an ilustrious friend OF
Longevity. with long life will sat
isfy him.
Suppose YOU had a supernatural
ncirhbor who came in and said; "Sir
I want YOU 10 call on me in every eXi-
pency. / am your fast friend; could
fan back on S2O.OOO,OOO; l can fore
see a panic ten years; | hold the con-
trolling stock in 80 Of the best none
tarv 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'H do the best l can, and then III
depend on my friends generosity fol
the rest
Now more than that is promised tC
every Christian business man. Goo
saws 10 him: 81 own New York anC
London and St. Petersburg anC
% Peling and Australia and California
are mine: / can foresee a panic
thousand years; | have all the re
, sources of the universe; and l an
your fast friend; when you get il
, business trouble or any other trouble
e call on me and | will help you; herr
S is nv hand in pledge of Omnipoten
S deliverance." How much should tina
S man worry? Not much. What lloi
will dare to put his paw on that Dan
: iel? Is there not rest in this?
there not an eternal vacation in this
b "Oh." you say, here is man VIII
T. asked God for a blessing in a certain
e enterprise. and he lost $1,000 in II
f Exnlain that" | will. Yonder is
y factory. and one wheel is going north
2 and the other wheel is going south
G and one wheel plays laterally, and tn
+ other plays vertically. | 60 to tn
G manufacturer, and ] say: 80 manu-
- facturer. your machinery is contra
diction. Why do you not make all tn
: wheels 90 one way?" well" he says
y 81 make them to go in opposite direC
d tions on purpose, and they produc
r the right result. You go downstair
II and examine the carpets we are turr
n ing out in this establishment, and yo
-- will see" l 20 down on the othe
j floor. and | see the carpets, and l al
d Obliged TO confess that. though tn
d whees.in that factory go in opposii
T. directions. they turn out a beautifl
IT result. and while ! am standing theI
v looking at the exquisite fabric an ol
? Scripture passage comes into m
II mind: "All things work together fc
j. GOOD 10 them who love God" Is thei
e not rest in that? Is there not ton