Connecticut western news., 1900-02-22


 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 1t in 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 1t run down.
 Again, l remark that practical reli- zion Is friend of longevity in the fact that 1t Is protest against dissipations which injure and destroy the health. Bad men and women live a very short life. Their sins kill them. l know hundreds of good old men, but l do not know half dozen bad old men. Why? They do not get old. Lord Byron died at Missolonghi at 36 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 3S years of age. The black raven that alighted on the bust above his chamber door was de- lirium tremcns,
 Only this and nothing more.
 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 snutting. 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 dissipations and indulgences. Now practical religion is q protest against all dissipation of any kind.
 But" you say. professors of reli- zion 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- zion before they did their morality. If man on a 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 steamer his body would have been 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 25 years ago but for the defenses and the equipoise of reli- zion. 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 Ndlhcu dIOtlS bl lhdt 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 dissipation then it is an H. lustrious friend of longevity! With long life will satisfy him."
 A rai,, ralin;oxa fr.ianI nf lnnuar ity in the fact that it takes the worry out of our temporalities. It is not work that kills men; it is worry. When q man becomes a genuine Christian. he makes over to God not only his alice tions, but his family, his business. his reputation. his body, his mind. his soul everything. Industrious he will be. but never worrying, because God Is managing his affairs. How can he worry about business when in answer to his prayers God tells him when to buy and when to sell, and. if he gain. that is best and, If he lose, that is best?
 Suppose you had supernatural neighbor who came in and said: "Sir. I want you to call on me in every ex- igency. I am your fast friend. could fall back on S20,O00,0OO. I can foresee ling stock In 30 of the best monetary institutions of this country. Whenever you are in any trouble call on me, and I will help you. You can have my money, and you can have my influence. Here is my band in pledge of it." How much would you worry about busi- ness? Why, you would say. "I'll do the best I 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: Il own Sew York and London and St. Petersburg and Peking. and Australia and California are mine. I can foresee a panic 1000 years. I have all the resources of the universe, and 1 am your fast friend. When you get In business trouble or any other trouble, call on me, and I will help. Here is my hand in pledge of omnipo- tent deliverance." How much should that man worry? Not much. What lion will dare to put his paw on that Daniel! Is there not rest in this? Is there not m eternal vacation in this?
 God Is Present.
 "Oh," you say, 'here is man who asked God for blessing in a certain enterprise. and he lost 5000 in it. Ex- plain that" I will. Wonder is fac tory, and one wheel is going north and the other wheel is going south, and one wheel plays laterally and the other plays vertically. I go to the manufac- turer, and l say: "Oh, manufacturers your machinery Is a contradiction Why do you not make all the wheels go one way?' "Well," he says, q made them to go in opposite directions on purpose, and they produce the right result. You go down stairs and ex- anime the carpets we are turning out in this establishment and you will see.' I go down on the other floor, and I see the carpets, and 1 am obliged to con.