St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-03-23
TORENEW OUR YOUTH

Dr.. Talnage Tells How We MAY
Grow Young In Spirit. "a
Way to CONQUER the Eject Of Al
vancing Years-The Christlaa's
Heaven . Place 81 EteP.
nal Y0ath.
CspytsAt. 1901. by Ecuis Klop.ch.l
w .washlagton. :.
In this discourse DIR. Talmage shows
| how anjones On conauSr the spiri
Fof years and grow younger in.spirit
text, Psalms ciii., S: $50 that tn!
youth is renewed like the eagles"
There flies out from my text tn
most majestic Of Ill the festheret
creation-an eagle. Other birds have
more beauty of plume and n mor'
sweetness of voice. but none of then
has such power Of beak, such clutcf
of claw, such expansion of wing, sucl
height of soaring, such Wilderness o
dominion Its appetite rejects the
carrion that invites the vultufe, ant
in most cases it's food is fresh ant
clean. Leveling his neck for fight
in spiral curve it swings itself toward
the MONDAY sun. 1t has been known
to live 100 years. What concentra
ton of all that is sublime is the gold
en- eagle, the martial eagle, the boot
ed eagle, the Jean le Blanc eagle!
But after awhile in its life comes the
molting process, and il looks ragged
and worn and unattractiye, and feels
like moping in its nest on the high
crags. But weeks go by. and the
old feathers are gone, and new or
astrological attire 10 put On. and its
beak. which was overgrown. has the
surplus of bone beaten on against
the rocks. and it gets back its old
capacity for food, and again il
mounts the heavens in unchallenged
and boundless kingdoms of air and
light. David, the author of the text
had watched these monarchs OF the
sky, and knew their habits, and one
day, exulting in his own physical and
spiritual rejuvenescence, he says tc
his own soul: "You are getting
younger all the time. You make me
think Of an eagle which I saw yes
terday, just after its melting season,
swinging through the valley Of Je.
hoshnphot, and then cireling o4ound
the head of Mount Olivet. Oh, my
soul, thy youth il renewed like the
eagles" D
The fact 10 that people get oldItoo
fast. They allow the years to run
away with them. The almanac and
the family record discourage them.
Some of you are older than you have
any business to be. You ought to
realize that as the body gets older
the soul ought to get younger. Com
ing on toward old age you are only
in the molting season, and after that
you will have better wings, take high
er fight and reign In clearer atmos-
phere. Our religion bids us to look
after the welfare Of the body as we'll
as of the soul, and the first part as
well as the latter part Of my subject
IL appropriate for the pulpit.
Many might turn the years back
ward and get younger by changing
their physical habits. The simpler
life one leads the longer he lives.
Thomas Parr, Of Shropshire, Eng
land, was plain man and worked
ON . farm for q livelihood. At 120
years Of age he was at his daily toll.
He had lived under nine kings of
When 15c years of age, he
was heard Of in London. The king
desired to see him and ordered him
to the palace. where he was SO rich
ly and royalty treated that it de-
stroyed his health, and he died at
l52 years and nine months Of age.
When DR.. Harvey, the discoverer of
the circulation Of the blood, made
examination of Thomas
Parr, he declared there were no signs
Of senile decay in the body. That
man must have renewed his youth.
like the eagle, again and again.
All occupations and professions
have afforded illustrations of re-
Hippocrates, the father
Of medicine, lived 100 years, and
among those eminent in the medical
profession who became septuagenar-
ans and octogenarians and nonagen-
srians were Darwin, Gall, Boerhaave,
Jenner and Ruysch, observing them
selves the laws of health that they
Taught their patients. In art and
WHO lived into the eighties were Plato
md Franklin and Carlyle and Goethe
md Button and HALEY. Sophocles
the nineties.
You cannot tell how old q man is
~ the number Of years he has lived.
have known people actually boyish
n their disposition at so years of
.ge. while Louis H., king Of Hungary,
lied of old age Mt 20. Haydn's ora
.orio, THE Creation" was composed
It 20 years Of age. Humboldt wrote
lis immortal work. The Cosmos"
It IS. William Cullen bryant, at 50
years Of age. in my house read with
,ut spectacles ''Thanatopsis," which
,e had composed when IS years of
lge. Isocrates did illustrious; work
It 81. Liontinus Gorgias was busy
when death came to him. 1t 107 years
Il age. Herschel ut 90 years of age
ras hard at work in stellar explora-
ION. Masinissa, king Of Numidla, at
% years Of age led q victorious
avalry charge against the Cartha-
.inians. Titan was engaged on his
.reatest painting when he died in his
me hundredth year. How often they
must have renewed their youth!
But the average longevity Of those
n private life and with less mental
train and no conspicuous success is
much larger than the average longe-
ity of the renowned. There are
.undreds Of thousands Of men and
now renewing their youth
Ike the eagles, so that the possibility
+ such a turning back Of years is all
round us being demonstrated.
Bismarck, the greatest Of German
q long while before his