Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-02-28
()r.TALMAGE SERMON
THE GREAT DIVINE'S ELOQUENT
rlESSAGE.
Subject: Welfare OF tie Pody-simple
Life Conduces to Longevity - Religion
the Great Renewer Worry Hastens
the Advance of Age.
tCopyright 1901.

the Advance of Age
tCopyright 1901
Wa sHTxGToS, d. C.-In this discourse
DR. Talmage shows how anv one can con-
quer the effect of wears and grow YOUNGER
in sririt: text, Psalms CHI. 5. $50 that thy
youth is renewed like the eagles"
There flies out from my text the most
majestic OF all the feathered creaton-an
eagle Other birds have more beauty OF
plume and NOR" sweetness OF voice. but
none OF them has such noWer of hfak
such clutch Or claw. such expansion Of
winc such height Of soarinog,. such wide
ness Of domin'on. Its appetite rejects the
carrion that invites the vu'ture. and in
most cases It's food * fresh and clean
Lcveling it's neck for fight IN spiral
curve. II swings itself toward the MONDAY
sun II has been known to i've hun
dred wears. What concentration of all
that is sublime in the golden ea1le, the
breasted eagle, the imoerial ca"'e. the
marital eagle. the booted eagle. the Jean
IT, Bla1c eaclei But after awhile in it's
lie comes the melting process. and it
looks ragged aud worn ard unattractive.
and feels like moplnC IN It's nest on the
high cracs. But weeks go by and the old
feathers are gone and new archaeological
attire * nut on and It's beaE which was
ov"rorOwIi. has the surplus Of bone beaten
off aoanst the rocks, and IT rctS back it's
old capacity for food and again II mounts
less kingdoms Of air and light David
the author of the text. had watched these
mOnarcis of The sky and knew their bah
its, and one dav. eXu|ting in his own phv
steal and spiritual reiuvenescerce. he saws
TO his own soul: "You are getting Younger
al the time. Hou make me think of an
eagle which ] Yesterday. Just after IFS
Noting season. swinging through the val
lev Of .Iehoshanhat and then circIing
around The head Of Mount O'ivet, q NV
soul. 'thv youth IS renewed like the
earlc's'"
The fact is that people get old too fast
They allow the years to run away with
them The almanac and the family record
discourage them Some Of you are otter
than YOU have any business to be. You
ought to realize chat as the BODY gets old
er the soul ouoht to get Younger. Coming
on toward old age you are only in tho
Noting season, and after that Won VIII
have better wings, take higher FIGHT and
rei"n in clearer atmosphere. Our RELIGION
bids us to look after the welfare Of The
BODY as well as Of tn" soul, and the first
part as well as the latter part Of my sub
jet * appropriate for the pulpit:
Many might turn the wears backward
and cet YOUNGER by CHANGING their phvsi-
cal habits. The simpler life one lives the
longer he lives. Thomas Parr. Of Shro"-
shire, England was a pain man and
worked on a farm for livelihood. vt 100
years OF age ne was at ms QHlIF tOt' tie
lived under nine kings of England. When
152 years Of age he was heard Of in Lon
don. The king desired to see HIM, and or
derrd him to the palace where he was so
richly and royalty treated that it de
strovcd 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 post NOR
tenn examination of Thomas Parr. he de-
clared there were no signs Of Seni'e decay
in the body The man must have re-
newed his youth like the eagle. again and
again.
All occupations and professions have
afforded illustrations of reiuvenescence.
Hippocrates. the father of medicine, lived
100 years, and among those eminent in the
medical profession who became septuage
narlans and octoGenarians and nOnagena-
rians were Darwin, Gall, Boerhaave, .Jen-
ner and Ruysch observing themselves the
laws of health that they taught their pa
tientS.
In art and literature and science among
those who lived into the eighties were
Plato and Franklin and Carlyle and
Goethe and Button and Haley. Sopho-
Giles reached The ninetes.
You cannot tell how Old & man is from
the number of years he has lived. I have
known people actually boyish in Their dis
positions at eighty wears of age, while
Louis H., King of Hungary, died of old
age at twenty.
Hsydn's oratoria. "The Creation" was
COMPOSED at seventy years of age. Hum
boldt wrote his immortal work, The Cos
mos at seventy five. William Cullen
Bryant, at eighty two years of age, in my
house, read without spectacies 'ThanatoD-
sis" which he had composed when eigh-
teen years of age Isocrates did illustrious
work at ninety four.
Liontinus Gor2ias was busy when death
came to him at lO7 years of age. Herschel
at eighty years of age was hard at work
in stellar exploration. Masinissa, king of
Numldia, at ninety years of age. led vic
tOrious cavalry charge against the Carthd-
Eenans.
Titan was engaged on MS greatest
painting when he died in his one hun
dredth year. How often they must have
renewed their youth.
But the average longevity of those in
private life, and with less mental strain
than the average longevity of the re-
nowned There are hundreds Of thou
sands OF men and women now renewing
their youth like the eagles, so that the
possibility of such turning back of the
years Is all around us being demonstrated.
Some one writes me, lis not threescore
and ten the bound of human life. accord
ing to the Bible" MY repy is that Moses
(not David). who wrote that psalm, was
giving statistic of his own day.
Through better understanding of the
laws of health and advancement Of medi-
cal science me statistics of longevity have
nightly changed since the time of Moses.
and the day is coming when nonagena-
RAN will no longer be wonder Phlebot-
omy shortened the lie of whole genera
tons, and the lancet that bled for every
thing is now rarely taken from the doe
tors pocket.
Dentistry has given power of healthy
mastication to the human race and thus
added greatly to the pro,ongation of life
Electric lights have improved human
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