Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-02-22
WELFARE OF THE BODY.
DR.. TaImage Says Simple Life Con-
duces to Longevity.
RELIGION Is the Great Renewer-Worry Hastens
the Advance of Age. People Allow the
Years to Run Away With Them.
fCopyright 1901. !

-lCopyright 1901.
WASHINGTON, D. Gin this discourse
DR.. Talmage shows how any enc can con-
ouer the effect of years and grow younger
in spirit; text, Psalms CHI, s, $50 that thy
youth is renewed like the eagles"
There flies out from my text the most
majestic of all the feathered creation-an
eagle. Other birds have more beauty Of
plume and more sweetness of voice, but
more of them has such power of beak.
such clutch of claw, such expansion OF
wing, such height of soaring, such wide.
ness of dominion. It's appetite rejects the
carton that invites the vulture, and in
most cases it's food is fresh and clean.
Leveling it's neck for flight, in spiral
curve, it swings itself toward the MONDAY
sun. 1t has been known to live hun:
dred wears. What concentration of all
that is sublime in the golden eagle, the
breasted eagle, the imperial eagle, the
martial eagle. the booted eagle. the Jean
lie Blanc eagle! But after awhile in its
life comes the melting process. and it
looks ragged and worn and unattractive,
and feels like moping IN its nest on the
high crags. But weeks go by and the old
feathers are gone and new Ornitho'ogical
attire is put on. and its beak. which was
overgrown. has the surplus of bone beaten
off against the rocks, and it gets back its
old capacity for food. and again it mounts
the heavens in unchalleneed and hound.
less kingdoms of air and light. David.
the author of the text, had watched these
monarchs of the sky. and knew their hab.
its, and one day, exulting in his own ply.
steal and spiritual rejuvenescence, he says
to his own soul: "You are getting younger
all the time. You make me think of an
ooor 10
Noting season, swinging through the val
ley of Jehoshauhat and then circling
around the head of Mount Olvet. o my
soul. thy youth is renewed Ike the
eagle'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 oder
than YOU nave any business to be. You
ought to realize that as the body gets old
er the soul ought to get younger: Coming
on toward Old age you are only in the
Noting season, and after that YOU will
have better wings, take higher flight and
reign in clearer atmosphere. Our religion
bids us to look after the welfare of the
body as well as of the soul, and the first
part as well as the latter part of my sub
ject is appropriate for the pulpit.
Many might turn the years backward
and get younger by changing their physi-
longer he lives. Thomas Par, OF Shroo-
shire, England, was a pain nan and
worked on farm for a livelihood. At 100
years of age he was at his daily tot. He
lived under nine kings of England. Wien
l52 years of age he was heard of il Lon
DON The king desired to see him, and or
dered him to the palace. where Re was so
richly 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 post NOR
tenn examination of Thomas Parr. be de-
clared there were no signs of seni'c 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 rejuvenescence.
the father of medicine, lived
100 years, and among those eminent in the
narians and octogenarians and nonagena-
rians were Darwin, Gall, Boerhaavc, 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-
cles reached the nineties.
You cannot tell how old man is from
the number of years he has lived. ] have
known people actually boyish in their dis
positions at eighty years Of age, while
Louis H., King of Hungary, died of Old
age at twenty.
composed at seventy years of age. Hum
boldt wrote, his immortal work, "Tbe Cos
mos" at seventy-ive. William Cullen
Bryant, at Pighty-two years of age, in my
house, read'without spectacles '"Thanatop-
Sis" which he had composed when eigh-
teen years of age. Isocrates did illustrious
work at pipety-four.
Liontinus Gorgias was busy when death
came to him at l07 years of age. Herschel
at eighty years of age was hard at work
in stellar exploration. Masinissa, king of
Numidia, at ninety years of age, led vic
Lorious cavalry charge against the Cartha-
yenians
Titan was engaged on mis- greatest
painting when he died in his one hun
1redth year. How often they must have
renewed their youth!
But the average longevity OF those IN
private life, and with less mental strain
ind no conspicuous success, is much larger
han the average longevity of the re-
lowned. There are hundreds of thou
sands Of men and women now renewing
heir youth like the eagles, so that the
possibility of such turning back of the
years is all around us being demonstrated.
Bismarck, the greatest of German states
men. a long while before his decease,
passed his eightieth milestone. When
Gladstone was eighty-three years of age, l
AN with him up and down the hills of Ha-
warden. We started for walk, but it
rot to be a run. All those men again and
lgain renewed their youth.
Some one writes me, is not threescore
md ten the bound of human life, accord
ng to the Bible" My rePiy is that Moses s
living statistic of his own day.
Through better understanding of the
avs of health and advancement of medi-
al science lne statistics of longevity have
nightly changed since the time of Moses,
md the day is coming when nonagena-
ian will no longer be wonder. Phlebot-
INV shortened the life of whole genera
ions, and the lancet that bled for every
hing is now rarely taken from the doc
or's pocket.
Dentistry has given power of healthy
nastication to the human race, and thus
dded greatly to the prolongation OF life.
electric. lights have improved human
light which used to be strained by the
lin tallow candle. The dire diseases
which under other names did their fatal
work, and were considered almost incura-
lie now in majority of cases are con-
Iuered.
Vaccination, which has saved millions
# lives and baked the greatest scourge
# nations, and surgery. which has, adj