Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-02-22
Welfare OF THE BODY.
Simple Life Conduces to Lon
gevity, Says DR.. Talmage.
RELIGION THE GREAT REVIEWER.
Faith In the Providence of God Con-
ouers the Effects of Yenrs-yyorry
Hastens the Advance of Age-Chris-
ttan Rejuvencscence.

Hastens the Advance of AEe-Chris-
tian Rejuvencscencc.
WASHINGTON, Feb. lin this dis
fourse DIR. Talmage shows how any one
can conquer the effect of years aud
grow younger in spirit; text. Psalms
Gill, 8, $50 that thy youth is renewed.
like the eagles"
There flies out from my text the
Eaost majestic of all the feathered crea-
hon-an eagle. Other birds have more
beauty OF plume and more sweetness
OF voice, but none of them has such
power Of beak, such clutch of claw,
such expansion of wing. such height of
soaring, such Wilderness of dominion.
Its appetite rejects the carrion that in
vites the vulture, and in most cases its
food is fresh and clean. I.eveling its
neck for flight. in spiral curve, il
swings itself toward the MONDAY sun.
1t has been known to live n hundred
years. What concentration of all that
is sublime in the golden eagle, the
crested eagle. the imperial eagle, the
martial eagle, the booted eagle. the
Jean le Blanc eaglei But after awhile
In its life comes the molting process,
and IL looks ragged and worn and I'M
attractive and feels like moping in its
nest on the high crags. But weeks go
10y and the old feathers are gone and
new ornithological 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 il mounts the
heavens in unchallenged and bound
less kingdoms of air and light. David,
the author of the text. had watched
these monarchs of the sky aud knew
their habits, and one day. exulting in
his own physical and spiritual rejuve-
nescence, he says to his own soul: "You
are getting younger all the time. You
make me think of an eagle which
saw yesterday, just after it's melting
season, swinging through the valley of
Jehoshaphat and then circling around
the head OF Mount Olivet o my soul
thy youth is renewed like the eagles ."
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
or you are older than you have any
business to be. You ought TO realize
that rs the body gets older the soul
ought to get younger. Coming on to-
ward old age you are only i'm the molt-
Ing season, and after that you will
have better wings, take higher fight
and reign In clearer atmosphere. Our
religion bids us to look after the wei
fare OF the body as we'll rs of the soul
and the first part as well as the latter
part OF my subject is appropriate for
the pulpit
Turn the Years Backward
Many might turn the years backward
and get younger by changing their
physical habits. The simpler life one
leads the longer he lives. Thomas Parr
OF Shropshire, England. was n plain
man and worked on farm for n live.
nhood- At 40 years OF age he was at
his daily toll. He had lived under
nine kings of England. When 152 years
OF age, he was heard OF In London.
The king desired to see him and or
dered him to the palace. where he was
so richly and royalty treated that IL de-
stroyed his health, and he died Mt 152
years and o months OF age. When DIR.
Harvey, the discoverer OF the circula-
ton OF the blood made post mortem
examination OF Thomas Parr. he de-
clared there were no signs OF senile de-
cay In the body. That man must have
renewed his youth. like the eagle. again
and again.
All occupations and professions have
Afforded illustrations OF reiuvenes-
cence- Hippocra,es. the father OF med
icine, lived 100 years. and among those
eminent in the medical profession who
became septuagenarians and octogena-
rians and nonagenarians were Darwin.
Gall, Boerhaave, Jenner and Ruysch.
observing themselves the laws OF
health that they taught their patients.
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.
Sophocles reached the ninet.es. You
cannot tell how old man Is from the
number OF years he has lived l have
known people actually boyish In their
dispositions at so years OF age. while
Louis III, king or Hungary. died. of old
age at 20. Haydn's oratoria. THE Gre
ation," was composed at 40 years OF
age. Humboldt wrote his immortal
cullen Bryant. at 81 years OF age. in
my house, read without spectacles
Thanatopsis." which he had composed
when Is years of age. Isocrates did II.
lustrious work at OF. Liont;nus Cor
gias was busy when death came TO
him at 1O7 years OF age. Herschel at
80 years OF age was hard at work I'm
stellar exploration. Masiulssa, king of
Numidia. Mt so years Of age led a victo-
rious cavalry charge against the Car
thagenians. Titan was engaged on
his greatest painting when he died In
MS one hundredtb year. How often
they must have renewed their=youthI
Renewal OF Youth.
But the average longevity of those
IN private life. and with less mental
strain and no conspicuous success. is
much larger than the average iongevi- |
~ or the renowned. There are hun.
dreds OF thousands OF men and women
now renewing their youth like the ea-
gle's, so that the possibility of such o
turning back OF the years is oil around
rs being demonstrated.
bismarck. the greatest OF German
statesmen, long while before his de.
cease passed his eightieth milestone.
when Gladstone was SO years of age.
ran with him up ana down the hills |
or Hawarden. We started for a walk.
but 1T got TO be run. All those men
again and again renewed their youth.
Some one writes me, us not three |
score and ten the bound of human |
hfe, according to the BibleY' My re- |
ply Is that Moses mot David. who |
wrote that psalm. was giving a statis-.
tic or his own day. Through better |
understanding of the laws of health /
ana advancement of medical science |
the statistics OF longevity have might |
ly changed since the time of Moses. |
and the day is coming when non
agenarian will no longer be q wonder