Connecticut western news., 1901-02-21
WELFARE OF THE BODY.
Simple Life Conduces to Lon
gevity, Says DR.. Talmage.
RELIGION THE GREAT REVIEWER
Faith In the Providence of God Con-
quers the Effects of Years-worry
Hastens the Advance of Age-Chris-
tian Rejuvenescence.

Faith In the Providence of God Con-
quers the Effects of Years-worry
Ha.tens the Advance of Age-Chris-
tian Rejuvenescence.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-In this dis
course DR.. Talmage shows how any one
can conquer the effect of years and
grow younger in spirit; text, Psalms
Gill, 5, so that thy youth is renewed
like the eagles"
There flies out from my text the
most majestic Of all the feathered crea-
tion-an eagle. Other biSds 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. Leveling it's
neck for flight, in spiral curve, 1t
swings itself toward the MONDAY sun.
1t has been known to live a 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 lie Blanc eagle! But after awhile
I'm its life comes the melting process,
and it looks ragged and worn and I'M
attractive and feels like moping in it's
nest on the high crags. But weeks go
by and the old feathers are gone and
new pathological attire is put on, and
its beak, which was overgrown, has the
surplus of bone beaten off against the
rocks, and 1t gets back it's old capacity
for food. and again 1t 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 and 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 its 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
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. Coming on to-
ward old age you are only in the molt-
ing 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 well
fare of the body as well as 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 a plain
man and worked on a farm for live
lihood. At 100 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 it de-
stroyed his health, and he died at 152
years and 0 months Of age. When DIR.
Harvey, the discoverer of the circula-
ton Of the blood, made post norton
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 rejuvenes-
cence. Hippocrates, the father of med
icine. lived 100 years, and among those
eminent In the medical profession who
became septuageparians 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 nineties. 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 80 years of age, while
Louis III, king of Hungary, died of old
age at 20. Haydn's oratoria, THE Gre
ation," was composed at 20 years of
age. Humboldt wrote his immortal
work, 1.-The Cosmos" at 70. William
Cullen Bryant. at 50 years of age, in
my house. read without spectacles
'"Thanatopsis," which he had composed
when Is years of age. Isocrates did H.
lustrious work at "a. Liontinus Cor
gias was busy when death came to
him at lot years of age. Herschel at
80 years of age was hard at work in
stellar exploration. Masinissa, king of
Numidia, at 80 years of age led yicto-
rious cavalry charge against the Car
thagenians. Titan was engaged on
his greatest painting when he died in
his one hundredth year. How often
they must have renewed their youth!
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-
ty of the renowned. There are hun
dreis of thousands of men and women
now renewing their youth like the ca
gle's, so that the possibility of such q
turning back of the years Is all around
us 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,
I ran with him up and down the hills
of Hawarden. We started for a walk
but it got to be a run. All those men
again and again renewed their youth.
Some one writes me, us not three
score and ten the bound of human
life, according to the BibleF' My re-
ply is that Moses mot DAVID, who
wrote that psalm. was giving q Stats
tic Of his own day. Through better
understanding Of the laws Of health
and advancement of medical coioDoa