The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-02-23
TORENEW OUR YOUTH
DR.. Talmage Tells How We May
Grow Young in Spirit.
May to Conquer the Eject of Adj
yancing Yesrs-The Christians
Heaven y Place OF Eter-
nal Youth.
copyright. 1901. by Louis Klopsch.]
Washington. Feb. II.


In this discourse DIR. Talmage shows
how anyone can conquer the spirit
of years and grow younger in spirit;
text, Psalms Gill, 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 none of them
has such power of beak, such clutch
of claw, such expansion of wing, such
height of soaring, snch Wilderness OF
dominion. It's appetite rejects the
carrion that invites the vulture, and
IN most cases its food Is fresh and
clean. Leveling his neck for fight,
in spiral curve il 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 lie Blanc eagle!
But after awhile in it's life comes the
molting process, and il looks ragged
and worn and unattractive, and feels
like moping in it's nest on the high
crags. But weeks go by, and the
old feathers are gone, and new or
astrological attire is put on, and it's
beak, which was overgrown, has the
surplus of bone beaten off against
the rocks, and it gets back it's old
capacity for food, and again 1T
mounts the heavens in unchallenged
and boundless kingdoms of air and
- fax
had watched these monarchs of the
sky, and knew their habits, and one
day, exulting in his own physical and
spiritual rejuvenescence, he says to
his own soul: "You are getting
younger all the time. You make me
think of an eagle which l saw yes
terday, just after its molting season,
swinging through the valley of Je-
hoshaphat, and then circling around
the head of Mount Olivet. Oh. 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. Com
ing on toward old age you are only
I'm the molting season, and after that
you will have better wings, take high
err fight and reign in clearer atmos-
pherc. 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 subject
is 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 a farm for livelihood. At 100
years of age he was Mt his daily toll
He had lived under nine kings %
England. When 1872 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
1872 years and nine months of age.
When DIR. Harvey, the discoverer OF
the circulation of the blood, made
post-mortem 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-
juvenescence. Hippocrates, the father
of medicine, lived 100 years, and
among those eminent in the medical
profession who became septuagenar.
ians and octogenarians and nonagen.
arians were Darwin, Gall, Boerhaave
Jenner and Ruysch, observing them.
selves 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
by the number of years he has lived
have known people actually boyish
in their disposition at so years OF
age, while Louis H., king Of Hungary
died of old age ut 20. Haydn's ora
torio, 1.-THE Creation" was composed
at 20 years of age. Humboldt wrote
his immortal work, The Cosmos, ~
at rs. William Cullen bryant, at 80
years of age, in my house read with
out spoctacles ''Thanatopsis," which
he had composed when 1s years of
age. NIsocrates did illustrious work
at o.. NLiontinus Gorgins was busy
when death came to him at 107 years
of age. Herschel Mt 80 years of age
was hard at work In stellar explora-
ton. Masinissa, king of Numidia, at
90 years Of age led a victorious
cavalry charge against the Cartha-
ginians. Titan was engaged on his
greatest painting when he died in his
one hundredth year. How often they
must have renewed their youth!
But the average longevity of those
In private life and with less mental
straio and no conspicuous success is
much larger than the average longe-
vitV of tho renowned. There are