Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-02
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
TELLS HOW TO GROW YOUNG
IN SPIRIT.
Renewing Youth Like the Eagle-Ths
Way Conquer the Eject of Ad-
vancing Years-SimPIe Habits Lead to
Longevity.


grow younger in spirit; text, Psalms
CHI, 3, so 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, such Wilderness of dominion
Its appetite rejects the carrion that IN
vites the vulture and in most cases lts
food is fresh and clean. Level1ng us
neck for flight, in spiral curve IL
swings itself toward the monday sum-
1t has been known to live 100 years.
What concentration of all that is su-
blime in the golden eagle, the crested
eagle, the imperial eagle, the martlal
eagle the booted eagle, TIE Jean de
Blanc eaglei But after a while In It's
life comes the molting process, and IL
looks ragged and worn and unattract-
i've and feels like moping in its nest on
the high crags. But weeks go by, ana
the old feathers are gone and new Or
astrological attire is put on, and It's
beak, which was overgrown, mas the
surplus of bone beaten off against the
rocks, and it gets back its old capacity
for food, and again it mounts the heaV-
ems in unchallenged and boundless
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 MS
own physical and spiritual rejuvenes-
cence, he says to his own soul: You
are getting younger all the time ou
make me think of an eagle which l
saw yesterday, just after its noting
season, swinging through the valley OF
Jehosaphat, and then circling around
the head of Mount Olivet. Oh, my
soul thy youth is renewed like the
eagles"
Simple Habits and Longevity.
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
plain man and worked on a farm Tor
a livelihood. At 120 years of age ne
was at his daily toll. He had lived
under nine kings of 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 richly and royalty treated
that it destroyed his health, and ne
died at 152 years and 9 months of age.
When DR.. Harvey, the discoverer or
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 rejuvenes-
cence. Hippocrates, 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 eigh-
ties were Plato and Franklin and Car
lyle and Goethe and Button and Hal
ley. Sophocles reached the nineties.
biblical Span of Life.
Some one writes me, rs not three
score and ten the bound of human life,
according to the Bible?' My reply is
LQdL MOSES, uOI OdNIu, WuO WlOlS SheAS
psalm, was giving statistic of his
own day. Through better understand
ing of the laws of health and advance
ment of medical science the statistics
of longevity have nightly changed
since the time of Moses, and the day is
coming when a nonagenarian will no
longer be wonder. PhlebotOmy
shortened the life of whole genera
tions, and the lancet that bled for ev-
erything is now rarely taken from the
doctors pocket. Dentistry has given
power of healthy mastication to the
human race and thus added greatly to
the prolongation of life. Electric lights
have improved human sight, which
used to be strained by the dim tallow
candle The dire diseases which under
other names did their fatal work and
were considered almost incurable, now
in majority of cases are conquered.
Vaccination. which has saveu millions
of lives and baked the greatest scourge
of nations, and surgery, which has ad-
vanced more than any other science
have done more than can be told for
the prolongation of human life. The
X-ray has turned the human body,
which was Opaque, into a lighted cas-
tie 1t is easier in this age to renew
ones youth than in any other age
When Paul stopped the jailer from