Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1901-03-07
Or.TALMAGE SERMON
THE GREAT DIVlNE'S ELOQUENTi
HESSA0R.


subject: Welfare of the Body-Simple
Life Conduces to Longevity = Religion
the Great Repewer - Worry Hastens
the, Advance of Age.
Copyright 1901
WASHINGTON, D. C.-In this discourse
Dr. Talmage shows how any one can con
quer the effect Of wears aud grow Younger
IN spirit; text, Psalms cimii, s. $50 that thy
youth mt 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. Int
none OF them has such power of beak
such clutch of claw. such expansion Of
wing, such height of soaring, such wide
ness eft dominion: Its appetite rejectsthe
carrlon that invites the vulture. and IN
most, cases it's food is fresh and clean n
Levellng it's neck for fight. 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 eaple, the
creasted eagle. the imperial eagle. the
mars,al m eagle the booted eagle. the Jean
I. le Blanc eagle! But after awhile in it's
life comes the -molting process. and #
looSs . ragged "a and worn and unattractive,
ano feels like moDing IN it's nest on the
hugh crags. But weeks 60 bv and the old
1ea.ners are gone and new ornithological
attire is put on. and it's beak. which was
onergrown, has the surplus of bone beaten
old capacity for food and again it. monnts
the heavens in rnchalleneed and bound
less Kingdoms of air and light David
the author OF the text, had watched these
1nonarchs of the sky and knew their hab,
IFS, and one day. exulting in his own ply
slcal and spiritual rejuvenescerce, he saws
to his own soul: ssYou are getting Younger
all the time You make me think Of an
eagle which l saw YESTERDAY, Just after it's
moltlng season. swinging through the val
ley OF .tehoshaphat and then circlino
around the head Of Mount O'ivet. o nv
soul. thy youth is renewed like the
eaele'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 older
thar you have 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
m,oltlng season. and after that YOU will
have better wings, take higher flight and
reign IN clearer atmosphere Our religion
blds 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 nv sub
]ect is appropriate for the pulpit
MANY might turn the wears backward
and get younger by changing their phvsi-
cal habits. The simpler life one lives the
longer Re hives. Thomas Parr, of Shrop-
SHIRE, England. was plain man and
wears OF age he was at his daily toll. He
lived under nine kings of England. When
!52 years of age he was heard of in Lon
don. 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 l52
years and nlne months of age.
When DR.. Harvey the discoverer of the
circulation of the blood made post NOR
tenn examination of Thomas Parr. he de-
clared there were no signs of senile 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
IHdlppocrates, the father of medicine, lived
lO9 years, and among those eminent in the
medical profession who became septuage-
narlans and octogenarians and nonagena-
rlans were Darwin. Gall. Boerhaave. 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. I have
known people actually boyish in their dis
positions rs at eighty years of age, while
age at twenty
Haydn's oratoria, 3The Creation,'' was
composed at seventy years of age Hum
boldt wrote his immortal work, 'sThe Co.'S
mos" at seventy-fve. William Cullen
Bryant, at eighty-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 ninety-four
Llontinus 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
>torlous cavalry charge against the Cartha-
genians.
Titan was engaged on his greatest
dredth year. How often they must have
renewed their 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 longevity of the re-
AAO"AS AAClC dIc uuuuISuS OI CuOu-
sands of men and women now renewing
their. youth like the eagles, so that the
possibility of such a turning back of the
years is all around us being demonstrated
Some one writes me. Is not threescore
and ten the bound of human life, accord
ing to the Bible?" My reply is that Moses
mot David, who wrote that psalm, was
giving a statistic of his own day.
Through better understanding of the
laws of health and advancement of medi-
cal sciencestne statistics of longevity have
nightly changed since the time of Moses,
and the day is coming when nonagena-
rian will no longer be wonder. Phlebot-
omy shortened the life of whole genera
tions, and the lancet that bled for every
thing is now rarely taken from the doc
tors pocket
Dentistry has given power of healthy
mastication to the human race, and thus
added greatly to the proiongation 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 incura-
bic now in majority of cases are con-
quered.
Vaccination, which has saved 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 prolon-