The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-02-22

newed their youth
Some one writes me: rs not
three score and ten the bound of
human life, according to the bible ?'
My reply is that Moses, not David,
who wrote that psalm, was giving a
statistic of his own day. Through
better understanding of the laws of
health and advancement of medical
science the statistics of longevity
have nightly changed since the time
of Moses, and the day is coming when
nonagenarian will no longer be n
wonder. Phlebotomy shortened the
life of whole generations, and the
lancet that bled for everything 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 prolonga-
ton of life. Electric lights have i'm
proved human sight, which used to
be strained by the din tallow candle.
The dire diseases which under other
names did their fatal work and were
considered almost incurable, now in
ma ority of cases are conquered.
Vaccine ton, which has saved millions
of lives and baked the greatest
scourge of nations, and surgery,
which has advanced 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 castle. 1t is easier in
this age to renew ones youth than in
any other age. When Paul stopped
the jailer from suicide by command
ing, do myself no HARM" he showed
himself interested in the physical as
well as moral life of man. Among
the blessings which God promised was
that in which he said, with long
life will 1 satisfy thee" and David,
in my text, illustrates the possibility
of palingenesis or rejuvenescence.
But the body is the smallest and least
important part of you. 1t is your soul
that most needs regeneration, but you
will also help bodily vivification. In or
der to do this, advise you to Danish as
far as possible all fretfulness out of
your life. The doing of that will make
you ten years younger. l know many
good Christian people who are worry
ing themselves out in managing the af-
fairs of the universe. They have under
taken too big job. They are trying to
drive too long and fiery team. They
have all the affairs of church and state
on hand, and they fret about this, and
fret about that, and fret about the 9TH
er thing. They fear that China will be
divided up among the nations and there
will be an ENHANCEMENT causing wars
such as we have never heard of. They
fear that Edward VII. will not be as
wise a king as his mother was a queen.
They are appalled, at the accumulated
national debt. They fear society is 60
ing to pieces by reason of immoralities.
They apprehend that America will be
overcrowded with foreigners. They say
the newspapers are getting so bad that
this country is going to be utterly de-
moraliZed. They are all the time ap-
prehensive of social and religious and
political calamities, and it is telling on
their mental health, depressing their
physical health, and instead of renew
ing their youth like the eagles, they
are initiating the eagle who would sit
in his nest of sticks lined with grass on
the rock, mourning about the woes of
the ornithological world, the loneliness
of the pelican. the filthiness of the vul-
ture, the croak of the raven, the reck-
lessness of the albatross. Would that
improve things? No. 1t would be a
melting process for that eagle which
would never close, and it would only get
thinner and more gloomy and less able
to gain food for its young and less able
to enjoy landscape as it appears under
a or or M q
under the blue heavens.
do not advise you to be Indifferent to
these great questions that pertain to
church and state and nations, but not to
fret about them. Realize that it is not
an anarchy that has charge of affairs in
this world, but Divine government. At
the head of this universe is a King
whose eyes is omniscience and whose
arm is omnipotence and whose heart
is infinite love. His government is not
going to be failure. He cannot be de-
feated. Better trust Him in the man.
agement of His world and of all worlds.
All you and l have to do is to accom-
plsh the work that is put in our hands.
That is all that we have to be RESPONSE
BILE for. In well managed orchestra
the Players upon stringed instruments
do not watch each other. The corn etist
is drawing the bow over the strings,
nor does the flute scrutinize the drum.
They all watch the baton of the leader.
And we are all carrying our part, how
ever insignificant it may be, in the
great harmony of this world and of
the universe which our Lord is leading,
and we all have to watch His command
and do our best and not bother our
selves about the success or failure OF
other performers. If you want to re-
new your youth, better stop managing
the affairs of the universe
Mythology tells us that Jason begged
Medea, the goddess, to take some of the
years of his life and give them to his
father. She promised that without alb
breviating the sons life she would
prolong his fathers life. She filed the
caidron with herbs and the blood of
beasts and birds and then stirred the
caldron and put some of the juices in
the mouth of the aged father, and it is
said that his hair turned from white to
black, the shriveled limbs rounded into
robust health and the rejuvenated man
felt as he did at 40 years of age. All
that is a poetic myth. But a frightened
religious hope and strengthened faith
in Gods providence have rejuvenated
many a man in disposition and useful
ness and renewed his youth like the
eagles. On the contrary, it is thought
that worriment is becoming in this
country a national disease, and it has
been called "Americanitis."