Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-02-18
welfare OF THE BODY.
Simple Life Conduces to Lon
gevity, Says Dr.. Talmage.
RELIGION THE GREAT REVIEWER.

Hastcns the Advance of Age-Chris-
tian II ejuvenescence.
WASHINGTON, Feb. lin this dis
course DR.. Talmage shows how any one
can conquer the effect of years and
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 crea-
tion-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.
It's appetite rejects the carriOn that in
vites the vulture, and in most cases its
food is fresh and clean. Leveling its
neck for flight. in spiral curve, it
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
in its life comes the melting process,
and it looks ragged and worn and IN
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 it gets back its old capacity
nd in
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 fight
and reign in clearer atmosphere. Our
religion bids Us to look after the vel
fare of the body as we'll as of the soul,
and the first part as we'll 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 a 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 o months Of age When DR..
Harvey, the discoverer of the circu1a-
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 rejuyenes- |
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 eighties |
were Plato and Franklin and Carlyle |
and Goethe and Button and HALEY
Sophocles reached the nineties. You |
cannot tell how old a man is from the |
number of years he has lived. l have |
known people actually boyish in their |
dispositions at so years of age Will, |
Louis II, king of Hungary, died Of old |
age at 90. Haydns oratoria, THE Gre
ation," was composed at 20 years of |
age Humboldt wrote his immortal |
work, 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 IL
lustrious work at "a. Liontinus Cor
gias was busy when death came to
him at 107 years of age. Herschel at i
so years of age was hard at work in
stellar exploration. Masinissa. king Of
Numidia, at 80 years of age led victo-
rious cavalry charge against the Car
thagenians. Titan was engaged on
his greatest painting when he died in