The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-02-23


in private life and with less mental
strain and no conspicuous success is
much larger than the average longe-
witty of the renowned. There are
hundreds of thousands of men and
women now renewing their youth
like the eagles, SO that the possibility
of such turning back of years is all
around US being demonstrated.
Bismarck, the greatest of German
statesmen, a long while before his .
decease passed his eightieth mile
stone. When Gladstone was So years |
of age, l ran with him up anu down !
the hills of Hawarden. We started
for walk, but it got to be run.
All those men again and again re-
newed their youth.
Some one writes me: SIS not
three score and ten the bound of
human life, according to the bible?"
Ny reply is that Moses, not David,
who wrote that psalm, was giving
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
a nonagenarian will no longer be a
wonder. Phlebotomy shortened the
life of whole generations, and the
lancet that bled for everything is now
rarely taken from the doctor pocket.
Dentistry has given power of healthy
masticaton to the human race and
thus added greatly to the prolonga-
tion of life. Electric lights have i'm
proved 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
ma jority of cases are conquered
Vaccination, which has saved millions
of lives and balked the greatest
scourge of nations, and surgery,
which has advanced more than any
l other science, have done more than
= can be told for the prolongaton of
e h imam life. The " ray has turned
e the human body, which was opaque,
4 into a lighted castle. 1t is easier in
o this age to renew ones youth than in
9 any other age. When Paul stopped
the jailer from suicide by command
: ing, DO thyself no HARM" he showed
/, himself interested in the physical as
: well as moral life of man. Among
d the blessings which God promised was
y that in which he said, with long
e life will l satisfy thee" and David
in my text, illustrates the possibility
o of palingenesis or rejuvenescence.
n But the body is the smallest and least
d important part of you. 1t is your sou
l. that most needs rejuvenation, but YOU
e will also help bodily vivifcation. In or
o der to do this, l advise you to Danish as
r far as possible all fretfulness out OF
l. your life. The doing OF that will make
y you ten years younger l know many
It good Christian people who are worry
J. ing themselves out in managing the II
$ fairs of the universe. They have under
k taken too big job. They are trying tc
Il drive too long and fiery team. They
S have all the affairs of church and state
It on hand, and they fret about this, ana
fret about that, and fret about the 9th
4 er thing. They fear that China will b;
g divided up among the nations and there
r will be an ENHANCEMENT causing war
5. such as we have never heard of. They
= fear that Edward VII will not be a.
d wise a king as his mother was queen
20 They are appalled, at the accumulated
l. national debt They fear society is go
If ing to pieces by reason of immoralities
e They apprehend that America will bt
g overcrowded with foreigners. They say
n the newspapers are getting so bad tha'
l. this country is going to be utterly de
ka . -,
It prehensive of socia, and religious anC
e. political calamities, and it is telling OF
If their mental health. depressing thei1
e physical health, and instead of renew
IS ing their youth like the eagles. they
is are initiating the eagle who would si
It in his nest of sticks lined with grass or
4, the rock, mourning about the woes O
the ornithological world. the lone.ines
3 of the pelican, the filthiness of the vul
= ture, the croak of the raven. the reck
II lessness of the albatross. Would tha'
d improve things? No. 1t would be {
Al molting process for that eagle which
r. would never close, and it would only ge
J. thinner and more gloomy and less abb,
2, to gain food for its young and less abl,
l. to enjoy landscape as it appears undei
V a 20-mile flight on summer morning
d under the blue heavens.
e do not advise you to be Indifferent t,
o these great questions that pertain t,
g church and state and nations. but not t.
s fret about them. Realize that it is no
an anarchy that has charge of affairs il
Is this world, but Divine government 4
/. the head of this universe is a King
h whose eyes is omniscience and who's,
# arm is omnipotence and whose hear
Y, is infinite love. His government is no
l. going to be failure. He cannot be de
d feated. Better trust Him in the man
e agement of His world and of all worlds
!" All you and have to do is to accom-
'2 plish the work that is put in our hands
l. That is all that we have to be responsi
h BILE for. In a well managed orchestr,
# the players upon stringed instrument
k do not watch each other. The cornetis
V does not look to see how the violinis
s is drawing the bow over the strings
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