Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-02-21
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
TELLS HOW TO GROW YOUNG
I'm SPIRIT.
Renewing Youth Like the Eagie-The
Way to Conquer the Effect of Adj
vanciug Years-simpie Habits Lead To
Longevity.

Copyright. 1901. by Louis Klopsch)
Washington, Feb. 17.-In this dis
course DR.. Talmage shows how anyone
can conquer the effect of years and
grow younger in spirit; text, Psalms
ciii, 5, 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 It's
food is fresh and clean. Leyeilng lts
neck for flight, in spiral curve IL
swings itself toward the MONDAY sun.
1t has been known to live 100 years.
What concentration of all that is SUI
blime in the golden eagle, the crested
eagle, the imperial eagle, the martiai
eagle, the booted eagle, the Jean dc
Blanc eagle! But after a while in It's
life comes the melting process, and IL
looks ragged and worn and unattract-
i've and feels like moping in its nest on
the high crags. But weeks 60 by, ana
the old feathers are gone and new or
astrological attire is put on, and us
beak. which was overgrown, has 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 his
own physical and spiritual rejuvenes-
cence, he says to his own soul: You
are getting younger all the time. You
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. On, 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 FIR
a livelihood At 100 years of age he
was at his daily toll. He had lived
under nine kings of England. When
1872 years of age, he was heard or 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 he
died at 152 years and 8 months or 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 109 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.