The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-03-28
one hundredth year. How often they
must have renewed their youth!


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 a turning back of years is all |
around US being demons trated.
Bismarck, the greatest of German
statesmen, long while before his
decease passed his eightieth mile
stone. When Gladstone was SO years
of age, I ran with him up anu down
the hills of Hawarden. We started
for a walk, but it got to be run.
All those men again and again re-
newed their youth.
Some one writes me: "1s 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 q
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 longe, be
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
majority 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
other science, have done more than
can be told for the prolongation of
h imam life. The x ray has turned
the human body, which was opaque,
into lighted castle. It 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 thyself no harm," he showed
, himself interested in the physical as
well as moral life of man. Among
the blessings which God promised was
7 that in which he said, with long
, life will I satisfy thee" and David
in my text, illustrates the possibility
} Of palingenesis or rejuvenescence.
But the body is the smallest and leas,
important part Of you. 1t is your sou
!. that most needs rejuvenation, but yor
= will also help bodily viviication. In or
, der to do this, advise you to Danish a.
: far as possible all fretfulness out O
: your life. The doing Of that will MAKE
? you ten years younger. / know many
t good Christian people who are worry
: ing themselves out in managing the af
: fairs Of the universe. They have under
k taken too big job. They are trying II
l drive too long and fiery . team. The.
8 have all the affairs Of church and stat
t on hand, and they fret about this, an'
fret about that, and fret about the 9th
: er thing. They fear that China will b
g divided up among the nations and ther
r will be an ENHANCEMENT causing war
). such as we have never heard OF. The
= fear that Edward VII. will not be a
d wise king as his mother was queer
% They are appalled, at the accumulate
l. national debt. They fear society is &C
# ing to pieces by reason of immoralitie!
e They apprehend that America will b
e overcrowded with foreigners. They sa
n the newspapers are getting so bad tha
l. this country is going to be utterly dt
E. moralized. They are all the time al
It prehensive of social and religious an
e. political calamities, and it is telling o
IF their mental health, depressing the
lie physical health, and instead of renew
Is ing their youth like the eagles, the
IS are initiating the eagle who would S
1T in his nest of sticks lined with grass Q
b. the rock, mourning about the woes I
the ornithological world, the loneine'
"a of the pelican, the filthiness of the WI
e. ture, the croak of the raven, the reel
ar lessness of the albatross. Would tn;
ID improve things? No. 1t would be
al molting process for that eagle whie
r. would never close, and it would only g
n thinner and more gloomy and less ab
e. to gain food for its young and less alb
n to enjoy landscape as it appears und'
av 20-mile fight on summer mornlr
,d under the blue heavens.
Sc I do not advise you to be Indifferent
to these great questions that pertain
he church and state and nations, but not
ca fret about them. Realize that it is n
an anarchy that has charge OF affairs
is this world, but a Divine government. .
d. the head of this universe is a Xii
sh whose eyes is omniscience and who
of arm is omnipotence and whose hea
", is infinite love. His government is n
a going to be failure. He cannot be
ed feated. Better trust Him in the ma
tie agement of His world and of all worls
;" All you and / have to do is to accol
SO plish the work that is put in our ham
III That is all that we have to be respon
ch BILE for. In a well managed orchest
of the Players upon stringed instrumeI
rk do not watch each other. The cornet
sv does not look to see how the violin
re is drawing the bow over the strina