Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-03-16

Washington. fco. -.
In this discourse DIR. TRlmage shows
how anyone can conquer the spirit
OF years and grow younger in SPIRIT
text Psalms Gill. 5: 80 that thy
youth is renewed like the eagles.
There aies out from my text the
most majestic Of al the festhcrcd
creation-aa 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 |
csrrion that invites the vulture, ana
in most cases its food is fresh and /
clean. Levsling his neck for sight, |
IN spiral curve IL swings itself toward /
the MONDAY sun IL has been known
90 live 100 years. What conctntf -
ton OF all that Is sublime - the gold
en- eagle. the marital eagle. the boot
ed eagle. the Jean lc Blanc eagle
But after awhile in its life comes the
raoltinr process. and il looks ragged
and worn snd unattroctive, ano ieeis
/ like mopinr in its nest OF the hiSh
craCs. But weeks go rs. anu the
old feathers arc gone, and new or
| nitholoEicai attire Is put en- ana III
bsak. which was overgrovn. has the
surplus Of bone beaten OF against
the rocks. and il gets back its old
capacity for food. and again n
/ mounts the heavens In u1challcngeo
! and boundless kingdoms Of SIR snd
| Eaht. David. tho author OF The text
had watched these monarchs Of the
ekv. and knew their habits. and one
dav. exulting in his own physical and
spiritual reiuvcncecencs, hc says 70
his own soul. You are getting
vsunger all the time. You make me
think Of an eagle which / saw YES
terdsy. Just after it, melting season
swinging through the wiley OF Je-
hoshaphot and then cirCling around
the head Of Mount Ouvet. Oh my
soul. thy youth is renewed like the
eagles"
The fact Is that people set old too
fast. They allow the ysGrs 90 run
away with them. The almanac and
The family record discourage them
Some Of you are older than you have
: anv business 10 be. You ougAt "a
realize that as the body gets Older
, the soul ought 10 get younger. Com
ing or toward old eye YOU are oni'
"A the Noting season. and after tha
you viii have bet r wings, take hlsh
q Sr Sight and reis In clearer atmos
phere. Our religion bids us TO loo
\ / altar the welfare OF the body as We
As Of the soul. and the first part
well as the latter part OF my suoJec
L. appropriate for tho pulpit.
ha
ward and get younger 10y chaneln
their physical habits he aiinp-e
life one leads the longer he live
Thomas Parr, OF Shropshire Ems
land, was q plain man and worke
on farm for livelihood. ~ y
years OF age he was 81 his daily to-
he had lived under nine kings
England. When I52 years of age. J
was heard OF in London The kiT
desired 20 sec him and ordered hl
"a 20 the palace. where he was so rae
" and royalty treated that 10
= stroyed his health. and he died
- l52 years and nine months OF aa
When DR.. Harvey. the discoverer
the circulation Of the blood, ma
post-nortem examination az Thorn
Psrs. ne declared there were no sig
Of senile decay in the body. III
nan must have renewed his you'
like the eagle. again and again
All occupations and professio
T., have afforded illustrations Of
iuvenescence. Hippocrates. the faith
OF medicine. lived LOO years,
among those eminent ia the medi
profession who became septuagen
ians and fogenarians and nonag
arians were Darwin. Call boerhaa
Jenner and Ruvsch, observing The
ID. selves the laws Of health that u
taught their patients In art s
in literature and science among TIA
who lived into the eighties were Pl
and Franklin and Carlyle and GOe
and Button and Haley. SophcS
IDA reached the nineties.
Tor You cannot tell ho.g old a mar
was by the number OF years lie has li'
the ] have known people actually boz
liam :, thsir Sisnositiou ar so wears
OF age. while Louis H.. king Of Hung
and died Of old age az 20. Haydn's
; at torio. "The Creation" was compc
tead at 70 years OF age humboldt vi
hirt his immortal work. The Cosm
hats n IS. William Cullen bryant. a.
years OF age. In my kou-e read "
u, out spcctacles "Thanatopsis,' vs.
she ne had composed when IS years
dn't age. Isocrates did illDstrtous v
have ! at 81 Liontinus OOrgias was
row. ! when death came TO him at 1O7 y
for Of age. Hersehel at 50 years OF
ram was hard as work in stellar expl