The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-03-28
TORENEW OUR YOUTH
Dr.. Talmage Tells How We May
Grow Young in Spirit.
Way to Conquer the Effect OF Ad-
vnncinE Years-The Christians
Heaven a Place of Eter-
nal Youth.
copyright. -901, by Louis Klopsch.l
WaShingtO

Copyright. :sol, by Louis Klopsch.l /
Washington.
In this discourse DIR. Talmage shows
how anyone can conquer the spi.it |
of years and grow younger in spirit;
text. Psalms CHI, s.: $50 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 invites the vulture, and
in most cases it's food is fresh and
clean. Leveling his neck for fight,
in spiral curve it swings itself toward
the MONDAY sun. It has been known
to live 100 years. What concentra-
ton of all that is sublime rs the gold
en- eagle, the martial eagle, the boot
ed eagle, the Jean le Blanc eagle!
But after awhile in it's life comes the
molting process, and it looks ragged
and worn and unattractive, and feels
like moping in it's nest on the high
crags. But weeks go by, and the
old feathers are gone, and new or
astrological attire is put en-, and its
beak, which was overgrown, has the
surplus of bone beaten off against
the rocks, and it gets back its old
/ nd
mounts the heavens in anchallenged
and boundless kingdoms of air and
light. David, the auth zr of the text,
had watched these monarchs of the
sky, and knew their habits, and one
day, exulting in his own physical and
spiritual rejuvenescence, he says to
his own soul: "You are getting
younger all the time. You make me
think of an eagle which saw yes
terday, just after its molting season,
swinging through the valley OF Je-
hoshaphat, and then circling around
, the head of Mount Olivet. Oh, my
soul, thy youth is renewed like the
eagle's.'"
, 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. Com
{ ing on toward old age you are only
in the molting season, and after that
: you will have better wings, take high
, er fight and reign in clearer atmos
, phere. Our religion bids us to lool
after the welfare of the body as wei
az Of the soul, and the first part a:
, well as the latter part of my subjec'
is appropriate for the pulpit.
Many might turn the years back
ward and get younger by changing
: their physical habits. The simpler
life one leads the longer he lives
Thomas Parr, of Shropshire, Eng
land, was a plain man and worke'
on farm for livelihood. At ~
;, years of age he was at his daily toll
= He had lived under nine kings o
= England. When 152 years of age. h
was heard of in London. The kim
> desired to see him and ordered hir
to the palace, where he was SO rich
ly and royalty treated that it de
:, stroyed his health, and he died a
L 152 years and nine months OF age
Z When DR.. Harvey, the discoverer c
the circulation of the blood, mad
. post-mortem examination of Thoma
l. Parr, he declared there were no sign
:, of senile decay in the body. Tha
IL man must have renewed his you'll
), like the eagle, again and again.
II All occupations and profession
Ii have afforded illustrations of tt
juvenescence. Hippocrates, the fathe
q of medicine, lived 100 years, an
y among those eminent in the medic;
y profession who became septuagena
N ians and octogenarians and nonagel
g arians were Darwin, Gall, Boerhaav
m Jenner and Ruysch, observing then
e. selves the laws of health that the
"a taught their patients. In art an
literature and science among thos
who lived into the eighties were Plat
and Franklin and Carlyle and Goetf
ID and Button and HALEY. Sophocl,
IN reached the nineties.
N You cannot tell how old a man
y, by the number of years he has live
t. l have known people actually boyis
O. in their disposition at 30 years
,p age, while Louis H., king of Hungar
of died of old age at 20. Haydn's or
/: torio, "The Creation" was compose
to at 70 years of age. Humboldt wro
ne his immortal work, The Cosmos
ia at Is. William Cullen bryant, at
ne years of age, in my hou@e read wit
IN out spectacles 'Thanatopsis," whi
Nv he had composed when 1s years
$. age Isocrates did illustrious wo
. at a. Liontilus Gorgias was bu
when death came to him at 107 yea
of age. Hersehel at so years of a
was hard at work in stellar explo1
he ton. Masinissa, king of Numiola,
a 80 years of age led a victorio
cd cavalry charge against the Cartf
n. ginians. Titan was engaged on
greatest painting when he died in