Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-02-22

Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch.)
Washington, Feb. lin this dis
course DR.. Talmage shows how anyone
can conquer the effect of years and
grow younger in spirit; text, Psalms
siii. 8, $50 that thy youth is renewed
like the eagles"
There flies out from my text tho 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 mas sucn
power Of beak, such clutch OF Claw
such expansion of wing, such helsn1
Of soaring, such Wilderness OF domihloh'
It's appetite rejects the carrion that III
vites the yulture and in most cases lts
food is fresh and clean. Levenng us
neck for flight, in spiral curve II
awnings itself toward the MONDAY sun.
II has been known to live lOO years.
What concentration OF all that IS SUI
blims in the golden eagle, the crested
eagle the imperial eagle. the martial
eagle, the booted eagle, the Jean ue
Blanc eagle! But after a while In us
life comes the melting process, ard IL
looks ragged and worn and unattrdcI-
i've and feels like moping IN its nest Oh
the high crags. But weeks go by, ana
the old feathers are gone and new OF
astrological attire is put on, ana us
beak. which was overgrOwn, has the
surplus of bone beaten off against the
rocks. and it gets back its old capacity
kor 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 MS
own physical and spiritual reJuvenes-
cenee, he says to his own soul: you
are getting younger all the time. fou
make me think of an eagle winch
saw Yesterday. just after its noting
season. swinging through the valley or
Jehosaphat. and then circling around
the head of Mount Olivet. Oh my
soul, thy youth is renewed Ike 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 for
a livelihood. At 12O years of age he
was at his daily toll. He had lived
under nine kings of England. When
152 years of age, he was heard of in
London. The king desired to see MIN
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 9 months Of age.
When DR.. Harvey, the discoverer OF
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-
eence. Hippocrates. the father of med
teine. lived 100 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.
h AT 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.
Biblical Span of Life.
Some one writes me, lis not three
sscre and ten the bound of human life,
according to the Bible?" My reply is
that Moses. not David. who wrote that
psalm, was giving a statistic of his
own day. Through better understand
ing Of the laws of health and advance
ment of medical science the statistics
of Ionoevitv have miphtilv ehappad