The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-02-21
SERMON.
TELLS HOW TO GROW YOUNG
IN SPIRIT.
Renewing Youth Like the Eagle-Ths
Way to Conquer the Eject Of Ad-
vancins Years-simple 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
CHI. s, 80 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
tood Is fresh and clean. Leveling its
neck for flight, in spiral curve 1t
swings itself toward the monday sun.
It has been known to live 100 years.
What concentration Of all that is su-
blime in the golden eagle, the crested
eagle, the imperial eagle, the martial
eagle, the booted eagle. the Jean de
Blanc eagle! But after a while in Its
life comes the melting process. and 1t
looks ragged and worn and un%attract-
i've and feels like moping in its nest on
the high crags. But weeks go by, and
the old feathers are gone and new or
astrological attire is put on, and It's
beak, which was overgrown, has the
surplus of bone beaten off against the
rocks, and it gets back it's 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
W 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 it's melting
season, swinging through the valley of
~Jehosaphat, and then circling around
the head of Mount Olivet. Oh, my
soul, thy youth is renewed like the
eagIe's.'"
simple Habits and Longevity.
Many might turn the years backward
and get younger by changing their
physical habits. The simpler life n
leads the longer he lives. Thomas
Parr of Shropshire, England, was a
plain man and worked on a farm for
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 of 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 1852 years and 9 months of age.
When DR.. Harvey, the discoverer of
the circulation of the blood, made post
norton examination of Thomas Parr,
he declared there were no signs of
seni1e 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 100 years, and among those
eminent in the medical profession who
became septuagenarians and octogena-
rians and nonagenarians we're 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.
Biblical Span of Life.
Some one writes me. "Is not three
score 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 longevity have nightly changed
since the time of Moses, and the day is
coming when a nonagenarian will no
longer be a wonder. Phlebotomy
shortened the life of whole genera
lions, and the lancet that bled for ,ev-
erything 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 prolongation of life. Electric lights
have improved human sight, which
used to be strained by the dim 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 baked the greatestscourge
of nations, and surgery, which has adj
vanced more than any other science,
have done more than can be told for
the prolongation of human life. The
X-ray has turned the human body,
which was opaque, into a lighted cas-
tie. 1t is easier in this age to renew
ones youth than in any other age.
When Paul stopped the jailer from
suicide by commanding: do thyself
no harm" he showed himself inter-
ested in the physical as well as moral
life of man. Among the blessings
which God promised was that in which
he said: With long life will 1 satisfy
thee" and David, in my text, illus
trates the possibility Of palingenesis
OF rejuyenescence.
Thu OmniscIent King.
do not advise o to be Indifferent
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