Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-03-14
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.

| DIVINE.
Subject: Welfare of the Body-Simple
Life Conduces to Longevity = Religion
the Great Renewer Worry Hastens
| the Advance Of Age.
Gcopyright 1901
WASHINGTON, D. C.-In this discourse
DR.. Talmage shows how any one can con-
| quer the effect 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 wide
ness. OF dominion: Its appetite rejects the
carrion that invites the vulture, and in
most, cases its food is fresh and clean.
Leveling it's neck for fight in spiral
curve, it swings itself toward the MONDAY
sun. 1t has been known to live hun
dred years. What concentration of all
creasted eagle, the imperial eagle, the
martial eagle: the booted eagle. the Jean
le Blanc eagle! But after awhile in its
life comes the .molting process. and it
looks ragged and worn and unattractive,
and feels like moping IN it's nest on the
feathers are gone and new pathological
attire is put on, and its beal which was
overgrown, has the surplus of bone beaten
off against the rocks, and it gets back its
old capacity for food, and again it mounts
the heavens in unchallenged and bound
less Kingdoms of air and light. David.
the author of the text, had watched these
monarchs of the sky. and knew their hab-
its, and one day, exulting in his own ply
sical and spiritual rejuvenescence, 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 its
nolting season, swinging through the val
ley OF Jehoshaphat and then circling
around the mead OF Mount Olivet. . my
soul, thy youth is renewed like the
eagles.
The fact is that people get old too fast.
Ihey allow lI 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 old
er the soul ought TO get younger. Coming
on toward Old age you are only in the
moltlng season, and after that you will
have better wings, take higher flight and
reign In clearer atmosphere. Our religion
bids us to look after the welfare of the
pody "a Wen as OF the soul, and the first
part as well as the latter part of my sub
'eet is appropriate for the pulpit
-'oiiy hhiShe tuih she years pdchWdtu
and get younger by changing their physi-
eal habits. The SIMPLER life one lives the
longer ne Ives. Ihomas farr, OF Shrop,,
.nnIf, snire, England, was a pam man and nd
worked on a farm for livelihood At l2o
years OF age ne was at ms daily toll: he
lived l.o under nine kings of England. When
io1 years OF age ne was heara OF IN Lon
don. Inc king desired to see him, and or
dered MIN TO the palace, where ne was SO
Fichiy ana royalty treated that 1t de-
stroyed ms health, and he died at a52
years and nne months OF age. -,
.When Dr. Harvey; the discoverer of the
clrculatlon OF tne Dio0d, MADE post NOR
tenn examination OF Thomas Parr, he de-
clared there We're re- no signs OF senile decay
IN the Douy. lne man must have re-
newed his youth, like the eagle, again and
again.
All occupations and professions have
afforded illustrations of rejuvenescence
io9 years, and among those eminent in the
medical profession who became septuage-
narans and octogenarlans and nonagena-
rians were Darwin, Gall, Boerhaave, Jen-
nIer and kuysch, observing themselves the
Jaws OF heaitn that 1hey taught ther pa
tlents.
In art and literature and science among
those who, lived INTO the eighties were
Plato and Franklin and Carlyle and
Goethe ana 5uffon and HALEY. Sopho-
cies reached the nlnetles.,
You cannot tell nov old man IS from
the number of years he has lived, / have
known people actually boyish in their dis
positlons at eighty years OF age, while
Louis L., hlng OF Hungary, died OF old
age at twenty.
Haydns oratoria, The Creation, was
composed at seventy years OF age, Hum
ooldt, wrote his immortal work, Ihe Cos
mos, at seventy-hve. William Cullen
Bryant at eighty-two years of age, in my
house, read without spectacles "Ihanatop-
sis" which he had composed when eigh-
teen years OF age. lsocrates did illustrious
work at nlnety-four.
Liontinus Gorglas was busy when death
came to him at 10! years OF age. Herschel
at eighty years OF age was hard at work
in stellar exploration Masinissa, king of
Numidia. at ninety years of age, led VIC
torlous cavalry charge against the Cartha-
genians.
Titan was engaged on his greatest
painting when he died in his one hun.
dredth year How often they must have
renewed their youth!
But the average longevity of those in