The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-01
MANS REMUNERATION
DR.. Talmage Tells How to- Grow
Young In Spirit.
RENEWING YOUTH LIKE THE EAGLE

The Way to Conquer b Effect of
Advancing Years Simple Habits
Lead to Longevity-The Christian's
Haven q Place OF Eternal Youth.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-In this dis
course DR.. Talmage shows how any one
can conquer the effect of years and grow
younger in spirit; text, Psalms CHI, 3,
$50 that thy youth is renewed like the
eagles"
There flies out from my text the most
majestic of all the feathered c~reation-an
sagle. 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 ~yulture, and in
most cases its food is fresh and clean.
LeVeling its neck for flight, in spiral
curve it swings itself toward the MONDAY
sun. 1t has been known to live 100 years.
What concentration Of all that is sublime
in the golden eagle, the crested eagle, the
Imperial eagle, the martial eagle, the
booted eagle, the Jean lie Blanc eagle! But
after awhile in its life comes the melting
anu - AOOAo oAe WAN HN
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 on, and its beak,
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 unchal-
ienged 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 ~rejuve-
nescence, he says to his soul: You
are getting younger all the time. You
make me think Of an eagle which 1 saw
yesterday, just after its melting season,
swinging through the valley Of Jehosha-
plat, and then circling around the head Of
Mount Olivet. Oh, my soul, thy youth is
renewed like the eagles"
The fact is that people get old too fast.
They allow the years TO run away with
them. The almanac and the family rec
ord 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 OUNCE Com
ing on toward old age you are only in the
melting 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
body as well as of the soul, and the first
part as well as the latter part of my sub.
ject is appropriate for the pulpit.
Simple Hnb:ts and Longevity.
Many might turn the years backward
and get younger by changing their phys
icaI habits. The simpler life one leads
the longer he lives Thomas Parr of
Shropshire, England, was a plain man
and worked on n farm for a livelihood.
At 120 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 de-
sired to see him and ordered him to the
palace, where he was so richly and royal.
ly treated that it destroyed his health,
and he died at 152 years and 8 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 NJ 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 rejuvenescence
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, lived
100 years, and among those eminent in
the medical profession who became sep
fuagenarians and octogenarians and non.
agenarians were Darwin, Gall, Boer
have, Jenner and Ruysch, observing
themselves the laws of health that they
taught their patients. In art and litera-
fure and science among those who lived
into the eighties were Plato and Franklin
and Carlyle and Goethe and Button and
HALEY. S~ophocies reached the nineties.
You cannot tell how old a man is from
the number Of years he has lived. / have
known people actually boyish in their dis
position at so years OF age, while Loui:
IL, king of Hungary. died of old age a
20. Haydn's oratorio, 1.-The Creation
was composed at 20 years of age. Hum
boldt wrote his immortal work, 1.-The Cos
mos" at 75. William Cullen Bryant, al
50 years of age, in my house read without
spectacies "Thanatopsis," which he haG
composed when Is years Of age. Isocrate:
did iliustrious work at 81. Liontinus Cor
gias was busy when death came to hin
at LOT years of age. Herschel at so years
Of age was hard at work in stellar explO
ration. Masinissa, king of Numidias al
DO years of age led q victorious cavalry
charge against the Carthaginians. Titan
was engaged on his greatest painting
when be died in his one hundredth year
How often they must have renewed then
youthi
But the average longevity Of those in
private life and with less mental strair
and no conspicuous success is much larger
than the average longevity Of the renown
ed There are hundreds of thousands OF
men and women now renewing theil
youth IKE the eagles, so that the posi-
bsity Of such a turning back Of the year:
~ - - -
Bismarck, the greatest Of German
statesmen, a long while before his deeeast
passed his eightieth milestone. Wher
Etadstone was SO years Of age, I ran witt
MIN mp and down the hills Of Hawarden
We started for a walk, bot 1t got to be
run. ALI those men again and again re
newed their youth.
Biblical Span OF Life.
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