Milford chronicle., 1901-02-22
MANS REMUNERATION.
DR.. Talmage Tells How toGrow
Young In Spirit.
RENEWING YOUTH LIKE THE EAGLE

RENEWING YOUTH LIKE THE EAGLE
The Way to Conquer the Effect of
Advancing Years Simple Habits
Lead 10 LOngevity-The Christians
Haven a 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, 5,
$50 that thy youth is renewed like the
eagles"
There flies ont 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
carion that invites the vulture, and in
most cases its food is fresh and clean.
Leveling its neck for fight. in spiral
curve e swings itself toward the MONDAY
sun. II 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
process, and it looks ragged and worn and
unattractivc. and feels like mOpng 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 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 il mounts the heavens in unchal
| lenged 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, exuting
in his own physical and spiritual rejuve-
nescence he says to his own soul: You
are getting younger all the time. You
make me think Of an eagle which ! saw
! yesterday. just after its melting season,
swinging through the valley Of Jehosha-
phat, and then circling around the head of
| Mount Olivct 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 younger 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
jet is appropriate for the pulpit.
Simple Habits and Longevity.
Many might turn the years backward
and get younger by changing their phys
ical habits. The simpler life one leads
the longer he lives. Thomas Parr o.
Shropshire. England, was a plain mar
and worked on a farm f0i Ga1,ihO0d
| AT 100 yea. g.-ssse he was at his daily
toll He had lived under nine kings OF
England. When 1872 years of age, be
was heard of in London. The king de
sired TO see him and ordered him to thu
palace, where he was so richly and royal
ly treated that it destroyed his health
and he died at 152 years and 8 months o
age When DR.. Harvey, the discovere
Of the circulation of the blood. made pos
norton examination of Thomas Parr, h.
declared there were no signs Of senil
decay in the body That man must hav
renewed his youth, like the eagle agail
and again.
All occupations and professions hav
afforded Illustrations of rejuvenescencG
Hippocrates. the father of medicine, live
100 years, and among those eminent i
the medical profession who became ser
tuagenarians and oct0genarians and nor
ngenarians were Darwin, Call Boel
have, Jenner and Ruysch, observin
themselves the laws of health that the
taught their patients. In art and literS
, ture and science among those who live
into the eighties were Plato and Frankli
and Carlyle and Goethe and Button an
HALEY. Sophocles reached the nineties
You cannot tell how old man is fro
the number Of years he has lived. | hay
known people actually bOyish in their di
position at so years of age, while Lou
IL, king Of Hungary, died of old age
}. 20. Haydn's oratOriO, "The Creation
was composed at 20 years OF age. Hun
6, bOldt wrote his immortal work, THE Co
mos" at IS. William Cullen Bryant,
50 years of age, in my house read witho
spectacles "Thanatopsis," which he hi
composed when IS years Of age. lsocrat
did illustrious work at "a. Liontinus &c
J. gias was busy when death came to hi
at 107 years of age. Herschel at so yea
of age was hard at work in stellar expl
ration. Masinissa, king of Numidia,
" 80 years of age led victorious caval
$. charge against the Carthaginians Titi;
was engaged on his greatest painti
when he died in his one hundredth We;
How often they must have renewed the
= youth!
But the average longevity of those
private life and with less mental strG
and no conspicuous success is much larg
than the average longevity of the renOv
ed. There are hundreds Of thousands
men and women now renewing tn
youth like the eagles, so that the pos
bility of such a turning back of the ye;
is all around us being demonstrated.
Is, Bismarck. the greatest of Germ
Of statesmen. long while before his decei
an passed his eightieth milestone. WI
~ Gladstone was SO years Of age, ran W
nd him up and down the hills Of Harvard
We started for walk, but 1t got to b
~ run. All those men again and again
Q newed their youth.
: Bi:s'ical Span of Life.
! Some one writes me. us not threesc
d and ten the bound of human life, accu
g ing to the BibleY' My reply is 1
a Moses, not David. who wrote that PISA
n was giving a statistic of his own d
Through better understanding of the Il
of health and advancement of med
, science the statistics of longevity h
t nightly changed since the time of Mo
:. and the day is coming when a homage
q rian will no longer be a wonder. p
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