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' The Arabs call whistling "tie devil's !
music," and they consider it the most |
unlucky sound that can proceed from i
human lips. An old proverb of theirs J
is to the effect that after whistling, !
the mouth is not purified for forty days.
In many other parts of the world a
similar idea prevails, in the Tonga islands,
for instance, where whistling is
"tabu," and in Iceland, wnere me
peasants strongly object to it. believing
it to be a violation of the divine
law. Whistling is quite unknown
among the descendants of the Peruvian
Incas.
The Cornish miners are very superstitious,
and they lay a ban on whistling
while underground. The old
hands think it a fertile source of evil,
and the young hands get many a
"scai" on the head to bring them to
the same opinion.
One Thousand Years Old.
There is always a peculiar interest
attached to any great piece of work
completed by a people living many
hundreds of years ago. This is especially
so cf the Great White Horse of .
Wiltshire Downs, England.
As you stand on an elevation and j
look across the country, your eye
? *"* of o orl^antlr white
caicilfcb lUt' 1U1U1 ui ?, e>-o
horse upon the side of a hill beyond
the valley. It Is a figure cut in the
rock in the side of the Downs, and i3 j
17o feet long from the head to the i
tail. It is believed to have been made
in the time of King Alfred, who died
1,000 years ago. The figure is rather
crude, but when seen at a distance the j
outline of a horse is very distinct. Just
above the figure, on top of the hill,
are the remains of an old camp.
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Found Few Bodies of Animals.
It has been a source of much surprise
to Prof. Nordenskjcld that during
his expedition within the arctic
circle, in regions where animal life is
abundant, he has found very few remains
of animals which died a natural
death. No one has any idea cf what 1
becomes oi the bodies of such animals;
and it is indeed Very strange that on
Spitzbergen it is easie- to find bones
of a gigantic lizard of remote geolcgicr.l
time than those of a "self-dead" ,
seal, walrus or bird. Ttfe same is also
true o2 some places not so far north.
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REV. TALMAGF'5 SUNDAY SERMON.
Argues That We Cannot Neglect Our
Religious Duties and Prosper in Our
Business.
^Washington. D. C.?In this discourse
i.f. lannage auvocaies tne iaea ir.ai ui>*
Christian religion is as good lor this world
as the next, and will lit in us to do anything
that ought to be done at all; I Timothy
iv, 8, "Codliness is profitable unto
ail things, having promise of the life that
now is and of that which is to come."
There is a gloomy and passive way of
waiting for events to come upon us, and
there is a heroic way of going out to meet
them, etrong in Cod and fearing nothing.
When the body of Catiline was found on
the battlefield, it was found far in advance
of ail .lis troops and among the enemy, and
the best way is not lor its to lie down and
let the events of life trample ovir us. but
to go forth in a Christian spirit determined
to conquer. You are expecting prosperity.
and 1 am determined, so far as I
have anything to do with it, that you shall
not be disappointed, and, therefore, I propose,
as Cod may heip me, to project upon
vour attention a new clement of success.
You have in the business firm frugality,
patience, industry, perseverance, economy
?a very strong business firm?but there
needs to be one member added, mightier
than them all, and not a silent partner
citftcr. tne one introduced oy my icsi.
"Godliness, which is profitable unto all
things, having the promise of the life that
now is as well as of that which is to come."
I suppose you arc all willing to admit
that godliness is important in its eternal
relations, but perhaps some of you say,
"All I want is an opportunity to say a
prayer before 1 die, and all will be well."
There are a great many people who suppose
that if they can finally get safely out
of this world into a better world they will
have exhausted the entire advantage of
our holy religion. They talk as though religion
were a mere nod of recognition
which we arc to give to the Lord Jesus on
our way to a heavenly mansion; as though
it were an admission ticket, of no use except
to give in at the door of heaven. And
there are thousands of peonle who have
great admiration for a religion of the
shroud and a religion of the coffin and a
religion of the cemetery who have no appreciation
of a religion for the bank, for
the farm, for the factory, for the warehouse,
for the jeweler's shon, for the office.
Now, while I would not throw any slur on
a post-mortem religion, I want to-day to
eulogize an ante-mortem religion. A religion
that is of no use to you while you live
will be of no use to you when you die.
"Godliness is profitable unto all things,
having prorr.I-2 of the life that now is e.s
well as of that which is to come." And I
have always noticed that when grace is
very low in a man's heart he talks a great
deal in prayer meetings about deaths and
about coffins and about graves and about
churchyards. I have noticed that the
hp.nlt'nv Christian, the man who is living
near to God and is on the straight road to
heaven, is full of jubilant satisfaction and
talks about the duties of this live, understanding
well that if God helps hini to live
right Ho will help him to die right.
Now, in the first place, I remark that
godliness is good for a man's physical
health. I do not mean to say that it will
restore a broken down constitution or
drive rheumatism from the limbs or neuralgia
from the temples or pleurisy from tl)e
side, but I do mean to say that it gives
one such habits and puts one in such condition
as are most favorable for physical
health. That I believe, and that I avow.
Everybody knows that buoyancy of
spirit is good physical advantage. Gloom,
unrest, dejection, arc at war with every
pulsation of the hep.|t and with every respiration
of the lungs. They lower the vitality
and slacken the circulation, while
exhilaration of spirit pours tne very oa.m
of heaven through all the currents of life.
The sense of insecurity which sometimes
hovers over, an unregencrate man or
pounces upon him with the blast of ten
thousand trumpets of terror is most depleting
and most exhausting, while the feeling
that all things are working together for
our good now and for our everlasting welfare
is conducive to physical health.
You will observe that godliness induces
Industry, which is the foundation of good
health. There is no law of hygiene that
will keep a lazy man well. Pleurisy will
stab him, erysipelas will burn him, jaundice
will discolor him, gout will cripple
him, and the intelligent physician will
not prescribe antiseptic or febrifuge '
or anodyne, but saws and hammers
and yardsticks and crowbars and pickaxes.
There is no such thing as good
physical condition without positive tvork
of some kind, although you should sleep
on down of swan or ride in carriage of
softest upholstery or have on your table
all the luxuries that avere poured from the
wine vats of Ispahan and Shiraz. Our religion
says: "Away to the bank, away to
the field, away to the shop, away to the
factory! Do something that will enlist all
the energies of your body, mind and soul!"
"Diligent in business, fervent in spirit,
serving the Lord," while upon the bare
back of the idler and the drone comes
down the sharp lash of the apostle as he
?<rr ??? ,..;n nM wnrlr neither
Bays, ii ctnv man um uw .?,
shell he eat.''
Oh, how important is this day, when so
much is said about anatomy and physiology
and therapeutics and some new style
of medicine is ever and anon springing
upon the world, that you should understand
that the highest school of medicine
is the school of Christ, which declares that
"godliness is profitable unto all things,
having the promise of the life that now is
as well as of that which is to come." So
it yon start out two men in the world with
equal physical health, and then one of
them shall get the religion of Christ in his
heart and the other shall not get it. the
one who becomes a son of the Lord Almighty
will live the longer. "With long
life will I satisfy him and show him My
salvation."
Again I remark that godliness is good
for the intellect. I know some have supposed
that just as soon as a man enters
into the Christian life his intellect goes
into a bedwarfing process. So far from
that, religion will give new brilliancy to
the intellect, new strength to the imagination,
new force to the will and wider
swing to all the intellectual faculties.
Christianity is the great central fire at.
which philosophy has lighted its brightest
torch.
The religion of Christ is the fountain
out of which learning has dipped its clearest
draft. The Helicon poured forth no
such inspiring waters as those which flow
from under the throne of God clear as
crystal.
Religion has given new energy to poesy,
weeping in Dr. Young's "Night Thoughts."
teaching in Cowper's "Task," flaming in
diaries Wesley's hymns and rushing trith
archangelic splendor tlirough >fiIton's
"Paradise Lost." The religion of Christ
has hung in studio and in gallery of art and
in Vatican the best pictures?Titian's "Assumption,"
Raphael's "Transfiguration. '
Rubens's "Descent From the Cross."
Claude's "Burning Bush" and Angeio's
I net .1 nilffircnf " Rplifrion has made the
be.-t music of the world?Haydn's "Creation."
Handel's '"Messiah," Mozart's "Requiem."
Is it possible that a religion
which builds such indestructible monuments.
and which lifts its ensien on the
highest pronton tore: s of worldly power
can have any effect upon a man's intellect
but eldrntion ?
Religion will give an equipoise of spirit.
It will keep you from ebullitions of temper,
and you know great many fine businesses
have been blown to atoms by bad
temper. It will keep you from worriment
about frequent !o-s: it will keep you back
from squandering and from dissipation;
it will'give you a kindness of spirit which
will be easily distinguished from that mere
store courtesy which shakes rands violently
with you, asking about the health of
your family, when there is no anxiety to
know whether your child is well or sick,
but the anxiety is to know how many
dozen cambric pocket handkerchiefs you
will take and pay cash down. It will prepare
you for the practical duties of everyday
life.
I do not mean to say that religion will
make us iinanciallv rich, but I do say that
it will give us, it will assure us of, a comfortable
sustenance at the start, a comfortable
subsistence all the way through, and
it will help us to direct the bank, to manage
the traffic, to conduct all our business
mattery "and to make the most insignificant
affair of our bfe a matter of vast impori
it nv :
lance, giormeu nv vmnsuan principle.
In New York City there was a merchant,
hard in his dealings with his fellows, who
had written over hi3 banking house or his
counting house room, "No compromise."
Then when some merchant got in a crisis
and went down?no fault of his. but a conjunction
of evil circumstances?and all the
other merchants were willing to compromise?they
would take seventy-five cents
on the dollar or fifty cents or twenty cents
?coming to this man last of all. he said:
"No compromise. I'll take 100 cents on the
dolhr, and I can afford to wait." Well,
the wheel turned, and after awhile that
man was in a crisis of business, and he sent
out his agent to compromise, and the agent
said to the merchants, "Will you take
fifty cents on the dollar?" "No." "Will
you take anything?" "We'll take 100 cents
on the dollar. No compromise." And the
man who wrote that inscription over his
counting house door died in destitution.
Oh. we want more of the kindness of the
gospel and the spirit of love in our business
enterprises!
How many young men have found in the
religion of Jesus Christ a practical help?
How many there are to-day who could testify
out of their own experience that godliness
is profitable for the life that now is!
There were times in their business career
when they went here for help and there
for help and yonder for help and got no
help until they knelt before the Lord crying
for His deliverance, and the Lord rescued
them.
In a bank not far from New York?a
villacro hank?an officer could not balance
his accounts. He had worked at them day
after day, night after night, and he was
sick nigh unto death as a result. He knew
that he had not taken one farthing from
that bank, but somehow, for some reason,
inscrutable then, the accounts would not
balance. The time rolled on and the morning
of the day when the books should pass
under the inspection of the other officers
arrived, and he felt himself in awful peril,
conscious of his own integrity, hut unable
to prove that integrity. That morning he
went to the bank early, and he knelt down
before God and told the whole story of
mental anguish, and he said: "0 Lord. I
have done right, I have preserved my integrity,
but here I am about to he overthrown
unless Thou hooldst come to ray
rescue. Lord, deliver me." And for one
hour he continued the prayer before Cod,
and then he arose and went to an old blotter
that he had forgotten all about. lie
opened it, and there lay a sheet of figures
which he only needed to add to another
line of figures?seine line of figures he had
forgotten and knew not where he had laid
their?and the accounts were balanced, and
the Lord delivered him. You are an infidel
if you do not believe it. The Lord delivered
him. God answered hi3 prayer, as
He will answer your prayer, oh, man of
business, in every crisis when you come to
Him.
Now, if this be so, then T am persuaded,
as you are, of the fact that the vast majority
of Christians do not fully test the value
of their religion. They are like a farmer
in California with 15,000 acres of good
wheat land and culturing only a quarter of
an acre.
Why do you not go forth and make the
religion of Jesus Christ a practical affair
every day of your business life and all this
year, beginning r.ow. and to-morrow morning
putting into practical effect this holy
religion and demonstrating that godliness
? '? i ii - . i
IS pronttlDie Here as VICII as uc?coiivi.
How can you get along without this religion?
Is your physical health so good you
do not want this divine.tonic? Is your
mind to clear, 60 vast, so comprehensive,
that you do not want this divine inspiration?
Is your worldly business so thoroughly
established that you have no use
for that religion which has been the help
and deliverance of ton3 of thousands o?
men in crises of worldly trouble? And if
what I have said is true then you see what
a fatal blunder it is when a man adjourns
to life's expiration the uses of religion. A
man who postpones religion to sixty years
of age gets religion fifty years too late. Ho
may get into the kingdom of God by final
repentance, but what can compensate him
for a whole lifetime ur.alleviated and uncomforted?
You want religion to-day in
the training of that child. You will want
religion to-morrow in dealing with that
customer. You wanted religion yesterday
to curb your temper. Is your arm strong
enough to beat your way through the
floods? Can you, without being incased in
the mail of God's eternal help, go forth i
amid the assault of all hell's sharpshooters?
Can you walk alone across these :
crumbling graves and amid these gaping |
earthquakes'/" Can you. waierioggeu anu
mast shivered, outlive the gale? Oh, how
many there have been who, postponing the I
religion of Jesus Christ, have plunged into
mistakes they could never correct, although i
they lived sixty years after, and like ser- j
pents crushed under cart wheels dragging j
their mauled bodies under the rocks to die. |
So these men have fallen under the wheel i
of awful calamity, while a vast multitude I
of others have taken the religion of Jesus J
Christ into everyday life, and, first, in
practical business affairs, and. second, on
the throne of heavenly triumph, have illustrated.
while angels looked on and a universe
approved, the glorious truth that
"godliness is profitable unto all things,
having the promise of the life which now is
as well as of that which is to come." !
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