[Around The Tea-Table by T. De Witt Talmage]@TWC D-Link bookAround The Tea-Table CHAPTER VIII 8/13
They are the best men on earth, and Satan knows it, and is trying to kill them as fast as possible.
They know not that it is as much a duty to take care of their health as to go to the sacrament. It is as much a sin to commit suicide with the sword of truth as with a pistol. Our earthly life is a treasure to be guarded, it is an outrageous thing to die when we ought to live.
There is no use in firing up a Cunarder to such a speed that the boiler bursts mid-Atlantic, when at a more moderate rate it might have reached the docks at Liverpool.
It is a sin to try to do the work of thirty years in five years. A Rocky Mountain locomotive engineer told us that at certain places they change locomotives and let the machine rest, as a locomotive always kept in full heat soon got out of order.
Our advice to all overworked good people is, "Slow up!" Slacken your speed as you come to the crossings.
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