Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1861-01-08


name has jog. Old Alexander Carlyle Of Inveresk,
wiling TO his friend Sir John Macpherson, says; Wit
respect TO myself have had many warnings these hre
years, hut On the whole, have only Of Illness
10 siseae am sliding softly on to old age without an
remarkable inhrinty or failure and" the old chrstia
hso adds with true touch Of returning youth ean up
OH occasions preach like son ofthunderl'
lhs process by which time takes down by stone
was the building Of the great Hebrew Temple nethe
sound Of hammer implement upou IT. And yet it is
surely going times ssrds run. Good Bishop Rsy
mods Of It, As before the whole debt paid
90 fetch away some good parts Of II fof the loan so beor
little and little take away, sometimes and
times another and causath II were die daily
And so the sreat poet OF time and nature says
! "The sixth age shifts
Into the lean aud ippered psntaoon;
With spectacle on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose well saved, world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and hi. big manly voice
Turning again towards childish treble. pipes
And whistles in his sound Last all,
That ends this STANCE eyentiul history
i second childishBess and mere oblivion
Sans teeth, sans eyes sans taste, sans everything"
And must not a refer you the inmitable picture
Of aneng years and innrmes drawn by the inspired
preacher at the Conclusion Of his grandly solemn dis
core, he -th chsper of Ecclesiastes How alectius
/ 'he picture and yet how faithful
Ihe biugrapher of Charles Maciu, tho dranaisI who
/ did at the age Of lO7, has given us most oaohing
picture old age in conversation held with bis sutee
Do you notr says he to Mielin, "hnd 1t unpleAs to
wa about here alone and have nobody to conYei 10
Mot at all sir was the reply 81 get up when am tired
abei and walk about here TIL am tired and then 20
10 bed again and 80 forth"
You are pleased 70 see your friends supposef"
always sir and happy b, bold a-a-aS
! "a cunversaton you mean"
"Ay, yes, eonyersauon Alasl you see the wretchsd
thts ~ my memory, could not recollect that
word, but converse used togo to house near
this where my friends assemble, but could not hear ALL
did not understand what they said. they very
tenye to me, but could not he Of them; always
feel uneasiness when don't know what people are
talking about Indeed found, sir. that was not n to
keep company, so stay away. Obi sir, my sight like
everything else is beginning TO fail too About two days
ago ie aa-a pain Just above my len eye and heard
something give crack ever since, this eye has BEEN
painful am pretty comfortable now but find my
strength Is All gone feel myself going gradually"
! Ths Is old mortaiyn indeed.
But this period Of life is relieved ef its edum by
many considerations. The sged often surrounded by
ylrtious and happy amilies sons and daughters and
thsif children smile upon the aged sire and The
grandfather tells to the Juvenile group the wonderful
stories o. his youth He again shoulders his erueh and
There kind ofrepert due to age which very CRATE
full Every feels that tue day of aectaton s and
the sodty and gravity Of strength and sincerity have
taken its place "Aget has been truly said "seems to
take away the power Of acting character from those
@ s a., ~, y 'Ae loes uuiinh he NAN
part q their lives The real man appears at st hnly
and then predominently. Time spares the chiselled
beauty OF stone and MARBLE but makes sad havoc with
pssior and stueco" At last the death bed, all aeeta
tion is gone aud stern reality forever succeeds
Nowi may seem to you that there is something of
melancholy In the thought tf my text that there is
dirgeike funereal sadness in Its tones That all
and growing DID, and from the oldest to the youngest
all pacing mournul way the grave keeping
step to ihe solemn rsquiem You nay say That the mo.
ment the fact that cne is actually growing old rises above
And that IA have p,sssd hs eiinsx oS srSsry m
must needs be the saddest event ali this sd history
Even so, all this may ne, often is true, But by no
stae Of heart In which I'M ohsarvar anas hmself M
grow old without pety-to travel on through the falling
without eonsoations ana homes of reipinn h
ably gloomy process. Well may such cry out OF the
snd the evening shadows re- lenqthenedp Int Ia eros
old n blessed and transnornr hops to ripen in ali that
ornaments enriches and susians thc spultbisi Il moi
rhasrIsss tbonehl M 'N 49, w 80 ' -
Whya ala Dr Jobpsor IN n f,iend a, man grovzv
halter hnmnred a. he ro,rs oldr ia I'm moves ~ s
narsnra Wbsn vonn ba thints hi,naalSoS rrast eon
reouence and eyerybine ofmnortanea Al he adysncsa
llttle hings of iiitle and 80 b nn
pstient ana bettar nlaas '' " --
This Is doubtess true Of good man but precisely thu
onnoste must hs trns of hsd man Rad men gras nrs
n tbev erovg oI5ar and ,ooS man rrosS hat,sr MI
ripeus and asyeones IN biS avn nainse knew of sa
ruis by which this can bs rsvaTed Ifthe chnrae
rst IL syns and mania M IN ~ y. ~ anr % ~ an ~ s
n ordar 4 sor n ~ as " ,res @ "A - ,ors ~ ~ ~
ths t.sta M sbSs az s,ri,, fcroad T., s,,
nStby a5its vistno,s mi srio @ aniis h " n
VIII jnrrsase IN ss IL II asrs xvbat
~ Sy1ansss ~ ~ ~ " & hal
pons od sae AZ ihsrs il nathInv more bsamifaI tbs
the one 40 thsre ia nathne mora nsly thsn m othr m
All the rsyotnR spectaees that anees ever look npon
narhans mona n WORSE bs n 4 uisarshia ms od 1r
who amidst All ba hrlilant ihts n nrohsiion ohosaa II
Walk in dsrkness ,,ntil Al iensth - y
,'r-,s - y ~ - -
,.rhe Dright stars from whence
he nad MS hshs are set fofevermore
he Fteps forth tutO baCkueas Of eternal riVhtN
"Nothng,p says Hopkins "is so pitiable the advan-
cling tAces Of life when ta twurd the flash and the
devil have secured the victory for the grave
',Iap any thinKn saws Robert South Aiu nature be
more odous and despicable, then wicked old man
man ho after or four years spent in the
nr d. after SO many sermons SUNDAYS Sacramen and
mean Of grace taken in dirested aud defeated .hall
continue as arrant hypocrite disssmher and asquer-
Ader iu religion as ever still odging and doubn viii
God and man and never speaking his mind nor No much
Az opsnns his mouth in earnest but when he cas- and
beahes an old broken and decrept ssnsualis creeping
s It were to the Devil upon all fours silver
wsnton with frost in bis bones and snow on his head
wretch 80 seorned so despsed and SO abandoned bv all
that even his very vices forsake him How anentabls
Il to putting the airs and swelling with the
PRIDE VI VAN ana aru y"uthl Win no seeming reAza-
uon OF Hgptnaonng DEATH and feekesso the examples oi
and eager TO present the charms Of youth amidst the
numerous wnkiss 81 sge apng tls Ky ana
adopting ths sruhcA manners o. chesterfield rather than
tue sraees o. Paul How very Ike pas!eooard humanity
Is tnau now ssoens ,ne spectacle o. oee LOOT Afeaay
the dance This is not simply pitiabe is hideous and
appalling % 4 rightly ordered mind 1
Ihen now ehseress the eonaiuon anu now very blank
the protpeet o. regous od age Look at the picture
OF the OLD Italian poet Carstgione wearing away
carry away with them many commodities snd among
others iaku away ron the n9oo gres part o. the vey
sir thht aereh tue complexion and the Instruments
wax feeble Nhoreby the soul workath s eiiecs There
pte the sweet mowers o. atsn lace away IL mat season
Out Of our hearts as he eates l from Tue trees sfter
rfeal an ihhteao OF open hhu clear thouHhts taere
tth hs ~ tht M MI, sh id
WIN 'h3usahd SO tnAt not ohly the oieod
put the mi q i enleepe1 Ihe sweet spring ume oloy
Is AZ gone ana Nehre broken at ast upon some ioekl
Alas alas this Is an old age without plety and with
out nope All thAt tue he-rt mas cherAhed ana loved
that mas cheered and supported In nls world Is NO.
annE with seneseehee, the world Il Also departing and
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