Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-08-01

the home OF angels. IL Is an allegation
too. that there remaineth q rest, on
which you may hope to enter, sweet as
the ray of hope, bright as Imagination
can paint, and durable as eternity. With
that rest from infrmities and sin and
sickness, come song, and labor and love
aud q higher life, q. nobler condition, a
greater usefulness
Now for few words on the trials OF
age.
II is a trial-to come TO tie place
where you know the foot drugs and
shuffles, the eye, the ear and tie taste,
and every sense grows dim AMI numb,
and you are conscious that al your
powers are decaying, and the mantle OF
life Is falling from you-and u see all
this with calmness and ito takejOyfully
the spelling Of your goods" by he hand
OF time-requlres much charsctr.
1t is a trial-to feel that yu have
drained llie's cup, so sweet when the
lips first touched the brlm, and low only
its dregs left to you and yet perhaps you
not willing to let it 90.
1t is a trial-to see your family leaV-
ing you--no more TO return, and3hanges
going on, beautiful they may belize the
tints on the leaves of autumn, bit every
tint reminding you that winter is nigh.
1t is a trial-to be commiseraed and
told now you "hold out" an "seem
Young" and shat you really aria par-
vel"-considerng how old you ae All!
this commiseration Why, dealsir, old
age Is an intirmity or bundle of nfirmi-
ties, and 1t is just as if you sholld say
TO your friend, why, really, Mr. Jones,
you eat remarkably well for mn who
has false teeth" or 'you walk vey well
considering that you are bow legged"
"Mr. Brown, you see wonderfully well,
considering that you are squinteyed,"
"Mr. Cook, you keep your figure Straight
and youthful, unusually so for man
who wears > truss" Dear Mrs Law,
years make no impression on you, |
shouldn't know that you had ltered
except for your false hair" Sun kind
commisseration age must receive; but
this is no trial compared with tie feel
ing that you have Outlived your genera
ton, the friends of your early ife are
gone, or retired into the silence Of age,
ard you are left like a withered eaf on
the bougb, sfteF the cold winds of au-
tumn have twisted all the rest off You
are conscious that the links that bound
you in sympathy with that generation
are broken, and you fad it very difficult
to come into sympathy with the new
generation. All is changed, the apple
which you ate in boyhood, does not
grow now, honey hast lost something OF
its sweetness, colors something Of their
brightness, music something OF its pow
err, distance something of its greatness,
and all things are inferior to what they
once were. And then from the top OF
the hill, you look back and all your
path is barren, aad the hills that you
have climbed and the thoughts in which
you struggled with temptation-sll look
so cold, so dead that you can SEE moth.
ing green. Nothing on which he eye
rests, gives comfort, for your sins and
mistakes seem piled up behind you like
| great bOulders covering all the field o.
vision. Alas alas looking forward
and backward, the eye of age rests or
nothing cheering-unless it falls upor
Christ Jesus, and then his mercy throws
q covering over the past, and opens tn,
door of hope in the future! Such ar
the trials peculiar to age-and man,
more might be named. Now for few
directions, dear reader, when thou comes
to be old.
You will need to dress warmer. You
blood will circulate slower, and not 81
much on the surface of the body. Yol
will chill easy, take cold easy, and hav
little power to resist the cold or th
changes OF the weather. Very few oil
people dress as they should. Keep thi
IN mind. Keep aCtive-not under
heavy burden OF business or duties o.
you, but enough to employ your thought
and strength, and yet you must no
overdo, the old nill cannot grind as fas
nor as long as it once could. Rest whe
you are weary, and make a business c
resting. Don't try to be old or young
There is no need OF trying the former
and the latter would be foolish. Don
dwell on the fear that you are old, eithe
in your thoughts or to others. Yo
know the fact that you are old, and
other people don't know it most likel
they suspect it. At any rate, to tai
about it is like talking about a reason
which need no. be talked about. Kee
up with the world, the religious and tn
secular world, by daily reading and b
sympathy. Don't engage in any me-
business, or any new schemes. You hav
not judgment to make decisions, or
you have, you have not strength t
overcome the obstacles Immediately COZ
nected with new undertakings. IndeeC
age should have little to do in maxim
great bargains. Especially don't gro
covetous,-th besetting sin of az
You feel that you are growing helples
and by and by, you may need attentio
and kindness, and you know that none
will buy these, and hence, it being tt
only power left which you can feel, 20
convert more OF it. It eats into the hea
and grows with age-uDless you are vel
careful. Remember that by hoardin,
growing stingy and close, you take tt