Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-06-19
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iEsSIxty Years.,

/ Mr.. VIM. G. HoUells completed the
sixtieth year of his age, and the fif
teenth of his connection with the Ash
tabuIa Sentinel, on the 18th. In his issue
Of that date, he briefly reviews the his
i tory of the last quarter of his past life,
during the greater part of which the
Sentinel was known as the organ of Mr..
Giddings, and then remarks:
Such has been the eYentful history
Of the fifteen years have spent upon
the Sentinel. Could l ask more These
are things that prophets and kings
nave desired bat have net seen. This
period Of half a generation is to stand
out in the worlds history as one Of its
stupendous pages-a beacon light of
the ages, whose glory will obscure the
past and light up the future. Ninety
years ago, this nation was declared IN
dependant; the last FIVE Of these have
seen it become free. What remains must
come by the slow process of regenera-
ton; and years beyond ours must wit
ness the confirmation into permaneney
of what has been SO nobly inaugurated.
Anniversaries and birthdays are the
milestones of time; and it is well to
count up as we pass them, and note
the progress we have made. In the
world of nature, we measure time by
the rotation of the earth upon its axis;
while, in the region of mind, it is
marked by the intellectual advance
ment from state to state. Thus the
the young in years may be old in real
life, and the gray haired may be infants
in all but innocence.
We cannot, then, count our age by
years alone, but must rather measure
it by the steps we have taken in the
right way. BY this rule, how wretch
edly childish many of US are; and how
much worse than young we may be-
By this standard especially, we must
measure pation's age, and the worlds.
How old this nineteenth century has
has made the world, and how vastly
has this nation marured in the last FIVE |
yearsl Men and nations should grow
and ripen with their years but they
do not and lamentations over fruitless
hours make up the business OF years
which should bear the ripened sheaves
of wisdom's harvest.
So to-day / write against myself
three score years time to have grown
oh, how much wiser than l aml-l
The lost hours call upon me in judge |
ment, and I fAinaould waive hearing |
now though L know the order of
things forbids that l should load the
few years to come with the tasks which |
were neglected in the past. IL IS well /
that this account is to be settled with |
the All-MercifuL ~ rs.t.
But to be more common place
what q wonderful period is this in
which we hVel Within the recolllec-
ton of every intelligent man of sixty
how the world has grown in science !
and civilization. How well Weremem-
ber things as they were, aud had been
for ages, till the. last fifty years had
walked them up. With US have grown
up the greatest ciVilizers of the world
Since the discovery of Gunpowder and
Printing, progress stood still till the
steam engine took ats place in naViga-
ton, within our own time. Since then
has followed, d,-Steam navigation all
over the Norld,-the Railway and Lo-
Daguerreotype and
Photography,-the Magnetic Telegraph
the Steam Printing Press,-the Ste
reotype and Eleetrotype,-the Subma-
,ine Telegraph,-and all the improve
nents in the art of war,-and the un-
old develepmeHt of science. These
We have seen come into use, within a (
hort lifetime. One who yet feels him {
elf young, began the labors of the {
press when scarcely one of them was {
Known, and has seen them dawn upon {
he world with almost meteoric veloci- {
y, and take their places as the means /
# human advancement. Thus we I
AVE grown old without waiting for the G
ears or caring for the centuries. We b
ave seen and ceased to wonder at O
hings marvellous, beyond the eoncep- t
ion of the fabulist The common r
lace realities that We use as necessi- v
les of life, would have excited to d
corn, if told in the dreams of the en- o
husiast. or the hopes of the alehemist. i
-et our sixty years have brought all o
MS and stih there remains for as the il
eed of labor for sustenance, and use n
Il employment for happiness. The a
uties Of life are before US, and the re- b
laining years few or many. May we q
Ope that they shall improve upon the p,
sst, and as we meet our readers on
lch successive fifteenth day of May, m
Tough it be on the downhill of life, Al
aY it be on those sunny spots pointed N
It by wisdom, in the love of the true tt
ID good. 81