Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-04-01

subject for with incredibly swift feet it
runs aud you that now think of your
selves as young or 1T mid life. long before
you are aware Of it, will find that others
think you are already Old Old ago is
making haste and there are none of US
that can be young long. Many of us have
passed by youth already and there are
mono SO young but that they ac making
haste swifter than an eagles flight toward
old age
In the wisdom of God moreover, the
way to be happy in old age happens to be
the way to be happy all the way toward
it; and there alc double reasons for the
consideration Of this subject. For it
should be borne in mind that IN old age
it is too late to mend. Then you must
iuhabit what you have built Old age
has the foundations Of It's Joy or sorrow
laid in youth. Ale you building at
twenty'tor twenty? Nay, every stone
that is laid down in the foundation takes
hold on every stone up to the very caves
of the building. And every deed, right
or wrong, that transpires in youth, reach
es forward and has relation to all the
the after part Of mans lie. For a
mans life is not like contiguous cells in
a bees honcycomb. It is more like sepa-
r.te parts of a plan. Every part bears a
relation to every other part. That which
you do in youth is the rot; and all the
after part--thc middle age and the old
age-are branches and fruit; aud the
root will determine these. =
There are many physical clements
which enter into a profitable and happy
old age. The human body is an instru-
mcnt of pleasure and of use, built for
eighty years wear. Every man belongs
to an economy i'll which he has right to
calculate on long life for improvement.
Eighty years is a fair term of life.
This body is placed in world adapted
to noursh and protect it, Nature is
oongenial. There are elements enough Of
mischief in it, ifa man chooses to nd
them out A man can wear his body out
as quick as he plcaScs; lie can destroy il
if he will but, after all, the great laws
of nature are nourishing laws; and, COM
prchcnsively regarded, nature is uniyer.
sal nurse, universal physician, guarding
US against evil winning US from it by
incipicnt pains; setting up signals, moi
outwardly, but inwardly; causing US Il
experience sorrows anl pains for oul
benefit.
Every immodcrate draft which is madt
ly the appctitcs and by the passions is SC
much sent forward to be casned in ole
|, age, You sir on Que end, but God takes
it all off on the other. Every man hat
stored up for him some eighty years, il
he knows how to keep them. Those cigh'
ty years, like bank of deposit, are full
of treasures; and though, through ignor
ance or immoderate passions, men are
wont to draw checks on old age, they Dc
not suppose they are doing il. The wick
cd man will rot live out half his days
The unvirtuous m,n we gee does not
need not go out Of the town, the city, the
street, the store, to find instances of pre-
mature exhaustion, or weakness and en-
fccblement. | mightpoint to thousand
instances. without going mile in any
direction, of the fulfill .nent of the decree
that unvirtuous men shall not live out
half their days. Men are accustomed tc
look upon the dissipations of youth as
something that belongs to their time ol
life. Men say "Of course, the young
like colts, will lisport themselves. There
is no harm il that 60 not Object to
their vivacity, and to their dsportins
themselves, as you call it, within the
bounds of true reason and true health
but do object to and abhor as worthy to
be stigmatzed as dishonorabe and un.
manly, any course in youth that takes
away volume, and strength, and vigor
aud purity, and the right to happy old
age. | do not believe in a mau's taking
his old age TO wick candle With which
to light him in the vices Of youth. Gay.
ETY. and exhilaration are very wholesome
and good. think that man is not a
thorough Christian who is not happy
cheerful, buoyant Christian. There will
be times of public sorrow and revulsiOn,
when there is required stern 0tuff there
will be, times when Christian men have
duties that briug out the stcrner elements
Of their character; but these are excep-
tional cases, The ideal of true manhood
is an ideal of cheerful. buoyant happi-
ness; and do not object to that; but
object to any mans making an animal Of
himself or living for the sake Of his ami
NAL passions