The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-10-29

dam that we may grow old together,n
this most outward condition was there
IN their nature, or else they might as
well have prayed that the wheels of a
watch. one-half steel and the Olherpew-
ter, might grow old together.
80 tell YOU, young men, If You are
not wholesome clean through. and YOU
young women, if YOU will not train
yourselves to the finest and slriclcst wo-
manhood possibleto your nature. if vou
VIII not eat brown bread, and work i'm
the garden if you have one. with any
more grip than bird scratching. quit
reading novels in hot room, and de-
vouring swectmeats, if YOU dare not
face the sun and wind, and try TO out
walk and out-run your brothers, or let
our sweet, wise Mother Nature buckle
your belt, You had better not say amen
when Your stalwart young husband
cries, Mercifully ordain that we may
grow old together
| said this is the most outward condi-
ton. Reaching inward, we find others
more serious. These young people have
70 find each other out, and they may
spend lifetime in doing it.. some find
each other out as mariners have
sometimes found out the polar seas.
They leave the shores of their single life
in the spring DAYS with tears and hene-
diction, ON them; they sail on awhile in
sunshine and fair weather, aud then,
somehow, they find their way little by
little into the cold ATTITUDES, and see the
sun sink day by day, and feel the frost
creep in and harden them until at last
they turn 10 ice, sitting at the same ta-
bile and sleeping in the same room. 9th
ers again find each other out rs in an
these years we have been finding cut
this new world. They settle down nj
first among the meadows by the spring,
then they 20 through "A belt of shadow
and lose their way to find il again by
and by, and come ont into wider spaces
and better land that they left. They
meet the rugged hills and climb them
together, come TO the mountains and
scale them together. and then they see
the other ocean and reach IL together;
and so their Journey ends But through
shadow and shine they keep together;
they allow no disaster 90 divide them,
and no third person, not even the mOth-
er-in-law. to Interfere.
sydney Smith say, Marriage re-
scmblcs a pair of shears. SO joined that
thcy cannot De separated. moving often
i'm opposite directions. hut Away pun
ishing amy one that comes between
Them 'fhe remark j, as wise a. it is
witty. and ~ might had added Part
the shears asmdcr, and then all You
have lett Is two poor daggers.' 80 II
is possible that we may grow gray as
we find each other out. and wonder
VIII, we never SAW that trait before or
struck that temper; but il there is ihi,
true heart between US that Keeps the
riyei IN 70, place. the year. viii bc sure
% bring now reasons for more perfect
union. and the sweet Scotch ballad VIII
be psalm Of life
John Anderson. my 10 John.
We cloInh the hill tu-ther
And many canfy day. John.
We've had Wi ane lnithcr.
Moo W. maun toddr doom, John.
But hand n hand Wei -,
And sleep together a. The foot.
John Anderson. my 30.
But in finding each other on, again il is
possible that. like my mothers old
shears. over which used 70 ponder
when was a boy, one side vii be great
er than the other.
Ny story ends before the answer %
the PRAYER i granted. They must hc
getting on when we leave them, for they
move away. and So the curtain fall, ON
them forever but it makes little mat
ter. know Just how il was with them,
il they kept these safeguards and i@-
lowed this inspiration that have tried
to teach.
Now this is q prayer that we can all put
up 10 God on our wcdding-day, or, II
we will. on any day and every day after
and find the spirit Of the answer M the
spirit Of the cry. Is there danger that
we shall make il impossible for Heaven
to hear us IN the tale Of the years pr
cause we are using them mp ~ the
prodigal used up his fortune? We can
guard against that i there danger
that while We may grow old together ~
wears there may be such a growing
difference Of spirit and purpose that ~
thrcc-scorc-a we may merely re
two old people who may find each other
out 10 find il Is AL "A mistake? We c.'h
uuard AGAINST that For where tins sale
Guard io our inner life. and Tor that
matter our outer life also, j. needed. the
answer to our prayer comes IN ihe tfue
asking. No man or woman ever clltu
out 10 God with their whole heart l'i-
vently: Merciiully ordain that VIZ
may grow old together who ~ l"e
find well springs in the drycst ots'rl'
CLEANS Of sunshine stealing into lhrl
darkest shadows. an arm of power l'r
their most appalling sleeps, and SUM!
resting-placcs all the way.
A BlindLcadcr.
A gentleman in Boston. who ior oN''
fifty years has been totally blind W,
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