The Portland daily press., 1877-03-01
Rev. s. #. zones at Chestnut Street
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A large audience gathered at Chestnut street
church last evening to welcome back Rev. S.
+. Jones, former pastor, and to listen to a
lecture from his lips upon Show to keep
Young" The lecture was an excellent one,
and held the attention of the audience through
out. He commenced by speaking of the end
and aims of man. The chief object in living is
to live as long as possible and always keep
young. Old age has beauty of its own, but
youth never covets that beauty. The world has
got over looking after the possibilities of per-
retual youth. That was only possible in the
youth of the world. There is certain rela-
ticnship between youth and good health.
sick man looks old. If you find young man
that is 'sloucby," every year after he passes
thirty ne will look ten years older than he is.
This is right. Robert Hall would have been
greater man had he been well man. Saint
illness is too often expected OF sickness. No
one of the great masters would have thought OF
painting Herculean saint or muscular an
gel. Business men of our country are said to
wear out at fifty; rather do they waste out their
own powers. The last thing one ought to be
afraid of is hard work. Even hard mental
Woih 10 piCoCiSapNO VI anu NlSOr
erly carried out Who thinks of Bryant, Whit
tier or Tennyson as old when reading their
poetry though written yesterday. How are we
to keep young? By keeping close to nature.
Nothing is SO youthful as nature. If You visit
the early home of childhood you feel
old as you see the children YOU
once played with now the lawyers, SC; 90
out into the fields and see things as they were
and vxyt1 fnala
again. Old-fashioned ways in children are not
what you we'll remember when they are grown.
You will remember rather what was simple
and natural. Crying and laughing are the
chief elements of childhood. Keep them up as
long as possible. You had better not see
thing than not laugh at it. or tragical
and not weep at it. Cheerfulness is to the soul
what health is to the body. The habit of look
ing on the cheerful side of things is worth more
than thousand pounds year johnson said.
Some people are born cheerful eThey cannot |
help it. But it can be cultivated or it would |
not be worth talking about. Good society is |
one of the ubest promoters of cheerfulness |
Attention to the festive side of our natures is |
also promotive of cheerfulness. The more play |
you can carry into your work, the sooner you |
will overcome the primal curse of labor. Lin
coin would doubtless have given way under the |
abors he endured, long ere the assaSsin's bullet |
lid its work, but for his cheerfulness. The one |
dea man feeds on milk, and watered milk at |
'naC. Inc lean, lank, pred]udlced souls are the
oldest of their age There is actually dust on
heir faces. The speaker closed with the
thought that the hope ofimmortality of the soul
) one of the best thoughts to keep one young.
However old you may be today, you will one
lay be young, and young forever.
AT the close of the lecture a company of sew
raj hundred people gathered in the vestry to
Welcome Mr.. Jones. An oyster supper was
erved and good time generally was enjoyed.
The festivities did not conclude till late hour.