Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-22

of this age in improvement COLDER
mean between the phonetic and the ideo
graphic, is doubtless the true ground tc
occupy. But the great value of the i'm
proved dictionary can neither be denied
nor ignored, and it will be much sough
after by scholarly, scientific men, and viii
come to be considered indispensable to the
completeness of the libraries of the
learned.
"YOUNG men think old men are fools
old men know young men to be So" may
be cynical, antique apothegm. YET
there is strong meat in it, and the saying
may serve for not improbable reflection
How often is a man with silvery locks
greeted with the inquiry, GLOW old are
your" the questioner little realizing the
impertinence of his own inquiry. And
how supremely sensitive, doubtless need
lessly so, are many men, when thus ad-
dressed? Women are not alone secretive
as to their age. Many man is squeamish
in this regard, and carefully conceals his
age from his most intimate friends. The
following old saw was invented to hit men
who are always silent and uncommunica-
tive in company: eff you are a
fool, you are wise; if you are wise,
you are a fool" This may seem like a
paradox, yet if man ID fool it is wise to
keep silent; but if he is wise, has knowl-
edge, information that might be valuable
to others, he is foolish to withhold his
capability to entertain and instruct 9th
ers. But speaking of old age, it is per-
ilous thing to grow old in these stirring,
piping days. The aged man is not wanted.
He has outgrown his usefulness. He
is mere cumberer of the ground. He
is i'll the way. His capability, gained by
long experience, counts for nothing. "Old
men for counsel, young men for war;" is
secuted as an absurdity. Young men for
counsel, as well as for accomplishment,
is now the motto. And thus neglected and
despised, with no conscious abatement of
mental fiber, many gray head
goes sorrowing to the grave,
regarded as an excrescence in the family,
nuisance in society, or, at least, an in
consequential, useless factor. A writer,
speaking of aged pastors, says with a
touching pathos: Gan old man wantedl
What for? What can he do? Who wants
him? Who cares for an old manf / do not
know sight more painful than that of
one who has spent all his life and living in
making the church and the world rich by
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the cold charity of generation that knows
him not. There is nothing for him to do.
Perhaps he did all the work the Lord had
for him long ago. He is not wanted now,
and whether i'll or we'll, his day is over; the
night Is at hand when no man can work.
The church is often very ungracious and
unwise in turning away from her old pas
tors because they are DID, They preach
better now than ever. Out of the wells of
deep and holy Christian experience, they
teach with wisdom and love to which they
were strangers in former times. No mat
ter,they have committed the objectionable
sin of growing old, and like the Chinese,
they must go. And, as Mr.. Webster asked,
''Where shall they go? Pulpits are shut
against them. They cannot dig.
They ought not to be allowed
to beg. And heaven is not ready for them
yet. Unhappy men! having saved Others,
you are now left out in the cold yourselves"
Little reck the young, in the hot blood
and hey-day of activity, that they tho with
passing years may grow old, and have
melted out to them in turn the indiffer-
ence and depreciation that they so unjustly
and inconsiderately are measuring out
to the aged.