Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-10
SERMON TO THE AGED.

Ae St. John Street Mo E. Church Fly Rev. Mr. N1arkwick. Notwithstanding the clouds and threaten ing weather, the Rev. ". F. Markwick was greeted by good-sized congregation yester- day morning.
 He preached sermon to the aged; text goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out"
 The preacher said: I have called you to- gether to consider both sides of this subject and answer these two questions. What are the gains and what are the losses of old ages
 As we sit by the open window we think we hear the wood choppers blow of years ago and of the clearing of the ground for the first old homestead that VIC once knew, and so in all the modern inventions we are car ried back to the plainness of our youth and we are to a certain extent filled with feelings of sadness and pain. Our minds are not as fresh as they used to be and we often express the so frequently used words, 'FThe times are getting ahead of me-"
 The remembrance of the departed ones often gives pain as an old gentleman said as he looked at a stately tree. "I helped dig the hole for that tree; there were five of us then, and now like it am left alone."
 But the grandest thought is to look for ward. Leave the past and press forward. Now let us review the same grounds from the other side. Look at the middle life. Were there not sleepless nights of worry and earea Now is it not 8 peaceful life without the care9 Is the mind weaker! If the senses are not so acute, they are much more refined and if we cannot enjoy so much of the world, the little we do enjoy gives more khav, kI,a .ol &r~ have. In the quiet of old age we can discern much in the life of business that WAS hidden from us in the rush and hurry of our busy middle lite. The loss of friends is sorrow full but ss old people we look back too much and not enough to the future not think that the friends are all gone. Can you not pray for the young who are at least trying to fill the places you have Ieft2 You have had the experience; can you not give the advice and help which your long life has given youi The loved ones gone before are not asleep under the sod, they are not con- fined in the narrow house, but they have gone before on to the front. True, they can- not come to you again, but you are going to them. If we look at this life alone it may be sad, but when we take eternity into &C., count it is all joy. Our hope is there; our prospect is right; the sunset is but the dawn ing of beautiful day and not darkening of day into night, and God shall make it an en- trance into an eternity Of life and bliss through all the bright ages of heavenly existence.
 At the evening service Rev. W. F. Mark wicks sermon was the "Transdguration of Christ" and was one of his finest discourses. The transfguration of Christ has more than one meaning. First, Christ was encouraged by the presence of Moses and Elijah and bet ter strengthened for the sorrow and despair of the crucifxion; second, the trans6guration strengthened the faith and trust of Christ's most intimate followers. But most of all he shows how closely can the Christian come to his master whom accepting of and accepted by Christ.
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