Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-01-28

Teach the girls how to dress their.
dolls. Better than arnica for your
stiff joints and catnip tea for your
sleepless nights, will be a large dose OF
youthful companionship.
Set back your clocks also by enteft
ing on new and absorbing Christian
work. In our desire to inspire the
young we have in our essays had
much to say about what has been &C.
complished by the young; Of Romulus
who founded Rome when he was 20
years Of age; of Cortes who conquered
Mexico at 80 years; Of Pitt who was
prime minister OF England at "a years;
OF Raphael who died at 81 years; OF
Calvin who wrote his Institutes at 26;
of Melancthon who took O. learned
professors chair at FL years; of Lu-
Their who conquered Germany for the
reformation by the time he was 35
years. And it is all very we'll for us
to show how early in life one can do
very great things for God and the well
fare OF the world, but some of the
mightiest work for God has been done
by septuagenarians ,octogenarians and
nonagenarians. Indeed, there is work
which none but such can do. They
preserve the equipoise OF senates, OF
religious denominations, of reforma-
tory movements. Young men for &C
any OF you beginning to fold up your
energies
| AROUSE ANEW YOUR ENERGIES.
With the experience you have OBJ
tanned and the opportunities OF obser-
walton you have bad during a long
life, you ought to be able to do in one
year now more than you did in 10
years after you passed out Of your
teens. Physical power less, your
spiritual power ought to be more. Up
to the last hour OF their lives what
power for good old DR.. Archibald AL
exander, old Dr. Woods, old DR.. Halves
old Dr. Minor, old Dr. McIlvalne, old
DR.. Tying old DR.. Candlish, old DR..
Chalmers! What have been Bismarck
to Germany, and Gladstone to Eng
land, and Oliver Wendell Holmes to
America in the time OF an advanced
age? Let me say to those in the after
noon OF life: Don't be putting off the
harness; when God wants 1T off he will
take it off. Don't be frightened
out OF life by the grip as many
are. At the first sneeze of an
influenza many give up all as lost.
No new terror has come on the earth.
The microbes as the cause OF disease
were described in the Talmud LOO
years ago as "invisible legions OF dan
gerous ones" Don't be scared out OF
life by all this talk about heart fail
ure. That trouble has always been in
the world. That is what all the peo-
pie that. ever passed ont OF this life
have died of-heart failure. Adam
had it and all his descendants have
had it or will have it. Do not be
watching for symptoms, or you will
have symptoms OF everything. Some
of you will yet die OF symptoms.
Symptoms are often only what VIC
sometimes see in the country, dead
owl nailed to the barn door to scare
living owls.
PUT YOUR TEUsTIN GOD,
90 to bed at 10 o'clock, have the win
, dow open six inches to let in fresh air,
sleep on your right side and lear moth
, ing The old maxim was right: Get
thy spindle and distaff ready, and
God will send thee nax?"
, But while looking at the sun-dia of
Ahaz and | see the shadow OF it
move, noticed that it went back
toward the sunrise instead OF forward
toward the sunset-toward the morn
ing instead of toward the night. That
t thing the world is willing now
to do, and in many cases has
i, done. There have q great many
, things been written and spoken
! about the sunset OF life. I have said
, some of them myself But my text
| suggests better idea. The Lord who
turned back that day from going
t toward shutdown and started it to-
, ward sunrise is willing to do the same
+ who stick to old religious technicalities
} until they become soporitcs would
l not call it anything but conversion. I
e call it a change from going toward
t shutdown to going toward sunrise.
t That man who never tries to un-
t buckle the clasp of evil habit and who
e keeps all the sins of the past and the
: present freighting him and who ignores
7 the one redemption made bV the only
One who could redeem, if that man
3 will examine the sun dial he will find
that the shadow is going forward and
/ he is
t ON THE WAY TO SHUTDOWN.
e have seen day break over Mount
1 Blanc and the Matterhorn, over Mt.
l Washington, over the Sierra Nevadas,
K and mid Atlantic, the morning after a
!, departed storm when the pillows were
S liquid Sierra Nevadas. but the sunrise
! of the soul is more effulgent and more
transporting. 1t bathes all the heights
e of the soul and illumines all the
depths OF the soul and whelms
all the faculties, all the aspirations
! all the ambitions, all the hopes with
e O. light that sickness cannot eclipse
S or death extinguish or eternity dc
: anything but augment and magnify.
e preach the sunrise AS look at that
Z retrograde movement OF the shadow