The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-19

I'll INSPIRATION lnateau OF oppression.
Robert Chambers lame feet shut him
up from other work, and he became the
world-renowned publisher. and helped
fashion the best literature OF the ages
The painful disorder like that of Heze-
kiah called a carbuncle is spelled exactly
the same rs the precious stone called
carbuncle, and the pang of suffering
may become the jewel of immortal
value. Your set back, like that of
Ahaz's sun dial, may be recovery and
triumph. never had set back but IL
turned out to be a set forward. You
never would have become Christian
IL you had not had n set back The
highest thrones in Heaven are for the
set backs. In 1861 the shadow OF the
sun dial of this nation was set back,
and all things seemed going To ruin,
and 1t was set back further in 1862, and
further in 1862 but there is not an in
telligent and well-balanced man, North
or South, East or West but feels it was
set back toward the sunrise
But I promised to show you how the
shadows might be turned back. First,
by going much among the young people.
In most family circles there are grand.
children. BY this Divine arrangement
most of the people who have passed the
meridian of life can compass themselves
by juvenility. 1t is a bad thing for an
old man or old woman To sit looking at
the vivacity of their grandchildren,
shouting. stop that racket" Better
join in the fun. Let the eighty-year-
old grandfather join the eight-year-
young grandson or grand daughter.
My father and mother lived To see over
eighty children and grandchildren and
great grandchildren, and n more bolster
Gus crew was never turned ont on this
sublunary sphere, and they all seemed
TO cry to the old folks, Keep young"
and they did keep young Don't walk
with n cane unless you have To, or only
as defense in city afflicted with too
man CANNES. Don't wear glasses strong
er than necessary, putting on number
tens when eightccns will do rs we'll.
Don't go into the country of those who
are always talking about rheumatism
and lumbago and shortness of breath
and the brevity of human life. II is
too much for my gravity TO hear an oc-
togcnarian talking about the shortness
of human life From all | can find
out he has always been here and from
present prospects he is always going to
stay. Remain young. Hang up you
stocking in Christmas time. Help the
boys fly the kite. Teach the girls how
To dress their dolls. Better than arnica
for your stiff joints and catnip tea for
your slcepless companionship. Set
back the clock of huIhan life. Make
the shadow of the sun dial of Ahaz re-
treat ten degrees. People make them
selves old by talking about being old
and wishing for the good old days,
which were never as good as these
days From all | can hear the grand
children are not half rs bad as the
grandparents were. Matters have been
hushed up Bnt if you have ever been
in a room adjoining n room where some
very old people IA little deaf were talk
ing over old times you will find that
this age does not monopolize all the
young rascals. 1t may now be hard to
get young people up early enough in the
morning, but their grandparents always
now to play mischievous tricks on the
unsuspecting, but eighty years ago at
school that venerable man sat down
on crooked pin not accidentally
placed there, and purposely drove the
sleighriding party too near the
edge OF the embankment that he might
see how they would look when tum-
bled into the snow And that man who
has so little patience with childish
exuberance was in olden times up to
FRANKS, one-half of which, II practiced
by the eight-year-old to-day, would set
grandfather and grandmother crazy.
Revive your remembrance of what you
were between five and ten years of age,
and with patience capable ofevery thing
ioin with the young. Put back the
shadow of the dial not ten degrees, but
| fifty and sixty and seventy degrees.
Set back your clocks by entering 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 accomplished 10y the
young; of Romolus, who founded Rome
when he was twenty years OF age; OF
Cortes, who had conquered Mexico at
thirty years; OF Pitt, who was prime
minister of England at twenty-four
years; of Raphael, who died at thirty
seven years; Of Calvin, who wrote his
institutes at twenty-six; OF Melancthon,
who took learned professors
chair at twenty-one years; OF
Luther who had conquered Ger
many for the Reformation by the time
he was thirty.fve years. And IL is all
very we'll for us 10 show how early In
life one can do very great things for
God aud the welfare OF the world, but
some OF the mightiest work for God has
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