The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-27

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racket" Better join in the fun. Let
the eighty-year-old grandfather join the
eight-year-old grandson or granddaugh-
te-. My father and mother lived to see
over eighty children and grandchildren
and great grandchildren, and more bois-
ferrous crew were never turned out
on this sublunary sphere and they all
seemed to cry to the old folks, keep
young" and they they did keep young.
Don't walk with cane unless you have
to, or only as defense in a city az
nicted with too many CANNES Don't
wear glasses stronger than necessary,
putting on number tens when eighteens
will do as we'll Don't go into the COM
pany OF those who are always talking
about rheumatism and lumbago and
shortness of breath and the brevity of
human life. 1t is too much for any
gravity to hear an octogenarian 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 your stockings 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 sleepless nights,
will be large dose of youthful COM
panionship
Set back the clock OF human life.
Make the shadow of the sun-dial Of
Ahaz retreat ten degrees People make
themselves 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 grandchildren
are not half as bad as the grandparents
were. Matters have been hushed up But
ifyou have ever been in room adjoining
room where some very old people lit
tie deaf were talking 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 had to be
| pulled out of bed. 1t is wrong now to
| play mischievous tricks on the unsus-
pecting, but eighty years ago at school
| that venerable man sat down on q
crooked pin not accidentally placed
there, and purposely drove the sleigh
riding party too near the edge of the
embankment that he might see how
they would look when tumbled into
the snow And that man who has so
little patience with childish exuberance
was in olden times up to pranks one
half of which, if practiced by the eight
year-old of to-day, would set grand
father and grandmother crazy. Revive
your remembrance of what you were
between five and ten years of age, and
with patience capable of everything
join with the young. Put back the
shadow of the dial not ten degrees but
fifty and sixty and seventy degrees
Set back your clocks also 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 by
the young; of Romulus who founded
Rome when he was twenty years of age
Of Cortes who had conquered Mexico a
thirty years; of Pitt who was prime
minister of England at twepty-fou
years; of Raphael who died at thirty
seven years; of Calvin who wrote hi'
institutes at twenty-six of Melancthoi
who took learned professors chair n
twenty-one years; of Luther who hat
conquered Germany for the reforma
ton by the time he was thirty-tiv'
years. And it is all very well for us t,
show how early in life one can do yer,
great things for God and the wei
fare of the world, but SOM
of the mightiest work for God has beer
done by septuagenarans, and octo
genarians, and nonagenarians. Indeed
} there is work which none but such cal
do. They preserve the equipoise o
senates. of religious denominations, o
reformatory movements. Young mel
for action, old men for counsel. lnstea,
OF any of you beginning to fold up you
: energies arouse anew your energies
With the experience you have obtaine,
and the opportunities of observation
you have had during a long life, yor
Dug hit TO be able to do in one year nov
more than you did in ten years RICH
after you had passed out of your teens
Physical power less, your spiritual powe
ought to be more. Up to the last hou
of their lives what power good old DR.
Archibald Alexander old Dr. Woods
old Dr. Halves. old DIR. Minor, old DR.
t McIlvainc, old DR.. Tying, old DR.. Cand
fish, old DR.. Chalmers! What hav
been Bismarck to Germany, and Glad
] stone to England and Oliver Wendell
Holmes to America in the time of an ad
vanced age? Let me say to those in tn
afternoon of life: Don't be putting OF
r the harness; when God wants it off Ii
! will take it off. Don't be frightened on
. of life by the grip as many are At tn
3 first sneeze of an influenza many Civ
a up all as lost. No new terrc
S has come on the earth. The m
a crobes as the cause of diseases wer
t described in the Talmud seventeen hur
: bred years ago as invisible leyions {
= dangerous ones" Don't be scared OF
P Of life by all this talk about heart fai
g ure. That trodble has always been
d the world That is what all the peopl
). that ever passed out of this life hav
y died of-heart failure. Adam had
: and all of his descendants have had
9 or will have it. Do not be watchin
II for sysmptoms, or you will have sym
l. toms of everything. Some of you wi
It yet die of symptoms. Symptoms al
d often only what we sometimes see
it the country, a dead owl nailed on
u barn door to scare living owls p,
If your trust in God. go to bed at