Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-01-20

back the clock of human life. Make
the shadow of the sun-diai Of Aha. ~.
treat ten degrees. People make them
selves old by talking about being s,,d
and Wishing for the good old dava
which were never a. good "A thc,.
days From all can hear the grand
children are NOT half n bad a. the
grandparents were. Matters have been
hushed up But IL you have ever been
IN room adjoining room where some
very old people = little deaf were talk.
ing over old times you will End that
'h's age docs not monopolixc nil tho
young rascsls II may now be hard to
get young people mp early enough in the
morning but their grandparents always
nad To he pulled out OF bed IL is wrong
now 70 play mischicvous tricks on the
"nsuspccsing. but eighty years ago nd
school that venerable man sa, down
ON = crooked pin not accidentally
placed there. and purposely drove the
sieigh-riding party too near the
edge OF the embankmeut that he might
see how they would look when tum-
Died into the snow. And that man w no
has 40 little patience with childish
exu>crance WINS in oldcn times up To
pran~s. one-half of which. IL prscticed
by tbs eight-ycar-cld to-day. would SO,
grandfather and grandmother crazy.
kevivs your rsmombrAncc of what you
were between Ave and ten years OF arc.
and WITH patience capable of every thing
join with the young Put back the
shadow OF thc dial not ten degrees hut
hfty and sixty and seventy degrees
Set back Jour clocks by entering on
new and absorbing Christian work. In
our desire Tn inspire the young We have
In our essays had much To say abou,
what has been. accom- plished nv tn.
young; OF Romolus who founded Rome
whom he was twenty ysars OF age; Of
Cortes, who had conquered Mexico n,
thirty years; OF Pitt who was prime
minister of England AZ tweuty-four
years; of Raphael. who died at thirty.
seven years; OF Calvin. who wrote HE
Institutes Mt t~enty-six; OF Meianc,hou.
who took learned rrofesso<'s
chair NJ twcnty-eus year,; of
Luther, who mad csnausred Ger.
many for the Reformation by tho time
he was thirty 1--WE yesrr- And IL IL all
very well for us To show Aow ear1v in
life one can do very great things for
God and the welfare OF the world. hut
some OF the mightiest work for God IN.
been done by septrgenariana Indced
there In work which none hut such can
do. They preserve the -quipois. OF
senatcs. of religious denominations OF
roformntory movements Young men
for action old men for counsel.
instead OF any OF you beginning
To fold up your energiea arouse anew
your energies With tho experience
you have obtained and the oppor,uni.
tics OF observation you have had during
long life, you ought Ia he able To do
In one year now more than you did In
ten years right after you had passed on,
or your teens Physical power lea..
your spiritual power Ought 10 bc more.
Up To the last hour Of their lives wha,
power Tor good old DIR. Archibald Alex.
ander, old DIR. Woods, old DR. Hawca.
old DR. Minor. old DIR. McIlvaine. old
Dr. Tying, old DR. Candlish. old DR..
Chalmers! What have been Bismarck
to 6ermnny and Gladstone 20 England
and Oliver Wendell Holmes To America
IN the time OF AN advanced age? Let
me say Ia those In the afternoon OF
life: Don't be putting of the hnr-
ness; when God wants IL He will take IL
of Don't be frightened out OF life bv
the grip as many arc. At the first
sneeze OF an influenza many give up all
rs lost No new terror has come on the
earth Tho microbes as the cause of
disease described in the Talmud 700
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
people that ever passed out of this
life have died of--hcart failure. Adam
had IL and all OF his descendants have
had IL or will have IT, Do not be watch.
ing Tor symptoms Symptoms are Of
ten only what we sometimes sec I'm the
country, a dead owl nniled on n barn
door TO scare living owls Put your
trust in God. 90 TO bed ut 10 o'clock.
have the window open six inches 10 let
in the fresh air. sleep on your right side
and fear nothing The old maxim was
right; Get thy spindle and distafI
ready, and God will send thee faxr'