The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-01-13

grandchildren, Shoutlng, pOoP tn"s
racketp Better join in the fun. Let
the eighty year-old grandfather join the
eight-year-old grandson or granddaugh-
ter. My father and mother lived TO see
over eighty children and grandchildren
and great granchld 'en, and a 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 city al
flicted 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
panv of those who are always talking
about rheumatism and lumoago ana
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 dpeople a lit
tie deaf were talking over old times
YOU will find that this age does not
monopolize all the young rascals. IL
may now be hard to get young people
up early enough in the morning, but
their grandparents always had 10 De
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 tne
embankment that he might see how
they would look when tumbled into
the snow. And that man who has &c
little patience with childish exuberanc'
was in olden times up to pranks one
half Of which, II practiced by the eight
year-old Of to-day, would set grand
father and grandmother crazy. Revive
your remem brance Of what you wer
7; between Ave and ten years of age, ant
7 with patience capable Of everything
Join with the young. Put back tn
7 shadow Of the dial not ten degrees ou
ffty and sixty and seventy degrees.
Set back your clocks also by enterin
8 on new and absorbing Christian wori
d In our desire to inspire the young W
Q have in our essays had much TO sa
Q about what has been accomplished b
the young; OF Romulus who founde
o Rome when he was twenty years OF ag
n of Cortes who had conquered Mexico
d thirty years; OF Pitt who was prin
n minister OF England at twenty-fo'
Is years; Of Raphael who died at thirt
s. seven years; OF Calvin who wrote h
n institutes at twenty-six: Of Melancthc
II who took learned professors chair
70 twenty-one years; of Luther who hi
T. conquered Germany for the reform
N tion by the time he was thirty-h'
~ years. And II is all very well for us
Id show how early in life one can do ve
We great things for God and the WI
or fare of the world, but son
,g of the mightiest work for God.has be-
u done by septuagenarians, and oct
ds Renarians, and nonagenarians lndee
10 there Is work which none but such cI
~ do. They preserve the cquipoise
In senates, OF religious denominations,
on retormatory movements Young m
Ies for action, old men for counsel lnste
he Of any Of you beginning TO fold up 20
IN energies arouse anew your energi'
ou With the experience you have obtain
Id. and the opportunities OF observati
m YOU have had;during long life. y
m. oug hit to be able TO do in one year NJ
w! more than you did In ten years rig
Ve- after you had passed out Of your teei
ow Physical power less, your spiritual pow
de- ought 10 be more. Up 10 the last he
nd of their lives what power good old
OF Archibald Alexander, old DR. Woo
iod old DR.. Hawes old DR.. Minor. old
sat McIlvaine, old Dr. Tying, old DR. Car
va lish. old Dr. Chalmers! What ha
nes been bismarck 10 Germany, and Gli
ION stone to England, aud Oliver Wend
wn Holmes 70 America In the time OF an
ten vanced age2 Let me say TO those In
ma afternoon OF life: Don't be putting
our the harness; when God wants II of
ian will take IL of. Don't be frightened
The OF life by the grip as many are. At
nRs first sneeze OF an influenza many g
nan up all as lost. No new ter
less has come on the earth. The
ten crobes rs the cause OF diseases W
OF described In the Talmud seventeen h
in dred years ago as ''invisible legions
'oo- dangerous ones Don't be scared
up OF life by all this talk about heart I
the ure. That trouble has always beer
ped the world That is what all the pee
ges' that ever passed out OF this life h
eze- died of-heart failure Adam hat
ex- and all of his descendants have hn
one or will have It Do not be watch
9 OF for sysmptoms, or You will have sy
I'M toms OF everything. Some Of you
ina. yet die Of symptoms. symptoms
ana often only what we sometimes Sc,
You 80, door 10 score liv,n, owls