The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-01-21
the present prospects he is always 60

the present prospects he is always 60.
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! REMAIN YOUNG.
Hang up your stockings in Christ
mas time. Help the boys fly the kite
Teach the girls how to dress theil
dolls. Better than arnica for youl
stiff joints and catnip tea for youl
sleepless nights, will be a large dose 81
youthful companionship.
Set back your clocks also by enter
ing on new and absorbing Christial
work. In our desire to inspire the
| young we hare in our essays had
much to say about what has been &c,
complished by the young; Of Romulus
who founded Rome when he was 90
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 wears; OF
Calvin who wrote his Institutes at 26;
of Melancthon who took a learned
professors chair at FL years; OF Lu-
ther 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 wei
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 ac-
ton, old men for counsel Instead Of
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 q 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 1,7OO
years ago as invisible legions OF dam
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 out 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 we
sometimes see in the country, dead
owl nailed to the barn door to scare
living owls.
.- PUT YOUR TRUST IN GOD,
60 to bed at 10 o'clock, have the win
dow open six inches to let in fresh air,
sleep on your right side and fear moth
ing. The old maxim was right: "Get
thy spindle and distaf ready, and
God will send thee f1ax?''
But while looking at the sun-dial Of
Ahaz and l see the shadow Of it
move, l noticed that it went back
toward the sunrise instead of forward
toward the sunset-toward the morn
ing instead of toward the night. That
thing the world is willing now
to do, and in many cases has
done. There have 8 great many
things been written and spoken
about the sunset of life. I have said
some OF them myself. But my text
suggests a better idea The Lord who
turned back that day from going
toward shutdown and started it to-
ward sunrise is willing to do the same
thing for all Of us. The theologians
who stick to old religious technicalities
'~'tll they become soporitics would
not call it anything but conversion. I
call it a change from going toward
shutdown to going toward sunrise.
That man who never tries to un-
buckle the clasp of evil habit and who
keeps all the sins of the past and the
present freighting him and who ignores
the one redemption made by the only
One who could redeem, if that man
will examine the sun-dial he will find
that the shadow is going forward and
he is '..~. -.2n
ON THE WAY TO, sUNDowN.
have seen day break over Mount
Blanc and the Matterhorn, over Mt.
Washington, over the Sierra Nevadas,
and mid Atlantic, the morning after a
departed storm when the pillows were
liquid Sierra Nevadas, but the sunrise
OF the soul is more effulgent and more
transporting. 1t battles alIthe heights
OF the soul and illumines all the
depths OF the soul and wheln,s
all the faculties, all the aspirations,
all the ambitions, all the hopes with
a light that sickness cannot eclipse
or death extinguish or eternity do
anything but augment and magnify. |
preach the sunrise As look at that
retrograde movement OF the shadow
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