Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-01-14

! uHouyuts unu cutapIublnb hnN iOOkeu OUT upOI
the black hand OF the only clock known at tina
time and saw it move back ten degrees, ht
learned lesson that majority OF tho human
| race need this hour to learn,-thst the bes
| friend man ever had controls the
shadow. The setbacks are sometimes
the best things that can happen. The great
| German author, Schiller, could not work un
! less he had in his room the scent Of rotten ap
pies, and the decay of the fruits of earthly pros
| perity may become an inspiration instead of a
! depression. 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 HezelSah called u carbun-
Gle, is spelled exactly the same as the precious
stone called the carbuncle, and the pang OF 5uf-
fering may become the jewel OF immortal value.
Your setback like that of Ahaz's sun-dial may
be recovery and triumph never
had setback but il turned out 10 be set-for-
ward. You never would have become a Chris
tan II you had not had q setback. The highest
thrones in heaven are for the set-backs. In
1861 the shadow of the un'aial of this nation
was set back, and all things seemed going TO
ruin, and il was set back further in 1862 and
further in 1868, and still further in 1865 but
there is not an intelligent and well-balanced
man, North or South, East or West, but feels
it was set back toward the sunrise
But | promised TO show You how the
shadows might be turned back First, by
going much among the young people III most
family circles there are grandchildren. BY
this divine arrangement most of the people
who have passed the meridian of life can com
pass themselves with jutenility. IL is bad
thing Tor an old man or old woman TO sit look
ing Vt the viVacity of their grandchildren shout
ing, stop that racket Better join IN tho
fun. Let the s0-years-old grandfather join
the s-years-old grandson or granddaughter.
My father and mother lived 10 see over eighty
children and grandchildren and grtatgrandchil.
dren and a more boisterous crew were never
turned out 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 q
cane unless you have to- or only as a defense in
d city afflicted with too many CANNES. Don't
wear glasses stronger than necessary, putting
on number tens when cighteens will do as we'll
Don't go into the company OF those who are al
ways talking about rheumatism and lumbago
and shortness of breath and the breyity Of
human life. II is too much for my gravity to
hear an octogenariau talking about the short
ness of human life. From all l Tan 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 their kites.
Teach the girls how to dress their dolls Bet
ter than arnica for your stir joints and catutp
tea for your slcepless nights, will be large
dose of youthful companionship.
Set back the clock Of human life. Make the
shadow Of the sun-dial of Ahaz retreat ten de
grees. People make themselves old 10y always
talking about being old and wishing for the
good old days, which were never rs good as these
days From all l can hear the grandchil-
Gren are not half as bad as the grand
parents were Matters have been hushed up
But if you have ever been in n room adjoining o
room where some very old people little deaf
were talking over old times you will find TIA.
this age does not monopolze all the young ras-
Gals. 1t may now be hard 10 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 mis.hievous
tricks on the unsuspecting but eighty years
ago ut school that now venerable man sat down
on crooked pin not accidentally placed
there, and purposely drove the Seghr rid
ing party too near the edge of the embanSmcn mt
that he might see how they would look when
tumhled into the snow. And that man who has
so little patience with childish-exubcrance was
in olden times up to pranks one-half of which if
practiced by the s-year-old of 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 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 20 years of age: of CorteZ who had
conquered Mexico at 30years; of Pitt who was
prime minister of England at "a years; OF
Raphael who died at 81 years; OF Calvin who
wrote his Institutes at 20: of Melancthon
who took a learned professors chair at 81
lnI a
Germany for the Reformation by the
time he was IS years And it was all very well
for US TO show how early in life one can do very
great things for God and the welfare of the
world, but some of the mightiest work for God
has been done by septuagenarians and octogen-
arians and noRagenarians. Indeed there is
work which none but such can do. They pre-
serve the equipoise OF Senates, OF religious de-
nominations of reformatory movements
Young men for action, old men for counsel
Instead of any of you beginning TO fold up YOU
/ energies, arouse anew your energies. Will
the experience you have obtained and the op
portunlties of observation you have had during
/ a long life, you ought to be able to do in one
year now more than you did in ten years RICH
after you had passed out OF your teens. PLY
steal power less your spiritual power ought t
be more. Up TO the last hour of their live!
what power for good was old DIR. Archibald
Alexander, Old DR.. Woods, old DIR. Halves, Ole
DR.. Minor, old DR.. Mellvaine. old DR.. Tying
/ old Dr. Candish, old DIR. Chalmers
/ What have been Bismarck to Ger
many, and Gladstone TO England, Cn
Oliver Wendell Holmes to Americ;
in the time of an advanced age? Let me So
to those in the afternoon of life: Don't b.
putting off the harness; When God wants it o.
be will take IL OF. Don't be frightened out G
life by the grip as many are. At the frs
sneeze of an influenza many give up all as los
No new terror has come upon the earth. Tn
! microbes as the cause of disease were dt
sorbed in the Talmud LOO years ago as Iii
visible legions of dangerous ones" Don't b
scared out of life by all this talk about hear
failure That trouble has always been in tn
world. That is what all the people that eve
passed out OF this life have died Of
heart failure. Adam had it and a.
of his descendants have had it or will have II
DO not be Watching for symptoms, or you vii
have symptoms of everything. Some of 20
will yet die Of symptoms. symptoms are ofte
only what we sometimes see in the country,
dead owl nailed on a barn door TO scare Twin
owls. Put your trust in God, go to bed at /
O'Clock, have the window open six inches to le
in the fresh air, sleep on your right side ant
fear nothing, The old maxim was right "Ge
thy spindle and distaff ready, and God will sent
thee fax"
But, says some one, all that you say may b,
true Dul ludI uOcS NOT nlnutF the horrors oil
dissolution. Why, you who are the Lords, ar,
not going to die. All that the grave gets OF yol
as compared with your chief, your immorta
nature, is as the clippings Of your finger naili
as compared with your own body. AS you run
the scissors along the edge of your thumb mai
and cut of that which is of no use but rather
hindranCe you do not mourn over the departur,
of that fragment which flies away. Death viii
be only the scissoringoff of. that which could b,
I OF no use and the soul has NJ
funeral over that which would b,
I an awful nuisance if We could not get riC
Of ii. This body as il now is, what failure 1
would make of heaven il our departing soul hat
to be burdened with it in the next world
While others there go ten thousand miles
minute we would take about an hour TO wall
four miles, and while our neighbor immortal
could see "a hundred miles we could see only tel
miles, and the heetest and healthiest of ou
bodies il seen there would make IL nee
essary TO open in heaven an asylum for cripples
Mo- no; one of the best possible things tina
will happen 10 US will be the sloughing on o
this body when we have no more use for IL Il
its present state When 1t shall come up in il
resurrected form we will be very glad to get
back again. but not as IL is now with its limita
tions and bedwarfments innumerable. Sur
rise.
There shall battle my weary soul
In seas of heavenly rest,
Nd a..nffr In rn1l