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ties. was asked by my friend, Rev. DR..
Spear, "Dr. Bemsn, how is your health
nowT and he replied. "I have on me an in
durable disease" "What is thats' asked my
friend, and the septuagenariau replied.
sOld age" Both Of the old men I have
mentioned intended their remarks for
facetiousness and old people have Alright to
be facetious. An a.ed woman sent for her
physician and told him Of her ailments, and
the doctor said: 'What would you have me
do, madam l caunot make you young
What want you to do is to help me grow
old little longer"
The young have their troubles before
them. The old have their troubles behind
them. You have got about all out Of this
eartn CnaJ there IS In lt. be glad that you,
an aged servant of God, are going to try an
other life and amid better surroundings.
Stop looking back and look ahead. Oh, ye
in the seventies. and the eighties, and the
nineties, your best days ars yet to come;
your grandest associations are yet to be
formed; your best eyesight is yet to be
kindled: your best hearing is yet to be
awakened; your greatest speed is Yet to be
travelled; your gladdest song is yet to be
sung.
The most of your friends have gone over
the border. and you are going to join them
very soon. They are waiting for you. They
are watching the golden shore to see you
land. They are watching the shining gate
to see you come through. They are stand
ing by the throne to eeyou mount. What a
glad hour when you drop the staff and take
the scepter; when you quit the stitfened
Joints and become an immortal athlete! But
heart heart reniark pertinent to all people
whether iu the twenties, the thirties. the
forties, the fifties, the sixties, the seventies,
or beyond. What we all need is to take the
supernatural into our lives.
Do not let US depend on Drain and muscle
and nerve. We want a mighty supply OF
the supernatural. We want with us q di.
vine force mightier than the waters and
the tempests, and when the Lord took two
steps on bestormed Galilee, putting one foot
on the winds and the other on the waves, He
proved Himself mightier than hurricane and
billow. We want with US divine force
greater than the fires and when the Lord
cooled dNebuchadnszzar's g furnace until Shad-
rach, Meshach aud Abednego did not even
have to fan themselves He prove1 Himself
mightier than the fire.
We want divine force stronger than wild
beast, and when the Lord made Daniel lion
tanner He proved himself stronger than the
wrath Of the .juugles. There are 30 many
diseases in che world we want with US di.
vine physician capable Of combating all
ments, and our Lord when on earth showed
what He could do with catalepsy and paraly-
sis and ophthalmia and dementia. Oh. take
this supernatural into all your livesl How
to get its just as you get anything you
want-by application. II you want any
By prayer apply for the supernatural.
Take it into your daily business. Many
man has been able to pay only 50 cents on
the dollar, who il be had called in the super.
natural could have paid 100 cents on the
dollar. Why do SO men out Of 100 fail In
business? Because there are not moro than
two men out OF hundred who take God in
to their worldly affairs. Behind the great,
unknown standeth God within the shadows
keeping watch upon His own"
A man got up in New York prayer INSET
ing and said: 'God is my partner. did
failed every two or three years. have
been doing business with Him for twenty
wears and have not failed once" Oh, taxa
the supernatural into all your affairs had
such an evidence of the goodness of God in
temporal things when 1 entered active life
must testify. Called to preach at lovely
Belleville, in New Jersey, entered upon
my work. But there stood the empty par
sonage, and not cent had with which to
furnish it. After preaching three or four
weeks the officers Of my church asked me II
did not want to take two or three weeks
vacation. I said "Yes," for I had preached
about all I knew, but feared they must be
getting tired Of me.
When l returned to the village after the
brief vacation, they handel me the key OF
the parsonage and asked me II did not want
to 90 and look at it. Not s1specting any
thing had happened, put the key into the
parsonage door and opened it. and thsro was
the hall completely Furnished with carpet
and pictures and hatrack, and turned snto
the parlors, and they were furnished, the
softest sofas I ever sat on, and into the study
and found it furnished with bookcases, and
I went to the bedrooms, and they were fur
nished, and into the pantry, and that was
furnished with every culinary article and
the spiceboxes were filed. AMI -four
barrel stool there ready to bs opened.
and went down into the dining room, and
the table was set and beautifully furnished,
and into the kitchen, apd the stove was full
Of fue,, and match lay on the top OF the
stove, and all had to do in starting house.
keeping was to strike the match. God in
spired the whole thing, and If ever doubt
His goodness, all up and down the world, call
me an migrate. testify that have been
in many tlght places, and God always got
me out, and He will get you out of the
tight places. .,
but the most Of this audience will never
reach the eighties. or the seventies, or the
sixties, or the fifties, or the forties. BE who
passes into the torties has gone far beyond
the average Of human life. Amid the un.
certainties take God through Jesus Christ
as your present and eternat safety. The
longest life is only a small rragmsns OF the
great eternity. We will all OF US soon be
there.
Eternityi how near It rolls:
Count the vast va,ue OF your souls.
Beware aud count the awful cost
What thej have gained whose sonls are lost