The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-03-08

near being through. How do you feel
about it9 You ought to be jubilant,
because life is tremendous struggle,
and If you have got through respect
ably and usefully, you ought to feel like
people toward the close Of summer
day seated on the rocks watching the
sunset at Bar Harbor or Cape May or
Lookout mountain. am glad to say
that most old Christians are cheerful
Daniel Webster visited John Adams
short time before his death, and found
him in very infirm health. He said to
Mr.. Adams: II am glad to see you. 1
hope you are getting along pretty well?"
The reply was: "Ah, sir, quite the con-
trary. ! find l am poor tenant occu-
pying house much shattered by time.
1t sways and trembles with everv wind,
and what Is worse, sir, the landlord, as
near as can make out, does not intend
to make any repairs" DR.. Beman, after
passing into the seventies, was asked
by my friend, Rev. DR.. Spear: "Dr.
Beman, how is your health now?" and
he replied: II have on me an incurable
disease What is that2" asked my
friend, and the septuagenarian replied,
"old age" Both of the old men have
mentioned intended their remarks for
facetiousness and old people have right
to be facetious An aged woman sent
ments, and the doctor said: what would
you have me do madam? / cannot
make you young again" She replied:
II know that, doctor. What / want
you to do is to help me to grow old a
little longer" The young have their
troubles before them The old have
their troubles behind them. You have
got about all out of this earth that
there is in 1t. Be glad that you, IN
aged servant OF God, are going to try
another life and amid better surround
ings. Stop looking back and look ahead.
o, ye in the seventies and the eighties
and the nineties, your best days are yet
to come, your grandest associations
are yet to be formed, your best eye
sight 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 watch
ing 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 see you mount.
What glad hour when you drop the
staff and take the scepter, when you
quit the stiffened joints and become an
immortal athlete. But hearl hearl q
remark pertinent to all people whether
in 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 brain and muscle and
nerve We want mighty supply of
the supernatural. We want with us a
divine 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 Nebuchadnezzar' furnace until
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego did
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proved himself mightier than the fire.
We want divine force stronger than
wild beast, and when the Lord made
Daniel lion-tamer he proved himself
stronger than the wrath Of the jungles.
There are so many diseases in the world
we want with us n diyina physieisn
capable Of combating ailments, and our
Lord, when on earth, showed what He
could do with catalepsy and paralysis
and opthalmia and dementia o, take
this supernatural into all your iveA
How to get IL? Just ns you get any
thing you want BY application. II
you want anything you apply for IL
BY prayer apply for the supernatural
Take 1t into your daily business. Many
man has been able TO pay only fifty
cents on the dollar, who, IL he had
called in the supernatural, could have
paid one hundred cents on the dollar.
Why do ninety-eight men out Of hum
dred fail In buslness2 Because there
are not more than two men out of q
hundred who take God into 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
meeting and said: God is my partner.
did business without Him for twenty
years, and failed every two or three
years have been doing business with
Him for twenty years and have not
failed once" o, take the supernatural
into all your affairs had such an
evidence of the goodness of God in
temporal things when entered active
life, must testify. Called to preach
at lovely Belleville in New Jersey, l
entered upon my work. But there
stood the empty parsonage, and not q
cent had / with which TO furnish IL
After preaching three or four
weeks the officers OF my church
asked me II | did not want to take
two or three weeks vacation. | said:
"YesI for had preached about all
knew, but / feared they must be getting
tired of me. When / returned TO the
village, after the brief vacation, they
handed me the key OF the parsonage,
and asked me y l did not want TO 90
and look at 1t Not suspecting anything
had happened, put the key into the
parsonage door and opened II, and there
was the hall completely furnished with
carpet and pictures and hat-rack, and
turned into the parlors and they were
furnished, the softest sofas / ever
sat on, and into the study,
and found Il furnished with book
cases, and I won't 70 the bedrooms,
and they were furnished, and into
the pantry, and that was furnished
With every culinary article, and tho
spice boxes were hlled, and q -four
barrel stood there ready 10 be opened,
and went down into the dining room,
and the table was set and beautifully
furnished, and into the kitchen, and
the stove was full Of fuel, and match