Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-09
Yo who have sold for naught
Your heritage above
Shall have it back unbought-
The Gift of Jesus love.
Tho year Of jubilee la. come.
Return &c ransomed sinners homo

My sermon NJ HNtNSlS Tue blAllCSs / ilc
beginning of that decade is more startling
than any other. In his chronological jour
ney the man rides rather smoothly over the
figures "2" aud 20" and "4' and IS" but
the figure &C. gives him n big jolt lie
says; at cannot be that | am 60. Let Inc
examine the old family record. | guess
they made mistake. They got my name
down wrong in the roll of births" But no;
the older brothers or sisters remember tie
time of his advent, and there is some rela-
tive a year oder and another relative
year younger. and, sure enough, the fact Is
established beyond all disputation. Sixty
Now your great danger is the temptntiOnto
fold up your faculties and quit You Will
feel II tendency to reminisce. If you do
not look out, you will begin almost every
thing with tho words, "Whcn ! was
boy" But You ought to make the six
ties more memorable for God and the truth
than the lifties or the forties or the thie
ties. You ought to do more during the
next 10 years than you did in any 80 years
of your life because of all the eXpe-
rience YOU have had. You have committed
enough mistakes in life to make You
wise 0bove your juniors. Now, under the
accumulated light of yourpast experiment.
ing, 10 to wCri, for God us never before
When n man in the sixties folds up his
energy and feels he has done enough, it is
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oratoTo, he Creation. at 40 years OF age.
Isocrates doing some OF his best work ut a.
Plato busy thinking tor al succeeding con
Itolion co nc re.d DANTE in tbe oril,inal
Lord Cockburn at 81 writing hls best
treatise. John Wesley stirring great audi
ences at So William {. Dry ant, without
spcctacles, reading IN my house Ihana-
top-s' at So years Of age.
Christian men and women In all depart
ments serving God after becoming septua-
genarians and octogenarnns and mona
Genarians prove that there arc possibilities
of work rthe aged, but think you who
are passed the seventies are near beng
through How do you fee! about It? You
ought to hc jubilant because lie Is ire
mendou: struggle, and ii you have got
through respectfully and usefully you ought
to feel like people toward the close OF a
summer day seated on the rocks watching
the sunset at Bar liarbor or Cape May or
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