Milford chronicle., 1893-03-10

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4 rendering, and GoS generally takes ths
/ man at his word and lets him die right
: away. His brain, that under the tension oi
e hard work was active, now suddenly shFiv-
4 els. Men, whether they retire from secular
4 OF religious work, generally retire to the
{. grave. No well man has right to retire.
{ The world was made for work There re-
maineth a rest for the people OF God, but it
: Is in a sphere beyond the reach Of tole-
scopes. The military charge that decided
one OF the greatest battles Of the ages-tbe
: battle of WaterlOo-was not made until s
, o'clock in the evening, but some Of you
propose to go into camp ct 2 o'clock in the
afternoon.
, WAITING FOR TIE SHADOW.
Ny subject next accosts those in the
: seventies and beyond Ny word to them
Is congratulation. You have got nearly if
not quite through. You have safely crossed
the sea of life and are about to enter the
harbor. You have fought at Gettysburg
and the war is over Here and there a
skirmish with the remaining sin Of your
own heart and the sin of the world, but /
guess you are about done. There may be
some work for you yet on small or large
scale Bismarck of Germany vigorous In
the eighties The prime minister Of Eng
land strong at g. Haydn composing his
oratorio, 1.-THE Creation" at 70years Of age.
Is0crates doing some of his best work at "a.
Plato busy thinking for all succeeding cen
turies at 81. William Blake at 81 learning
Italian so as to read Dante in the original
Lord COckbum at 81 writing his best
treatise. John Wesley stirring great audi
ences at s.. William c. Bryant, without
spectacles, reading in my house "rhana-
tOpsis" at 50 years Of age.
Christian men and women in all depart
ments serving God after becoming septua-
genarians and octogenarians and nona-
genarians prove that there are possibilities
Of work for the aged, but think you who
are passed the seventies are near being
through How do you feel about it' You
ought to be jubilant because life is u tre-
mendous struggle, and if 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 Harbor or Cape May or
Lookout mountain. am glad to say that
most old Christians are cheerful Daniel !
| WebsteF visited John Adams a short time
! before his death and found him in very in !
| firm health He said to r. Adams; 81 I
am glad to see you. hope you are getting |
| along pretty we'll" The reply was: 'Ah, /
/ cir, quite the contrary find am poor !
! tenant occupying house much shattered /
| by time. 1t sways and tremblcs with every |
wind, and, what is worse, sir, the landlord, |
as near as can make out, does not intend /
to make any repairs.
HIS DISEASE WAS AMMO DosfIEL
DR.. Beman, after passing into the seven
ties, was asked by my friend, Rev. DR.. !
Spear, "Dr Beman, how is your health 4
now!" and he replied, II have on me an
incurable disease" what is thatf" asked 4
g. 81.
"Old age" Both Of the old men / have
mentioned intended their remarks for ia
cetiousness, and old people have a right
to be facctious. An aged woman sent for
her physician and told him Of her ailments,
and the doctor said: What would you
have me do, madam? l cannot mako you
young again" She replied; Il know that,
doctor What l want you to DO is to help
me 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 it. BE glad that you, an aged
servant Of God, are going to try another
life and amid better surroundings. Stop
looking back ard look ahead. Oh, We in
the seventies, aud the eighties, and the
nineties, your best days are yet to Gomez
your g1andeAt associations are yet to be
AtA hANAf 1NnA DAIN NaAfaAu II tGo " BG
kindled; your besD-. hearing is yet to be
awakened; your greateA speed is yet to be
travelled; your gladdest s0hsis yet to be
sung. The most Of your friendsi ave gone
over the border, and you are goin9sto ioil
them very soon. They are waiting for you
They are watching tue golden shore to see
you land. They are watching the shining
gate to sec you come through. They are
standing by the throne to sec you mount i
What glad hour when you drop the staff /
and take the scepter; when you quit the
stiffened joints and become IN immortal
athletel But heail hearl a remark perti-
nent to all people whether in the twenties, :
the thirties, the forties the iifties, the six .
ties, the seventies or beyond.
What we all need is to take the super
natural into our lives. Do not let us de-
pend on brain and muscle and nerve. We n
want mighty supply Of the supernatural.
We want with us divine force mightier q
than the waters and the tempcsts, and a
when the Lord took two steps on bestormed
Galiiee, putting one foot on the winds and =
the other on the waves, he proved him
self mightier than hurricane and billoW. y
We want with us a divine force greater
than the fires, and when the Lord cooled
Nebuchadnezzar's furnace until Shadrach,
Meshach and Abetlnego did not even have to b
fan themselves he proved himself niightieF 4
han the fire. Wewanta a divine force strong ~
ep than wild beast, and when the Lord made \
Daniel lion tanner he proved himself q
stronger than the wrath of the jungles.
There arc so many diseases in the world we
want with us u divine physician capable Of q
ailments, and our Lord when p
IN earth showed what he could do with a
,atalepsy and paralysis and ophthalmia
nd Iantunffa oh fol f1tfu ~4r4 ,snT
nto all your lives! How to get it? Justns
'ou get anything you want15by application. !,
i you want anything, you apply for it. BY II
prayer apply for the supernatural. Take it
nto your daily business Many a man has II
,een able to pay only 90 cents on the dollar
Who if he had called in the supernatural IN
ould havo paid 100 cents on the dollar.
Why do 9S men out Of 100 fail in businessY th
there are not more than 2 men out
f 100 who take God into their worldly af-
fairs Behind the great unknown stand th
tn God within the shadows keeping watch ID
ipon his own"
MAKE GOD YOUR PARTNl.R So
A man got up in a New York prayer y,
Meeting and seid: "GOd is my partner.
id business without him for 20 years and ~,
allied every two OF three years 1 have
een doing business with him for 20 years
nj haye not failed once" Oh, take tue
upenatural into all your aifaiIsl | had
uch an evidence Of the goodness of God in
emporal things when / entered active life 81,
must testify. Called to preach at lovely ~
in New Jersey, ! entered upoa ",
ly WORK. But there stood the empty par ~
0nage, and not cent had ] with which u u
lrnish IL. After preaching three or four "A
-eeks the officers Of my church asked me tir
] did not want to take two or three vi
-eeks' vacation ] said Yes" for / had In
reached about all knew, but feared 4
ley must DO getting tired of me- ~
When returned to the village after the
rief vacation, they handed me the key Of ba.
&c parsonage and asked INC if ! did not -