Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-03-06


Yea 80 - - - wh9n goa md waak =
noazh thing u = - So rsecgnazed and
sssatlash~d IN yo1r eocupstion - pre-
fs.saoa Iss ysnzr sSD yea Thought ell
tat wss neeenaxy for success VS. -
put On yo0g Shutter ths szgn u physician
- dsntast er setoxnsy ~ broh<r 90 agent.
and you vo44d have ptsoty " business
How May houFs zoe - I'D waited for
boaSnns sn1 usstad IN eahn thres PSF
sas~ onis hnov--<Sod- vour wife and
yoursG n eonn~rcsni hfs yon have
not I'D - psu~ossoa and see inrrsass
IA salAsy 20 auncspafrd. g tbs place
you sSppcesd 70 occupy IA the nrfa has
not bsun vncaesd- Tbs produce 81 the
farm. W. which yos sxprcssd 70 sap
PIT yensnses and e0oss deprOcanS On
you. 80 - ~ shs Interest GA The
uorsgnGn. h. bssn tar luss than you Az
t,c;passA - tos prces were down. or
speciAl expruse< for slcknsns nlaio
drafts On Jour resources that yoa
c0uid nes have expected
In some respects the hardest decade OF
hfs " the thzFs,es. because tho results
are sensBsily ~ Tar behind the Antieipa
tsous- Il y very rare indeed that
youns man dos - cid tho young mAn
Last sunday night when be came 20 me
aud sid. Il have hecn 80 marvsiorsly
prosp~red since came 10 thus country
that l feel. - . matter II gratitude, that
l ought 70 dedicate myself 10 God
Nine-tsnths cs the poetry OF NE has
b~~n knooksd oas OF yea ssnce you came
into fhs tharr,rs- Men In the different
procsnon- ana occupations saw that
yoA were nsang ana they must put an
ssscpp~i on you OF you might somehow
stand IN The way. They THINK you must
b. sappresssd-
Prom ~ 10 20 u Is an especially hard
inns for young doctors. young lawyers.
young merchants. young farmers. young
mechanics. Young ministers. The sfris-
eln Of me thirssss - for honest and help
full and rcmunerassvc recognition But
few old people Know now 70 treat Young
people without psuonixans them on tne
snc hand or snupoinx 'hsn on tne othcr.
On. tho th-su<i Joseph stood before
Pharaoh 81 o. DAVID wac % years Old
when DC ursnh 20 reigh- Inc neisht OF
soiofnons temple wa % cabits- Shrist
entered npcu his scuve ministry AZ 80
years of age. Judas sold him Tor %
pieces of SILVER.
oh. the thirties' What word. sug-
eestiye " triumph or disaster. Your dec
ads Is the one that will probably afford
tho greatest opportunity Tor victory. be-
Cause there Is me greatest necessity Tor
struggle Head the worlds history and
know what are the tnrsies for good or
bad Alexander the Great closed his ca-
reer at u. Frederick the treat made
Europe tremble with his armies at 80.
Cortes conquered Mexico Ut ~. Grant
fought shiloh and Donelson when 81.
Raphael died at ~. Luther was the hero
Of the reformation 1t 80. sir Pniiip nyd-
ney got through by g.
The greatest dcesiS Tor God and against
him were done within the thirtaee. and
your greatest battles are now and be
tween tho time when you cease express
ing your age BY putting first figure ''2''
and the time when you VIII cease ex-
pressing II by putting nrst ngure ..
As Il Is the greatest time OF tho struggle
adlure you, In Gods name and by cfod 8
grace. make u the greatest achievement
Ny prayer Is Tor All those Ia the trenen-
dous crises or the tnirties. Inc TACT Is
that by the way you decide tue present
decade OF your history you decide ali the
Following decades
When l was IN Russia. was disai'-
pointed IN not seeing the battlefield Of
Borodino. Why was there fought such
q battle at that small VILLAGE Ii was 10
miles from Moscow. Why that desper-
ate struggle. IN which $4,000 French
ncn grappled with loo. 900 Russians. and
30. 900 dead frenchfnen and 1900 dead
Russians were lett on tho field. IL was
because the fate Of Moscow. the sacred
city Of Russia. was decided there-de-
cided 20 miles away. And let ms tell
you. people Of the thrties. you are now
az the Borodino. whence Will resound
It's successes or It's moral disasters clear
en- into the seventies II you 1--we To the
threescore and ten OF the text.
AT FORTY MAN KNOWS HIS WEAKNESS.
Next accost tho fortics. Yonrs II the
decade Of discovery. do not mean the
discovery Of the outside. bat the discov-
until h. IL ~. He overestimates OF UNI
5erest,matss himself. BY that time ne
has LEANED what he can do or what he
cannot DO lie thought he had CONNER
csal ve1,ns er.oaxh % become a million