Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-03-17

| iucAc may Dt boAut Wofh You YET Oh
small or large scale. Bismarck, Of Germany
vigorous 10 the eighties. The prime minis
ter of England strong at "a. Haydn com
posing his oratorio, "The Creation" at "a
years OF age. socrates doing some OF hii
best work at "A. Plato busy thinking for
all succeeding centuries at 81 William Blake
at % learning Italian, so as to read Dante in
the original. Lord Cockburn at 81 writing
his best treatise. John Wesev stirring
without spectacles, reading in my house
"Thanatopsis" at 50 years OF age.
Christian men AMI women in all de-
psrtnents serving God after becoming
septuagenarians and octogenarians and
nOnagenarians prove that there are poss-
bilities of work for the aged, but l think
you who are passed the seventies are near
being through. How do you feel about itf
You ought TO be jubilaut, because life Is a
tremendous struggle, and il you have got
through respectfully aud usefully you ought
to feel like people toward the close OF sum-
mer day seated on the rocks watching the
sunset at Bar Harbor or Caps May or Look
out Mountain.
am glad to say that most old Christians
are cheerful. Daniel Webster visited John
| Adams n short time before his death and
| found him in very infirm health. He said
| to Mr.. Adams: II am glad to sac you. |
The reply was: "Ah, sir. quite the contrary.
find / am poor tenant occupying house
much shattered by time It sways aud trsm-
bles with every wind, and what is worse,
sir, the landlord, as near as l can make out,
does not intend to make any repairs"
DR.. Beman, after passing into the seven.
ties. was asked by my friend, Rev. DR..
nowY and he replied. III have on me an in
durable disease" "What Is thatY' asked my
friend, and the septuagenarian replied,
| ''Od age" Both of the old men I have
mentioned intended their remarks for
facetiousness and old people have right to
be facetious. An a:et woman sent for her
physician and told him of her ailments, and
the doctor said: "Wnat would you have me
do, n msda%' = an. Wan cannSf ct ina 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 behini
| them. You have got about all out of this
earth that there is in 1t. Be glad that you,
an aged servant of God, are going to try an
other life aud amid better surroundings.
Stop looking back and look ahead. oh, ye
In the seventies. and the eighties, and the
nineties. your best days are yet to come;
your graniest 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
ara Watching the golden shore to see you
land. They are watching the shining gate
to see you come through. They are stand
i,,y lxyth ha thrnn tD What n
glad hour when you drop the staff and take
the scepter; when you quit the stifened
Joints and become an immortal athletel But
hear hear remark pertinent to all people
whether in the twenties, the thirtes the
forties, the htties, the sixties, the seventies,
or beyond. What we all nesi is to take the
supernatural into our lives.
Do not let us depend ON brain AMI muscle
and nerve. We want mighty supply o;
the supernatural. We want with us a di.
vine force mightier than the waters and
the tempests and when thu Lord took two
steps on bestormed Gaiilee, putting one foot
on the winds and tho other on the waves, He
proved Himself migntier than hurricane and
billow. We want with US a divine force
greater than the fires, and when the Lord
cooled Nebuc ladnezzar furnace until Shad-
rach, Meshach aud Abe inego did not even
have to fan themselves he prove Himself
mighter than the fire.
We want q divine force stronger than wild
beast and when the Lord mada Daniel a lion
tanner He proved Himself stronger than the
wrath of the juugles. There are so many
diseases in the world Wa want with US d.
vine physician capable OF combating all
ments, and our Lori when OH earth showed
what He cou,d do with catalepsy and paraly-
sis and ophthalmia and dementia. Oh, take
this supernatural into all your livesi How
Tn iff .yngt ppt ANYTHING
want-by application. IL you want any
thing, you apply forit
By prayer apply for the supernatural.
Take it into your daily business. Many a
man has been able to pay only 80 cents on
the dollar, who if he had called in the super
natural could have paid l00cents on the
dollar. Why do IS men out Of 100 fail I'm
| businessf Because there ara not more than
two men out of hundred who take God in
to their worldly affairs. "Bshind the great,
unknown stanieth God within the shadows
keeping watch upon His own"
A man got up in New York prayer meet
ing and said: ''God is my partner. l did
business without Him for twenty years and
failed every two or three years. | have
been Going business with Him for twenty
years and have not failed once" Oh, take
the supernatural into all your affairsl 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, entered upon
my work. But there stood the empty par
sonage, and not cant had l with which to
furnish it. After preaching three or four
weeks the officers or my church asked me II
did not want to take two or three weeks
vacation. said "Yes," for / had preached
about all knew, but feared they must be
getting tired of me.
| yVho, 7 raf,,rr a 70 tho xyill,1n alta, he
brief vacation, they handed me the key OF
the parsonage and asked me II did not want
to 90 and look at II. Not suspeoting any
thing had happened, put the key into the
parsonage door and opened IL, and there was
the hall completely furnished with carpet
and picturea and hatrack, and turned into
the parlors and they were furnished. the
and found II furnished with book-cases and
I went to the bedrooms, and they were fur
nished, and into the pantry, and that wa.
furnished with every culinary article, aud
the spiceboxes were filled, and a -four
barrel stood there ready to 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 q match lay on the top OF the
keeping was to strike the match God I'm
spired the whole thing, anu II ever doubt
His goodness, all up and down the world, cal
me an migrate. testify that have been
in many light 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 ths
sixties, or the fifties or the forties He who
passes into the forties has gone far beyonc
the average of human life. Amid the un
certainties take God through Jesus Chris
as your present and eternal safety. Tn
longest lite Is only small fragment OF th'
great eternity. We will all OF us soon b
there.
Eternityl how near Il rolls;
Count the vast value Of your souls.
Beware and count the awful cost
WHAT they have gained whose sonls are lost
Two great Corsicau families, the mos