The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-03-09

putting first figure "w and the time vhs
you will cease expressing it by putting frs
figure '3.' As Il Is tho greatest time Q
the. struggle, I adjure you, In Gods nam
and by Gods grace. make IL the creates
achievement. My prayer Is for all those 4
the tremendous crises OF the thirties. tn
fact is that by the way you decide the pre-:
ent decade OF your history you decide all tb
following decades.
When was In Russia was disappoind
in not seeing the battlefield Of Boroii4
Why was there fought such battie AZ thn
small vilage4 IL was 20 miles from Moscow
W. Mhy ina, desperate struggle. in which 125
wv Frenchme1 grappled with 100000 Ru,
slams and 10000 dead Frenchmen aud s2. 90
deaf Russians were left on the fields
Was because the fate of Moscow. the sacrs
city OF Russia, was decided there-iecide
20 miles away. And let me tell you, peopl
OF the thirties, you are now ut the Doro limo
whence will resound its successes or Its mora
disasters clear on into the seventies IL yos
live TO the tbreescore and ten OF the text
| Next accost the forties. Yours is the de
cade of discovery. do not mean the dis
| covery OF the outside, but the discovery O
| yourself No man knows himself until h.
| Is 10. lie overestimates or underestimate
himself. BY that time he has learned who
| ne can do or what he caunot do. He though
| he had commercial genius enongh TO becom
Il
q comfortable living lie Thought he ha,
rhetorical power that would bring him int
the United States senate. now he Is conten
IL he can successfully argue a common cas-
before petit jury.
He thought he hal medical skill this.
would make him Mott or Crosse or
willard Parker or a Sims; now he finds hi
sphere is that Of family physician, PR.
scrioing for tho ordinary ailments that al
tict our race. He was sailing on IN 70.
and could not take reckoning. but nov 4
clears up enough to allow him TO fiui out his
real latitude and longitude. He has besi
climbing, but now he has got 20 the top q
the hill and he takes long breath. He y
half way through the journey at least, anl
he is In position to look backward or for.
ward. lie has more good sense than he eve
had. He knows human nature, for lie has
been cheated often enough TO res the bad
side of 1t, and he has met 50 many gracious
and kindly and splendi souls he also know
the good side Of IT, Ia
Now cain yourself Thank God for ca.
past and deliberately set your compass for
another voyage. You have chased enou Il
thistle1owD. You have blown enough soap
bubbles You have seen the unsatisfy ing
nature OF all earthly things. Open new
chapter with God and the world. Tnis de-
cade OF the forties ought to eclipse all il,
predecessors in worship. in usefulness ani in
uiptbuesrs TpTtl u kTttJ WOru WI but
Biule. Coils ancient people wers 40 years
in the wilderness. Ell juiged Israel 40
years. David aud Solomon and Jehoash
reigued 40 years. Wnen Joseph visited his
brethen, he was 40 years old.
Oh, this mountain top OF the forties, You
have now the character you will probibly
have for all time and all eternity. God, BY
His grace. sometimes changes "A man utter
the forties, but after that n man never
changes himself. Tell me. oh mon and
women who are in the fortics. your habits
OF thought and life. and will tell you wat
you will forever be. / may make a mistake
once in thousand times. but not more than
in that proportion.
My sermon next accosts The fifties. How
queer it looks when in writing your age you
make the first OF the two figures a "5."
This is the decade which shows wha. tho
other decades have been. II n young man
has sown wild oats and he has lived to this
time, he reaps the harvest of IL in the fifties,
or II by necessity he was compelled to over
toll in honest directions he Is callei to settle
up with exacting nature soms time during
the tifties.
Many have 1t so hard in early life that
they are octogenarians at 80. Sciaticas and
rheumatisns and neuralgias and yyGiyos
ami insomnias have their play gror, In the
ffties A mans hair begins 10 VIZ in, and,
although he may have worn 4 !. sscles be-
noy 80 f'sks. the1snif ul--, No. II or
-s .tdi NcfO. When he gets cough
goo - bile afterward. Oh, ye who
are "a the fifties think OF ~ a half century
OF blessing 10 be thankful for, nni a half
century subtracted from an existence
which in the most markell cases of longevity
hardly ever reaches "A whole century.
BY this time you ought to be eminent for
piety. You have been III 50 many battles
made SO many voyages you ought to bs a
gooi sailor. SO long protected aud blessed
you ought 70 have soul full OF doxolo2y.
In Bible times in Canaan every 30 years was
by Gods command year OF jubilee. The
people did not work that year. IL property
had by misfortune gone out OF ones posses
sion on the iittieth year il came back TO him.
II he had fooled IL away. it was returned
without IA farthing 10 pay.
II man had been enslayed. he was in that
year cmancip ,tst, A trumpet was sounded
loul aud clear AMI long, and IL was the
trumpet OF jubilee. They shook hands, they
laughed, they congratulated. Wnat time
IL was, that iiftieth year! Aud IL under the
old dispensation IL was such IA glad time,
under our new and more glorious dispensl-
ton let all who have come TO the fifCies hear
the trumpet OF jubilee that | now bow.
That was the allusion made by Mr.. Toplady,
the great hymnooglst, whea ne wrote.
Blow yo the trumpet, blow
The gladly solemn sound;
Let all tbs nations know,
10 eart1's remotest bound
The year OF jubilee is come Z
Return ye rausomed sinners home.
We ewho have sold for naught
Your heritage above =
Shall have u back uabought- -
The gift Of Jesuss love. -
Tue year OF jubilee has come.
Return ye ransomed sinners noms.
nv sermon next accosts the sixties The
beginning OF that decade is more startling
than any other. In his chronological jour
ney the man rides rather smoothly over tn,
| figures '3' and ''3' and ~" and "5," but tn,
figure "B' gives him big jolt He says;
1T cannot be that am 90. Lat me ex
anime the old family record. guess they
made u mistake. They got my name dow
wrong in the roll Of births" But. no; th,
older brothers or sisters remember the timl
OF his advent, and there is some relative a
year older. and another relative a yeai
| younger, and, sure enough, the fact Is estab-
lished beyond all disputation.
Sixty Now your great danger Is til,
temptation TO fold up your facul ties anC
quit. You will feel a tendency to remiuisce
IL you do not look out you will begin al
most everything with the words, "When
! was boy" But You ought TO make the