Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-03-15


because life is a tremendous struggle,
and if you have got through respect
ably 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 Webster visited John Adams a
short time before his death, and found
him in very infrm health. He said TO
Mr.. Adams: 81 am glad to see you. !
hope you are getting along pretty well?'
The reply was: "Ah, sir, quite the con-
trary. find l am a poor man occu-
plying a house much shattered by time.
1t sways and trembles with every wind,
and what is worse, sir, the landlord. as
near as | car make out. does not intend
to make any repairs" DIR. Beman, after
passing into the seventies, was asked
by my friend, Rev. DIR. Spear: "Dr.
Beman, how is your health now?" and
he replied: Il have on me an incurab BILE
disease" What is that?'' asked my
friend. and the septuagenarian replied,
''old age" Both of the old men | have
mentioned intended their remarks for
Righteousness and old people have a right
to be iacetious An aged woman sent
TO her physician and told him of her all
ments. and the doctor said: what would
You have me do. madam? / cannot
make you young again" She replied:
~ know that, doctor. What / want
you to do is to help me TO 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 surround
ings. Stop looking back and look ahead.
o, We in the seventies and the eighties
and the nineties, your best days are yet
Ito come. your grandest associations
are yet to be formed, your best eye
sight is yet TO be kindled, your
best hearing is yet to be awakened,
yodr greatest speed is yet 10 be
Travelled, your gladdest song is yet to
be sung. The most of your friends
ihave gone over the border and you are
going to join them very soon. They
are waiting for you. They are watch
ling the golden shore to see you land
They are watching the shining gate to
see you come through. They are stand
ing by h throne to see you mount
What a glad hour when you drop the
staff and take the scepter, when you
lquit the stiffened joints and become an
Immortal athlete. But hear. hear! a
remark pe~rtinentsto all people whether
in the twenties, the thirties, the ~forties,
the ffties, the sixties, the seventies or
beyond. What we all need is to take
1.-THE supernatural into our lives Do not
let us depend on brain and muscle and
NERVE. We want a mighty supply of
the supernatural. We want with us a
divine force mightier than the waters
and the tempests, ard when the Lord
took two steps on bestormed Galilee,
putting one foot on the winds and the
other on the waves, He proved Himself
,mightier than hurricane and billow.
We want with us a divine force greater
than the fires, and when the Lord
cooled acknowledgements furnace until
,Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego did
not even nave to fan themselves, He
proved himself mightier than the fire.
We want a divine force stronger than
wild beast and when the Lord made
Daniel a lion-tamer he proved himself
stronger than the wrath of the jungles.
There are so many diseases In the.world
we want with us a divine physician
capable of combating ailments, and our
Lord, when on earth, showed what He
could do with catalepsy and paralysis
and opthalmia and dementia O, take
this supernatural into all your lives.
How to get il? just as you get any
thing you want BY application. If
you want anything you apply for it.
by prayer apply for the supernatural
Take it into your daily business Many
a man has been able to pay only fifty
cents on the dollar, who, if he had
icalled in the supernatural, could ave
paid one hundred cents on the dollar.
Why do n~inety-eight men out of a hun
'dred fail in business? Because there
are not more than W. men out Of a
hundred who take God into their
worldly affairs Behind the great
unknown standeth God within the
shadows, keeping watch upon His
own"
! A man got up in a New York prayer
meeting and said: God is my partner.
Il did business without Him for twenty
years. and failed every two or three
years. | have been doing business with
Him for twenty Years and have not
once" o, take the supernatural
all your affairs. | had such an
evidence of the goodness of God in
temporal things when / entered active
life, l must testify. Called to preach
at lovely Belleville in New Jersey, /
upon my work. But there
stood the empty parsonage, and not a
cent had / with which to furnish it
After preaching three oil four
weeks the officers of my church
asked me If l did not want to take
two or three weeks vacation. | said:
i''Yesl' for / had preached about all l
knew, but l feared they must be getting
tired of me. When l returned to the
after the brief vacation, they
handed me the key of the parsonage,
and asked me If / did not want to go
and look at it Not suspecting anything
had happened / put the key into the
parsonage door and opened it, and there
was the hall completely furnished with
carpet and pictures and hat-rack. and |
turned into the parlors and they were
furnished, the softest sofas ! ever
sat on, and into the study.
and found it furnished with book
cases, and / went to the bedrooms,
and they were furnished, and into