The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-06

all the experience you have had. You have
committed enough mistakes in life to make
YOU wise above your Juniors Now, un-
der the accumulated light Of your past
experimenting, go TO work for God as
. -ever before Wien man IN the sixties
folds up bis energy and feels be has done
enough II Is The devil OF Incidence 20
which be is s0rreEderiug, and God gen
orally takes the man at bis word and lets
uim die right awey. His brain, that I'M
der the tension OF hard work was active,
now suddenly sbrivels. Men, whether
I trev retire from secular or religious work,
generally retire TO the grave. No well
man has right TO retire. The world was
made for work. There remsiueth rest for
/ the people Of God, hut it ID in a sphere be-
T youd the reach Of telescopes, The military
charge that decided one Of the greatest BAT
I ties Of the age-the battle of Waterloo
! was not made Until 5 O'Clock in the even
/ ing. but some # you propose to 60 into
/ camp at . O'Clock in the afternoon.
/ My subject next accosts those in the sew
entities and hey end. Ny word to them is
/ cougr GtulatiO1. You have got nearly if
/ not quite through. You have safely crossed
| the sea Of life ami are about to enter the
/ hRrbor. You have fought at Gettysburg
/ and the war is over Here and there q
skirmish with the remaining sin OF your own
! heart and the sin of the world. but l guess
] you uIe huOut uOu0- 4HVl9 AAlA5 NC oo'll1 10
or large scale. Bismarck of Ger
many vigorous in the eighties. The
| prime minister OF England strong at
~eighty-four. Haydn composing his ora
! torlo The Creation" ct seventy years OF
| age. Isocrates doing some Of his best work
| at seventy-four. Plato busy thinking for
! all succeeding centuries at eighty one
| Noah Webster after making his world-re-
nowned di tionary. hard at work until
! eighty-five wears old Rev. Daniel Waldo
| praying in my pulpit at one hundred years
| of age; Humboldt producing the immortal
| Cosmos at seventy-six years, William
| Blake a. sixty,seven learning Italian 50 as
| TO read Dante in the original. Lord Cock
burn at eighty-seven writing his best
treatise. John Wesley stirring
great audiences at eighty-fve, Will
lam c. Bryant, without spectacles,
reading in my house "Th8natopsis" at
eghty-three years Of age. Christian men
| and women in all departments serving God
after becoming septuagenarians and octo-
genarans aud homogeneous prove that
there are possibilities of work for the aged,
but / think you who are passed the seven
ties are near being through How do you
feel about it9 You ought to be jubilant be-
cause life is a tremendous struggle, and il
you have got through respectfully and use
fully, 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 NAV or Lookout Mountain. l 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 infirm health. He said
TO Mr.. Adams: 81 am glad to see you. |
hope you are getting along pretty we'll n
The reply was: An, sir, quite the con-
trary | find l am poor tenant occupy
inn NV Tt
sways and trembles with every wind, and
what is worse, sir, the landlord, as near as
| can make out, does not intend to make
any repairs" Or. Beman, after passing
into the seventies, was asked by my friend,
Rev. DR.. Spear: "Dr. Beman, how is
your health Eoww and he replied: II
have on me an incurable disease
What is itm asked my friend,
and the septuagenarian replied, "Old age"
Both Of the old men / have mentioned ins
tended their remarks for factiolsness, and
old people have a right TO be fscetious. An
aged woman sent to her physician ami told
him Of her ailments, and the doctor said:
"What wonld you have me do, msdami
cannot make you young again. She re-
piled; j know that, doctor. What l want
you to do is help me to grow old 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 IL in it. Be glad
that you, an aged servant OF God, are going
to try another life and amid better sur
roundiugs. Stop looking back and look
ahead. ., We in the seventies and the
eighties and the nIneties, your best days are
yet to come, your grauGest associations are
yet to be formed, your best eyeSight is yet
10 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 the II very
soon. They are waiting for you. They are
watching the golden shore to see you lapd
They are watching the shining gate to see
you come through. They are standing 6v
the throne to see you mount What glad
hour when you drop the staff md take the
scepter; when you quit the stitfened joints
and become an immortal athlete. But hear {!
hesrl a remark pertinent to all people,
whether in the Jwenties, the thirties, the
forties, the fiftles, the sixties, the seventies,
or bevond. What we all need is to take the
supernatural into our lives. DO not let Us
depend on brain, and muscle and nerve
We want mighty supply of the
Supernatural We want with US
divine force mightier than the waters and
the tempests, and when the Lord took two
steps on besoormed Galilee, putting one foot
on the winds aud the other On the waves,
be proved himself migh-ier than hurricane
and billuw. We want with us divine
force greater than the fires and when the
Lord cooled NebuohHdneZzar's furnace until
ShAdrach, Meshach and Abednego did not
even have to fan Themselves, be proved him.
self mightier than the fire. We want "a
divine force stronger than the Wild beast
and when the Lord made Daniel a hon
tanner he proved himself stronger than the
wrath Of the jungles. There are so many
diseases IN the world we want with us q
divine physician Capable of combating
ailments, and our Lord when on earth
showed what be could do with oatalepsy end
paralysis and opthslmia and dementia. o,
take this supernatural into your owa lives.
| How 20 get i5' just as you get everything
you want. BY application. If you want
anything you must apply for it. BY prayer
epply for the supernatural. Take it into
your daily business. Many a man has be On
able to pay only fifty cents on the dollar,
who il he had called in tue supernatural
could have paid one hundred cents on the
! dollar. Why do ninety-eighu men out OF n
| hundred fail In busiuess3 Because there are
| not tnore than two men out of hundred
who take God into their worldly affairs.
"Behiud the great unknown standeth God
within the shadows, keeping watch upon
| his own"
| A man got up IN Il New York prayer
| meeting and said: God is uy partner.
! did business without him for twenty years
! and failed every two or three years | have