Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-03-06

smoothly over the figures SO" and "3'
and 81" and "5," but the figure so
gives him a big jolt. lie says: ut can
not be that am sixty. Let me exam
inc the old family record. l guess they
made mistake. They got my name
down wrong in the roll of births" But
no, the older brothers or sisters remem,
Der the time of his advent, and there Is
some relative year older and another
relative year younger, and sure
enough the fact is established beyond
all disputation. Sixty Now your
great danger is the temptation to fold
up yeur faculties and quit. You viii
feel tendency to reminisce. II you de
not look out you will begin almost ev
erything with the words, "When 1 was
q boy" But you ought to make the six.
ties more memorable for God and the
truth than the ffties or the forties OF
the thirties.
Ny subject next accosts those in the
seventies and beyond. Ny word tC
them is congratulation. You have got
nearly if not quite through. You have
safely crossed the sea of life and are
about to enter the harbor. You have
fought at Gettysburg and the war is
over. Here and there skirmish with
the remaining sin of your own heart and
the sin o. the world, but / guess you are
about done. There may be some work
for you yet on small or large scale. Bis
marck of Germany vigorous in the eigh-
ties. The Prime Minister of England
strong at eighty-four. Haydn compos-
ing his oratorio 1.-THE Creation" at sew
enty years OF age. lsocrateS doing some
of his best work at seventy-four. Plato
busy thinking for all succeeding CEN
turtles at eighty-one. Noah Webster,
after making his world-renowned die
tionary, hard at work until eighty-ive
YearsQla; Rey.. Daniel Waldo praying in
Humboldt producing the immortal nos
mos" at seventy-siX years. William
Blake at sixty-seven learning Italian so
as to read Dante in the original. Lord
Cockburn at eighty-seven writing his
hest treatise. John Wesley stirring
great audiences at eighty-fve. Will
liam G. Bryant without spectacles,
and women In all departments serving
God after becoming septuagenarians
and octogenarians and nonagenarians
prove that there are possibilities OF work
for the aged, but think you who are
passed the seventies are near being
through. How do you feel about 1t?
You ought to be jubilant because life Is
tremendous struggle, and II you have
got through respectfully and usefullY
YOU ought to feel like people toward the
close OF a summer day seated on the
rocks watching the sunset at Bar Har-
Dor or Cape May or Lockout Mountain.
| am glad to say that most old Chris
iaus are cheerful. Daniel Webster Wis
tied John Adams q short time before
his death and found him in very inflrm
health. He said to Mr.. Adams: 81 AIN
glad to see you. hope you are getting
along pretty well?" The reply was;
"Ah, sir, quite the contrary. l find
am a poor tenant, occupying a house
much shattered by time. II sways and
trembles with every wind, and what
is worse, sir, the landlord, a;
near as can make out, does not intend
TO make any repairs" DR.. Beman, after
! passing into the seventies, was asked by
my friend, Rev. DR.. Spear: CDR. Beman
how is your health now?" and he re-
piled: az have on me an incurable dis
ease" 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 8
right to be facetiouS. An aged woman
sent to her physician and told him o.
her ailments, and the doctor said
"What would you have me do, madam
I cannot make yon young again." Sh'
replied: 'I know that. doctor. Wha
7 want YOU to do is &c help me to grow
old little longer" The young hav'
their troubles before them. The ok
| have their troubles behind them.
A man got up in New York praye
meeting and said: "God is my partner
| did business without him ror t@ent,
wears, and failed every two or tire
wears. have been doing business witt
him for twenty years and and have no
failed once" OH take the supernat
uraI into all your affairs. l hsd sue
an evidence of tht goodness Of God 1
temporal things when l entered activ
life. must testify. Called to preac
at lovely Bellevile in New Jersey, / er
tered upon my work. But there stoo
the empty parsonage, and not cen
had | with which TO furnish it. Ate
preaching three or four weeks the of
GERS of my church asked me II l did nc
want TO take two er three weeks vacs
rion. | said: "Yes.'' for l had preache
about all 1 knew, but l learned the
must be getting tired OF me. When
returned TO the village after the brit
vacation, they handed me the key
the parsonage, and asked me
II did not want TO 60 an
look at it. Not suspeeting an,
thing had happened, put the key in'
the parsonage door and opened 1t, an
there was the hall completely furnishe
with carpet and pictures and hat-racl
and | turned into the parlors and the
were furnished, the soitest sofas eve
sat on, and into the study, and found
furnished with bookcases, and wei
TO the bed rooms, and they were fu
utshed, and into the pantry, and tn
was furnished with every cnlinal
article, and the spice boxes were file
, and -four barrel stood there ready
: be opened; aud I wsnt down into Il
: dining room, and the table Was set ar