The Globe-republican., 1893-03-24

sibilities Of work for the aged, but
think you who are passed the seventies
are near being through. How do you
feel about it? You ought to be jubilsnt
oecause life is . tremendous struggle,
and II you have got through respectfully
and usefully you ought to feel like peo-
pie toward the close Of q summer day
seated on the rocks watching the sunset
at Bar Harbor or Cape May or Lookout
Mountain l am glad to say that most
old Christians are cheerful Daniel Web
ster visited John Adams q short time
before his death and found him in
very inirm health. He said to Mr..
Adams: Il am glad 70 see you. hope
you are getting along pretty we'll" The
reply was: ''Ah.sir, quite the contrary.
l find am poor tenant occupying o
house much shattered by time. It 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"
His Disease Was Ammo Domiui.
DR.. Beman, after passing into the
seventies. was asked by my friend, Rev.
DR.. Spear, 'Dr. Beman. how is your
health now?" and he replied, II have on
me an incurable disease" What is
that?" asked my friend. and the septu-
agenarian replied, 'Old age" Both of
the old men l have mentioned intended
their remarks for facetiousness. and old
people have q right to be facetiOus An
aged woman sent for her physician and
told him OF her ailments, and the doctor
said: What would you have me do,
madam? l cannot make YOU young
again." She replied: Il know that
doctor. 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 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 lite and amid better
Stop looking back and
look ahead. Oh, ye in the seventies, and
the eighties, and the nineties, your best
days are vet to come: your grandest as
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 vet to be travelled; your
yladdest song is vet to be sung. The
most Of your friends have gone over the
1OANSAs ohu you olC So.uk W JUN lutW
'ery soon. They are waiting for YOU.
They are watching the golden shore to
Zee you land. They are watching the
shining gate to see you come through
They are standing by the throne to see
'ou mount What glad hour when
'Ou drop the staff and take the scepter:
when you quit the stiffcned joints and
,ecOme an immortal athlete! But hear.
lear. remark pertinent to all people |
whether IN the twenties. the thirties, the |
orties, the fifties, the sixties, the seyen-
les or beyond.
What We all need is to take the super |
atural into our lives. Do not let us de- |
END on brain and muscle and nerve. |
We want mighty supply Of the super
atural. We want with us a divine |
Orce mightier than the waters and the |
and when the Lord took two
teps on bestOrmed Galilee, putting one
Dot on the winds and the other on the
'aveS, he proved himself mightier than
urricane and billOw. We want with
ivine force greater than the fires, and
hen the Lord cooled Nebuchadnezzar's
lrnace until Shadrach, Meshach, and
.bednego cid not eveEhave to fan them
lives he proved himself mightier than
le flre. We want divine force
,ronger than the wrath of the jungleS.
here are so many diseases in the world
e want with US divine physician cap
Bile OF combating ailments. and our Lord
hen on earth showed what he could do
!th catalepsy and paralysis and oph-
lalmia ana dementia. oh, take this
lpernatural into all your lives! How
get it? just as you get anything YOU ,
application. If you want any,
ling. you apply for it. BY prayer ap-
y for the supernatural Take it into
'ur daily business. Many a man has
zen able to pay only so cents on the I
'liar who II he had called in the super !
Itural could have paid 100 cents Cn the ;
'llar. Why do ninty-eight men out of
o fail in business? Because there are {
It more than two men out of 100 who I
Ike God into their worldly affairs.
6ehind the great unknown standeth
ID within the shadows keeping watch c
OI his own
Make God Your Partner.
man got up in New York PRAYER n
,etlng and said: God is my partner.
lid business without Him for 20 years
failed every two or three years. | II
We been doing business with Him for IL
years and have not failed once Oh.
ie the supernatural into all your at 's
RS. l had such an evidence Of the ii
)dness OF God in temporal things when
active life l must testify.
lied to preach at lovely Belleville, in st
w Jersey, l entered upon nv work.
I there stood the empty parsonage,
1 not cent had | with which to fur | ..
b it After preaching three or fou. o,
eks the officers OF my church asked
" did not want to take two or three
eks' vacation. l said Yes for / IN
preached about all l knew, but ] fo
red they must be getting tired of me.
When l returned to the village after
brief vacation, they handed me the
OF the parsonage and asked me if / I:
not want to 60 and look at it. Not y
pecting anything had happened, / q,
the Kew into the parsonage door and u
ned 1t, and there was the hall CON- n
tely furnished with carpet and pic a,
es and hatrack, and i turned into d
parlors, and they were furnished, .,
softest sofas l ever set on, and into y.
study aud found it furnished with q
kcaSes. and l went to the bedrooms. v
they were furnished, and into the se
try. and that was furnished with pe
~ culinary article, and the spice- ne
es were filled, and -four barrel stood a.
e ready to be ODened and vv.n, in