The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-10

estoppel ON you or you might somehow
stand In the way They think you must
be suppressed.
From 80 to 40 it Is an especially hard
time for young doctors, young lawyers,
young merchants. young farmers, young
mechanics, young ministers. The strug-
gle of the thirties is for honest and help
full and remunerative recognition. But
few old people know how to treat young
people without patronizing them on the
one hand or snubbing them on the other.
Oh. the thirtiesl Joseph stood before
Pharaoh at 80 David was 80 years old
when he began to reign. The height of
selomon's temple was 80 cubits. Christ
entered upon his active ministry at 80
years of age. Judas sold him for so
pieces of silver.
Oh, the thirtiesl What a word, sug-
gestive of triumph or disasterl Your dec
ade is the one that will probably afford
the greatest opportunity for victory. be-
cause there Is the greatest necessity for
struggle, Read the worlds history and
know what are the thirties for good or
bad. Alexander the Great closed his ca
reer at 80, Frederick the Great made
Europe tremble with his armies at 85.
Cortes conquered Mexico at 30. Grant
fought Shiloh and Donelson when 3S.
Raphael died at 81. Luther was the hero
of the reformation at SO. Sir Philip Sgd
ney got through by 80.
The greatest deeds for God and against
him were done within the thirties, and
your greatest battles are now and be-
tween the time when you cease express
ing your age by putting first figure ''2"
and the time when you will cease ex-
pressing 1t by putting first a figure 30"
AS 1t is the greatest time Of the struggle,
| adjure you, in Gods name and by Gods
grace, make it the greatest achievement.
My prayer is for all those In the tremen-
dous crises of the thirties. The fact is
that by the way you decide the present
decade Of your history you decide all the
following decades.
When ! was in Russia, | was disap-
pointed in not seeing the battlefield of
Borodino. Why was there fought such
b battle at that small village? 1t was 10
miles from Moscow. Why that dssper-
ate struggle, in which $4,000 French
men grappled with 100000 Russlans, and
&c. 900 dead Frenchmen and $4,000 dead
Russians were left on the field? 1t was
because the fate of Moscow, the sacred
city of Russia, was decided there-de-
cided 10 miles away. And let me tell
you, people of the thirties, you are now
at the Borodino. whence will resound
Its successes or its moral disasters clear
on into the seventies if you live to The
threescore and ten of the text
AT FORTY MAN KNOWS HIS WEAKNESS.
Next accost the forties. Yours is the
decade Of discovery. do not mean the
discovery of the outside, but the discov-
cry Of yourself No man knows himself
until he is 40 He overestimates or I'M
himself. By that time he
has learned what he can do or what he
do. He thought he had CONNER
cial genius enough to become million
aire, but now he is satisfied Is niake a
comfortable living He thought he had
rhetorical power that would bring him
into the United States senate; now lie is
content if he can successfully argue
case before petit jury.
He thought he had medical skill that
would make him Mott or Crosse or
Willard Parker or Sims; now he finds
his sphere is that of family physician,
for the ordinary ailments
that aff1ict our race. He was sailing on
in a fog and could not take reckoning,
but now it clears up enough to allow
him to find out his real latitude and
longitude. He has been climbing, but
now he has got to the top Of the hill, and
he takes a long breath. He is half way
through the journey at least, and ne Is
in position to LOOK backward or Tor
ward. he has more good sense than ne
ever had. lie knows human nature, tof
he has been cheated often enough 10 see
the bad side OF it. and ne has met 30
many gracious and kindly and splendid
souls he also knows the good side OF 1T.
Now calm yourself. Thank God for
the past and deilperately SET your com
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