Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-09

tnau E1o nrSU8 OF the rorrIes OF rucr rrrr-
ties You ought 70 do more during the
next 10 years than -ou did In any 30 years
Of your life because OF all the expe-
rience you have had. You have committed
enough mistakes in life TO make you
wise above your juniors Now. under the
accumulated light OF your past experiment
ing, 60 TO work for God as never before
When a man In the sixties folds up his
energy and feels he has done enough, il Is
the devil Of Incidence to which he Is sur
rendering, and God generally takes the
man ut his word and lets him die right
away. His brain, that under the tension Of
bard work was active, now suddenly shriv-
els. Men, whether they retire from secular
or religious work, generally retire 10 the
grave. No well man has right to retire.
The world WIS made for work. There ie-
maineth a r,sst for the people Of God, but II
is in a sphere beyond the reach of tele-
scopes. The military charge that decided
one Of the greatest battles OF the ages-the
battle Of Waterloo-was not made until G
o'clock in the evening, but some Of you
propose to go into camp at 2 O'Clock in the
afternoon.
WAITING FOR THE SHADOW.
seventies and beyond. My word to them
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
skir1nish with the remaining sin of your
own heart and the sin Of the world, but
guess you are about done. There may be
some work for you yet on small or large
scale. Bismarck of Germany vigorous in
the eighties. The prime minister of Eng
land strong at 81 Haydn composing his
oratorio, 1.-The Creation" at 70years of age.
Isocrates doing some of his best work at "a
Plato busy thinking for all succeeding cen
turies at 81. William Blake at 67 learning
Italian so as TO read Dante in the original
Lord Cockburn at 81 writing his best
treatise. John Wesley stirring great audi
ences at IS. William C. Bryant, without
spectacles, reading in my house "Thana
topsis" at S3 years of age.
Christian men and women in all depart
ments serving God after becoming septua-
genarians and octogenarians and mona
genarians 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 itp You
ought to be jubilant because life is a ire
mendous struggle, and If 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 Harbor or Cape May or
Lookout mountain. lam glad to say that
most old Christians are cheerful Daniel
Webster visited John Adams short time
before his death ard found Linn in very in
firm health. He said to :. r. Adams: Il
am glad to see you. hope you are getting
along pretty we'll" The reply was: "Ah,
sir, quite the contrary. find am poor
tenant occupying house much shattered
by time. 1t sways and tremblcs with every
wind, and, what is worse, sir, the landlord,
as near as l can make out, does not intend
to make any repairs"
HIS DISEASE WAS AMMO DoMINI.
DR. Beman, after passing into the seven
ties, was asked by my friend, Rev. DIR.
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 septuagenarian replied,
"Old age" Both of the old men / have
cetiousness, and old people have 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, MADAME cannot make you
young again" She replied: Il know that,
doctor. What l 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
life and amid better surroundings Stop
looking back and look ahead. Oh, We in
the seventies, and the eighties, and the
your best days are yet to come;
your grandest associations 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 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
them very soon. They are waiting for you
They are watching the golden shore to see
you land. They are watching the shining
gate to see you come through. They are
standing by the throne to see you mount
What glad hour when you drop the staff
and take the scepter; when you quit the
stiffened joints and become an immortal
athletei But hear! heari a remark peril
nent to all people whether in the twenties,
the thirties, the forties, the fifties, the six.
ties, the seventies or beyond.
What we all need is to take the super
natural into our lives. Do not let us de-
pend 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 bcstormed
Galilee, putting one foot on the winds and
the other on the waves, he proved him
self mightier than hurricane and billow.
We want with us divine force greater
than the fires, and when the Lord cooled
furnace until Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego did not even have to
fan themselves he proved himself mightier
than the fire. Wewant divine force strong
er than wild beast, and when the Lord made
Daniel lion tanner he proved himself
stronger than the wrath of the jungles.
There are SO many diseases in the world we
want with us divine physician capable Of
combating ailments, and our Lord when
on earth showed what he could do with
catalepsy and paralysis and ophthalmia
and dementia. Oh, take this supernatural
into all your lives! How to get it? Justas
you get anything 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 man has
been able to pay only so cents on the dollar
who if he had called in the supernatural
could have paid 100 cents on the dollar
Why do 9S men out Of 100 fail in business?
Because there are not more than 2 men out
of 100 who take God into their worldly af
fairs. Behind the great unknown stand
eth God within the shadows keeping watch
upon his own"
MAKE GOD YOUR PARTNER.
A man got up in New York prayer
meeting and said. 'tGod is nv partner L