The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-03-07


many, vigorous in the eighties. The
prime minister of England strong 1T eighty
four Haydn, composing Ills oratorio The
Creation at seventy years OF age. $50
crates doing some Of his best work ut
scvcnty-four Plato busy thinking for all
succeeding centuries at cighty-one Noah
Webster, after making his world-renowned
dictionary, hard at work until eighty-tlve
years old. Rev. Daniel Waldo praying in
my pulpit at one hundred years of age;
Humboldt producing the immortal eos
mos at sevcnty-siX years. William Blake,
at sixty-sevou, learning Italian 50 as 10
read Dante in the original; Lord Cockburn,
at eignty-seven, writing his best treatise.
John Wesley stirring great audiences at
cighty-1ive; William G. Bryant. without
spectacles, rcadin, i'll my house 'Ibanatop-
sis" at eighty-three years of age Christian
men and women in al! departments serv-
ing God after becoming scptuaSenarlanS
and octagenarians and nonaGenarlans, 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 it? You ought
to be jubilant because life is q trcmen-
dous struggle, and if you have got
through respectably and uscfully, you
of 4 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 Webster visited john
Adams a short time before his death and
found him in very intirm health. lie said
to Mr.. Adams: Il am glad TO see YOU.
| hope you are getting along pretty well:
The reply was "Ah sir. quite the contrary.
! find am q poor tenant occupying house
much shattered by time. 1t SWayA and
trcmbles with every wind, and what IS
worse, sir, the landlord, as near as ] can
make out, does not intend to make any
pairs" DR.. Bcman, after passing into the
f,,...
DR.. Spear: Dr.. Beman. how is your health
incurabie disease what is that?" asked
my friend. and the septuagenarian replied
mentioned intended their remarks for ia
seriousness and old people have right to be
facctious. An aged woman sent to her
physician ard told him Of her ailments
and the doctor said: What would you
have me do madam? ] cannot make You
doctor. What | want YOU to DO IS to help
have their trouble 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. arc going to try another life and
amid better surroundings. Stop looking
back and look ahead. Oh. yc in the seven
ties and the eighties and the ninetcs, your
best days are yet to come your grandcst
associations are yet tn be formed, your best
cyesght il, vet to be kindled. your best hear
ing is yet to be awakened, your greatest
speed is yet to be Travelled. your gaddcst
song is yot to be sung The most Of your
friends nave gone over the border aud you
are going TO join them very soon. They are
waiting for YOU They arc watching the
golden shore to see you land. They are
watching the shining gate 10 see you come
to see YOU mount What a glad hour when
YOU drop the staff and take the sccptre,
when you quit the stiffened joints and be-
come an immortal athlete. But hear! hear Il
remark pertinent to all people whether in the
twentieS. the thirties. the fortics, the fitties.
the sixties the seventies or beyond 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 a mighty
supply of the supernatural. We want with Us
a divine force mightier than the waters and
the tempests and when the Lord took two
steps on bestormcd Galilee, putting one foot
on the winds and the other on the waves,
he proved himself migbtier than hurricane
and DiliOw. We want with us divine force
greater than the fires, and when the Lord
cooled Nebuchadnezzar's furnace until
Shadrach, MeSh1ch and Abednrgo did not
evon have t" fam themselves ne proved
himself inightier than the IRE. We want q
divine force stronger than the wild beast,
and when The Lord made Daniel Il hon
tanner, he proved himself stronger than the
wrath of the jungles. There are many
diseases in the world we want with us a
divine Physician capable of combating all
mcnts, and our Lord when on earth showed
what he could do with catalcpsy and parAly-
sis and ophthamia and demrntil. On. take
this supernatural into ali your lives. How
to get it! just as You get anything you
want. BY application. f YOU want anything
you appiv for it, BY prayer apply for She
supernatural Take it into your daily bust
ness. Many man has been able to pay only
fifty cents on the dollar, who. if he had call
ed i'll the supernatural could nave pald ono
hundred cents on the dollar. Why d" nine
ty-eight men out of Il hundred fail in bust
ness? Because there are not more than
two men out of hundred who take God
into their worldly affairs behind tile great
unknown standeth God within the shadows
keeping watch upon his own
4 man got up in New York PRAYER
meeting and said: God is my partner. |
did business without him for twenty years
and failed every two or three years | have
been doing business with him for twenty
years and have not failed once Oh! take
the supernatural into all your affairs. !
had such an evidence OF the goodness Of
God in temporal things whom | entered ac
tive life. | must testify. Called TO preach
at lovely Bcleville, i'll New Jersey. | en-
tered upon my work. But there stood III"
empty parsonage, and not cent had
with which to furnish it. After preaching
three or four weeks the officers of my
church asked me if / did not want to
take two or three weeks Nnca-
ton. ] said. Yes" Tor / had preached
about all knew, but | feared they must
be getting tired of me. When | returned
to the village after the brief vacation
they handed me the key Of the parsonag"
and asked me if L did no want to go and
look at it. Not suspecting anything had
happened. I put the key into the parsonas"
door and opened it. and there was the hall
completely furnished with carpet and pic
lures and hat-rack, and | turned into the
parlors and they were furnished, the soft
est sofas | ever sat on. and into the study.
and found it furnished with bookcases,
and | went to the bedrooms and they were
furnished, and into the pantry and that
was furnished with every culinary article.
and the spice boxes were filled. and
flour barrel stood there ready TO be open
ed, and | went down into the dining room
and the table was set and beautifully fur
nished. and into the kitchen. and the
stove was full of fuel and a match lay on
the top of the stove and all L mad to 90
IN starting housekeeping was to strike the
match. God inspired the whole thing,
and if / ever doubt his goodness. all up
and down the world call me an migrate.
I testify that ] have been in many tight
places and God always got me out, and
he will get you out of the tight Places.
But til" most Of this audience Will never
Il, |, +1,n tinc thD