Connecticut western news., 1893-03-09


 startling than any other. In his chron- ological journey the man rides rather smoothly over the figures "2" and "3" and "A" and ''5." but the figure "6" gives him big jolt. He says: Ut cannot be l that I am 60. Let me examine the old family record. guess they made mis- take. They got my name down wrong in the roll of births" But, no; the older ! brothers or sisters remember the time of his advent, and there is some relative a 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 your faculties and quit You will feel tendency to remi-
 nisce. If you do not look out, you will begin almost everything with the words,
 "When was boy" But you ought to make the sixties more memorable for l God and the truth than the ffties, or the | forties, or the thirties. You ought to do 1 more during the next 10 years than you l did in any 30 years of your life because | of all the experience you have had. You l have committed enough mistakes in life
 to make you wise above your juniors | Now, under the accumulated light of your past experimenting, go to work for God as never before. ...... When a man in the sixties folds up | his energy and feels he has done enough, | it is the devil of incidence to which he Is l surrendering, and God generally takes l the man at his word and lets him die | right away. His brain, that under the 1 tension of hard work was active, now | suddenly shrivels. Men, whether they retire from secular or religious work, l generally retire to the grave. No well
 man has a right to retire. The world was made for work. There remaineth 8 I sphere beyond the reach of telescopes. | The military charge that decided one of l the greatest battles of the ages-the bat l tie of Waterloo-was not made until 8 | o'clock in the evening, but some of you I propose to go into camp at o'clock in l the afternoon. WAITING FOR THE END.
 l My subject next accosts those in the l seventies and beyond. My word to them 1 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 a skirmish 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 England strong at 84. Haydn composing his oratorio, ''The Gre ation, at 70 years of age. Isocrates doing some of his best work at "A. Plato busy | thinking for all succeeding centuries at l 84. William Blake at 67 learning Ital- | tan so us to read Dante in the original. Lord Cockburn at ST writing his best treatise. John Wesley stirring great audiences at 95 William c. Bryant, without spectacles, reading in my house
 ''ThanatopsiB, at S3 years of age.
 Christian men and women in all de- partments serving God after becoming | septuagenarians and octogenarians and nonagenarians prove that there are pos abilities of work for the aged, but I 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 tremendous struggle, and | if you have got through respectfully and usefully you ought to feel like people to-
 ward the close of summer day seated on the rocks watching the sunset at Bar Harbor or Cape May or Lookout noun | tain.
 1 I am glad to say that most old Chris | tiaps are cheerful. Daniel Webster vis- l iGed John Adams short time before his death and found him in very infrm
 health. lie said to MT. Adams: T am glad to see you. hope you are getting ! along pretty well?'' The reply was: "Ah, sir, quite the contrary. I find I am 8 poor tenant occupying 8 house much l shattered by time. It sways and trem- 1 bles with every wind. and, what is worse, | sir, the landlord, as near as can make out, does not intend to make any re- pairs.
 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, T have on
 me an incurable disease" What is thatr' asked my friend, and the septu-
 agenarian replied, "Old age." Both, of
 the old men have mentioned intended l their remarks for facetiousness, and old | people have a right to be facetious. An 1 aged woman sent for her physician and told him of her ailments, and the doctor
 said: What would you have me do, madam? 1 cannot make you young l again." She replied: II know that,
 doctor. What want you to do is to
 help lne grow old little longer"
 | The young have their troubles before
 them. The old have their troubles be-
 hind 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, ye in the seventies, and
 the eighties, and the nineties, your best
 days are yet to come; your grandest as-
 sociations 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.
 | lhC hioot o1 you1 AliC1io kitsO SOhC
 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 watch
 ing the shining gate to see you come
 through. They are standiny by the throna
 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 athlete! But
 hear! hear! a remark pertinent to all
 people whether in the twenties, the thir-
 ties, the forties, the ffties, 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 mighty
 supply of the supernatural. We want