The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-03-09

it4luso. at mighty things have been
done in .ne twentiesl Romulus founded
| Rome when he was 20. Keats finished life
at 25. LAFAYETTE was world renowned
soldier at %. Oberlin accomplished his
CHIEF work by 81 Bonaparte was victor
over Italy at 81. Pitt was prime minister
! of England at - Calvin had completei
his immortal institutes by the time he
was 90. Grotius was attorney general at q.
Some of the nightest things for God and
| eternity have been done in the twenties. As
| long as you can put the figure "!' before the
| other figure that helps describe your age
| have high hopes about you. l. Jok out for
that figure '2.' Watch its continuance
with as much oarnestness as you ever
watched anything that promis ID your saliva
| ton or Threatened you demolition. WHAT a
critical time, the twenties. While they con-
tinuc you decide your occupation AMI the
principles by which you will be guided. You
make your most abiding friendships. You
arrange YOUR home life. You fix your
habits. Lord God Almighty, for Jesu,
! ChristS sake, have mercy on all tue men
! aud women in the twenties!
Next | accoSt those in the thirties. Nou
are at an age when you find what tough
thing il is to get recognizsi and established
| in your occupation or profession. Ten years
ago You thought all that was nee assary for
success was TO put on your shutter the sign
! Of phys or dentist, or attorney or broker
! or agent, and you would have plenty of busi.
ness. How many hours you sat and waited
, for business and waited IN vain three per-
! sons only know Sod, your wife and
| yourself. In commercial life YOU have not
had the promotion and the increase in salary
! you anticipated, or the plaza you expected
| To occupy in the firm has not been vacated.
| The produce of the farm, with which you
| expected 70 support yourself and those de-
| pending on you, and 10 pay the interest on
| the mortgage, has been far less than you
| anticipated. or the prices were down, or spe-
cial expenses for sickness made drafts on
| your resources that you could not have ex-
| pected.
In some respects the hardest decade of
| life is the thirties because the results are
| generally so far behind the anticipations IL
! is very rare indeed that a young man does
as did the young man last Sunday night,
when he came TO me and said: II have been
so marveously prospered since came to
| this country that | feel, as matter Of
| gratitude, that ought TO dedicate myself
10 God.n Nine-tenths OF the poetry of life
J has been knocked out OF you since you came
into the thirties. Men in the different pro =
| fessions and occupations saw that you were
rising and they must put an estoppal on you
or you might somehow stand in the way.
I They think you must be suppressed.
From 80 to 40 IL is an especially hard time
for young doctors, young lawyers, young
merchants, young farmers, young mecnhn-
les, young ministers The struggle of the
] thirtes is for honest and helpful and re-
munerative recognition. But few old peo-
| pie know how 70 treat young people without
| patronizing them on the one hanl or snub-
| hing them on the other Oh, the thirties !
Joseph stood before Pharaoh at 30. David
was 30 years old when he began to reign.
The height of Solomon's temple was 30 GU
bits. Christ entered upon His sactive.ministry
at 80 years OF age. Judas sold himself for
| 80 pieces of silver.
Oh, the thirtiesl What word suggestive
of triumph or disaster, Your decade is the
one that will probably afford the greatest
opportunity for victory, because 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 career at 32. Frederick the
Great made Europe tremble with his armies
at IS IN. Cortes conquered Mexico at 30
CRY A'' hit Shiloh ahd Donelson when -.
1 at 81. Luther was the hero
ion at 95. Sir Philip Sydney
'iod and agaips,
fhirties, aud your
I'D between tn,
50.- ing your age by