Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-06

in salary you anticipated, or the place
you expected to occupy in the firm has
not been vacated. The produce of the
farm, with which you expected to sup
port yourself and those depending on
you, and to pay the interest on the
mortgage, has been far less than you an
ticipated, or the prices were down, or
special expenses for sickness made
drafts on your resources That you
could not have expected.
In some respects the hardest decade Of
life is the thirties, because the results
are generally SO far behind the anticipa-
lions. It is very rare indeed that
young man does as did the young man
last Sunday night when he came to me
and said, 81 have been so marvelously
prospered since l came to this country
that feel, as matter of gratitude, that
ought to dedicate myself to God"
Nine-tenths of the poetry of life has
been knocked out of you since you came
into the thirties Men in the different
professions and occupations saw that
you were rising and they must put ali
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 thirties! Joseph stood before
Pharaoh at 80 David was 80 years old
when he began to reign. The height of
| Solomon's temple was 80 cubits. Christ
entered upon his active ministry at 30
years of age Judas sold him for 30
pieces of silver
Oh, the thirties! What a word, sug
gestive of triumph or disaster! Your dec
AIDE 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 35
Cortes conquered Mexico at 80. Grant
fought Shiloh and Donelson when SO.
Raphael died at 81. Luther was the hero
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 it by putting first figure ''3.
AS it is the greatest time Of the struggle,
adjure you, in Gods name and by Gods
grace, make it the greatest achievement.
Ny 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
| a battle at that small village? 1t was 70
| miles from Moscow. Why that desper
ate struggle, in which 125, 900 French
| men grappled with 100000 Russians, and
| 10000 dead Frenchmen and SO, 900 dead
| Russians were left on the field? 1t was
1 because the fate Of Moscow the sacred
| CITY of Russia. was decided there-de-
cided 20 miles away. And let me tell
you, people of the thirties, you are now
at the Borodino. whence will resound
| it's 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-
ery of Yourself No man knows himself
derestimates himself. By that time he
has learned what he can do or what he
cannot do. He thought he had CONNER
cial genius enough to become million
aire, but now he is satisfied to make a
comfortable living. He thought he had
rhetorical power that would bring him
| into the United States senate; now he is
| content if he can successfully argue
common case before petit jury.
He thought he had medical skill that
would make him "a Mott or Crosse or a
| Willard Parker or Sims; now he finds
his sphere is that of. a family physician,
! prescribing for the ordinary ailments
that affiict our race. He was sailing on
in a fog and could not take a 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 long breath. He is half way
through the Journey at least, and he is
in a position to look backward or for
ward He has more good sense than he
ever had. He knows human nature, for
he has been cheated often enough 10 see
the bad side Of it, and he has met so
many gracious and kindly and splendid
souls he also knows the good side of it.
Now calm yourself. Thank God for
the past and deliberately set your com
pass for another voyage. You have
| cbaSnd anouUh thiSt1edOwn YOu have