Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-03-11


NV sermon next accosts the sixties.
The beginning of that decade is more
startling than any other In his
chronological journey the man rides
rather smoothly over the figures ''a"
and "3'' and 81" and s." but
the figure ''G' gives him a big jolt
Sixty! Now your great danger is the
temptation to fold up your faculties
and quit You will feel tendency to
reminisce. 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 memoir
able for God and the truth than the
fifties or the forties or the thirties-
You ought to do more during the next
ten years than you did In any thirty
years of your life, because of all the
experience 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 experimenting, go to work
for God as never before. When man
in the sixties folds up his energy and
feels he has done enough, 1t is the devil
of Incidence to which he is surrender
ing, and God generally takes the man
ut his word and lets him die right away.
My subject next accosts those in the
seventies and beyond. My word to
them 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 n 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 n small
or large scale. Bismarck, OF Germany,
vigorous in the eighties; the prime
minister Of England strong at 81;
Haydn composing his oratorio,
1.-The Creation" ut 70 years OF age;
Isocrates doing some of his best work
ut "a; Plato busy thinking for all sue.
ceeding centuries at 81; Noah Webster,
after making his world-renowned die
tionary, hard at work until S. years
DID, Rev. Daniel Waldo praying in my
pulpit at 100 years of age; Humboldt
producing the immortal 'Cosmes" at 70
years; William Blake at u learning
Italian so as to read Dante in the origi-
nal; Lord Cockburn Mt 81 writing his
treatise. John Wesley stirring great
audiences at S.. William C. Bryant,
without spectacles, reading in my
house "Thanatopsis," at SO years of
age. Christian men and women in all
departments serving God after becom-
ing septuagenarians and octogenarians
and nonagenarians prove that there
are possibilities of work for the aged,
but think you who are past the seven.
ties are near being through. How do
you feel about it? You ought to be jul
bilant because life is tremendous
struggle, and if you have got through
respectfully and usefully. you ought to
feel like people toward the close OF u
summer day seated on the rocks watch
ing the sunset ut Bar Harbor or Cape
Nav or Lookout Mountain. ! am glad
to say that most old Christians are
cheerful. The young have their
troubles before them. The old
have their troubles behind
them You have got about
all ont 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 look.
ing back and look ahead Oh, We in the
seventies and eighties and the nineties,
your best days are yet to come, your
grandest associations arc yet to be
formed, your best evesight 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 wait.
ing for you. They are watchin
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 stitfened
| Joints and become an immortal athlete.
But hear! hear! a remark pertinent 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 supernatural
into our lives Do not let us depend on
brain and muscle and nerve. We want
mighty supply of the super
natural Oh! Take this super
natural into all yonr lives How to
get it? Just as you get anything you
want by application. If you want
anything you apply for it BY prayer
apply for the supernatural. Take 1t
into your daily business Many man
has been able to pay only so cents on
the dollar who il he had called in the
supernatural could have paid 100 cents