Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-03-17

sir, the landlord, as near as can make OUT,
does not intend TO make any repairs"
d.. Beman after passing into the seven
ties. was asked by my friend, Rev. Or.
Spear, "Dr. Beman, how is your health
nowY AMI he replied. III have on me an IN
durable disease" "What is that" asked my
friend. and the septuagen1s,rlau replied,
mentioned intended their remarks Tor
Righteousness and old people have Alright to
be facetious. An a.ei woman sent for her
physician aud told him of her ailments, and
the doctor said "What would you have me
do madam? | cannot make you young
again. She replied: IL know that, DOCTOR
WHAT l want you to do is to help me grow
old little longer"
The young have their troubles peIore
them. The old have their troubles oenlni
them. You have got about all ous OF tnls
an a. ed servant of God, are going to try an
other lie and anil better surroundings.
Stop looking back and look aheat. On, ye
in the seventies, ami the eighties, AMI thu
nineties, your best days ara yet to come;
your gran1est associations 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 DO
sung.
The most of your frisn Is have gone over
the border, and you are going TO join Snem
very soon. They are waiting for you Iney
are watching the golden saore TO see you
land. They are watching the shining gate
TO see YOU come through. They are stand
ing by the throne to see you mount. Wnat
glad hour when you drop the stat AMI take
the scepteri when you quit the stlirened
Joints and become an immortal athletel But
hearl hearl remarE pertinent 70 all peopie
whether in the twentiss, the thirties. the
forties. the fifties, 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 AMI muscle
ana nerve. We want mighty supply o.
the supernatural. We want With us ols
vine forcs mightier thsn tina waters AM
the tempests. and when tbs L. TOOK two
stems on bestormsd GllIlee, putting ons foot
on the winds and the other on the waves, De
proyei Himself mightier than hurricane ani
biIlow. We want with us q divine force
greater than the firss, AMI when the Lord
cooled Nebucaadnezz ar g furnacs until Snad-
rach. Meshach aud be1n9go did not even
have to fan themselves He proved Himself
mightier than the fire. -,
we want divine force stronger than Wild
beast. and when the Lord made Daniel lion
tanner He proved Himself stronger than tne
wrath OF the juugles. Thera are SO many
diseases in the world we want with US oi'
vine physician capable OF combating al,
ments, and our Lori waen on eartn snowel
what He cou d do with catalepsy and paraly-
sis and ophthalmia and dementia. Oh, take
this supernatural into all your lves how
to get itP Just as you get anything you
want->bv application. IL you walt any
thing. YOU apply FORT
By prayer apply for the supernatural
Take it into your daily business. Many
man has been able to pay only % cents on
the dollar. who if he had callel in the super
natural could have pail lOJ cents on tue
dollar. Why do IS men out OF lo) ran IN
business? Because there ara no5 more taan
two men out of hundred who take to1 IN
TO their worldly affairs. "Beaint thu great
UNKNOWN stan1eth Col within tho shadows
keeping watch upon His own"
A man got up in New York prayer meet
ing and sail: God is my partner, did
business without Him for twenty years aud
failed every two or three years. L nave
| 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 doi IN
temporal taings when entered active Ire
must testify. tailed to preach ot lovely
BelleviIle, in New Jersey, entered upon
INV work. But there stood the empty par
so1aoe and not cant had | with which to
furnish it, After preaching three or four
weeKs the officers OF my church asked me IL
| l did not want to take two or three weeks
vacation. said "Yes," for ! had preached
about all I knew, but / feared they must be
getting tired of me.
When returned to the village after thu
brief vacation, they handel ma the key oil
the parsonage and asked me if di not want
to go and look at it. Not suspectng any
thing had happensd l put the key into the
xArsonage door and opened IT, and there was
the hall completely FURNISHED with carpe'
and pictures and hatracS, an L turned into
the narlors. and they were furnished. the
softest sofas ever sat on, and into the study
and found it furnished with bookcases, anc
went to the bedrooms, and they vera fur'
nisned. and into the pantry, and that wa,
furnished with every culinary article. and
the soiceboxes were filed, an -four
barrel stood there ready to be opene1.
and | went down into the dining room, aud
the table was set and beautifully furnisne :,
and into the kitchen, apd the stove was Iui
of fue and match lay Oh the top OF tns
stove. and all I had to do in starting nodse
keeping was TO strike the match. God in
spired the wnole thing, AMI if l ever douol
His goodness. al: up and down tne world, ca
me me an migrate. testify that | have bsel
in many tight places, and God always 60
me out. and He will get you out OF IN
BUT the most Of this audience will neve
reach the eighties, or the ssvent ties, or tn
sixties. or the fifties, or thu fortles' ne wa
passes into the Iorties has gone far oeyop
the average of human life. AMID tns ul
certainties take God through Jesus On NV
es vour nresent and eternal safety In
ionSest life is onlv small fragment OF tn
great eternity. We will oil OF US soon D
there.
Eternity how near it rolls;
Count the vast va ne OF your souls
Beware and count the awful cost