The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-03-09
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i NtROfOut W tne etknttess Inc prime mfnts--
ter OF England strong &C 81 Haydn com
posing his oratorio, "The Creation" at 20
years OF age. fsocrates doing some OF his
best work at "a. Plato busy thinking for
all succeeding centuries 81. William Blake
at 81 learning Italian. so as TO read Dante in
his best treatise. John Weslev stirring
great audiences at s5. William q Bryant,
/ without spectacles. reading in my house
"Thanatopsis' at So years OF age.
| Christian men aud women in all de-
partments serving God after becoming
| septuagenariaus and octoxensrians and
nonagensrians prove that there ere possi-
bilities OF work for the aged. but / think
| you who are passed the seventies are near
being through How do you feel about IL!
You ought to be jubiiaut because life Is n
TREMENDOUS struggle, and IL you have got
through respectfully aud ussfully you ought
| to feel like peop.e toward the close OF sum-
mer day scatter on ths rocks watching tho
sunset at Bar Earbor or Cap, May or Loot-
out Mountain.
am glad to say that most old Christians
are cheerful. Daniel Webster visited John
Adams a short time before his death and
found him In very inflrm health. He said
to Mr.. Adams: II om glad b see you. I
hope YOU are getting along pretty Welt"
The reply was: "Ah, sir. quite the contrary.
find am n poor tenant &C :uoying n house
much shatterst by time. II swnys and trem-
SIR, the landlord, as near ms can make out,
does not intend TO make any repairs"
DIR. BemaD, after passing into tho seven.
ties. was asked by my frien1, Rev. DIR.
Spear. "Dr. Beman, how Is your health
| nowY AMI he repliei. "I have on mo an in.
durable disease" "What is thaty' asked my
frient, aud the septua yenaran replied.
''Old age" Both Of the old men I have
mentioned INTENDED their remarks for
facetiousness, and old people have right to
be facetious. An asel woman sent for her
physician and told him Of her ailments, and
the doctor said; "Wnat would you have me
do, madam, cannot make you young
again" She replied: "1know that, doctor.
WHAT want you 20 do is u help ms grow
Old n little longer"
The young have their troubles before
them. The old have their troubles behinl
tbem. 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 an
other lie and amid better surroundings.
Stop looking back and look ahead. Oh, 20
In the seventies, ani the eighties, and tho
nineties. your best days are yet TO come:
your gran1est associations are yet 70 be
formed your best oyesght is yet 20 be
kindei: your bes. hearing is yet To be
awakened. your greatest speed Is yet TO be
Travelled; .oar gladiess song is yet 10 be
suns.
The most Of your frienis have gone over
tho border. and you are going TO join them
very soon. They are waiting for you. They
ara watching the golden snore 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. What "A
glad hour wnen you drop the staff ani take
the scepter; when you quit the stiff
joints and become an immortal athletel But
near hear! remark pertinent to all peopls
whether in the twentisS. the thirties. the
forties, the fifties, the sixties, tbs seventies.
or beyond. What we nll need is to take the
suoernatural into our lives
Do not let ne depend on brain nnt muscle
aud nerve. We want mighty supply os
the supernatural. Wo want with us d.
vine forcs miyhtier than the waters and
the tenpests. and when the Lord took two
steps on bestormed Gililee, putting one foot
on the winds AM the other on the waves, II.
proved Himself mightie: than hurricane and
billow. We want with us n divine force
greater than the firss, aud when tho Lord
cooled Nebuchadnezzlr's 5 furnace until Shad-
rach. Meshach "-i Abednego did not even
h%ry" N. NH. YES n H0 gITHvei Himself
We want divine force stronger than wild
beast, and when the Lord made Daniel lion
tanner He proved Himself stronger than the
wrath OF the jungles. There are so many
diseases in the world we want with us d.
vine physician capable OF combating all
| ments, and our Lord wnen on earth showed
what He could do with catalepsy and paraly-
/ sis and ophthalmia and dementia. Oh. take
this supernatural into all your lives! How
! to get III just as you get anything you
! want--oy application. IL you want any
thine, you apply forit.
| by prayer apply for the supernatural.
| Take IL into your daily business Many n
man has been able to pay only 80 cents on
the dollar, who IL he had called in the super
natural could have paid 100 cents on the
/ 1nll 10 .x,,N ..r nl fail L.,
! business? Because thsre are not moro than
two men out OF a hundred who take God in
to their worldly affairs. "Behind the great.
unknown stan 10th God within the shadows
keeping watch upon His own"
A man got IN in New York prayer meet
ing and said: GOD is my partner. l did
business without Him for twenty years and
failed every two Or three years. l have
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 Goi in
temporal things when entered active life [
must testify. Called TO preach at lovely
Bellevile, in New Jersey, entered upon
my work. But there stood the empty par
souage, and not q cant had | with which to
furnish it. After preaching three or four
weeks the officers OF my church asked me if
| Gid not want 10 take two or three weeks
vacation said YES" for 1 had preached
/
getting tired OF me.
When returned to the village after the
brief vacation, they handed me tue key OF
the par sonage and asked me IL did not want
to GO and look at it. Not suspecting any
thing had happened, put the key into the
parsonage door and opened IL. and there was
tho hall completely furnished with carpet
and pictures aud hatrack, and turned into
the parlors, aud they were furnished. the
softest sofas ever sat on, and into the study
and found IL furnished with book leases, and
| went TO the bedrooms, and they We're fur
nished, and into the pantry. and that was
furnished with every culinary article. and
the spiceboxes were filed. and a -four
barrel stood there ready TO be opened.
and | went down into the dining room, and
the table was set and beautifully furnished,
and into the kitchen, apd the stove was full
of fue!, aud a match lay on the top of the
stove, and all | had TO do in starting house.
keeping was to strike the match. God in
spired the whole thing, and II ever doubt
His goodness all up and down the world, call
me an migrate testify that | have bsen
in many tight places, aud God always got
me out, and Hc will get you out OF the
tight places
but the most of this audience will never