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

disasters clear on into the seventies ii you
live to the threescore and tea Of the text.
Next I accost the forties. Yours is the de-
rade of discovery. do not mean the dis
coverv of the outside but the discovery OF
vnurself. No man knows himself until he
Is 40. He overestimates or understands
himself. By that time he has. learned what
bA can do or what he cannot do. He thought
he had commercial genius enongh to become
a millionaire but now he is satisfied TO maze
a comfortable living He thought, he had
rhetorical power that woul bring nlm INTO
the United States senate, now he IS content
If he can successfully argue common caSe
before petit jury. IT., ~, n.4
,vorId make him Mott or Crosse or
Willard Parker or Sims, now he hn1s MS
snhers is that Of a family physician, pre-
sorting for the ordinary ailments tusO az
aict orr race. He was sailing on In log
and could not take reckoning, but now IL
ciaars I'm enou "a to allow him to find out MS
raoi 10 titude ami longitude. He has bean
6nbing. but now he has got 10 Tue Top VI
the hill, and he takes long oreatn, ne -
| half way through the journey at least anu
he is Id position to look oacHwar1 VI ~.
| had. He knows human nature, Tor ne mas
| been cheated often enough to see the oau
SIDE of it. and he has met so many gracious
and kindly and splendid souls he also KNOWS
the good side Of it.
Now ca % Yourself. Thank Col for thu
nsst and deliberately set youc compass LOT
ppnotne1 VOYAGE, You have chased enough
thstieiown, YOU have blown enough soap
bubbles You have seen the unsatstyins
nature OF all earthly things. open q ne"
chapter with God and the world; Inns oe-
oade D: the forties ought to eclipse all lts
predecessors in worship, in usefulness am IN
hap oiness. Forty Is great WORD ID One
Bible. Cots ancient people were ~ years
in the wilderness. Eli Julge1 isTasi ~
years David and Solomon ana Jenoasu
teigned DO years. Wnen Joseph visitso nls
brethen, he was 40 years old:
Ga. this mountain TOP OF the forties! you
have now the character you will prooaoiy
have for all time and all eternity. God oy
His grace. sometimes changes a man atoer
the forlies. but after that man never
changes himself. Tell me. Oh men ana
women who are in the fortisS. your haolts
IF thought and life, and Will tell you WIaC
you will forever be. may MAKE mlsta~e
3nce in thousand times, but not mora than
in that proportion
NV sermon next accosts the tfties. How
queer it looks wnen 10 writing your aga yoa
make the first of tina two figures %
This is the decade which shows what the
1ther decades havs been. If young man
ms sown wild oats and he has lived to this
time he reaps the harvest OF it in the mites,
,r if nv necessity he was compelled to over
toll in honest directions be Is Gale 70 settie
I'D with exacting nature soma time during
the fifties. ,,. H..
MANY have it so hard in carly life that
they are octogenarians at 80. Sciatlcas an
rheumatisns and neuralgas AMI vertlyos
an insomnias have their playground IN e1s
sfties, A mans hair begins TO Wnlten, ana,
although he may have worn specSacies oe-
tore now he asks the optician for No. IA or
No IL or No. 10. When he gets cough
AMI is almost cured, lie hacks AMI clears MS
throat a good while afterward. On, ye who
ara in ths fifties. think o. i'll A half century
If blessing to be thankful for, AMI malt
century subtracte1 from an existence
which in the most markell cases OF longevity
hardly ever reaches whole century.
By this time you ougS. to oe eminent Tor
piety. You have been in 50 many patCes
YOU ought to be b brave soldier, You nave
made so many voyages you oueoV 70 10
YOU ought to have q soul full OF doxoio1y.
In Bible times in Canaan every 5Jyears was
by Gods command year OF Juoliee. me
neonle did not work that year. LIZ property
hal by misfortune gone out OF ones posses
sion on the fitch year it came BACK 70 MN;
II he had fooled it away, 1t was re'urne"
without farthing to pay.
If aman had been enSlaved, he was In CnaS
year emancip .ted, A trumpet was sounaea
loud and clear AMI long, ana IL was Cne
trumpet of jubilee. They shook nanas' .ney
laughed, they congratulated. naD q ., tbe
il was. that fiftieth yearl And II unaer Vue
old disnensation it was such a glad time
under our new and more glorious dispensA-
ton let all who have come to the Mules near
the tru nuet of Jubilee that now DOW
That was the allusion made by Mr.. 1opiauYi
the great hymnologist, when ne "foCe'
Blow We the trumpet, blow
Tue gladly solemn sonndi
Let all the nations Enow,
10 eart1's remotest oounds
The year OF jubilee lie come
Return We rausomed sinners nome'
Ys who have sold for naught
Yonr heritage above
Shall have 1t back unbougnt-
The gift Of Jesus's love,
The year Of jubilee has come.
Return We ransomed slnners nome.
Nv sermon next accosts the sixties. Tit
beginning of that deca ie is more startlin;
than any other. In his chrome oglcal jour
ney the man rifles rather smoosnly over IN
fiUnres '21 and "3" ami II" and u.s." out To
figure "6r gives him big jolt. de says
1T cannot be that am g.. Let me ex
anime the old family record. guess tnel
made mistake. They got my name dow
wrong in the roll of births" But. no; tn
older brothers or sisters remember the tlm
of his advent and there is some relative
year older. and another relative yea
!, Younger. and, sure enough, the fact is estao
: Iished beyond all disputation.
, Sixty Now your great danger Is Gu
. temptation to fold up your tacu'tieS an
, Quit. You will feel tendency to reminisct
Il you do not look out you will begin
most everything with the words, wv nen
! was a boy" But you ought to MAKE th
, truth than the fifties, or the fortes, or IN
! thirties. You ought to do more during III
:. next ten years than you did in any 81 year
, of YOUR life because of all the experlenc
Won have had You have committe enoug
mistakes in life 10 make you wise aooV
? YOUR juniors. Now, under the accumulate
! light of your past experimenting. 60 TO wor
+ for God as never before.
: When a man in the sixties folts up hi
energy and feels he has done enough, 1t
> the devil of Incidence to which he is SUI
, rendering and Col generally takes the ma
. at his word and lets him die right awal
2 His brain. that under the tension o. har
: work was active, now su ldeuly shrivel
, Men. whether they retire from secular
!. religious work, generally retire to the gray
!, No well man has right to retire. II
, world was made for work. There remained
a rest for the people OF God, but it is in
sphere beyond the reach Of telescopes. RI
a military charge that decided one Oh u
= greatest battles OF the ages-tne oattie
Waterloo-was not made until o'clock
+, the evening, but some of you propose to
into camp at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. !.
:. Nv subject next accosts those IN t