The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-03-16

mot made until s o'clock IN the even
ing, but some Of you propose to 60
into camp at 2 O'Clock in the after
noon.
Ny subject next accosts those in the
seventies and beyond My word to
them is congra tllla ton. You have got
nearly, if not quite, through. You have
safely crossed the sea Of life ana are
about to enter the harhor. You have
fought at Gettysburg and the war is
over, Here and there q slkirmish with
the remaining sin Of your own heart
and the sin Of the world, but i guess
you are about done There may he
some work for you vet on small or
large scale Bismarck Of Germany,
vigorous In the eighties; the prime min.
ister of England strong at eighty-fcur
Haydn composing his Oratori0, The
Creator, !" at seventy years of age:
lsocrates doing some of his best work
at seventy four; Plato busy thinking
Tor all succeeding centuries at eighty
one; Noah Webster, after making his
Worldt-renowned dictionary, hard at.
work until eighty-fve years old; Rev
Daniel Waldo prayed in my pulpit at
100 years of age; Humboldt prod
the immortal Cosmos at seventy-six
years; William Blake at sixty seven
learning Italian so as to- read Dante
in the original; Lord Cockburn at
eighty seven writing his best treatise:
John Wesley stirring great audiences
at eighty-fve; William G. Bryant, with
out spectacles, reading in my house
rhanatopsis' at eighty three years Of
age. Christian men and women in all
departments serving God after becoln-
ing septuagenalians and octogenarians
II o
are possibilities Of work for the aged,
but j think you who are past the seven
ties are near being through. How do
You feel about it? n
y man got up in a New York PRAYER
meeting and said: God is my part
ner. Gid business without him Tor
twenty years. and failed every two or
three Ve:lrs I hslv,, been doing bust
ness with him for twenty years. and
Rave not failed once Oh, take the
supernatural into all your affairs I had
such an evidence Of the goodness Of
Iodsin temporal things when I entered
active life, l must testify. Called to
preach at lovely BelleVille, in New
Jersey. / entered upon my work. But
there stood the empty parsonage. and
not cent had with which to furnish
It. After preaching three or four weeks
the officers Of my church asked me if
did not want to take two or three
weeks vacation. said 'sYes!'' for T
had preached about all I knew, but I
feared they must be getting tired Of
me. When / returned to the village
after the brief vacation, they handed
me the key of the parsonage and asked
me if l did not want to 90 ana look
at it. Not suspecting any: thing had
happened, I opened it: and there was
the hall completely furnished with car
pet and pictures and hat rack, and I
turned into the parlors, and they were
furnished. the softest sofas ever sat
on, and into the study, and found It
furnished with book cases, and I went
to the bed rooms, and they were fur
nished, and into the pantry, and that
was furnished with every culinary ar
hcle, and the spice boxes were flied
and -four barrel stood there ready
to be opened, and l went down into
the dining room, and the table was
set and beautifully furnished. and into
the kitchen, and the stove was full
Of fuel. and a match lay on top Of the
stove. and all had to do in starting
housekeeping was to strike the match.
God inspired the whole thing, and il
/ ever doubt his goodness, all up and
down the world, call me an migrate.
/ testify that l have been in many
tight places. and God always got me
out, and he will always get you out
of the tight places.
But the most of this audience will
never reach the eighties or the seven
ties or the sixties or the forties He
who passes into the forties has gone
far beyond the average Of human life. u
Amid the uncertainties take God
through Jesus Christ as your present
and eternal safety The longest life
is only 4 small fragment of the great
eternity. We will all Of us soon be
there. @ .
Eternity! how near it rolls
Count the vast value of your souls a I
Beware and count the awful cost
What they have gained, whose souls are
j"s.9-,.& lost