The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-11-06
last, felt the frost have day b. an.

pictured leaf you hold 10 vorr \. :
LOOK on its color in an hour. or Il
Gay, or in week? No. Deener ~
deeper the flush, till all the veins :
us lie now seem obened and bleedin,
away. After awhile, leaf after Leaf
they fall. Now those on the onte
branches, then those most hidden nm
VI the last spark Of the cleaning forg
snail have been quenched.
80 gradually we pass away. From
Jay 70 DAY we hardly see the change
But the frosts have touched us, n,
work OF decay is going on. Now ,
sHght cold. Now season of over
fatigue. Now fever. Now a stitch
IN the side Now neuralgia thrust
| NOW rhematic twinge. Now a fall
Little by little. Pain by pain. Less
steady of limb. Sight not SO clear
Ear not SO alert After awhile we
take staff. Then. after much re.
ISSUANCE, we come to spectacles. In.
stead OF bounding into the vehicle, we
are wiling to be helped In. At last
Inc octogenarian falls. Forty years
OF decaying. No sudden change. No
nerce cannonading of the batteries of
me- Dat fading away-slowly-
gradually. As the leaf! As the leaf
Again, like the leaf. we fade to make
room for others. Next years forests
Will be as grandly foliaged as this.
There are other generations of oak
leaves to take the place of those which
TINS autumn perish. Next Nav the
cradle OF the wind will rock the Young
buds. The woods will be all ahum
with the chorus Of leafy voices. If
the tree in front of your house, like
Elijah, takes chariot Of fire, it's man
tie will fall upon Elisha. If, in the
blast OF these autumnal batteries. so
many ranks fall, there are reserve
forces to take their place to defend
the fortress of the hills. The beaters
OF gold leaf will have more gold leaf to
beat. The crown that drops to-day
from the head of the oak will be
picked up and handed down for other
kings to wear. Let the blasts come.
They only make room for other life.
80, when we 60, others take our
spheres. We do not grudge the fu-
ture generations their places. We will
have had our good time. There is no
signing among these leaevs to-day, be-
cause other leaves are to follow them. |
After lifetime of preaching, DOCTOR
ng, selling, sewing or digging, let us
'heerfully give way for those who
'ome on to do the preaching, doctor
ng, sewing and digging. God grant
hat their life may be brighter than
'urs has been! As we get older, do not
ct us be affronted if young men and
romen crowds us little. We will
ave had our day, and we must
1T them have theirs When our
oices get cracked, let us not
narl at those who can MARBLE. When
ur knees are stiffened, let us have
atience with those who go fleet as the
eer. Because our leaf is fading, do
OF let us despise the unfrosted.
utumn must not envy the spring.
Id men must be patient with boys.
r. Guthrie stood up in Scotland and
lid: "You need not think l am old
ecause my hair is white; l never was
} young as am now" I look back to
y childhood days, and remember
hen, in winter nights, in the sitting
'om, the children played, the blithest
I'd the gayest of all the company was
Their and mother. Although reach
e fourscore years of age, they never
It old.
Do not be disturbed as you see good :
ID great men die. People worry when
me important parsonage passes off !
e stage and say: ''His place will -
yer be taken" But neither the
urch nor the state will suffer for it. E
lere will be others to take the places. :
hen God takes one man away He =
$ another right back of Him. God !,
SO rich in resources that He =
uld spare 5000 Summerfields and y
urins, If there were so many. -
lere will be other leaves as green.
exquisitely veined, as grace o
ly etched, as well pointed. How a.
Or prominent the place we fill, our u
ath will not jar the world One fall I,
I leaf does not shake the Adiron- u
cks. A ship is not well manned I'M
8 there be an extra supply of y
nds; some working on deck; some 's
ind asleep in their hammocks. God %
J manned this world very well. q
ere will be other seamen ON deck al
en- you and are down in the ca bin, q
md asleep in the hammocks. III
gain: As with the leaves, we fade 81
fall and myriads of others. One ~
not count the number of plumes w
ich these frosts are plucking from ci'
hills. They will strew all the
cams; they will drift into the cav W,
S; they will soften the wild beasts a.
!. and fill the eagles eyrie. ri'
IL the aisles of the forest will be
cred with their GARNET and tba TO