The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-07

/ eternity. The riches that await us il
heaven are such riches only as pertain
I TO a sanctiied character, and a cul-
I tured mind. What would the poor
savage know about the comforts and
convenience. the Injuries and refine
ments of q nobleman's palace, if he
/ Should chance to be installed for q
Z month within its walls as its lord and
master? The mind and the heart must
I be furnished when you enter heaven il
/ you expect to enjoy those mansions OF
glory that Christ is preparing for all
/ those who love him.
Old age furnishes rare opportunities
! to store the mind with the rich gems
/ of thought thar are scattered all about
you Relieved now, TO a great extent
I of the cares and anxieties that dis
I traeted your mind in earlier years you
! are able to converse with the master
I spirits of the present and the past ]
can scarcely conceive of any joy to ex-
coed that which is now your privilege
: TO be alone for hours With Shakespeare
and Milton, Tennyson and Browning,
Longfellow and Whittier, Irving,
Ruskin, Lamb, and Hawthorne. They
VIII introduce you not only TO artists,
princes. and philosophers, but they will
likewise reveal to you the beauties OF
nature and the glories of God. When
you seek them for your company time
!
live with them in other ages, and
wonder at viii in chimes OF which you
have long dreamed but which you have
never been permitted to visit. Nor
need you have any fear in the presence
of this distinguished company of dis
playing your ignorance. They Will talk
to you and give you the benefit of their
most refined and sacred thought, but
you need not talk to them. They are
a !.
still breathes its inspiration about you.
Do not say that you are too old to
improve your mind and to profit by
noble books. AS long as sight or hear
ing last you are not too old to add new
riches to your mind. When he himself
was far advanced in years Longfellow
wrote one of his most beautiful poems
in which he says:
1t is too latel All. nothing is too late
TIL the tired heart shall cease to palpi-
tate.
Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles
Wrote his great Aedipus. and Simonides
Bore off the prize of verse from his COM
peers.
When each had numbered more than four
score years.
And Theophastus at fourscore and ten
Had but begun his Characters OF Men.
Chaueer, At Woodstock with the night
ingales,
At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales:
Goethe at Weimar toiling to the last.
Completed Faust when eighty years were
past.
These are indeed exceptions; but they
show
Ho- far the gulf stream of our youth
into the arctic regions of our lives.
Where little else than life itself survives.
Finally. it is at nightfan that religion
sheds il warmest and brightest beams.
At any period of life religion is the
greatest solace that the human heart
can know. but it seems peculiarly
adapted for the aged. There is no
sadder sight on earth than goddess old
age. What, bowed, and paisied, and
childless, without Christ and without
hope in the world! lettering upon the
verge of the grave with dimmed eyes
and dulled hearing, and yet without
the hand Of God to guide you on the
long and lonely way which you SO soon
must travel Aflame with lust, and
malice, and ayarice at so, What sadder
picture could there be?
Yes religion is the peculiar comfort
of old age. Even memory now has
ceased to paint its bright pictures upon
the walls of the mind; the eyes and
ears are too dim and duh to respond
10 any message from the outside world;
the lettering limbs refuse longer to
bear the body about upon its accustom-
ed rounds: and The aged one sits in
solitude and silence waiting for the end.
But it is now as the world of sense
fades away forever that the realm Of
spirit rises upon the inner vision of
the soul in glorious beauty. 1t is now
that God talks in distinct tones with
his weary child; it is now that angel
music charms the soul of the depart
ing saint, it is now that heaven seems
just at hand: and that one like unto
the Son of God comes and fills the room
with his glory.
Mr.. Spurgeon advised young min
listers to be often at the bedside of the
dying, for he says that the most price
less gems OF Christian experience are
those that are washed up from the
dark ocean of eternity in the hour of
death. And it is true. The most sug-
gestive hints that ever come to us con-
corning the future world are whispered
to us by those who linger for awhile
upon the boundary between this world
and the world to come. With a firm
faith in God, and with the open Bible
before you; with the memory of good
deeds past, and the sure hope of per-
feet rest ahead. the pathway should
grow brighter and brighter before you
until it bursts into the perfect day.
Some are about to cross the bar;
your barque is trimmed for its out
ing for the outgoing tide to bear you
to the broad ocean. Let there be no
faltering of your faith for it is a golden
sea upon which you are soon TO set
sail, and He who came at daybreak TO
the toil-worn fishermen on Gallilee,
viii embark with you as you loose
your moorings from the shores of time
and sail out into the unknown sea Of
eternity.
Sunset and evening star.
And one clear call for mel
And may there be no moaning of the bar.
When 1 put out 10 sea.
But such tide as movinglse asleep.
Too fun for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the
boundless deep
Turn again home
Twilight and evening bell.
And after that the dark,
And may there be no sadness OF farewell,
When l embark.
For tho from out our bourne of Time
and Place
The food may bear me far
I hope TO see my Pilot face to face
When have crost the bar
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