The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-05-09
DAILY REPUBLICAN, WILMINGTON

dred TO say to them, "Ths Lord Odd O
your fathers, the God Of Abraham, tn,
God Of Isaac and the God Of Jacob hatl
sent me unto you" II that thought b,
divineiy accurate, let me ask, What ar,
we doing by prayer and by holy life fol
the redemption of the next 400 yearsi oul
work Is not only with the people of thu
latter part Of the nineteenth century, bu
with those In the closing Of the twentieth
century, and the closing Of the twenty
first century, and the closing Of the TWEEN
ty.second century, and the closing Of tn,
twenty-tbird century. For 400 years, i
the world continues to swing until tina
time, or II 1t drops, then notwithstanding
the influence will go on in other latitudeI
and longitudes of Gods universe.
For Good or Evil.
No one realizes how great he is for goot
or for evil. There are branchings out and
rebounds and reyerborations and elaboTa
lions of influence that cannot BIO estimat
~ The 90 or 100 years of our earthly
stay is only small part of our sphere.
The flap of the wing Of the destroying
angel that smote the Egyptian oppressors,
the wash Of the Red sea over the heads Of
the drowned Egyptians, were all full
ailments Of promises four centuries old.
And things occur In your life and in mine
that We cannot account for They may
be the echoes Of what was promised in the
sixteenth or seventeenth century. Oh,
the prolongation of tho divine memory!
Notice also that Moses was so years Of
age when he got this call to become the
1sraelitish doliyerer. Forty years he had
lived In palaces as a prince. Another 40
years he had lived In the wilderness Of
Arabia. should not wonder II he had
said: "Take younger man for this work.
Eighty winters have exposed my health.
Eighty summers have poured their heats
upon my head. There are 40 years that I
spent among the enervating luxuries Of q
palace, and then follow the 40 years Of
wilderness hardship. am too old. Let
me off. Better call man In the forties
upon the eighties" Nevertheless he I'M
dertook tho work, and if We want to
know whether he succeeded ask the aban.
doned brick kilns of Egyptian taskmas.
tiers, and the splintered chariot wheels
strewn on tho beach Of the Red sea, and
the timbrels which Miriam clapped for
the Israelites passed over and the Egyp.
tians gone under.
Do not retire too early. Like Moses, you
may have your chief work to do after so.
1t may not DO In the high places of the
field. 1t may not be where a strong arm
and an athletic foot and clear vision are
required, but there is something for you
yet IT, 60. Perhaps 1t may be to round of
the work you have already done, to demon
strate the patience you have been recon-
mendiDg all your lifetime. Perhaps to
stand lighthouse at the mouth of the
bay to light others into harbor. Perhaps
to show how glorious sunset may come
after stormy day.
If aged men do not feel strong enough
for anything else, let them sit around in
our churches and pray, and perhaps in
that way they may accomplish more good
than they ever did in tho meridian of their
life. 1t makes us feel strong to SEQ aged
men and women all up and down the
pews, their faces showing they have been
on mountains Of TRANSPORTATION. We
want in all our churches more men like
Moses, men who have been through the
deeps and climbed up the shelled beach ON
the other side We want aged Jacobs, who
havo seen ladders which let down heaven
into their dreams. We want aged Peters,
who have been at Pentecosts, and aged
Pauls, who have made Felix tremble.
There are here and there those who feel
like the woman of 90 years who said to
who was So years of age,
"Death appears to have forgotten us"
"Hush," said Fontenelle, the wit, put.
ting his finger to his lip. No, my friend,
you have not been forgotten. You will
be called at the right timo. Meantime be
holly occupied.
Labor Preservative.
Let the aged remember that by increased
Of the race mon are not as old at
GO as they used to be at so, not as old at
70 as they used to be at 60, not as old at
so as they used to be at 70. Sanitary pre-
caution better understood; medical sci
once further advanced; laws Of health
more thoroughly adopted; dentistry con-
tinuing for longer time successful masti-
cation; homes and churches and court
rooms and places of business better venti-
lated-all these have prolonged life, and
men and women in the close Of this CEN
fury ought not to retire until at least Is
years later than in the opening of the CEN
Jury. Do not put the harness off until
you have fought few more battles.
Think of Moses starting out for his chief
work an octogenarian; 40 years of wilder
ness life after 40 years of palace life, yet
ust beginning.
There lies dying at Hawarden, Eng
and, one of the most wonderful men that
,ver lived since the ages of time began
heir roll. lie is the chief citizen of the
whole world. Three times has he prac-
ically been king of Great Britain. Again
md again coming from the house of COM
mons, which no had thrilled and overawed
" his eloquence, on Saturday, on Sunday
morning reading prayers for the people
With illumined countenance and brim.
L believe in God the Father Almighty,
maker of heaven and eurth, and in Jesus
jhrist, his only Son, our Lord"
The world has no other such man to
ose as Gladstone. Tho church has no
ther such champion to mourn over. I
hall never cense to thank God that Oh
Mr. Gladstone's invitation visited him
It Hawarden and heard from his own lips
lis belief in the authenticity Of the Holy
the divinity of Jesus Christ
md the grandeurs of the world to come.
1t his table and in the walk through bis
rounds l was impressed rs I was never
,efore, and probably will never be again,
With the majesty OF nature all conse-
rated to God and the worlds betterment.
n the presence of such a man what have
hose to FAY who profess to think that our
eligion is a pusillanimous and weak and
owardly and unreasonable AFFAIR." Match
Bss william e. Gladstone!
Still further watch this spectacle of gen.
line courage. No wonder when Moses
catered the rude shepherds no won Zip
orah heart What mattered it to Moses
whether the cattle or the seven daughters
f Jethro were driven from the troughs
y the rude herdsmen2 A sense of justice
red his courage, and the world wants
loro Of the spirit that will dare almost
nything to see others righted. All the
me at wells of comfort, at wells Of joy,
t wells of religion and at wells Of litera ,
uro there are outrages practced, tho
'ronR herds getting tho first water.
hose who have the previous right come
! last, If they come in at all. Thank