New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-10
BROOKLYN NEWS.
LONGING FOR YOUTH.
DIR. HILLS APPLIES THE STORY OF
DAVID TO MODERN LIFE.
u.pprSrss IN OLD AGE CAN RE oBTAINED-Po-
ETRY AND ROMANCE CRUSHED OUT 81
PRESENT METHODS OF LIVING


HAPPINESS IN OLD AGE CAN RE oBTAINEp-Po-
ETRY AND ROMANCE CRUSHED OUT BY
PRESENT METHODS OF LIVING.
The subject OF the Rev. DR.. Newell ID. Hilis's
sermon In Plymouth Church yesterday morning
was THE Souls Longing for the Days "heh
the Heart Was Young" The deep longing WIN
which the man who has battled with the "oi'u
and had laid bare to him its seamy sIue often
Looks hack to the optimism and high ideals or
the untarnished period Of youth was oepicteu
nv DR.. Hills and strikingly brought out ps
means Of many beautiful SMILES taken Iroih 'ie
great poets. He announced as his teHt' anu
David longed and said, Oh that one "ouiu give
me drink Of the water of the well OF bethle"e,n
which is by the gate III Samuei XII IL,
and. And thine age shall be as the '"o'"''e'
Job XII. H. -
DR.. Hills began by tracing the rona".,O
r.er ~ David the shepherd boy who. "aided
only by his harp and his sweet VOICE o..a"'e
the court minstrel the champion OF the army
the companion Of the king. the idoi Oh ','e
and then. with one bound, leaped into the throne
itself" . =.
He then described the pangs OF grier iei' D.
Dov,d after he had been false TO his people, ana
had been sent into exile. and no" 'he -,
king had longed for his youth as shephe'u
how uhen his ambition had been nopie anu "e
had not fallen before the temptations Oh TIC
world. .,., Tho
"David's longing for a cup of water from '''v
old home we'll" said DR.. Hills. "interpre's ioi on
the ages and generations the heart eager 80
70 stand again by lifes gate. In those nun
when the heart was young. For thoue"
passing years enrich earths KINGS WV"
friends and sceptres. at last 10 al '"'.
an hour when. with infinite lonsines anu
men recall the time when the woiIu We ,ts Nrst
and life was in the rosy spI,t IN goods and
spring Ponce de Leon was ricn IN s9ou o, FOR
honors and vet he valued the New Worlo mo- ~ o.
it's possible riches of gold ana gem, ,n,,h. and
its promise Of spring OF IT,, im ponce de Leon.
every generation has had its fohCe uo I e.,
sr;er showing how David found happiness IN
his old age. the preacher said: ~ tho noet,s
AND generation needs 10 iea d beateS life
secret BY reason of our fierce ana hea,eu ,,,
,ba souI is in danger Of losing us poeu! anu
romance. Many come TO the cry III WI bnt
hearts hope bubbles like a mountain sp sI1 ~
whose fountains of Joy. alas, are soon uIIeu UP,
t.o,nrerce is exacting competition is bitter ana
life is full of monotony. Iii, III. ala
'Oft the tired. weary man reCaile IIlo IN
froehness Of feeling and his heart seems ihs s
1n,,,n meadow where once a single wagon rolled
over the blue grass and daisies, only 70 pe iu,
lowed bv ten thousand hoofs that pounueu NV i
every green thing and left the garden heap
90 duet Politics too embroils and enpltters
men and makes them cynical God help tnose
Youths who come in from the country WIN
$3.50 os sweet as the May morning. with Ideals
ne single as the far-shining stars. with amoi-
tons as pure as the mothers kiss SIM lSlng
damp upon the forehead. should some p are
break off a bough Of newly oioWh app S ,hr1st
SONS sever the blooms from the bush ana thrust
the dewy blossoms into his heated oven ana ana
leave them there to bake an hour, we shou ,
have that which answers 10 many Mno1 ,o,rarad
have been mutilated. their ambitions loWereu
who have lost the freshness Of youth Happily
for the modern sons Of strength, as Tor tnat
nrince of old IL is given to return 10 ones primal
freshness Of feeling. for old age may be again as
lifes morning"