Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-02-18
Wn better adOpt a child There are

! in this country and in all countries
orphans by the tens of thousands. Go
to one of the aSylumS or institutions
where friendless children are cared
for and select some little one with an
honest eye and good disposition and
take him to your home. Put around him
all the elevating and happy influences
| you can provide. In two years he will
| become part of your life, and his COM
pany to you will be Indispensable. 1t
will make you 20 years younger. He
will be an illumination to the evening
Of your life and he will speak your
praise long after you have departed
from this world and in heavenly places
you will have been rewarded by the
great friend of children-the Lord
! Jesus.
1t will take all time and all eternity
to fully appreciate the work of Van
! Meter on this side of the sea and Of
| Bernardo on the other side in putting
poor orphan children in good homes
| in America and England. Through
| that process waits Of the streets have
! passed up from poverty and Wretched
ness into bright homes and churches
and pulpits and legislative halls and
senates, and many have already been
crowned in a better world, the work
begun in asylums on earth completed
in the palaces Of heaven.
Whether by such adoption of chill
dren or in some other way, call around
you the young. Become their associ-
ates, their confidants, their encourag e-
ment While you do them good, they
Wi 6n oO10 vx-hi "a
companioning in the nest with young
eagles will feel new strength coming
into its wing, new light into it's eye,
new ambition to cut a circle nearer
the sun, and for the time will forget
hurricanes that have ruff1ed it's plumes
and storms of many years that have
swept over its mountain eyrie. The
closing years of life ought to be the
best part of it, as an arrival in port
ought to be happier than embarkation.
1t is better to have the cyclones behind
you than before you. Some one will
say, David might renew his youth,
but have been through so much there
is no such thing for me as revivifica-
ton" You are wrong. You have not
gone through as much as David went
through. He had all the experiences
Of shepherd boy, armor bearer, kings
bodyguard, hunter Of wild beasts, war
riOr and monarch. He was 40 wears
on a rocking throne. He was the ORR
entail hero in many a battle, made
moral mistakes enough to destroy him,
Frustrated a giant with one stroke,
was the father of Hebrew poetry and
wrote poems which all the subsequent
1rio hov oh
tized dementia to escape assassination,
ran against Ahithophers betrayal and
Sauls jealousy and Absalom's insur-
rection and made Jerusalem the re-
igious capital Of the world. If after
all that he could renew his youth, you
ought to be able to do the same.
Cheer For the Aged
Again, l remark: Going out of this
life to the Christian is rejuvenescence.
What Il holy glee it must be for those
who in this world had the aches and
pains and limitations of old age, the
halting gait Of the rheumatic or infirm
foot exchanged for wing of celestial
velocity, the dimmed vision of worn
out optic nerve exchanged for a sight
that takes all heaven at a glance, the
sense of decay exchanged for the ex-
hilaration of faculties Iustrous and
ever strengthening, sad Renaissance
exchanged for glowing anticipation?
How CHEEKY for the aged who love and
trust the Lord to think that their last
years of taking off and decrepitude
are the melting season referred to in
the text! Shedding of all weaknesses,
shedding of all unholy ambitions, she'd
ding of all diS1ikes, shedding OF all
hindranceS. If the eagle knew that
all, that annual pulling down and TAX
ing off and shriveling were prepare
ton for new wings, it would not sit
moping in it's nest. But you, o son
and daughter of God, ought to be wise
enough to know that all this process
you are going through is to prepare
you for wings-substitution of heaven
ly speed and power for earthly lethar-
gy and faltering. David felt the need
of wings when he cried out ooh, thatI
had the wings of a dove, that l might
fly away and be at restv'
My text suggests that heaven is an
eternal youth. A cycle of years will
not leave any mark upon the immortal
nature. Eternity will not work upon
the soul in heaven any change unless it
be more radiance and more wisdom
and more rapture. A rolling on from
glory to glory! In anticipation Of that
some of the happiest people on earth
are aged Christians. The mightiest tes-
timonies have been given by the veter-
ans in the gospel army. While some
of the aged have allowed themselves to
become morose and cynical and impa-
tient with youth and pessimistic about
the world and have become possessed
with the spirit of scold and fault find
ing and are fearful of being crowded