The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-02-21

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And we are all carrying our part, how
ever insignificant it may be, in the
great harmony of this world and of
the universe which our Lord is leading,
and we all have to watch his command
and do our best and not bother our
other performers. If you want to re-
new your youth, better stop managing
the affairs of the universe.
Help for the Waits.
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 asso-
ciates, their %confdants, their encour-
agement. While you do them good
they will do you good. The old eagle
while companioning in the nest with
young eagles will feel new strength
coming into it's wings, new light into
its eye, new ambition to cut a circle
nearer the sun, and for the time will
forget hurricanes that have ruffled its
plumes and the storms of many years
that have swept owe it's 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 m
barkation. 1t is better to have the
cyclones behind you than before you.
Some one will say: David might re-
new his youth, but 1 have been through
SO much there is no such thing for me
as revivification." You are wrong.
You have not gone through as much
as David went through. He had all
the experiences of a shepherd boy, ar
MOI bearer, kings bodyguard, hunter
of wild beasts, warrior and monarch.
He was forty years on a rocking
throne. He was the oriental hero in
many a battle, made moral mistakes
enough to destroy him, Frustrated a
giant with n stroke, was the father
of Hebrew poetry and wrote poems
which all the subsequent centuries
have been chanting, dramatized de-
against Ahithophel's betrayal and
Saul's jealousy and Absalom's insur-
r%ection, and made Jerusalem the re-
ligious capital of the world. If after
all that he could renew his youth you
ought to be able to do the same.
State of Eternal Youth.
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
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some Of the happiest people on earth
are aged Christians. The highest
testimonies have been given by the
veterans in the gospel army. While
some of the aged have allowed them
selves to become morose and cynical
and impatient with youth and pessi-
mistic about the world and have be-
COM possessed with the spirit of scold
and fault finding and are fearful of
being crowded out of their sphere
many of the aged have been glad to
step aside that others may have a
chance and are hopeful about the
world, expecting its redemption in
stead of its demolition. and they are
inspiration and comfort and helpful
ness to the household and to the neigh
borhood and to the church. The chill
dren hail the good old mar as he
m down the road. His smile, his
words, his manner, his whole life,
make the world think better of re-
ligion.
Noah Webster, the greatest Of lex
icographers, departing this life at IS
years of age, exclaimed: ~ know
whom I have believed and am per-
suaded that he is able to keep that
which I have committed to him
against that day." The venerable
Daniel Webster, the greatest of Amer
lear lawyers and statesmen, in his last
hours said: 81 had intended to pre-
pare a work for the press to bear my
testimony to Christianity, but it is now
too late. Still I would like to bear
witness to the gospel before I die"
Being too weak to h-l a pen, he die
tated to a scribe his words of triumph
ant faith.
Good Cheer Awaits Christians.
Gibbons in his history says that Mo-
manned had a dream in which he
thought that, mounted on the horse
Borak, he assembled the seven heavens
and approached within two bow shots
of the throne and felt a cold that
pierced him to the heart when his
shoulder was touched by the hand of
God. That might do for Mohammed's
heaven, but not for a Christians heay-
en-. No cold hand put upon your Shout
der there; no cold hand of repulse or
doubt, but the warm hand of welcome,
the warm hand of sanity communion,
the warm hand of God.
I congratulate all Christians who are
in the eyentide. Good cheer to all of
you. Your best days are yet to come.