Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-02-15
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snow was not always On your head that
brawny muscle did net always bunch
your arm; You have not always worn
spectacles. Grave and deu.tied as YOU
now are You once went coastng down
the hillside or threw off your hat for the
race or sent the bali flying sky high. But
youth will not always last. 1t stays only
long enough TO give us eNuherant spirits
aud broad shoulders for burden carrying
and an arm with which 10 battle our way
through difficulties. Iife's path, IL you
follow it long enough. will come under
frowning crag and cross trembling cause
way, Blessed old age, if you let it come
naturally, Nou cannot hide il. You may
try to cover lh2 wrinkles, but YOU cannot
cover the wrinkles. II the time has come
for you to be old, be not ashamed to he
old The grandest things in all the uni
verse are old-old mountains. old rivers.
old seas. old stars and an old eternity.
Then do not be ashamed to bc old unless
YOU are older than the mountains and
older than the stars.
How men and women viii lie, They
say they are forty. but they are sixty,
They say they are twenty. but they are
thirty. They say they are sixty, but they
are eighty. Glorious old age il found in
I he way OF righteousness How beautiful
the old age Of Jacob. leaning on the top of
his staff; OF John Quincy Adams, falling
with the harness on: OF Washington Try
ing, sitting, pen in hand, amid the scenes
himself had made classical; OF John An
geN James, 10 the last pr0claiming the
gospel 10 the masses OF Birmng CHAM; OF
Theodore FreGnghuysen, down 20 feeble
ness and emaciation devotng his illustri-
Gus faculties to the kingdom Of God Al
| cventide it WAS light.
See that you do honor to the aged.
| Smooth the way for that mothers feet:
they have not many more steps to take.
| Steady those lettering limbs; they will
soon he at rest. Plow not up that face
with any more wrinkles; trouble and care
have marked it full enough. Thrust no
thorn into that old heart; it will soon
cease to beat THE eye that mocketh
its father and rrruscth 10 obey it's moth
er the ravens of the valley shah pick ii
out, and the Young eagles shall eat it,"
| The bright morning and hot MONDAY OF
| life have passed with many Ii is 4
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ows fail longer and thicker and faster
Seven o'clock, $ o'clock! The sun has
| dipped below the horizon; the warmth
has gone out of the air. Nine o'clock. 10
O'clock. The heavy dews are falling
| the activities Of lfe'S day are all hushed {;
| il is time to go to bed. Eleven o'clock.
| u o'clock, The patriarch sleeps the
blessed sleep. the cool sleep, the long
| sleep. Heavens messengers OF light have
kindled bontires OF victory all over the
! heavens, At eventime it is light. Light
The Latter Day of the Church.
| Again, my text shall find fnlfllment in
| the latter day or the church, Only 4 few
missionaries, a few churches, a few good
men, compared with the institutions len
! rous and purified. 1t is early Vet in the
| history of everything good. Civilization
and Christianity are just getting out uf
| the cradle, The light OF martyr stakes.
| flashing mp and down the sky is but the
! flaming OF the morning. but when the
evening Of the world shall come. glory
! to Gods conqueriDg truth it sh"ll he
| light. Wars sword Changing back in the
scabbard; incompetence buried under ten
! thousand broken decanters; the worlds
impurity turning its brow hcavenward
for the bcncdiction, blessed are the pure
/ in heart" the last yestirc Of sclfshness
submerged in heaven descending chart
ties and China worshiping Or. Aheers
Saviour: all India believing in Henry
Martyrs Bible; aboriginal superstition
| acknowledging David Braincrds pietv;
human bondage delivered through Thorn
rs Clarksou Christianity; yagrancy com
ing back from its pollution ut the call
OF Elizabeth FIy's Rcdecmcr: the noun
tains coming down: the valleys going IN
holiness inscribed on horses he'll. and
Silkworm's thread. and brown thrashcr's
wing, and shells tinEc. aud manufacture
crs shuttle, and chemists laboratory. and
kings Secptcr, and nation Magma Char
Ia. Not Il hospital. for there are 10
wounds, not an asylum. for there are no
orphans; not a prison. for there are no
criminals; not IN almsbouSe. for there are
no paupers, not a tear, for there are no
sorrows. The long dirRe Of earths la
montation has ended III the triumphal
march OF redeemed empires the forests
harping il on vine strung branches. the
water chanting il among the gorgcs. the
thunders drumming it among the hills.
the ocean giving it forth with it's organs.
trade winds touching the keys and Euro
clydon y foot on the pedal
! want 90 see John Howard when the
last prisoner is reformed ] want to see
Florence Nightingale when She last saber
wound has stopped hurting; ! want 10
see William Penn when the last Indian
has been civilized; ! want to see John
lluss when the last fame 81 persecution
has been eXtnsushcd; want 10 see
John Bunyan after the las pilgrim has
come 90 the gate Of the celestial city
above all, / want TO see Jesus after the
last saint has his throne and has begun
to sing his triumph.
You have watched the oalmnDes and
the glory u the evening hour The ia
bOrers have come from the field. III.
heavens are glowing with an indcscriba-
Die cffnIgencc, as though tho sun in de-
parting had forgotten 20 shut the gate
after it, All the beauty ~ c!oud and
leaf swlms IN the lake. For q star in the
sky. star in the water; heaven ahove
aud heaven beneath. Not q leaf rusiling
or bee humming or graesh0uuer t.hirp-