The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1902-01-31


knows the good side OF u.
Now. calm yourself Thank God for
the past AID deliberately set your
compass for another voyage. You
have chased enough thistledown: you
have blown enough soap bubbles: you
have seen the unsatisfying nature OF
all earthly things Open new chap
ter with God and the world. This de-
cade OF the fortioB ought 20 eclipse
all SIS predecessors In worship. In use
fulness and In happiness.
My sermon next accosts the Cities.
How queer II looks when in writing
your age you make the first OF the two
figures a .. This Is the decade
which shows what he other decades
have been II a young man has sOwn
Wild oats and he has lived 20 this time.
be reaps the harvest OF Il In the ffties.
or n by necessity ne was compelled
TO overtoil In honest directions he Is
called to settle mp with exacting ma
ture sometime during the flfties. Sci
aticas and rheumatisms and neural
g!as and vertigos and insomnias have
their playground in the hfties. a mans
hair begins TO whiten and. although he
may have worn spectacle3 before. now
he asks the optlcian for No. Ia or No.
IL or No. 10. When he gets a cough
and Is almost cured, ne hacks and
clears his throat n good while after
ward.
O ye who arc In the ffties. think OF
IT, a half century OF blessings TO be
thankful for and a half century sub
tractcd from an existence which. In
the most marked cases OF longevity.
hardly ever reaches a whole century.
by this time YOU ought 20 be eminent
Tor piety You have been in so many
battles you ought 10 be a brave sol
der. You have made so many voy-
ages You ought 10 be a good sailor So
long protected and blessed. you ought
To have a soul full OF doxology.
In Bible times In Canaan every ffty
years was by Gods command a year
OF jubilee. Tho people did not work
that year. II property had by mis-
fortune gone out OF ones possession.
on the fftieth year Il came back TO
him. II he had fooled q away. II was
returned without a iarthlug TO pay.
II man had been enslaved. he was
IN that year emancipated 4 trum-
pet was sounded loud and clear and
long. and Il was the trumpet OF jubl-
lee. They shook hands. they laughed
they congratulated. What a time u
was, that hfticth year! And II under
the old dlspensation II was such a
glad time. under our new and more
glorious disponsation let all who have
come TO the fifties hear the trumpet OF
Jubilee that now blow.
Ny sermon next accosts the sixties.
Tho beginning OF that decade Is more
startling than any other. In his
chronological journey the man rides
rather smoothly over the figures and
and 4 and .. but the figure gives
him big jolt lie says: 1t cannot be
that am sixty. Lot me examine the
ola family record. guess they made a
mistake They got my name down
wrong in the roll OF births" But no.
the older brothers or sisters remember
the time Of his advent. and there Is
some relative year older and another
relative "A year younger. and. sure
enough, the fact is established beyond
all dlsputation.
Sixty. Now your great danger Is
the temptation To fold up yoCr fac
ulties and quit. You will feel a ten
dency to reminiscence. II you DO not
look out. you will begin almost every
thing with the words. When was
u boy But you ought 20 make the
sixties moro memorable for God and
the truth than the fftics or the forties
or the thirties. You ought 10 do more
during tho next ten years than you did
In any thirty years OF your life be-
! cause OF all the experience you have
had. You have committed enough
mistakes In life TO make you wise
| above your Juniors. Now. under the
accumulated light OF your past expert
mentins. go 10 work for God as never
before When man IN the sixties
folds up his energy and feels he has
done enough. II is the devil OF indo-
lcnce TO which he 10 surrendering. and
God generally takes the man az his
| HhIu uhA iNAh MN Alt IlEul away.
Ny subject next accosts those IN the
seventies and beyond. Ny word "a
them Is congratulation. You nave got
nearly II not quito through. You have
safely crossed the sea OF life and arc
about 90 enter the harbor. You have
fought NJ Gettysburg. and the war q
ovor-hcro and there a skirmish with
the remaining sin OF your own heart
and the SIN OF the world. but guess
you are about done. There may be
some worl. for you yet on a small OF
large scale Bismarck OF Germany Wig
orous Ia the eighties. The prime min.
istcr OF England strong az seventy
two. Haydn composing hts oratorlo
Tho Creation" az seventy years q.
agc. Noah Webster. after making ut.
world renowned dictionary. hard q.
work until o;ghty-hve years old. Rev
Daniel Walio praying In nay pulpit ai
one hundred years OF nge Humboldt
producing the immortal Cosmos" M
sevcnty-six years. william Blake al