The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-02-01

have plenty of business. no" ,
many hours you sat and waited ior !
business, and waited in vain, three
only know-God, your wiie
and Yourself. In commercial life you
baye not had the promotion n
the increase in salary you anticr
pated, or the place you expected 10
occupy in the firm has not been va
Gated. The produce of the farm win
which you expected to support your
self and those depending on you ana
to pay the interest on the mortgage
has been far less than you antici-
pated. or the prices were down. OF
snec;al expenses for sickness made
drafts on your that you
could not have expected. In some re-
spects the hardest decade OF life IL
the thirties, because the results are
generally so far behind the anticipa-
lions. 1t is very rare indeed tha', q
Young man does as did the young
man one Sunday night when ne came
tn me and said: II have been SO
marvelously prospered since 1 came
to this country that l feel as a mat
ter of gratitude that l ought 10 aeoi,
cate myself to God" Nine-tenths OF
the poetry of life has been knockeo
out of YOU since you came into the
thirties. Men in the different profes-
sions and occupations saw that you
were rising, and they must put an es-
toppel on you or you might somehow
stand in the way. They THINK you
must be suppressed. From ~ 10 AZ
is an especially hard time for young
DOCTORS, young lawyers, young mer-
chants, young farmers, young me-
chanics, young ministers. Inc s.rus,
ole of the thirties is for honest anu
helpful and remunerative recognition.
But few old people know how to treat
young people without patronizihs
them on the one hand or snuoDlng
them on the other. Oh, the thirties!
.Joseph stood before Pharaoh at 81;
David was 80 years old when ne oe-
gan to reign; the height OF solomon ;
temple was 80 cubits; Christ entered
: upon his active ministry at ~ years
Of age: Judas sold him for 30 pieces
of silver. Oh, the thirties! What I
: word suggestive of triumph or disas
ter!
l Your decade is the n that Wi
probably afford the greatest oppor
: tunity for victory, because there 4
: the greatest necessity for struggie
. Read the. worlds history n kno'
{ what are the thirties for good or bao
Alexander the Great closed his caree
: Mt 80; Frederick the Great made Ell
= rome tremble with his armies at 80
Cortes conquered Mexico at 80; dran
fought Shiloh and Donelson when &c
Raphael died at 81; Luther was tn
hero of the reformation at 80; D
!, Philip Sidney got through by .
The greatest deeds for God an
~ against Him were done within u
- thirties, and your greatest BATH
= are O and between the time whs
~ YOU cease expressing your age |
putting first a figure . and the TIN
M when you will cease expressing IL
,b putting first a figure 3. AS 1t is u
To- greatest time of the struggle, 1 a
lure YOU, in Gods name and by Goe
~, grace, make it the greatest achie'
IS ment. My prayer is for all those
W. the tremendous crisis of the thirti'
al The fact is that by the way you {
on eide the present decade of your II
of tory you decide all the follow
re decades.
ret Next / accost the f~orties. Yours
sx- the decade of discovery. l do !
ind mean the discovery of the outsi
the but the discovery of yourself.
man knows himself until he is
1ly He overestimates or undressing
all himself. By that time he has lear
the what he can do or what he cannot
rye He thought he had commer'
ing genius enough to become a mill
and aire, but he is satisfied to max
But comfortable living. He thought
God had rhetorical . power that wo
tor, bring him into the United Sta
glad senate; now he is content if he
the successfully argue a common case
our fore a petit jury. He thought he
orld medical skill that would make
hon a Mott or a Crosse or a Willard
iect- ker or a Sims; now he finds
light sphere is that of a family physic
life, prescribing for the ordinary aim
hlch that aflict our race. He was sai
the on in a fog and could not tai
reckoning, but now it clears
the enough to allow him to find out
Ieces real latitude and longitude. He
= ~ been climbing, but now he has 60
'les' the top of the hill, and he tax
SAY" long breath. He is half way thr'
! .he the journey at least, and he is
u inc position to look backward or
~ ward. He has more good sense
IN he ever had. He knows human
n.y. ture, for he has been cheated
ishco enough to see the bad side of it
~ he has met so many gracious
III kindly and splendid souls he
:. p;a. knows the good side of it. Now,
i ~ yourself, Thank God for the
80 and deliberately set your cor
os. for another voyage. You have G
:. o. enough thistledown; you nave
;. ca enough soap bubbles; you have
:. tba the unsatisfying nature of all
lv fbinOs Omen n new chapter