The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-02

Ye who have sold for nought
 Your heritage above
 Shall have it back unbought.
 The gift of Jesus's love.
 The year of jubilee has come;
 Return, ye ransomed sinners home
 At Threescore. trrsl--
 My sermon next accosts the sixties. The beginning of that decade Is more startling than any other. In his crono- logical journey the man rides rather smoothly over the figures and and 4 and 5. but the figure gives him big jolt. He says: Tt cannot be that I am sixty. Let me examine the old family record. I guess they made a mistake. roll of births" But no. the older broth CTS or sisters remember the time of his advent, and there is some relative year older and another relative year young CT, and. sure enough. the fact is estab- lished beyond all disputation. Sixty! Now your greet danger Is the temptation to fold up your faculties and quit. You will feel tendency to "reminiscences If you do not look out, YOU will begin al- most everything with the words, When 1 was a boy" But you ought to make the sixties more memorable for God and the truth than the fifties or the forties or the thirties. You ought to do more during the next ten years than you did in any thirty years of your life because 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 experimenting go to work for God as never before When man in the six ties folds up his energy and feels he has done enough. it is the devil of in- dolence to which he Is surrendering, and God generally takes the man at his word and lets him die right away. His brain that under the tension of hard work IS active. now suddenly shrtvels. Men. whether they retire from secular or re- ligious work. generally retire to the grave No well man has a right to retire. The world was made to work. There re- maineth rest for the people of God, but it Is in a sphere beyond the reach decided one of the greatest battles of the age-the battle of Waterloo-and not made until 8 o'clock in the evening, but some of you propose to go into camp at o'clock in the afternoon.
 At the Harbor Mouth.
 My subject next accosts those in the seventies and beyond. My word to them is congratulation. Yol have got nearly it not quite through. You have safely crossed the sea of liss cnd are about 10 enter the harbor You have fought at Gettysburg. and the war is over-here and there a skirmish with the remain- ing sin of your own heart and the sin of the world, but 1 guess you are about done. There may be some work for you vet on q small or large scale Bismarck of Germany vigorous in the eighties. The Prime Minister of Englanl strong at seV cnty-two. Haydn composing his oratorio. 'The Creation, at seventy years or age. Isocrates doing some of his best work at seventy-four Plato busy thinking for all succeeding centuries at elghty-one Noah Webster, afstr making his worl1 renowned dictionary, hard at work unsl eighty-flve years old Rev. Daniel Naldo ,.rEv tW. lniN al years of age. Humboldt producing the immortal Cosmos at seventy-six years. William Blake at sixty-seXen learning Italian so as to read Dante in the orig inal Lord Cockbur1 at ei9hty-Seven writing his best treatise. John Wesley stirring great audiences at eighty-fve. William =. Bryant. without spectacles. reading in my house ''Thanatopsts at eighty-three years of age. Christian n,er and women in all departments serv- ing God after becoming septuagenarians and octogenarians and nonagenarianS Irove that there are possibilities of woTk for the aged. but think you who are passed the seventies are near. being through.
 How do you feel about 1t? You ought to be jubilant, because life is tremen- dous struggle. and if you have got ought to feel like people toward the close of q summer day seated on the rocks watching the sunset at Bar Har- bor or Cape May or Lookout Mountain. l am glad to say that most old Chris tians are cheerful. Daniel Webster wis tied John Adams a short time before his death and found him in very infirm health! He said to MT. Adams: "I am glad to see you. ! hope you are getting along pretty we'll" The reply was: "Ah. sir, quite the contrary. I find I am poor tenant. occupying a house much shattered by time. IL sways and trem- bles with eevry wind. and what is worse. al ha r d1Or0 dg ra make cut, does not intend to make any re. pairs"
 An aged woman sent tn her physician and told him of her ailments, and the