The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-30


Dor or Cape May or Lookout Mountain.
| am glad to say that most Old
Christians are cheerful. Daniel Web
ster visited John Adams a short time
before his death and found him in
very infirm health. He said to Mr.. Ad-
ans: II am glad to see you. | hope
you are getting along pretty we'll"
The reply was: All. sir, quite the con-
trary. find am poor tenant, occu-
plying house much shattered by time
1t sways and rembles with every wind
and what is worse, sir, the landlord.
as near as l can make out, does not
intend TO make any repairs"
An aged woman sent to her physi-
clan and told him of her ailments and
the doctor said: What would Won
have me do, madam? | cannot make
you young again She replied: Il
know that doctor. What want you
to do is to help me to grow old a little
longer" The young have their trou-
bles before them; the old have their
| troubles Behind them You have got
about all cut Of this earln that there is
in it. Be glad that you, an aged serv-
ant of God are going 20 try another
! life and amid better surroundings.
Stop looking back and look ahead.
Oh, We in the seventies and the eigh-
ties and The nincties, your best days
are yet to come, your grandest S.ssoci-
atoms are yet to be formed, your best
eyesight Is yet to be kindled, your best
hearing is yet to be awakened your
greatest speed is yet to be travelled,
your gla0dest song is yet to be sung.
i The most of ..our friends have gone
over the border, and you are going to
join them very soon. They are wait
ing for you, they are watching the
golden shore TO see you land; they are
watching the shining gate to see you
come through; they are standing by
the throne to see you mount What a
glad hour when you drop the staff and
take the scepter, when you quit the
stiffened joints and become an inn
mortal athlete! But hear, hear a re-
mark pertinent to all people, whether
in the twenties. the thirties. the for
ties, the iifties, the sixties, the seven.
ties or beyond
What we all need is to take the su-
pernatural into our lives Do not let
us depend en- brain and muscle and
nerve. We want a mighty supply of
the supernatural. We want with us a
divine force mightier than the waters
and the tempests, and when the Lord
took two steps on bestormed Galilee,
putting one foot on the winds and the
other on the waves, he proved himself
mightier than hurricane and billow.
!. We want with us divine force great
; or than the fires, and when the Lord
: cooled ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS furnace until
t Shadrach Meshach and Abednego did
not even have to fan themselves he
!. proved himself mightier than the fire.
e We want divine force stronger than
S the wild beast and when the Lord made
S Daniel lion tanner he proved himself
q stronger than the wrath of the jun
giles.
There are so many diseases in the
world we want With US divine Physi-
clan capable of combating ailments,
! and our Lord when on earth showed
> what he could do with catalepsy and
paralysis and ophthalrnia and demen-
:, tia. Oh, take this supernatural into all
your lives! How to get it. Just as
! you get anything you want-by apple
cation
A man got up in New York prayer
meeting and said: God is my part
ner | did business with him for
= twenty years and failed every two or
three years. | have been doing bust
. ness with him for twenty years and
q have not failed once Oh. take the
a supernatural into all your affairs! I
!. had such an evidence of the goodness
q of God in temporal things when en-
= tered life, l must testify. Called to
preach at lovely Belleville, in New
. Jersey, | entered upon my work. But
= there stood the empty parsonage, and
- not cent had with which to furnish
. it. After preaching three or four
! weeks the officers of my church asked
- me if did not want to take two or
=, three weeks vacation | said, YES"
=, for l had preached about all knew,
but feared they must be getting tired
= of me. When | returned to the viii
!. lage after the brief vacation, they
handed me the key of the parsonage
and asked me if | did not want to go
= and look at it. Not suspecting any
:. thing had happened, put the key into
y the parsonage door and opened it, and
= there was the hall completely furnish
ed with carpet and pictures and hat
= rack, and l turned into the parlors and
IS they were furnished-the softest sofas
n | ever sat on-and into the study and
II | found it furnished with bookcases.
IS and went into the bedrooms, and they
'e were furnished, and into the pantry,
" and that was furnished with every
5 culinary article. and the spiceboxes
J. were filled, and a flour barrel stood
y there ready to be opened, and l went
o. down into the diningroom, and the
,f tahlo WAS set and hna11tifnll,. fnn.;1.