The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-04-01

Wncn you VIII cease expressing IL ny put
ting first figure 9. As it is the greatest
time of the struggle. I cdjure you, i'm
Gods name and by Gods grace, make it
the greatest achievement My prayer Ia
for all those In the tremendous crisis of
the thirtes The fact is that bv the wav
| YOU decide the present decade of your his.
tory you decide all the following decades
Next | accost tine forues. ours is the
| decade OF discovery. ! do not mean the
| discovery Of the outside, but the discovery
| of yourself. No man knows himself until
| he is forty. He overestmates or underes-
| Inmates himself. BY that time he has
| learned what he can do or what he ce-ut
| dc. He thought he had commercial genius
/ enough to become millionaire but now he
| rs satisfied to make n comfortable living
| He thought he had rhetorical power that
! would bring him into tho United States
| Senate; now he Is content If he can sue.
| cesstuly argue common case before a
| petit Jury. He thought he had medical
! skill that would make him a Mott or a
| Crosse or n Willard Parker or Sims;
! now he finds his sphere Is that of fam
| lily physician, prescribing for the ordinary
| ailments that afiiict our race. He was sail
ing on IN FOG and could not take reck
onnS, ont now II clears up enough to allow
| him to find out his real latitude and long
! itude. He has been climbing, but now he
| has got TO the top OF the hill. and he takes
| a. long breath. He is half way through
| the journey at least and he is in a posi-
ton to look backward or forward. lie has
| more good sense than he ever had He
| knows human nature for he has been
cheated often enough TO see the bad side
| OF IT,, and he has met many gracious
| and kindly and splendid souls he also
| knows the good side of it. Now. calm
! yourself. Thank God for the past and de-
! hoerately set your compass for another
| VOYAGE.
You have chased enough thisGodown:
| YOU have blown enough soap bubbles: You
| have seen the unsatisfying nature OF all
| earthly things. Open a new chapter with
! Cod and the world. This decade of the
! tortlcs ought TO eclipse all. its predecessors
| IN worship. in usefulness and in happincss
The world was made TO work There re.
| malneth rest for the people OF God, but
| 1t Is IN sphere beyond the reach of tee
| scopes. The military charge that decided
/ one 81 the greatest battles OF the ages-the
battle of Waterloo-was not made until
o'clock IN the evening, but some OF you
: propose to so into camp at o'clock in
/ the afternoon
Ny subject next accosts those in the sew
entities and beyond My word to them Is
| congratulation. You have got nearly if not
| quite through. You have safely crossed
! the sea OF life and are about to enter the
| harbor. You have fought at GETTYSBURG
| and the war is over-here and there "A Skin
| mlsh with the remaining sin of your own
heart and the sin of the world but | guess
| you are about done. There may be some
| work Tor you yet on n small or large scale
| bismarck of Germany vigorous in the
eighties. The Prime Minister OF England
| strong at seventy-two. Haydn composing
| has oyatOrio, The Creation" at seventy
/ years OF age. Isocyates doing some OF his
! best worl, at scventy-four. Plato busy
| thinking for all succeeding centuries at
| eighty-one Noah Webster, after making
! ms world renowned dictionary. havG at
| work until eighty-hve years old Rev.
! Daniel Waldo praying in my pulpit at 100
! years Of age Humboldt producing the
! immortal Cosmos" at scventy-siX years.
| William Blake at siXtv-scvcn learning Ital-
! Ian so as TO read Dante in the original.
! Lord Cockburn at cighty-seven writing his
! best treatise. John Wesley stirring great
! audiences Mt eighty-fve. William C.. Bryant,
! without spectacles, reading IN my house
| "Ihantaposis" az eighty-threc years OF age
! Christian men and women IN all depart
| mcnts serving God after becoming septua-
/ GeIarlans and nonagenariaUs prove that
/ there are possibilities OF work for the
| aged. but | think you who arc passed the
| seventies are near being through.
| How do you feel about il? You OUGHT TO
! be Jubllant, because lie IS n tremendous
! struggle, and II you have got through re
| specially and usefully YOU ought to feel
! like people toward the close OF a summer
| day seated on the rocks watching the sun
| set at Bar Harbor OF Cape May or Look
! out Mountain. / am glad to say that most
! old Christians are cheerful. Daniel Webs
| ter visited John Adams n short time before
/ MS utdLu una lOIuQ MN IN very lUilrm
! health. He SAID to Mr.. Adams Il am
| glad 20 sec you. | hope you are getting
| along pretty we'll" The reply was: AN.
| SIR, quite the contrary. / find j am a poor
] tenant occupying a house nuch shattered
by time. 1t sways and trembles with every
| wind, a.d 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 physician
and told him of her ailments. and the doc
/ tor 4 .. 4
! madam ] cannot make you young again"
| She replied: Il know chat. doctor What
! / want you to do is 90 help me to grow old
! little longer" The young men have
! their troubles before them; the old have
! their troubles behind them NoU have got
! about all ont of this earth that there is in
| It. BE glad that YOU, an aged servant
/ OF God, arc going to try another life and
| amid better surroundings. Stop looking
| back and look ahead. O We in the seven
/ ties and eighties and the nineties. your
| best days are yet TO come, your prandest
| associations are yet to be formed your
! best eyesight is vet TO be l,indled your
| best hearing rs yet to be awakened, your
| greatest speed is yet to be travelled. your
| gladdcst song rs yet to be sung. The mos
! OF your friends have gone over the border
| and you are going TO Join them very soon.
/ lhey are waiting Tor YOU; they are watch
| ing the golden shore to see you land: they
| are watching the shining gate to see you
I
| throne to see you mount.
What a glad hour when you drop the
| staff and take the sccpter. when You qui.
| the stilfened Joints and become an immor
| tai athlete. But hear, hear; "a remark per
! tinent to an people. whether ia the TWEEN
/ ties. the thirtes. the fordes the fftie
| the sixties, the seventies or beyond
But the most Of you viii never reach
/ the eighties or the seventies or the sixties
or the hitics OF the lor,ics. lie who passes
into the iorties has cone far beyond th,
average of human life. Amid the uncer
tanties take God through Jesus Christ
| your present and eternal safety The long
est life Us only small fragment OF tn.
! great eternity. We VIII all of us soon b.
there.
| Eternity, how near 70 roIsl
| Count the vast value of your souls
Beware and count the awful cost
What they have gaiucd whose souls arc
lost.
tcopyriral ie,2 T. KIopsctl
Many q man who Is houorcd with a col
lcgc degree would find It necessary to- do
some reviewing before he could mace .