The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-04-01
THE MELESTONES OF LIFE
Or. 1aImage Tells of the Duties and
Trials Which Belong 10 the
Different Decades.
Advice to the Twen,ies-The Waiting Age
The Last Haven.

| long to the different decades Of human
Ire; text, Psalms Nc, 10, The days OF our
| years are threescorc years and ten"
The seventoth milestone of life is here
| planted as at the end OF the Journey. a
| few go beyond it. Multitudes never reach
| 1T. The oldest person OF modern times eX.
| pred at 1859 years 4 Greek of the name
| OF Stravardc lived to l32 years. An Eng
| llshman of the name of Thomas Parr lived
! l52 years. Before the time of Moses peo.
| pie lived $50 years, and II you go far
enough back they lived 900 years. Well
| that was necessary, because the story oil
| The world must come down by tradition.
and nc needed long life safely to transmit
the news of the past. Iii the generations
! had been short lived the story would so
! often have changed lips that it might have
Got all astray. But after Moses began to
write 1t down and parchment told it from
| century to century II was not necessary
| that people live so long in order to au-
| theuticate the events the past II in
our time people lived only twenty-five
| years, that would not affect history. since
1t is pat IN print and is no longer depend
ent on tradition. Whatever your age 4
| will to-day directly address YOU, and
shall speak to those who are in the TWEEN
| ties the thirtles, the forties the hfties
| the sixties, and to those who arc in the
seventies and beyond.
First, then, | accost those of you who
| are IN the twenJies You are full of OK
I pectation. You are ambitious-that is
| II you amount to anythinG-for some kind
| OF success, commercial or mechanical or
| professional or literary or agricultural or
| social or moral. II / End some one in the
twentles without any sort o. ambition, l
| feel like saying, My friend. you have got
! on the wrong planet. This is not tho
| world for YOU. You are going TO be in
the way. Have YOU made your choice of
poorhouses! 1on viii never be able to
| pay Io- your cradle. Who IS going 10 set
! tie for your board? There is a mistake
| about the fact that you were born at all -
But, supposing you have ambition, let
| me say to all the twenties expect every
| thing through divine manipulation and
| then You VIII get all YOU want and some
| thing better. Are YOU looking for wealth?
| Well, remember that God controls the
money markets the harveSts the drouchts
| the caterpllars. the locusts. the sunshine
the STORM the land. the sea, and YOU will
J get wealth. Perhaps not that which Is
! stored up in the banks in safe deposits
| in United States securities, in houses and
| lands, but your clothing and board and
shelter and that Is about all YOU can APP
proprIate ANYHOW. You cost the Lord a
| great deal TO feed and clothe and shelter
| you for lifetime requires big sum of
money, and # Won get nothing more than
| the absolute necessities YOU get an CuOr-
| nous amount OF supply. Expect as much
| as You viii OF any kind of success. if YOU
expect It from the Lord YOU are safe. De
| pend on any other resource, and YOU may
| be badly chagrincd but depend on God
| and all viii be well. 1t is a good thing in
| the crisis OF life to have a man of large
means back you up. 1t is a great thing
| to have moneycd institution stand be
| hind you in your undertaking. But it is a
m,ghtier thing 10 have the God of heaven
and earth your coadlutor. and YOU may
| have Him. | am so glad that l met You
while You arc in the twentieE. You are
| laying out your plans and all your life
| this world and Tho for r0O million
| years OF your existence will be affected by
| those plans IT is ABOUT o'clock i'm the
morning OF your life, and you are just
| starting out. Which way are you going
/ TO start; Oh, the twcntics!
| Twenty Is a great word in the Bible
! Joseph was sold for twenty pieces of sill
/ yer; Samson judged Israel twenty years;
] Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities; the
| flying roll that Icchariah saw was twenty
| cubts; when The sailors OF the ship on
which Paul sailed sounded the Mediterra-
| mean Sea- it was twenty fathoms. What
| mighty things have been done in the
| twenties. Romuius founded Rome when
| he was twenty; Keats finished life at
| twenty-five Lafayette was Il world re-
| nowned soldier at twenty-threc; Oberin
! accomplished his chief work at twenty
| seven; Bouaparte was victor over Italy at
| twenty-s:N; Pitt was prime minister of
! England at Twenty-Five; Calvin had COM
picted his immortal Constitutes bv the
| time he was twenty-siS; GTotius was az
! torney general at twentv-lour. Some of
| the mightiest things for God and eternity
/ have fcen done III the twcutes. As long
as You can put the figure , before the
| other figure that helps describe your age /
! have high hopes about him. Look ont for
/ that figure .. Watch its continuance with
| as much earnestncss as you ever watched
| anything that promised you salvation or
! threatened you demolition. What a criti-
| cal time-the twenties.
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! occupation and the principles by which
! You will be guided; you make your most
| abiding friendships; YOU arrange your home
! life; vow fix your habits. Lord God Al
| mighty, for Jesus Chrst's sake, have
! mercy on all the men and women in the
| twcutiesl
Next ] accost those in the thirties. You
/ arc 40 on age when YOU find what n tough
! thing It Is to get recognized and estab-
/ lished in your occupation or profession.
! Ten years ago YOU thought al that was
/ necessary Tor success was to put on your
] shutter the sign of physician or dentist or
/ attorney or broker or agent and YOU would
! have plenty OF business How many hours
! you sat and waited for business, and
] waited In vain. three persons only know
/ God, your wife and yourself In CONNER
! cial life Won have not had the promotion
l and the increase in salary YOU ANTICIPATED
| or the place YOU expected to occupy in the
! firm has not been vacated. The produce
I VI liIE lhIIn MINU MiIINN YOU expected 10
/ support yourself and those depending ON
\ you and to paw tho interest ON the mort
| gage has been far less than you anticipated
| or the prices were down or special ex-
pcnscs for sickness made drafts on your no.
/ sources thet YOU could not have expected.
/ Iu some respects the hardest decade of
\ life is the thrtic4. because tho results are
/ generally so far behind the auticpations.
/ IL rs very rare indeed that "a Young man
/ does as did the young man ono Sunday
/ night when he came TO me and said. az
I have been so m8rvclouslv prospcrcd since
| ! came to this country that I feel as mat
! ter Of gratitude tina. I ought TO dedicate
I myself TO God
Nuctcnths of the poetry of life has
| been knocked ont of you since you came
/ into tho thirtics Men iu tho different
| professions and occupations saw chat YOU
| were rising. and they must put an cstop-
/ pei ON You or you might somehow stand
/ iu the way They think you must be sup.
b pressed
From thirty TO forty BE- am especially
hard time for young doctors young lave
/ yers, y0uuc merchants. young farmers.
young mechanics. young ministers The
/ struggle of the thirtcs is for honest and
/ helpful and rCmuucr1dvc recognition But
I few old people know how to treat young
/ people without ualronznr them ON the
/ one hand or snuohing them on Che other
Oh tine thirties' Joseph stood before
| Pharaoh at thirty. David was thirty years
I old when he began to- reign; the height
/ of Solomon's temple was th.rtv cublta.
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