The age-herald., 1902-02-02

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 incidence 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 shrivels. Men. whether they retire from secular of religious work gen. orally retire to the grave The world was has a right to retire. The world was made to work. There remaineth rest for the people of God, but 1t Is in a sphere beyond the reach of telescopes. The mill itary charge that decided one of 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 go into camp at o'clock in the aftery ernoon.
 At the Harbor Mouth.
 My subject next accosts those in the seventies 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 skirmish with the remaining sin of your own heart and the sin of the world, but I guess you are about done There may be some work for you yet on a small or large scale. Bsm arck of Ger many vigorous in the eighties. The prime minister of England strong at seventy two. Haydn composing his oratorio, "The Creation" at seventy years of age Isocrates doing some of his best work at seventy-four. Plato busy think for all succeeding centuries at eighty-one, Noah Webster, after making his world renowned dictionary hard at work until eighty-fve years old. Rev. Daniel Waldo praying in my pulpit at one hundred years of age. Humboldt producing the i'm mortal "Cosmos'' at seventy-six years William Blake at sixty-seven learning Italian so as to read Dante in the origt- nal. Lord Cockburn at eighty-fve. Will liam c. Bryan, without spectacles, read ing in my house "Thanatopsis" at eighty three years of age. Christian men and women in all departments serving God after becoming septuagenarians and octo- genarians and nonagenarians prove that there are possibilities of work for the aged, but I think you who are passed the seventies are near being through.
 How do you feel about 1t? You ought to be jubilent, because life is tremen- dous struggle, and if you have got through respectable and usefully you ought to feel like people toward the close of a summer day seated on the rocks watching the sunset at Bar liar Der or Cape May or Lookout Mountain. l am glad to say that most old Christians are cheerful. Daniel Webster visited 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 It sways and trembles with every wind. and what is worse, sir, the land lord, as poor as I can make out, does not intend to make any repairs"
 An aged woman sent to her physician doctor said; What would you have me do, madam? I cannot make you young again." She replied: q know that, doctor What I want you to do is to help me to grow old a little longer" The young have their troubles before them; the old have their troubles be- hind them You have got about all out of this earth that there is in it. Be glad that you, an aged servant of God, are going to try another life and amid better surroundings. Stop looking back and look ahead. O ye in the seventies and the eighties and the nineties your best days are yet to come your grandest asso- citations 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 gladest song Is yet to be sung. The most of your friends have gone over the bor- der, and you are going to join them very soon. They are waiting 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 stand ing by the throne to see you mount. What hour when you drop the staff and take the scepter, when you quit the stiff fened oints and become an immortal ath- lete! But hear, hear; a remark pertinent to all people, whether in the twenties, the thirties, the forties, the ffties, the sixties, the seventies or beyond.
 The Need of All Ages.
 What we all need is to take the super natural into our lives Do not let us de- pend on brain and muscle and nerve. We want a mighty supply of the supernat- ural. We want with us a divine force mighter than the waters and the temp ests, 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 hur- ricane and pillow We want with us a divine force greater than the fires, and