Connecticut western news., 1902-01-30

brothers or 6iStefS reIuSIuDoT tue tl1ue ! of his advent, and there Is some rela- | tive a year older and another relative | year younger, and, sure enough, the l fact is established beyond all disputa- l ton. Sixty! Now your great danger I Is the temptation to fold up your facul- | ties and quit. You will feel tendency l to reminiscence. If you do not look | out, you will begin almost everything with the words, When I was a boy" But you ought to make the sixties more memorable for God and the truth than | the ffties or the fort1es or the thirttes. You ought to do more during the next l ten years than you did In any thirty years of your life because of all the ex- perience you have had. You have com mitted enough mistakes in life to make you wise above your juniors. Now, un- | der the accumulated light of your past \ experimenting, go to work for God as never before. When a man in the sixties folds up his energy and feels he has done enough, it Is the devil of l incidence to which he is surrenderiDg, and God generally takes the man at his word and lets him die right away. His 1 brain, that under the tension of hard 1 work Is active, now suddenly shrivels. 1 Men, whether they retire from secular or religious work, generally retire to l the grave. No well man has a right to retire The world was made to work. l There remaineth rest for the people of God, but it is In a sphere beyond the | reach of telescopes. The military | charge that decided one of the greatest battles of the ages-the battle of Wa terloo-was not made until o'clock in the evening, but some of you propose | to go into camp at 2 o'clock in the aft | 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 guess you are about done. There may be some work for you yet on a small or large scale. Bismarck of Germany viz orous in the eighties. The prime min ister of England strong at seventy-two. Haydn composing his oratorio, "The Creation" at seventy years of age. Isoc- rates doing some of his best work at seventy-four. Plato busy thinking for all succeeding centuries at eighty-one. Noah Webster, after making his world renowned dictionary, hard at work un- til eighty-five years old. Rev. Daniel Waldo praying In my pulpit at one hundred years of age. Humboldt pro- ducing the immortal Cosmos" at sev- enty-six years. William Blake at six ty-seven learning Italian so as to read Dante in the original. Lord Cockburn at eighty-seven writing his best trea- tise. John Wesley stirring great audi ences at eighty-five. William c. Bry- ant, without spectacles, reading in my house 'Thanatopsis" at eighty-three years of age. Christian men and wo- men in all departments serving God after becoming septuagenarians and octogenariarrs and nonagenarians prove that there are possibilities of work for the aged, but think you who are pass ed the seventies are near being through.
 How do you feel about 1t? You ought | lO pC JuDAldnk, DCNduoO A1AC 10 a o CAuCh- dous struggle, and if you have got through respectfully and usefuily you ought to feel like people toward the close of a summer day seated on the rocks watching the sunset at Bar liar Dor or Cape May or Lookout mountain. am glad to say that most old Chris tians are cheerful. Daniel Webster visited John Adams a short time before his death and found him in very in- firm health. He said to Mir. Adams: q am glad to see you. hope you are get ting 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 landlord, as near as can make out, does not intend to make any repairs"
 An aged woman sent to her physi- elan and told him of her ailments, and the doctor said: What would you have me do, madam? cannot make you young again" She replied: 'I know that, doctor. What I want you to do is to help me to grow old a little lon ger" The young have their troubles before them; the old have theiY trou- bles behind 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 look ing back and look ahead. O ye in the seventies and the eighties and the nineties, your best days are yet to come, your grandest associations 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 glad dest 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 standing by the throne to see you mount. What a glad hour when you drop the staff and take the scep- ter, when you quit the stiffened joints and become an immortal athletei But hear, hear; a remark pertinent to all people, whether in the twenties, the thirties, the forties, the fifties, the six ties, the seventies or beyond.
 The Need of All Ages.
 What we all need Is to take the su- pernatural into our lives. Do not let us depend on 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 pillow. We want with us divine force greater