The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-01-31

rocks watching tho Junset at Bar Har-
Dor or Cape May or Lookout Mountain.
l am glad to say that most old
Christians are cheerful. Daniel Web
ster visited John Adams q 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: 'Ah. sir, quite the con-
trary. find am poor tenant, occu-
plying a house much shattered by time.
1t sways and trembles 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 you
have me do, madam? | cannot make
you young again" She replied; Il
know that, doctor. What l want you
to do is to help me to Grow old little
longer" The young have their trou-
bles before them; the old have their
troubles behind them. You have got
about all out of this earth 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 nineties, your best days
are yet to come, your grandest associ-
atoms are yet to be formed, your best
eyesight is yet to be kindled, your, best
Nearing is yet to be awakened, your
greatest speed is yet to be Travelled,
your gladdest song is yet to be sung.
The most of your 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 i'm
mortal athlete! But hear, hear; re-
mark pertinent to all people, whether
in the twentieS the thirties, the for
ties, the ffties, the sixties, the seven
ties or beyond.
What we all need is to lake the SUI
pernatural into our lives. Do not let
us depend on brain and muscle and
nerve. We want mighty supply Of
the supernatural. We want with us a
divine force mightier than the waters
q vyha tkn | ord
took two steps on bestormed Galilee.
putting one foot on the winds and the
other on lle waves, he proved himself
mightier than hurricane and billow.
We want with us a divine force great
err than the fires, and when the Lord
cooled Nebuchadnezzar's furnace until
Shadrach, Meshach and Abedne9o did
not even have to fan themselves he
proved himself mightier than the fire.
We want divine force stronger than
the wild beast and when the Lord made
Daniel lion tanner he proved himself
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 ophthalmia and demen-
tia. Oh, take this supernatural into all
your lives! How to get it Just as
you get anything you want-by appli-
cation.
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 BUSH
ness with him for twenty years and
have not failed once" Oh, take the
supernatural into all your affairs! |
had such an evidence of the goodness
of God in temporal things when l en-
tered life, l must testify. Called to
preach at lovely Beleville, 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. I said, Yes"
for / had preached about all l knew, .
but l feared they must be getting tired
of me. When l 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
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
they were furnished-the softest sofas
ever sat on-and into the study, and
l found it furnished with bookcases,
and l went into the bedrooms, and they
were furnished, and into the pantry,
and that was furnished with every
culinary article, and the spiceboxes
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