Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-01-30

Nbuut uSdihs Cut 4 Know
that, doctor. What I want you to do
is to help me to grow old little lon.
| ger" The young have their troubles
before them; the old have their trou-
bles behind them. You have got about
all out of this earth that there is in it.
Re Slad 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 We 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 Dor
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 gnte to see you come through:
they are standing by the throne to see
you mount. What glad hour when
you drop the staff and take the scep-
ter, when you quit the stiffened joints
and become an immortal athlete! But
hear, hear; 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 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
and the tempcsts, and when the Lord
took two steps on bcstormed Galilee,
putting one foot on the winds and the
other on the waves. he proved himself
mightier than hurricane and billow.
We want with us divine force greater
than the fires, and when the Lord cool
ed ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS furnace until
Shadrach, Mcshach and Abednego did
not even have to fan themselves he
proved himself mightier than the fire.
We want divine force stronger than
wild beast, and when the Lord made
stronger than the wrath of the jungles.
There are so many diseases in the
world we want with us Il divine Physi-
clan capable of combating ailments.
and our Lord when on earth showed
what he could do with catalcpsy and
paralysis and ophthalmia and dcmen-
tia, Oh, take this supernatural i.to all
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you get anything you want--by appli-
cation.
A man got up in New York prayer
meeting and said: God is my partner.
| did business without him for twenty
years and failed every two or three
years. | have been doing business
with him for twenty years and have
not failed once" Oh, take the super
natural into all your affairs, I had
such an evidence Of the goodness Of
God in temporal things when l entered
life, | 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 I with which to furnish it.
the officers of my church asked me if
i did not want to take two or three
weeks vacation / said, YES" for
had preached about all knew, but |
feared they must be getting tired Of
me. When I returned to the VILLAGE
after the brief vacation, they handed
me the key Of the parsonage and asked
mt TO nd 1,nlr !
It, Not suspccting anything had hap
pened, | put the key into the parson-
age door and opened 1t, and there was
the hall completely furnished with car
pet and pictures and hatrack, and |
turned into the parlors, and they were
furnlshed-thc sOftost sofas | ever sat
on and into the study, and found 1t
furnished with bookcases, and | went
into the bedrooms. and they were fur
nished, and into the pantry. and that
was furnished with every culinary ar
ticle, and the spiceboxes were filled,
and a -four barrel stood there ready to
be opened, and l went down into the
dining room, and the table was set and
beautifully furnished. and into the
kitchen. and the store was full of fuel,
and match lay OF the top of the stove,
and all l had t. do in starting house
keeping was to strike the match. God
inspired the whole thing, and If ever
doubt his goodness all up and down
the world call me an migrate. testify
that l have been in many tight places,
and God always got me out. and be will
get you out Of the tight places.
But the most of you will never reach
the eighties or the seventies or the six
ties or the ffties or the forties. He
who passes into the forties has gone
far beyond the average Of human life.
Amid the uncertainties take God
through Jesus Christ as your present
and eternal safety. The longest life
Is only a small fragment Of the great
eternity. We will all OF US soon be
there.
Eternity, how near It rolls!
Count the vast value OF your souls
Beware and count the awful cost
What they have gained whose souls
are lost.
tCopyright 1902 Louis Klopsch, N. VI