The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-02

doctor said: ''what would you have me do, madam? I cannot make you young again." She replied: T Know that. acc 9oS tor. What I want you to do Is to help me grow old little longer. The young have their troubles before them; the ora have their troubles behind them; YOU have got about all out of this earth thas 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. Q ye m the seventies and the eighties and the nine ties, your best days are yet to come vour Srandest association are yet to be formed, your best syesight Is yet 10 pc kindled. your best hearing is yet to pc 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 waiting for you; they are watching the golden shore t. 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 glad hour when you drop the stan ana take the scepter. when you quit the stinened joints and become an immortal athiete! But hear, hear; remark pertinent to all people, whether in the twenties' me thirties. the forties. the fifties, the six toes, 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 ana nerve We want a mighty supply of supernat- ural. We want with us divine force mightier than the waters and the tenn pests 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 hurri- cane or pillow. We want with us di- vine force greater than the hres, ana V hen the Lord cooled Nebuchadnezzar lx oh Abednego did not even have to fan them selves he proved himself mightier than the fire We want a divine force stronger than wild beast, and when the Lord made Daniel a lion tanner he proved hlmseH stronger than the wrath of the jungles. There are so many diseases In Inc world we want with us a divine Physician capable of combating ailments, and our Lord when on earth showed what He could do with catalepsy and paralysis and ophthalmia and dementia. Oh. take this supernatural into all your lives! How to get It? Just as you get anything you want-by application.
 man got up in a. New nork & pray@r [ did business without Him for twenty years and failed every two or three years. l have been doing busineess with him for twenty years and have not fail ed once" o, take the supernatural into all your affairs! 1 had such an evidence of the goodness of God in temporal things when l entered life I must testi- fy. Called to preach at lovely Belleville, in New Jersey. I entered upon my work. But there stood the empty parsonage. and not a cent had I with which to fur nish 1t. 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 I had preached about all I knew. but I 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 me if l did not want to go and look at 1t. Not suspect ing anything had happened. | put the key into the parsonage door and opened It. and there was the hall completely furnished with carpet and pictures and hatrack. and l turned into the parlors. and they were furnished-the softest so- fas I ever sat on-and into the study, and I found it furnished with hook cases. and l went into the bedrooms, and they were furnished, and into the pantry, and that was furnished with every culinary article, and the splceboxes were filled, and the four barrel stood there