The sun., 1903-12-07
now one Can BEST GROW OLD
THE REV. DIR. SAVAGE FINDS A
TYPE ~ MS OWN FLOCK.

life Of the REV. Robert Coliyer, Pastor
Emeritus OF the Messiah Church.
s,mpatheticalIy Drawn by His Co
pastor -Grandly Grown to Eighty.
The Rev. DR.. Minot j. Savage preached
N a large congregation in the Church OF
tho Nessiah yesterday on @Growing Old"
The Hebrew poet, he said, described 1t
as sad business, but 1t is inevitable, it is
natural, it ought to be sweet and fair.
\ think it is one Of the most pitiful things
in the world" he said, ito live 80 that your
wife I'D your friends are relieved when
you get through. | wan at least a few
neople 10 be sorry when 60, and would
rather 20 this minute and have them sorry
than wait ten or twenty years longer and
have them glad There is a pathos about
growing old on the part Of those people
hat do not grow rich and ripe
DR.. Savage cited his co-worker, the Rev.
Rober Collyer, pastor emeritus Of the Church
of the Messiah, as man who is "grandly
growing old" and he drew this picture OF
Mr.. Couyer's life and the lesson in 1t:
You and know one example Of a life nobly
lived OF grandly growing old Eighty years
aso tile boy, the oldest Of a group, was born
e tts two roSned ON cottage hanss1 IN aGrssnfS .srn
stock, like. that which has nurtured thou
sands OF the best men that the world has
This little boy played. ate what he could
get, slept, dreamed. grew. By. and by he
was the fortunate possessor OF few pennies.
sia whole Eli lfe prophecy Of what was to be and
has been from that day to this With this,
which was wealth to hImandd da,sisS snow ~ whas %
and the book won The higher triumphed.
and it has been trium phins ever since: nc :,,..+
and the birds and the summer and the winter.
but his heart was naturally touched with the
Ps ,s iEs snd ss took o shape from the dom
nant Influences about him. He grew up, was
pprentGed t2 anf TSIkea al
preacher He struck blows on the hot, soft,
ened iron. and he struck blows for truth and
right and love in other shops OF Tork, ORR, US at Wei
he began to long for larger life, wider
opportunity. and so came across the great
a little, and then we find him blacksmith
in PENNSYLVANIA, only little way from phila-
delphia. working at the forge and still preach
Ho believes in better God and more
hopeful humanity than most OF those that
are about him. and & 80 wins the S. ever It TO pc pc
hrSc'd hSec Of s hm Of hsrstS iG
from that day until he dled-good. noble
readh P HnTnfs n pr s p and
his nrst great victory. Or; F,lrniss has TO
go West to marry couple In Cincinnati.
and after he gets out there he wants to stay
another Sunday so he sends home to find
% he Se y h sa. be BEEN wants sS enSy
fnouan fof snotSer n's sunday & ~ And Word 10
bsy s sn NJ ia the sapp
And SO he comes into our larger. and We
believe grander. ministry. He goes TO Chi
He becomes famous in England, and in
as E: preacher and lecturer
" Then enc comes y the nre, the devastation. the
shock the. blindness. the despair. Then re-
saiefs' which was Sna Surned bur And then.
church; and you know what his life has been
goans Sos snrea msn aed Women as he has stood with
yoS II yGu thoss You osed sEr1
lie has won name here and the love S, Of
sverbSody that bs hs 9~ h
oes oesft e oi the ef ID man should
Tor possessing: he has no enemies T ,s xi1Rs among
he Ana Ss. ss 10 sas yS
S bon mind hsss + lis 30 Re Sss n sa"
lonely; some Of those who stood nearest 70
him, and whom he clasped to his heart with
infinite tenderness, have faded into the un-
seen: but be and and all OF us know that
they are not lost: he knows IT, he believes
IT, and his pathway in the streets is not walked
without conlpanio ship: the invisible forms
OF those he tenderly loves and expects oy
and by to see again walk by his side; they
keep him company In his room, they visit
him In the dreams OF his sleeping hours:
He has grown grandly old-so years climbed
to the mountain summit and away over
there he sees the sunset. But there is nothing
sad about it. for he knows that as In Gods
sunsets here the going down OF that orb
means the rising of countless others grander.
greater, brighter than that-it means the
opening Of the universe to his advancing
feet
Tie looks back to the Yorkshire moors.
and remembers the boy: he sees the young
man: his first love; the birth OF his children,
and ali that has made his life varied and rich
andlsweet; and now at the last he Is surrounded
by all that should accompany old age-love.
honor, obedience and troops OF friends
All Of us love him. all Of us are glad he was
horn: all Of us are glad that he has grown
old And when, by and by-God postpone
the day-he shall say good-by to us. for one
shall not count II good by. but only good
night, and I shall look for handcasp in
the morning.