Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-09-25
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Oh on an exploring expedition into
lhe regions Of old age. In due time
chlldhood will awake from a long. re-
rreshing sleep and come bounding ont
Oh ped more joyful than ever: youth
VIII come home from college with his
eyes sparkling with joy and his face
SHINING with wisdom and knowledge
ana manhood will return from the
Dattlehelds of life and the weakness
OF old age enriched with firmness. en-
uurance and experience, and together
they Will blend into one glorious and
composite being, embracing all the
stages OF human life minus their de-
fects and imperfections. Childhood
Will then have lost its whims. youth
lts follies and age its wrinkles, sallow
skin, dim eyes and gray hairs Thus
YOUTH 1t seems to me, is to be the per-
Hanent state or condition Of redeemed
human life in the great future. 1t is
certainly the most joyful and desira-
Die period Of life. Goethe has truly
said: "All men would live long, but
no man would grow old" This desire
Is OF divine origin, and must therefore
be gratified sometime and somewhere.
L cannot believe that gray hairs, dim
eyes, wrinkled faces, sallow skin and
trembling limbs represent the normal
condition of human life, because they
are evidences of disease, decay and
death, and disease is an abnormal con-
dltion brought on by sin. God made
health the normal condition of life
and disease the abnormal condition.
Ingersoll once said: IF 1 had been
making the world instead Of God l
would have made health contagious
instead Of disease" to which a medi-
cal professor replied: Then he would
have been compelled to have made
disease instead Of health the normal
condition Of life" How dreadful
would this have been! But God knew
better how to make q world than in
fidels do.
Now, If the decrepitude Of age is the
result Of disease, and disease Is an alb
normal condition Of life brought about
by sin, 1t follows therefore that all
these abnormal conditions will forever
disappear when our redemption is
fully completed In the morning Of the
resurrection. All the weakness, cor
rnptibility and dishonor to which the
body has been subjected on account
Of sin will be exchanged for incorrup-
ton, glory, honor and immortality. q
Cor. xv., 1853. Where there Is no
decay or corruption there can be no
old age. This was remotely antici-
pated by Elihu, where he represents
an old afflicted skeleton Of a once
powerful man returning to the days
Of his youth, His flesh shall be fresh
er than child's; he shall return to
the days Of his youth" Job xiii,
1929 The Psalmist also says Of the
man whose life has been redeemed
from destruction that he shall have
his youth renewed like the eagles"
Ps. Gill;, 3-5) And Jesus says: BE
hold l make all things new" Rev.
XXI, 1-5) From this 1t appears that
the earth, together with all its re-
deemed inhabitants, shall eventually
be rehabilitated upon the original plan
of immortal youth. Age will pass
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childhood will bloom out into the fra
grant and luxurious summer Of i'm
mortal youth. Those who were once
old and infirm will resume the appear
ance of their youth and experience
again. its health and enjoyments, en-
rlched a thousand-fold by the knowl-
edge and experiences of manhood and
old age. They shall look out upon the
renewed and glorified earth through
renewed and glorified eyes, hear It's
joyful sounds with the ears Of youth,
taste its superabounding joys with the
mouth of youth, walk its highways
with the feet Of youth, and enter
heartily into all its joys and activi-
ties with the vivacity Of youth. Oh,
blessed state! oh, happy condition.
And It will be immortal. We shall
never grow old again. "And there
shall be no more death, neither sor-
row nor crying; neither shall there be
any more pain: for the former things
(sin, disease, old age and DEATH are
passed away" Look up, then, We
aged, "for your redemption draweth
nigh" Your childhood, at times. is
partially awakened and your youth
may be partly renewed in this life,
but you will not embrace them in all
their glory until you pass into the
great beyond.
Another hundred years will see that