The Cairo bulletin., 1905-03-26

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nlghrhst LESSONS or IRE now 10 keep
young by bearing part Of the joys and
the SORROWS of the young.
Do you know how Thomas Chalmers
was able to accomplish his great work
of life? He always kept his heart
young and fresh and loving by associ-
ating with the young. His daughter,
Helen Chalmers, told my father that
during the darkest days Of the Free
church controversy he would spend
part of each day in playing with the
children In the house or flying kites
With the boys upon Edinburgh com
mon. DO you know how Walter Scott
kept his heart young? lie always
sought the colnpanlonshipi of the young.
He continually had his children or 9th
er peoples children about him. M
more beautiful word picture was ever
drawn by authors pen than a descrip.
ton, of, that love by John Brown. In
that essay the great author of "Kenil-
worth is pictured going through the
snow and the sleet to his neighbours
homes and there bundlng up Marjorie
Fleming, little girl Of five or six sum
mers. In her shawl or his cloak lie
carries her back to his study. There,
while his pen runs rapidly over the
pages of his immortal books. Marjorie
chatters on Study Eugene Field and
his love for little children Study the
oil Inn,
and our preachers Ike Beccher and our
merchants like Cooper and our cleo
tricians like Morse and our editors like
Greeley and our presidents like VIII
liam Mckinley = you viii find that
without exceptions, they kept young by
keeping in touch. with young people.
The Influence of Children.
If did not have any babies of my
own would adopt some. No man can
defy the inrohds of time unless he con
tlnually associates with the young folks.
What would an engine be in a ship if
it were lying loose in the hull!" said |
Beecher. 1T must be fastene1 to II |
with bolts and screws before II can |
propel the vessel. Now, a childless !
man is like Il loose engine. A man |
must be boltel ana screwed to the
community before he can work well for |
Its advancement, ana there are no such |
screws and bolts as children That Il |
true. There Is no screw or bolt that /
holds man to the duties of life firmer
than tie children. But l go even fur
ther than did Mr.. Beecher. | hold that ,
there are no influences more effectual
to keep us young while we are per
forming those duties than these same /
little ones. The best way to see the
sunbeams dance is to watch them
through the dancing eyes of little
child. The best way TO smooth out all I
the wrinkles of old age is to bury them
in the dlmpled cheek of smiling baby
girl. The best way to send the blood
cdursing through the withered arteries
Of threescore years is to play "blind
mans buzz or hide and seek with
the boys and girls after the supper Ia
BILE is cleared and the school lessons
have been learned The best way to
grow young Is so associate with the
young. God pity you if you cannot
lind any enjoyment in making the
SHOWS of December melt before the
life giving rays of May or June.
How shall we renew youth? BY com
Delling our minds year In and year out
10 seek new fields for mental and moral
md spiritual investigation and new
applications for doing our regular work,
BY forcing ourselves to take up new
ines of study, by saying to ourselves.
Though may live to he fifty or sixty
Ir seventy years of age, yet l will new
sr cease to be a student and will
never cease to be interested in the adj
which is going on all around
me-" Yet we find the strange fact that
many men after they have made their
success in one line of work as a rule
ire satisfied. with that success. and be-
'ause they are satisfied they begin
o wither and shrlvel up and gradually ,
20 into mental and physical decadence.
How They BECAME Fossils.
This mental and physical depletion !
WHICH comes from being satisfied with
past success cannot be better illus /
rated than By some Of the faculties |
f our old colleges. Now, the college
aculties of both the east and the west {
we're originally made up of picked. men. '
The presidents and trustees of those
Institutions in almost every case Sc 1
ected the very brightest and best stu
ents OF tkeir classes. They wete the
Ionor men u the colleges who Wers