The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1905-05-12
BEAUTIFUL OLD AGE
Rev. Dr.. Talmage breaches on
How to Keep Young.
Live Much Among Children and
Nouth-Neep Hard at work.
Don't Talk of Your
Troubles.

copyright 1905. by Louis Klopsch.l
LOS ANGELES. Cal, March J.-The
secret so long sought by the ancient al
chemists Is the topic discussed by the
preacher in this SERMON. in which he
shows how. though the body may grow
old, the spirit may retain its youth and
freshness The text is Job xxx, 8,
"When my children were about me"
Misfortunes are generally gregarlous.
They are not recluses. They live not
hcrmits existence. Like the beasts Of
the fields or the birds Of the air or the
fish Of the sea, they browse in herds or
| Gy i'm nocks or swim I'm schools. II one
appears upon the edge Of our horizon
others often follow it with great rapid
lty. ms do the April showers when
/ the clouds return after the rain
/ They pile themselves upon each other
| I'm great drifts, as do the snowiakes.
/ They toll their death knells I'm chorus.
/ As nothing succeeds like success so
nothing destroys like misfortune "
/ Where there is one emissary Of destruc-
ton roaming there are, as a rule, many
| emissarles treading closely upon ia
heels. Even when they are small and
insignificant they cripple us by the per-
sisteucy of their attack. Naturalists
/ tell us that the small, Insignificant
cumming bird sometimes alights upon
/ the head Of mighty eagle. There he
sits and pecks and pecks, no matter
how fast or how high his huge winged
carrier may fly. There lac sits ana
oecks and pecks until after awhile he
bnries his small beak IN the brain OF
his gigantic foe. who could crush him
ss easily ms a hawk might kill spar
row. If the eagle could only get at him.
Trouble is like unto the humming bird.
When trouble struck the grand Old
patriarch job, it hit him again ana
again. First came financial trouble
then domestic trouble, then physical
trouble. 1t was pain in the head, pain
il the heart, pain in the limbs, pain in
the back and pain everywhere. Then
what happened? Job tried to gain
comfort from his "reminiscences. job
looked back upon the scene Of the hap
,iest time of his life. He pictured him
self when he was a young husband
onnning and working for his future.
lie thought Of himself when his young
wife was by his side and his little boys
and girls were playing around In his
aursery. Then Job breaks forth In the
lamentation Of my text, which has
zone to most fathers and mothers art
er they have reached their twoscore
vears and ten, ooh, that l were as In
months past. - . when my children
we're all about me-" 1t is a pathetic
onglng not only that time be halted in
is onward sweep, but be compelled to
.etrace the steps it has already taken.
Is Jobs longing a sinful desiref Is
4 wrong for us TO want 10 become
goung again or at least TO stay young
lust as long as we can? ] trow not
Therefore the purpose Of this sermon
s TO show how we can turn back the
shadow on the dial Of Ahaz not only
zen. fifteen. but even twenty and thirty
gears for some Of us. There is an old
oroyerb which says, "A man is not as
Did as he looks, but as old as he feels.
[ am going to prove that a man can
always feel about thirty or thlrty-hye
years of age, even though his hair Is
white. his nose is bridged with paiI
Of glasses and he has to walk about
with staff.
How shall we renew the days Of oui
strong. young manhoodY First, by as
sociating with young people, and es
oecially with children; by making The
intimate companions Of our mature
gears and Of our old age those who are
On the threshold Of life or playing II
The nursery; by stealing or rather con
tinually borrowing from our married
children their babies; by making oul
grandchildren come home and live will
rs. or. If we have no married children
Of our own, by borrowing the childrei
Of some neighborly grandfather anC
loving them rs we would our own; by
firmly and deliberately making a vow
with ourselves and with God, "Thougl
may live to be sixty, seventy, eighty
ninety or hundred years old, ! vii
never allow myself to outgrow m!
fondness for little children, and m!
sympathy for their joys and sorrows
and my unceasing desire for their dan!
cOmpaniOnship."
) Daily association with young people
especially with children, IS essential II
many ways for q mans development
II keeps his heart young. Yes, 1t doe
more than that. 1t teaches him wha
should be his attitude toward Chris
and toward his fellow men. Some pee
nle cannot understand what this edu
eating power Of a child's life is upon
matured man. Why? Like some OF us
they have not placed themselves unde
the tutelage Of children. Some month
ago hired big wagon put into thi
wagon not only my own children but
went around and raided the neighbor
houses and piled in some Of theirs.
was the only grown person anon
them. We took a long drive Of abou
ffteeB miles Then, at the head OF m
cohort Of little ones, proudly marche
into a restaurant to give them ic
cream before we started back. As W
went in a gentleman standing upon th
sidewalk said: MY. man, l pity yor
What have you got there-an orpha
asylumf NO" / answered; Il hay
no asylum. have a lot Of teacher
here who are making me love God an
love mankind and love life and loy
everything God has made upon hi
beautiful earth"