Milford chronicle., 1905-03-10
III. Them to Tal.e Your prnce.

alt THem to Take Your Place.
Bet lastly. ] remark. the easiest of all
ways to renew youth is to try to ft
others to take your place after you
are gone. OF course l take for granted
/ that ] am today talking to Christians.
Now, as aged Christians. you are near
inc the great dividing line which is go
| ing to bring you to your eternal reward.
As you are nearing heaven Shall you
spend most Of your time talking about
heaven and its eternal rewards? Oh
no. Nou must spend nearly all of your
last days in fitting the young men and
women by your side to take your place.
You must be to your son and your
daughter and your friends what Paul
was to Timothy, and Elijah was to
Elisha, and Christ was to his disciples.
In the anxiety to fit others to put ON
your own armor you will find your own
heart throbbing with the ambitions Of
youth. You will then find old age tax
ing on the beauties of youth, even as
in the Indian summer the flowers of the
late autumn start TO grow again after
the forests have incarnadined the leaves
with their life's blood
Old age should pass its twilight hours
as l would pass the few intervening
days prior TO making a long journey
away from home. If I was to 90 to
Africa or Europe or Asia as an Ameri- |
can soldier would l spend my last days
here in weeping? Oh. no. l would /
spend the few days before l sailed in 1
| would say to my wife: |
MY dear, you do this or that or the |
other thing after l am gone. l must |
put enough money in the bank in your
name to meet your wants." If l was a .
l would say to my son: "Son,
you are now to take charge of the store.
do not want you to run into debt.
Keep the business going along on its
I'D lines If l had one boy who was a
hayward son l would talk to him about
1od and his future. l would try-oh.
ry so hard-to lead him to Christ Each
moment Of my life would be spent in
he best way l could for those would
cave behind And in looking after their
interests I would find my life growing
n beauty and in joy. Aging men and
women. are we spending our last earth
2 days like this? Are we trying in ev-
ry way to fit those who are to take our
laces to do as well as we have done
r even better? As old doctors are we
elping the young physicians? As old
minister's are we guiding the young
minister's? As old Christians are We
wing to make every one with VIII Jm
e come in contact Christians? All,
MS is the chief way and the hanpiest
ny that we can renew our youth and
repare ourselves for the eternal joys
the never ending youth @ heaven.
When my father made his last visit {
, his old classmate, or. Suydam. he !
lid: "Well, SuydaIn, we are coming
ear the end Of 0dr earthly journey.
Ow do you feel about itg Some Of
5 are not as cld as was my father
hen he asked that question at seven
years of age, but we are all heading
ward old age. How will we feel
)out it WI en- it comcs? We shall feel /
lout Oh age all right if we live ac-
rdiDg to the Christ law. We will feel
,oui it all wrong if we do not do as
lr:st would have us do in fitting 9th
) for life's battles and fitting our |
Ives for heaven. May God make the
rilight Of our earthly life the most
autiful and the happiest part of our
". May the twilight of our earthly
e, sinking behind the western hillock
our grave, be eolOred with the same
auties as is the beautiful sunrise of II
aven, which even now we can see
canning in the east over the hill Of
Ilvary and over the central cross
on which once hung the dying body
Christ, who died that we might for
er live in him and through him and
til him. /
Copyright, 1905. by Louis Klopschl L