The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-07-10


said. Women must choose, they ma.
rlgen into beautiful old age-nobl,
ard sweet with the larger life OF Low
ing. or they may just wrinkle up
The world 81 today needs the coun
sel and wisdom Of age as balance t
ne energy and ambition Of youth
Society cannot be normal without il
Many noted examples attest the abil
ity of men to live an influential life
even in the declining years. Moses
and Socrates did their best work be.
yond seventy, Michael Angelo swung
the dome of st. Peters at seventy
and at seventy-eight took up the brush
10 paint The Last Judgment Wes-
ley and Gladstone, Longfellow ana
Tennyson did much of their best work
in old age. The best way to keep
young is to keep on working, TO re-
tain interest in life and its affairs,
and to live with young people. A
great freshness of spirit comes from
wide-reaching sympathies, and they
who love many and are loved in re-
turn do not, in spirit, grow old with
years. We shall all be young in
eternity.
But if the life of goodness and
righteousness has its glory and is to
be lived in the same noble way as
youth and middle age, it has its COM
forts too Shakespeare mentions
honor, love, obedience and troops of
friends. We love to honor righteous
age. We feel that the head that
wears the frost of many winters and
wears it with a cheerful hopeful spirit,
itself honors our humanity. Like
the good ship that through stress and
storm comes to port with its precious
load of human freight, or the man-of-
war that bears the scars OF many |
battles in defense of the flag, we feel
a pride in such and we render the
need of respect and honor.
And love too is the prize of the
lged-who have loved. Sometimes
We see gray hairs cast upon a cold
md cherries world, denied the love
wen of children. Their life seems
hill and barren. But there is a law
oncerning sowing and reaping, and
,robably they in earlier years show
red no love on Others Now it is
measured to them again. But the life
hat has lived in love will receive
owing attention and care in age
"A young man whose father was
cad came from small farm to
chool in Lebanon. Supported by a
ard working mother he managed to
ct through. Before Commencement {
Jay came he sent for her and at the I
xercises she sat before him on the
-ont seat Her dress was old, she y
ore a gray shawl about her Shout
ers, but she was dear to that son of .
ers, When he received his diploma
nd afterward the scholarship medal, 6
e stepped down from the platform,
laced the roll in her arms and pinned ;,
he medal over the old shawl 1T
as due to her not to him, he said =,
he service of love was all he could II
We, but he gave it heartily. !,
10 OF 1,A
rts Of age. That is if the life has
zen upright and filled with earnest =,
fort. If the record is one of blots
id blurs it may be the source of :,
sting remorse. :.
But to the righteous life memory 4,
ings up scenes and flashes them 81
on the canvas Of thought that cheer !,
g heart Youth with its frolic and
n, the years of love and Of the new
me, Of sacrifice and of work the
Get associations that have ripened
TIL years. Did you ever see two old ~
nrades get together, or two old m,
ristian neighbors? How their faces Ki
w rejecting the warmth of hearts, We
e great meeting of those days, the i hr
Get fellowship in the old church at
Use Blessed be the memory! rs
But best Of all is the element of
)e in the life of age. The locking ,.-
ward for the day of sweet release, II
time when we shall strike glad IL
Ids with loved ones on the other "
re. An old man was asked You *
st be on the dark side of seventy?' x
J, he said, on the bright side. 1t u
bright because it is nearer the ev- ~
asting glory For as the friends N
earlier years drop away and pass x
before, loved ones and members NJ
the home, they feel that this is no W
ger their home, it is over yonder X
ey sing of the Home over There, X