The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1911-11-09
Fseine the inevitable.

TOO soon. Don't quit your uay "ohA
at 8 o'clock. Says Fannie Crosby at
ninety-three, II do not intend to grow
old" Says Sarah Bernhardt at-waat
age does she confess2 at is for me- to
laugh at age" Whether the great
Christian song writer or the gay
French actress, both have the secret
'I will not grow old" Mind and char
scter are the two great exceptions to
ehe>laM OF age and decay, foR it is not
snow on the h-ad. but in the heart,
that gives old age. A woman Is as
old as she looks, man as old as he
feels. Titan at 100 was at his greatest
5painting, while Louis II. Of Hungary
! died Of old age at twenty. When you
admit you are old you are. In my
profession no man is wanted beyond
forty, and at fifty he has crossed the
ministerial dead line" And the
church is paying the penalty. OF
course lswminister stops studying, ties
a aaswledge In Slssnd
says, 'I am done, When
the aastor of the First congregational
churcSs IN Boston died In 1868 the
church decided it would call g young
man. and It elected Mt. Davenport OF
NcwHayen, then seventy years old.
The Great Secret.
God has made our spirits immortal.
Age Of spirit is voluntary thing,
matter Of mental habit. Men and wo-
men grow old by thinking themselves
old. They drop anchor with no inten-
ton Of putting out to sea again; then
energies decline and interests fade.
The tragedy Of old age lies chiefly in
closing the doors, shutting the win
dows, barring the house against new
faces, new ideas, new enthusiasms.
When the years begin 70 multiply one
must Gasten back the shutters, leave
E6e latchsring out Don't get soured
and imbittered at the world. 1t will
only jostle you to one side and jeer at
you. Keep in the swim Don't get out
Of step. There's nowhere to go but
into chimney corner, where you will
de long before your burial. Don't get
the attitude Of protest against new
things. Conditions have changed,
methods have improved, the world is
growing, and you must grow with it
or die. Join in that world progress
even though that progress seems un-
real to you.
Keeping Roses Fresh.
Watch you. personal appearance.
The sioFenly, s1ouchy old person finds
the world drawing away its garments
him; -Brnsh your teeth. Keep
A,our beard trimmed. It's an
81 and daick process from gentle
n to tramp. Brush your shoes;
for dinner. Thasasa~an unalter-
unexplainable connection be-
tween the external and the Internal
And&the world is nightly impressed
by the external You've done double
serHally, and you've impressed the
ternaly, and you've impressed the
world externally. I know a man of
ninety who IS the charm Of his neigh
borhood. In middle age he stored his
mind with literature and current
events. He still discusses important
events In town, In nation, in church.
at an age when most men are
peeVish and cynical he Is surrounded
BY young people listening to his remi-
niscences and disc 1ssion Of the worlds
prssress. And here is the great Sc.
cret-solors do not fade. The per-
ceptons become dulier, but colors are
colors still Get it7 Life isn't stale;
it's fresh. It isn't dull; 1t glows.
Some day you will reach the last hill
top. From there you'll view the land
Of promise. If life has been sweet
heaven will be sweeter. Has religion
been g glorious thing here? It will be
the garment Of eternity. The SHOWS Of
earth's winter will be exchanged for
the fragrance Of heavens eternal
spring. Age? You know nothing OF
It You were child not Of time, but
Of eternity.