Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-01
CARY MONTAGUE TELLS
WHAT CONSTITUTES AGE
Episcopal City Miss onary
Gives Gods Recipe for
Keeping Young"
PRESENT IS ERA Or YOUNG FOLK
"NOw Arc We Sons OF God. md =,
Doth Not Yet Appear Whnt We
Shall lie. hut When He Shall Az
pear, We Shall lie Like Him.

Taking as his text, Beloved, now
are we the sons OF God, and It doth
not yet appear what wo shall lie.
but we know that when He shall
appear. we shall DC like Him" Rev.
cary Montague, city missionary OF
the Episcopal Church, preached In
Monumental Episcopal Church last
night. He spoke. In part. as follows:
what constitutes youth? II is the
OUTLOOK on life So long as that
OUTLOOK is ahead and It's watchword
Is Forward. we arc young. When
we do nothing but look back and
live In the past. we become old.
There arc two attitudes or nind-the
one OF youth and the other of old
age. Youth stands gazing up the
highway OF vision: looking ahead.
eager. wondering what shall be in
the future.
"o!d age wraps itself In the past
and w!thdraws in the room OF rev
cri: where there are no windows.
and. consequently, no outlook The
walls are hung with the accomplish
ment of the past, and the magma
tion dies, as st. Peter exclaimed in
his Pcntacostal sermon. quoting the
prophet Jcl. Your young men shall
see visions and your old men shall
dream dreams
AS usual. the Bible cited the psy-
chology of the situation correctly.
visions belong to the young. They
require the imagination. They are
all In front. to be arrived at, to be
striven for, needing all the qualities
of youth.
Dreams are for the old. You can
not dream an experience that you
have not once felt. They recall the
past and live in it,
Let US look at some groups of
people. Here Is a crowd OF boys.
They are looking forward to life:
their eyes are bright with eager
expectation. They arc specializing
on what they shall be-saiiors or
soldiers. circus riders or lawyers
who knows? Their enthusiasm Is
keen 1t Is that OF toyhood and
youth. All the world Is before them.
and ii doth not yet appear what
they shall be-
The scene changes. A dozen
years have passed, and these same
boys are now young men. vibrant
| ing college. going into business.
Still IL doth not yet appear what
they shall be. They arc looking
forward: the questions are. where
shall they locate? What girl shall
they marry? The word Is still he
fore them. and they are gazing up
the high road of vision.
Again. the wheel OF tme has
spun. Another forty years have
passed. and we see crowd OF Older
| people. more or less dulled and un-
| interested. They are getting cd:
they are beginning to look back
ward instead OF forward. Now is
the time to be careful or they will
| begin to build the room of rever;e
| and cease to look up the high road
OF vision.
What will prevent them from do
ing this? Here is where we must
| turn To God and seek His help and
| adyicc-get His recipe for staying
young.
when st. John wrote the words
| OF our text he WAS AN old. old man.
| certainly over so and possibly as
much as 90. hut he was still young.
and wc see him standing there a
patriarch in appearance, but still
| gazing up the highway of vision as
ne pens those resounding words.
| Beloved. now are we the sons OF
God. and It doth pot yet appear what
We shall be-
The shall be- is still large in his
mind and heart. although most of
| his life here on earth is a has been.
How can he hold on to the shall be-
so persistently and with such vital
grip: 1t is because he has lived
with Christ, not only up 10 ;hc time
| OF His death. but since Ills death.
| The resurrection of the Master Is a
fac, for ST. John and not a fiction.
He saw II and felt its power and its
| rejuvenatinE influence is still vibrat-
| ing in his life. The faculties Of a re-
surrection body are not guesswork
for him. He Is standing on the rim OF
the world, looking out into the fu-
turc. feeling that when he diSpcnses
| with his old body OF flesh and bones.
his young spirit will spring forward.
on and on into eternity. He is be-
tween so and 80 years of age. but he
is still young Lccacse he knows that
there is something for him 10 do in
the great hereafter. and that he
shall be like Christ.
| Looking forward to the mastery
of many things with a new, strong
body with another life OF Joy. with
an Astounding belief in Gods prom
ises for US. His children. is His
recipe for staying young"