The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-06
SOME THING TO
THINK ABOUT
By F. A.. WALKER
NEVER TOO LATE

a PROMINENT churchman died
in New York short time ago
at the age of sixty-fve.
He had risen to bishopric from the
position Of an obscure rector In fifteen
years.
Up to the time he was fifty he had
never preached a sermon.
lot of men think they are past
the possibility of progress when they
have hit the halfcentury mark,
We condemn ourselves to old age
when we have just begun to know
enough to live.
man of fifty who has lived prop
eriy and spent his time usefully and
well Is just about ready to do some.
thing worth while.
Instead of that, however, the most
of us celebrate our fftieth birthday
by soliloquizing on the idea that we
are over the peak of ife's Hill, that
we have started on the down grade
and that from then on the descent
will be increasingly rapid
There is no need of growing old
at fifty, of relinqulshing interest, can,
ceiling ambition and retiring from eff
fort.
Thousands of men have done the
best and greatest work of their lives
after the half-century mark was well
behind them.
Michael Angelo, the greatest artist.
the noblest sculptor, the most in.
spired architect that ever lived, paint
ed THE Last Judgment" the greatest
picture in the world, after he was six.
ty and designed St Peters, the mas
terpiece of all the earth's architecture,
after he was seventy.
over the device of an old man sit
ting beside an hour glass he wrote
the inspiring inscription: Ancora i'm.
paro ('I am still learning'y.
Goethe, who finished one of the mas
terpieces of literature after he was
seventy, had as the motto of Lis last
full years, a mans activity should
increase with age" He did not be-
lieye in rusting out He believed In
wearing out while doing the best work
Of his whole career.
Sometime mankind will come TO
realize that growing old is a useless
and needless occupation. That the
easy chair in the chimney corner
might much better give place to the
work table and the continuance Of
productiyeness
The time will come when men viii
aot grow old at all When we shall
live 70 a real old age of perhaps q
hundred without thinking that we are
past our period of usefulness. The
best built machine in the world is the
human body and if given half
chance il would last far past the
three-score and ten that the Psalmist
fixed for its survival
Work seldom kills a man or wears
him out.
Thinking, if you except the kind Of
thinking we call worrying, never made
man old 1t is The excesses Of life.
the intemperances Of living that turn
US into old men ana women and unfit
us for further existence.
Live right and YOU Will live long.
Don't grow old before your time
Fifty is no time to begin to feel aged
At seventy-fye, perhaps, a man might
begin to ease off a little. Man ought
not to be less efficient in wearing
qualities than his brothers, the an
imals, and there are plenty of them
thar live past the century mark with
out perceptible decrease of activity.
The man that stops at fifty is iust
a gutter and you don't want to be
in that class
Take a leaf from the book of the
bishop and say, It's never too late
to begin"
Oe BY Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)