Year: 1859

affections. IL these are properly fed, either
by love Of the young, or by love in its high
er and stronger manifestations, they mount
into parental youth. Next above the love
of the yOung-special or universal-compS
connubal love, as conservator of the
youthful feeling of the soul Two married
hearts that come together in early life, and
have lived in harmony and love which con.
stilute real marriage never grow old. The
love they bear to one another is an immor-
tai thing 1t is as fond and tender as it
was when they pledged their faith to each
other at the altar Such a love as this can
rise from no other than an immortal foun-
tain. The fires Of passion may die, desire
may burn out like candle, yet chastened
and purified, this love--product of essen
tial youth-becomes the conservator of
youth. The pine produces its resin, and
the resin preserves the pine from decay,
centuries after the life that produced it has
passed away. The little spring that bursts
up from where nature prepares her waters
for the healing of the nations deposits for
itself wall which shuts out all impurities,
aud keeps it always sparkling and young.


Above this love-better than this and
every other love--is the love of the soul
for the Father Soul-the sympathy of that
which is immortal in it for him from whom
it came. The man who cOmprehendS his
relation to this Being, and whose heart
goes out toward Him in true 6al affection,
knows that age is only word, and that it
has no more relation to his soul than it has
to God himself God is doubtless intimate
ly associated with this material universe
1t is blent with all his plans. 1t is the or
gan in multitudnous methods of His
thought. In many ways it is the means by
which He manfests His will, so that, in
certain sense, we may regard it as body
Of which He is the resident and president
soul. Yet this universe is to wax old like a
garment. 1t is to fade like our own bodies;
but no one supposes that the old age of the
universe will touch the immortal youth of


its Maker. The extinguishment of one of
the laps that He has hung out in space
brings no shadow upon his brow. The
wreck of siderial system works no weak
ness in His arm Wrapped in the aura of
his own ineffable love, He lives and be-
cause he lives, we live also because He is
immor tally young shall we also he immOr-
tally young I; because no organized mate
rial system. however intimately associated
with Him, can affect, by its decay and
wreck, the fountain of his life, the decay of
our bodies, if we are like him, and live in
the same atmosphere of love, will not af-
feet US, either in fact or feeling


A man who lives wrapped in this atmos-
phere of love, will not affect us, either in
fact or feeling


A man who lives wrapped in this atmos-
phere of loVe-loVe of children, love of a
bosom companion, love of men, love of
God-imparts to his decaying body some
thing of the youth Of the spirit within
AS the body may and does affect when no
counteracting agencies prevent, so does the
spirit act upon the body as a preservative
power when in its normal condition and ex-
ercise. Mary an old mans and woman's
face have | seen luminous with the fires of
youth, outshining from the soul. The clogs
are lifted from the mortal when the soul
comes into sympathy with this element Of
Immortality The love that gushes for all
is the real elixir of life--the fountain of
bodily longevity. 1t is the lack of this
that always produces the feeling of age
Upon a soul not filled and exercised by
love, the decaying body encroaches with its
weakness and poison, till the belief of ma
ny in the immortality of the soul--a soul
independent of matter-becomes uprooted.
Whenever men or women find them los
ing their sympathy with youthful hearts
and pursuits, they may be sure that some
thing is wrong with them for it is not in
the nature of the soul to grow old. 1t
may grow in hight and depth and breadth
and power but the passage OF years can
bring it no decay. Consequently, all those
who feel themselves dissonances in the song
which the young life around them is sing
ing. are allowing their bodies to do their
damage. believe that every healthy old
saint in Christendom finds his heart going
out more and more toward the young As
his evening sun deScendS, and heaven grows
glorious while the shadows gather upon the
earth, he loves more and more to gather
around him that which is essentially heaven
ly-young men and maidenS and the bright
forms and innocent faces of children. Pre-
pared for heaven, it is only in such society
and that which sympathizes with it, that
he finds bis heart at home. / believe that
social life in all its healthful manifestations
is that which combines all ages-whch
brings youth and middle age together with
old age and childhood. Every age needs
the influence of every other age to keep il


healthfnl. There is no such thing as age
with those who, in few years at most, viii
be as the angels in heaven. AS we shal
be, and as we shall associate, there, so should
we be and so should we associate here
and let this truth never fail to be remem
bered that unless the aged sympathiz
with the young, they will get no sympathy
: save in the form of pity, from the young
God does not send young sympathies il
that direction. He always holds us bacl
with them, while our bodies go on to decay
and death, aud we forget 10 immortal youtf
that we were ever old.


Il A.,