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Show TENDERNESS TO THE OLD. Xothing is more beautiful or Christlike Christ-like in the character of the young than a kind and gentle regard for the old. They whose failing steps are slowly descending the sunless slope of age have but one consolation as the years speed by them, and that is the tenderness and consideration of those whose lives the beauties of the morning morn-ing are breaking. Age is a season of physical infirmity, in-firmity, of mental retrospection, of shattered dreams and earthly disappointments. disap-pointments. Xo more for the old is there a glamor in the rolling stars, no more a freshness in the spring, no more a triumph in the years. The thousand melodies of the present sound'far off to their aged ears and its charms are blurred in the dimmed eyes whose tears fall on the graves of old affections. Treat them gently, youth and maiden, for by their travail and their sacrifice are ye the possessors not only of existence in the world in whose splendors ye exalt, but also for the prosperity and' happiness ye thoughtlessly enjoy. Never mind if she and he be old and feeble and of humble garb they look to you in their helpless years to aid with gentle gen-tle courtesy their tottering steps. God's blessing will reward you if you do. |