Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1903 — One Advantage of Old Age. [ARTICLE]

One Advantage of Old Age.

Prof. Jowett, the great master of Balllol College, commenting on the crucial topic of growing old, wrote to a friend: “The later years of life appear to me, from a certain point of view, to be the best They are less disturbed by care and the world; we begin to understand that things really never did matter so much as we supposed, and that we are able to see them more in their true proportion instead of being overwhelmed by them. We are more resigned to the will of God, neither afraid to depart nor overanxious to stay. We cannot see into another life, hut we believe with an Inextinguishable hope that there is something still reserved for us.”