The Preparation for Old Age

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Excerpt from The Preparation for Old Age: A Sermon on the Death of Deacon Nathaniel Livermore, Preached in the Church of the Cambridgeport Parish, August 17, 1862 Those thus longing to reach it, a thing we are specially drawn to. It does not have largely our respect, our reverence, our sympathy. I believe the feeling We have about age, about the old, is rather a sentiment than a principle, a feeling we allow the abstract quality rather than bestow upon the individual. There is a something about age which appeals even to the thoughtless, and calls out a momentary respect, possibly enthusiasm. I shall always remember with what enthusiasm two frivolous young men near me, at a place of amusement, broke away from their foolish talk, as a noble looking specimen of the old man took his place near them, but I doubt if that mere impulse would not sum up all their feeling about it. I doubt if they would have lived with that old age in that same spirit, yielding it day by day, year by year, the tribute of reverent respect. The. Fact is, that the picture we conjure to ourselves of old age, is one in which fancy has large share. There are many and much repeated phrases descriptive of it, and each of these has. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.