When Youth Is Gone

682 IMPROVEMENT ERA. God is Breaking," "My Country 'Tis of Thee," and they have given us many other hymns by which faith has been strengthened, sorrow comforted, duty glorified, patriotism stimulated, and our Lord Jesus Christ rendered more precious and endeared to the souls of men. They who have thus sung; they who have thus thought; yea, they who have thus wrought—for holy ideas are kindred, to holy deeds—are in themselves the best witnesses to the wholesome influence of a doctrine that seeks to make out of every human creature a man, out of every man a saint, and out of every saint a special and individual confessor oi Christ. WHEN YOUTH IS GONE. How can we know when youth is gone — When age has surely come at last ? There is no marked meridian Through which we sail, and feel when past A keener air our faces strike, A chillier current swifter run; They meet and glide like tide with tide, Our youth and age, when youth is done. —Albion Fellows Bacon.