Growing Old by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Jan 17, 1900

Growing Old

By Editor

Growing Old.—A New York paper gives the following good advice to a woman who has "a most dreadful fear of old age," and wrinkles. Among other things the editor says: "Do not avoid your wrinkles. Do not try to prevent gray hair. Do not endeavor to defeat the march of time. Such things are foolish and vain. There are women who paint out their wrinkles, look in their mirrors and flatter themselves that they are thoroughly hidden from old age. They are ostriches. They deceive nobody but themselves. Any man of intelligence can look straight through powder and paint to the foolish intent beneath. There is nothing so absurd as an aging woman who insists upon being young. The secret of matronly attractiveness is to grow old gracefully. Wear a matron's clothes. Act like a matron. Let your age be an attraction and not a nightmare." And we would add that the way to make it an attraction is to let Christ live in the soul. That person in whom Christ Jesus lives, who is making progress in the Christian life, may be growing old physically, but the heart keeps young; and a young heart will best hide all wrinkles, and glorify gray hair.