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Year of Decision 73 2516 W. 12th Avenue Letters to the Editor 76 WASHINGTON, D.C. Human life is unbroken and con News 79 16th and Corcoran Sts. WILMINGTON, DEL. tinuous, and the world of the spirit Baptisms, Memorials 80 Pennsylvania Avenue and Broome Street is real and near. 66 THE NEW-CHURCH MESSENGER THE HARVEST YEARS By Gwynne Dresser Mack LAST of life, for which the first was are inseparable on earth, they are not the same thing. made," said the poet Browning, speaking The body is machinery which gets used up; but the of old age on earth—but how seldom the soul is Motivation and Awareness, and these are world thinks of it that way! This is the problem-era, everlasting. To think that because the body is fail and not least among the problems crowding in upon ing, the spirit can go no further, is like supposing us is how to make our older people happy. For they that a driver is forever immobilized when his 1941 are fast becoming a large segment of the population. Ford gives out! During the past half-century the number of per When we see life whole we realize that the later sons over sixty-five, in this country, has quadrupled! years are no more superfluous in the scheme of It is estimated that by 1980 one of every seven liv things than are the thirties and forties which seem to ing persons will be sixty-five years of age or beyond. a school-child like the dreariest of denouements. It is In twenty-five years from now there will probably illogical to think that a human personality which be thirty-two million persons in the sixty-five or takes so long to grow, which must be so tenderly pro older age-range The difficult economic factors in tected in infancy, so wisely nurtured through child volved are already being recognized; but there are hood and adolescence, and is subject in maturity to so less apparent aspects which need as much if not more many disciplines, is not intended somehow to come attention. These have to do with the morale and mo to full flower at the point when growth and training tivation of this special group of people accumulating and labor have been completed. Far from regarding in our midst. old age as a time for slumping into carelessness and It is commonly thought that when a man must re self-indulgence, for being waited on and making no tire from work or when a woman has finished rais efforts simply because "at my age I am entitled to", ing her family, the important part of life is over for should we not by then expect to make perfect our them. Many of the disorders of senility grow from habits and to bring our efforts into sharper focus? the delusion that old people are useless—that a man Are these not the harvest years, for which the plow is "all washed up" when his earning days end, that a ing and planting, the weeding and watering, have woman is not needed once her children are grown. been done? The years that follow are regarded as, at best, a How, then, to help our older people to believe this? time-killing interim to be spent in self-indulgent lit How to prepare all of us for becoming joyfully and tle pleasures, or at worst an indefinite period of side usefully old? Should not the Church find here its line-watching and shelf-sitting. That old age is ac special challenge, its application of all that it tries cepted as a state of deterioration is borne out by the to teach concerning the good life and rewards for the prediction that in another ten years our accommoda spirit? tions in state mental hospitals (already comprising For the problems of old age, in spite of economic over half the hospital beds in the country) will have complications and physiological considerations, are to shelter 55% more patients over sixty-five than at really spiritual problems. Dr. Theodore G. Klumpp, present. Since 1920 this age-group in our mental in an address to a hospital issociation last year, said hospitals has increased by over 300%! that the difficulties of older people are largely due to the fact that they have stopped using their abilities; "All Washed Up?" they stop learning—not becmse they cannot learn Is it inevitable for old people to feel useless and go any more, but because they hive lost their incentive.