THE GOLDEN AGE.
REV. ALEXANDER MACLEOD, D. D.
I.
THE KING'S CHILDREN.
There was once, in Christendom, a little kingdom where the people were
pious and simple-hearted. In their simplicity they held for true many
things at which people of great kingdoms smile. One of these things
was what is called the "Golden Age."
There was not a peasant in the villages, nor a citizen in the cities,
who did not believe in the Golden Age. If they happened to hear of
anything great that had been done in former times, they would say,
"That was in the Golden Age." If anybody spoke to them of a good thing
he was looking for in years to come, they would say, "Then shall be the
Golden Age." And if they should be speaking of something happy or good
which was going on under their eyes, they always said, "Yes, the Golden
Age is there."
Now, words like these do not come to people in a day. And these words
about the Golden Age did not come to the people of that ancient kingdom
in a day. More than a hundred years before, there was reigning over
the kingdom a very wise king, whose name was Pakronus.
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