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John Dietrich’s Sermon: “Westward of Forty-Five: How to Grow Old” – As Presented and Amended by Rev. Eklof
Rev. John H. Deitrich, our Spokane congregation’s minister from 1911 to 1916, went on to become known as the Father of Religious Humanism. In his wish to reawaken us to this seminal figure’s relevance today, Rev. Eklof will continue his series of occasionally reworking and delivering one of Dietrich’s historic sermons. In this particular sermon, given in 1923, Dietrich discusses his thoughts on growing older and achieving old age; emphasizing all that life still has to offer us and, more importantly, all that we still have to offer life no matter how old we are. “Life is not a hill,” he says, “one half of it spent in ascent and the other half in descent.”
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By Rev. Dr. Todd EkofRev. John H. Deitrich, our Spokane congregation’s minister from 1911 to 1916, went on to become known as the Father of Religious Humanism. In his wish to reawaken us to this seminal figure’s relevance today, Rev. Eklof will continue his series of occasionally reworking and delivering one of Dietrich’s historic sermons. In this particular sermon, given in 1923, Dietrich discusses his thoughts on growing older and achieving old age; emphasizing all that life still has to offer us and, more importantly, all that we still have to offer life no matter how old we are. “Life is not a hill,” he says, “one half of it spent in ascent and the other half in descent.”
Listen to the audio only of this sermon.