The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-01-13

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or cloud came over and 1t was uncer-
tain which way the shadow did go, and
as Hezekiah expected 1t to go back he
took the action Of his own mind for the
retrograde movement. No, the shadow
went back on all the dials Of that land
and other lands Turn to II. Chron.
xxi, 81, and find that away of in
Babylon the mighty men Of the place
noticed the same phenomenon. And II
you do not like Bible authority, turn
over your copy Of Herodotus and hnd
that away off In Egypt the people no.
ticed that there was something the mat
ter with the sun. The fact is that the
whole universe waits upon God and
suns and moons and stars are not very
big things to Him, and He can with His
little finger turn back an entire world
as easily as you could set back the hour
hand or minute hand Of your clock or
watch.
At the opening Of new year people
are moralizing on the fight OF time
You all feel that you are moving on to-
ward sundown and many of you are
under a consequent depression. l pro-
pose this morning to set the hand on
your watches and clocks to going the
other way. propose to show you how
you may make the shadow OF the dial
Of Ahaz to stop going forward and make
il 90 backward You think, | have
big undertaking on hand, but 1t can be
done IL the same Lord who reversed the
shadow in Hezekiah's courtyard moves
upon us While looking at the sun-dial
of Hezekiah and we find the shadow
retreating, we ought to learn that God
controls the shadows We are all ready
to acknowledge His management OF
the sunshine. We stand in the glow OF
bright morning, and we say in our
feelings If not in so many words, This
life is from God, this warmth is from
God" Or we may have rush Of pros
perity and we may say, "These sue
cesses are from God. What a provi-
dental thing it was bought that lot
lust before the rise OF real estatel How
, grateful to God am that / made that
Investment Why, they have declared
10 per cent. dividendl What a mercy 1t
| was that sold out my shares before
, that collapsed" o, yes; we acknowledge
, God in the sunshine of bright day or
the sunshine of great prosperity. But
| suppose the day is darkP You have TO
light the gas at noon. The sun does
1 not show himself all day long. There
: is nothing but shadow. How slow we
? are to realize that the storm Is from
4 God and the darkness from God and the
; chill from God. Or, we buy the day be
Y fore the markets retreat; or we pur
t chase goods that we can not dispose OF
4 or crop of grain we sowed is ruined By
+ drought or freshet; or when we tool
, account OF stock on the 1st OF Januar,
4 we found ourselves thousands OF dollar
/ worse off than we expected Who unde
o such circumstances says: "This loss
= is from God. must have been allowe'
d TO 90 into that unfortunate enterpris
), for some good reason; God controls tn
5, east wind as we'll as the west windV
,e NY friends, 1 cannot look for on
N moment on that retrograde shadow o
u Ahaz's dial without learning that Go
le controls the shadows and that lesso
Is we need all TO learn. That he control
ID the sunshine is not so necessary le
Is son, for anybody can be happy whe
l. things go right When you sleep eigf
u hours a night and riso with an appetit
n that can not easily wait for breakfas
a and you go over to the store and ope
es your mail TO read more orders than yo
ir can fill, and in the next letter you hr
he a dividend far larger than you ha'
ly been promised, and your neighb'
nd comes in to tell you some hatterir
n thing he has just heard said about 20
IT, and you find that all the styles OF goo
he In which you deal have advanced
us per cent in value, and on your WI
he home you meet your children
ed full romp, and there are roses
at the center of the tea table and ros
or Of health in checks all round I
or table, what more do you want Of &C
,st solation2 don't pity you bit Y
he feel as II you could boss the wor
ad But for those In Just opposite circu
ily stances my text comes in with an o
In impotence of meaning. The shade
Of O. the shadowl Shadow Of berea'
,u- mentl Shadow Of siclsnessl Shad'
Is of bankruptcy Shadow Of mental
ith pressionl Shadow OF persecutionl Shi
nd, ow of DEATH Speak out o sun-dial
ief Ahaz, and tell all the people that 9
rid manages the shadow As HezelSiah
md In his palace window wrapped In In
ore lidism and surrounded by Anodyi
of and cataplasms and looked out uT
the the black hand OF the only clock kno
I'VE at that time and ssw II move back
rth degrees, he learned lesson that I
you iority of the human race need this HI
I n TO learn-that the best friend n
arm ever had controls the shadow 2
and setbacks are sometimes the best thil
rid Vhat can happen The great Germ
and author, Schiller. could not work uni
re- he had in his room the scent Of rot
iisl apples, and the decay OF the fruits
earthly prosperity may become an
mo. spiration instead Of depression. r
cen ert Chambers lame feet shut him
5, n from other work, and he became
me- world-renowned publisher and hel
m Il fashion the best literature OF the a
ant The painful disorder like that Of H
AXE kiah called carbuncle Is spelled
,rn, actly the same as the precious st
'een called the carbuncle, and the pan
.ays suffering may become the jewel OF
,eil. mortal value. Your setback like
n 70 of Ahaz's sun-dial may be recovery
oIce triumph. / never had setback b.
Il ~ turned ont 10 be a set forward