Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-04-08

myselr. But my text suggests better idea.
The Lord who turned back that day from
going toward shutdown and started it toward
sunrise Is willing to do the same thing for
all OF us. The theologians who stick to old re-
Hgious technicalities until they become sopo-
rifce would not call it anything but CONVEX
sion. call change from going toward sun
down to going toward sunrise. That man
who never tries to unbucklo the clasp OF evil
habit and who keeps oil the sins of the past
and the present freighting him and who
ignores the one redemption made by the
only one who could redeem. if that man will
examine the suudial he will find that tne
shadow Is going forward and he is on the
way to shutdown. His day is on the road to
night. All tho watches that tick, all the
clocks that strike, all the sand glasses that
empty themselves, all the shadows that move
on all the sundials indicate the approach of
darkness. But now, in answer to prayer, Us
mysef. But my text suggests better idea.
The Lord who turned back that day from
going toward shutdown and started it toward
sunrise is willing to do tine same thing for
all of US. The theologians who stick to old re-
ligious technicalities until they become sopo-
rifles would not call it anything but CONVEX
sion. callit q change from going toward SUI
down to going toward suprisa. That man
who never tries to unbuckle the clasp of evil
habit and who keeps all the sins of the past
and the present freghting him and who
ignores the one redemption made by the
only one who could redeem. if that man will
examine the sundial he will iini that>the
shadow is going forward and he is on the
way to shutdown. His day is on the road to
night. All the watches that tick all tho
clocks that strike. all tho sand glasses that
empty themselves, all the shadows that move
on all the sundials indicate tho approach Of
darkness. But now, in answer to prayer, as
Lebanon, over Mount washington over
the Sierra Nevadas, aud mid-Atlantic, the
morning after a departed storm when the
pillows were liquid Alps and liquid Sierra
Nevodas, but the sunrise OF the soul is more
eRulgenJ and more transporting. 1t bathes
all the heights OF the soul. and illumnes all
the depths OF the SOUL and whelms all the
faculties, ell the aspirations, all the ambi-
tions, all the hopes with light that sick
ness cannot eclipse, or death oxtinguish,
or eternity do anything but augment and
magnify. preach the sunrise. AS L look
at that retrograde movement of the shadow
ON Ahaz's dial, l reneuoer that it was a
sign that Hezekinh was going TO get well
and he got well. So have to tell all you
who are by the grace of God having your
day turned from decline toward night to
assent toward morning, that YOU are going
to get well, well of all your sins, we'll of all
your sorrows, we'll OF all your earthly dis
resses. Sunrisei
But, says one, all that you say may ba
true but that does not huder the horrors of
dissolution. Why, you who are the Lords
are not going to die. All that the grave
gets of you us compared with your chief,
y
your finger nails as compared with your
whole body. AS you run tho scissors along
the edge of your thumb nail and cut off that
which is no USE but rather hindrance, you
do not mourn over tue Departure of that
fragment which flies away. Death will be
only the scissoring of of that which
could be of no use, and the soul hns
no funeral over that which would be
an awful nuisance if we could not
get rid of it. This body as it now is,
what n failure it would make OF heaven il
our departing soul had to DO burdened with
it in tho next world. While others there go
ten thousand miles minute we would take
about an hour to walk four miles, and while
our neighbor immortals could sea u hundred
miles we could see only ten miles, and the
heetest and the healthiest Of our bodies if
seen there would mako it necessary to open
in heaven an asylum for cripplcs. No, no,
one OF the best possible things chat will hap
pen to us will bs the sloughing Off OF this
body when we nave no more use for it in its
present state. When it shall come up in it's
resurrected form we will be very glad to get
it back again, but not rs it is now with its
Limitations and bedwarfments innumerable.
Sunrise!
There shall bathc my weary soul
In seas of heavenly rest,
And not wave OF trouble roll
Ac-3sa NV nnvceful breast,
Sunrise! But not like one OF those morn
ings after you had gone to bed late or did
not sleep we'll, and you get up chilled and
yawning ana the morning bath is q ropul-
sion and you feel like saying to the morning
sun shining into your window. 81 do not see
what you find to smile about; your bright
ness is to me mockery." But the thrush
of the next world will be morning after a
sound sleep, IL sleep TINT nothing can dis
turb, and you will rise, the sunshine in your
faces; and in your first morning ill heaven
you will wade down into the sen of glass,
mingled with fire. the foam on fire
with splendor you never saw OH earth, and
the rolling waves ara doxologies, and tho
rocks of that shore arc golden and the
pebbles of that beach are pearl, and the skies
that arch the scene arc commingling of
all the colors that st. Jehu saw on the wall
or heaven-the crimson and the b lue, and
the saffron, and thu orange, and til purple,
and the gold, and the green wrought on
those skies in shape OF Sarlands, of banners,
of ladders. OF chariots, of crown of thrones.
What n sunrise! Do you not feel its warmth
on your faces? Scoville McC ullun, the dying
boy OF our Sunday school, uttered what shall
be the peroration of this sermon, Throw
back the shutters and let the still imp And
so the shadow of AhaZ's sundia turns from
sunset to sunrise.