Connecticut western news., 1892-01-14

bttlAl 4NAtANAAAhfA#ls AAAi t9&s W 0AFAAf-s bll Dr. Hawes. old Dr. Minor. old Dr. McIlvaine, old Dr Typg. old pr. Candlish, old Dr. Chnlmersl What have been Bismarck to Germany. and Gladstone to England. and Oliver Wendell Holmes to America in the time of an advanced agea Let me say to those iii the afternoon of life: Don't be putting of the harness; when God wants it off he will take it off. Don't be frightened out of life by the grip. as many are. Al the first sneeze of an influenza many give up all as lost
 No new terror has come on the earth. The microbes as the cause of disease were described in the Talmud seventeen hundred years ago as in visible legions of dangerous ones" Don't be scared out uf life by all this talk about heart failure. That trouble has always been in the world. That is what all the people that evey passed out of this lifo have died of-heart failure. Adam mad it, and all of his descendants have had it or will have it.
 Do not be watching for symptoms or you will have symptoms of every. thing. Some of you will yet die of symptoms. Symptoms are often only what we sometimes sec in the country "a dead owl nailed on barn door to scare living owls. Put your trust in God, go to bed at ten o'clock, have the window open six inches to let iii the fresh air, sleep on your right side and fear nothing. The old maxim was right, Get thy spindle and distaff ready, and God will send thee flax"
 TOWARD THE SUNRISE
 But while looking at this sundial of Ahaz and see the shadow of it move I notice that it went back to ward the sunrise instead of forward toward the sunset -- toward the morning instead of toward the night That thing the world is willing now to do and in many cases has done There have a great many things been written and spoken about the sunset of life. l have sail some of them myself. But my t@%i suggests bet ter idea. Tho Lord who turned back that day from going toward sundowp and started 1t toward sunrise is will. ing to do the same thing for all of us.
 The theologians who stick to old religious technicalities until they be come sopo1ifics would not call il anything but conversion. I call ii a change from going toward sundown to going toward sunrise. That man who never tries to unbuclle the clasp of evil habit, And who keeps all the sins of the past and the present freighting him, end who ignores the one redemption made by the only One who could redecm-if that man will examine the sundial he will find that the shadow is going forward and he is on the way to sundown. His day is on the road to night
 All the watches that tick, all the clocks that strike, all the sandglasses that empty themselves, all the shad ows that move on all the sundials indicate the approach of darkness. But now, in answer to prayer, as in my text the change was in answer to prayer, the pardoning Lord re veres things and the man starts to ward sunrise instead of sunset. He turns the otller way. The captain of salvation givc3 him the military command: Attention Right about face" Ee was marching toward in. difference, marching toward hard ness of heart, marching toward pray erlessness, marching toward sin, marching toward gloom, marching toward death
 Now he turns and marches toward peace. marches toward light and marches toward comfort and march. es toward high hope and marches toward triumph stupendous and everlasting, toward hosannas that ever hoist and hallelujahs that ever roll. Now if that is not the turning of the shadow on the dial of Ahaz from going toward sundown to going \ toward sunrise. what is it9
 l have seen doybrealS over Mont Blanc and the Mattorhorn, over the heicaia of Lebanon, over Mount Washington, over the Sierra Ne. vadas and mid-Atlantic tho morn ing after a departed storm when tho pillows Were liquid Alps and liquid Sierra Novadas, but the sunrise of the soul is more eifulgent and more transporting. 1t hathes all the heights of the soul and illumines all the depths of the soul and whplms all the faculties, al the aspirations. all the ambitions, all the hopes with 8 light that sickness cannot eclipse or death extingllish or eternity do anything but augment and magnify. preach the sunrise.
 As look at that retrograde move ment of the shadow on Ahaz's dial, l remember that it was a sign that HeZelziah was going to get well, and he got well. So l have to tell all you who are by the grace of God having your day turned from decline toward night to ascent toward morning, that you are going to get well-wen of all your sins, well of all your sorrows, well of all your earthly distresses. Sunlisc.
 But, says some one, all that you say may be true, but that does not hinder the horrors of dissolution. Why. you who are the Lords are not going to die. All that the grave gets of you as compared with your chief, your immortal nature, is as the clippings of your finger nails as com pared with your whole body Asyou run the scissors along the edge of your thumbnail and you cut off that which is uf no Use but rather a hin, drance, you do not mourn over the