Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-01-20

suns and moons and stars .r,
not very big things TO Him. aud He can
with His little finger turn back an an
tire world ~ easily IN you conid x.s
back tho hour or minute hand OF your
clock or watch.
At the opening Of tho new wear
people are moralixinR on the fight OF
time. You all feel that you are moving
on toward sundown. and many OF you
are under consequent depression. I
propose this morning to set the hands
OF your watches and clocks to going the
other way. propose To show you Now
YOU may mako the shadow OF your linl
like the shadow on the dial OF Ahn. In
stop going forward and make II ro
backward. You think have big uno ar.
taking on hand. but IL can be done n
the same Lord who reversed the haaoS.
In Hcxckiah's courtyard moves ueon
MS. While looking at the sun-dIai OF
Hezekiah and We find the shaaow
rctreating. we ought to learn thn,
God controls the shadows W. .ro
all ready % uclsnowledv, his
management Of the sunshine. w.
stand i'm the glow Of a bright
morning, and we say in our feelings IL
not with SO many words. This life I,
from tod. this warmth IL from God. +"
or. we have rush OF prosperity and
we say; These successes are from God
What a providential thing II wns I
bought that lot just before the rise of
reai estatcl How grateful TO God am
That i made that Investment WHY.
they have made 10 per cent dividendi
what mercy IL was that sold OUT my
shares before that COLLAPSED" Oh, YES:
we acknowledge God in the sunshine of
bright day or the sunshine OF n great
prosperity. But suppose the day In
dark? You have to light the gas NJ
noon The sun does not show himself
all day long. There 10 nothing but
shadow. How slow we are To realize
that the storm in from God and the
darkness from God and the chill from
God Or. we buy tho day before the
markets. retreat; or we make an invest
ment that never pays: or. wo purchase
goods that We can not dispose of: or a
crop OF grain Is ruined by drought or
frcshct; or when we took account on
the LIST OF January wc found ourselves
thousands OF dollars worse of than we
expected. Who. under such circum.
stances, says: This lot il from God, I
must have been allowed to 60 into that
unfortunate enterprise for some good
reason; God controls the east wind as
well rs tho west winde"
NV friends I can not look for one mo-
ment on that rctrogrede shadow on
Ahnz's dial without learning that God
controls the shadows and that lesson
al
the sunshine is not so necessary les
son, for anybody can be happy when
things 20 right. When you sleep eight
hours night and rise with an appetite
that can not easily wait for breakfast
and 30 over To the store and open your
mail To read moro orders than you can
NIL, and in the next letter you find n
dividend far larger than you have been
promised, and your neighbor comes in
to tell you some fattering thing he has
just heard said about you. and you find
that all the styles OF goods In which
you deal have advanced fifteen per cent
in value, and on your way home you
meet your children In full romp. and
there arc roses on the center of the tea.
table and roses OF health in cheeks Mi
round the table. what more do you want
of consolation?
! don't pity you bit You feel as II
you could boss the world. But for
those in just opposite circumstance nv
text comes in with an omnipotcnce of
meaning. The shadow, Oh. the shad
ow! Shadow OF bereavement Shadow
of sickness Shadow OF bankruptcy,
Shadow OF mental depression Shadow
OF persecution Shadow OF death! Speak
out oh. sun-dial of Ahaz, and tell all
the people that God manages the shad-
owl As lIczelSiah sat is his palace win
dow wrapped in invalidism and sur
rounded by anodynes and cata-
plasms md looked out upon the
black hand OF the only clock
known at that time and saw IL move
back ten degrees. he learned lesson
that n majority OF the human race need
this hour TO lcarn-that the best friend
man ever had controls the shadow.
The set-baclSs are sometimes the best
things that can happen The great
German author Schiller could not work
unless he had in his room the scent OF
rotten apples. and the decay OF the
fruits OF earthly PROSPERITY may become
an inspiration instead OF depression.
Robert Chambers lame feet shut him
up from other work, and he became the
world-renowned publisher. and helped
fashion the best literature OF the ages
The painful disorder like that OF Heze.
ltiah called a car buncle is spelled exactly
the same as the precious stone called
carbunclc, and the pang of suffering
may become the jewel OF immortal
value. Your set back. like that oi
Ahnz's sun dial. may be recovery and
triumph. / never had a set back but II
turned out TO be set forward You
never would have become n Christian
II you had not had set back. The
highest thrones in Heaven are for the
set backs. In 1861 the shadow OF tho
sun dial OF this nation was set bnck.
and all things seemed going W ruin,
and IL was set back further in 1902, and
further in 1868, but there il not an in.
tclligent and wcll-balanced man. North
or South, East or West but feels il wa,
set bnck toward the sunrise.
But promised 90 show you how the
shadows might be turned back. First.
by going much among the young people.
In most family circles there nre grand
children. by this Divine arrangement
most Of the people who have passed the
meridian OF life can compass themselves