Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-01-22
v. 4. BISHOP, Island Pond, Vt

Tying. old Dr. Candlish. old DR.. Chalmersi
What have been Bismarck TO Germany, and
Gladstone to England, and Oliver Wendell
Holmes TO America in the time of an ad
vanced agei Let me say to those In the after
noon OF lifei Don't be putting OF the har.
ness, when God wants it of he will take it
off Don't be frightened out of life by the
grip as many are. At the first snsezs 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 tho
Talmud seventeen hundred years ago as in
visible legions of dangerous ones" Don't be
scared out OF life by all this talk about heart
failure. That trouble has always been In the
world. That is what all the people that ever
passed out OF this life have died ot-heare
failure Adam had IL and all OF his descend
ants have had 1t or will haveit. Do not be
watching for symptoms or you will have
symptoms Of everything. Some OF you VIII
yet die of symptoms. Symptoms are often
only what we sometimes see in the country
a dead owl nailed on a 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 in the fresh air, sleep on your
right side, and fear nothing. The old maxim
was right, Get thy spindle and dfstafr ready,
and God will send the fax"
But while looking at this sundial OF Ahaz
aud ses the shadow of 1t move, l notice
that IL went back toward the sunrise instead
of for ward 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 great
many things been written and spoken about
the sunset OF life. have said some of them
myself. But my text suggests a better idea
The Lord who turned back that day from
going toward sundown and started 1t toward
sunrise is willing TO do the same thing for
oil, no hn Gti icl N n
ligious technicalities until they become sopo-
rifles would not call it anything but conver-
sion call 1t a change from going toward sun
down to going toward sunrise. That man
who never tries to unbuckle the clasp OF evil
habit and who keeps all the sins OF the past
and the present freighting him and who
ignores the one redemption made by the
only one who could redeem, IL that man will
ex anime ths sundlal hs 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 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, as
in my text the change was in answer to
prayer, the pardoniny Lord reverses things
| and the man starts toward sunrise instead OF
sunset He turns the other way. The Captain
Of salvation gives him the military command.
Attention Right about face" He was
marching toward indifference, marching
toward hardness of heart, marching toward
prayerlessnesS, marching toward sin, march
ing toward gloon, marching toward death.
, Now he turns and marches toward peace,
marches toward light and marches toward
comfort and marches toward high hope and
marches toward a triumph stupendous and
everlasting toward hosannas that ever hoist
and halleluiahs that ever roll. Now IL that
! l.. tba tn-p of ha shadow
of Ahaz from going toward sundown to go
ing toward sunrise, what is itY
| have seen day break over Mount Blanc
and the Matterhorn, over the heights OF
Lebanon. over Mount Washington. over
the Sierra Nevadas, and mid Atlantic, the
morning after departed storm wnen the
pillows were liquid Alps and liquid Sierra
Nevadas but the sunrise OF the soul Is more
effulgent and mora transporting. IL bathes
all the heights OF tho soul, and illumines all
the depths of the soul, and wheims all the
faculties, all the aspirations, all the ampi-
tions, all the hopes with light that sick
ness cannot eclipse or death extinguish,
or eternity DO anything but augment and
magnify. preach the sunrise. AS l LOOK
at that retrograde movement OF the shadow
on Ahazs dial l remember that it was
sign that HezeSiah 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 10
assent toward morning, that you are gong
to get well, well of all your sins, well OF all
your sorrows, well OF oil! your earthly dis
tresses. Sunrisel
But, saws one all TINT 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 chei,
7 Your immortal nature, is as the clippings OF
ypur finoar nails ne cOmDaret with your
S whole body. AS you run the scissors along
the edge OF your thumb nail and cut of thai
which Is no use but rather q hindrance, yot
Z do not mourn over the departure OF tha'
= fragment which flies away. Death Will o.
y only the scissoring of OF that whict
Y could be Of no use, and the soul ma
. no funeral over that which wouiu p'
d an awful nuisance il we could no
It get rid of it. This body as it now Is
n what failure it would make OF heaven n
IS our departing soul had 70 be burdened will
% IL in the next world. While others there 8
n ten thousand miles a minute we would TAX
a about an hour to walk four miles, ana whii,
,e our peghbor immortals could seq hundred
miles we could ses only ten miles, and tn,
70 nestest and the healthlest Of our bodies Il
It seen there would make 1t necessary 70 opef
d in heaven an asylum for cripples, NO, no
ID one OF the best possible things that will nap
70 pen to us will be the sloughing oil OF TN
n body when we have no more use Tor IL IN y J.
I'd present state. When it shall come up In II
20 resurrected form we will be very glad to g.
sn il back again, but not as it is now Win !,
" Limitations and bedwarfments innumerabi
er Sunrise!
OF There .hal battle my weary soul
~ In seas of heavenly rect,
ly And not wave Of trouble roll
M. Across my peaceful breast
a. SunrisaI But not like one of those NOR
on ings after you had gone to bed late or d
at not sleep well, and you get up chilled ar
on yawning and the morning bath Is repu
re- sion and YOU feel like saying to the mornir
ty sun shining into your window, u do not .
iat what you find to smile about; your brlgh
ZEN ness is to me a mockery." But the inru
no of the next world will be morning after
er- sound sleep, sleep that nothing can d
ne turb and you will rise, the sunshine In 20
ar faces: and in your first morning in heav
md YOU will wade down into the sea OF gin
M. mingled with fire, the foam on I
md with a splendor you never saw ON eartn, q
ble the rolling waves are doxologies, and
ack rocks of that shore are golden and
but pebbles of that beach are pear and tne sS
That arch the scene are a comminglinS
on all the colors that st. Jehn saw on the "
our or heaven-the crimson and the oiue, q
our the saffron, and the orange, and the purF
has and the gold, and the green wrought
Ro. those skies in shape Of garlands, OF bann'
was of ladders, of chariots of crowns OF throi
con- What n sunrisel Do you not feel its war;
'itt on your facesS Scoville McCullum, the dy
at boy O; our Sunday school, uttered what s
iied be the peroration of this sermon, ., In
rote back the shutters ana iet tne sun III II ..
anc- so the shadow OK hnaE . suhuhai '''"' -
hair sunset to sunrise
had
'uon A Story of a Duck.
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