Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-01-30
Tyne. old DR.. Candlish. old Dr.. Chalmers,

Tying. old DR.. Candiish, old Dr.. Chalmerl
y hat have been Bismarck TO Germany, and
Gladstone 70 England, and Oliver Wendell
Holmes to America in the time OF an adj
vancea age Let me say TO those in the after
noon off!fe- Don be putting OF the har-
ness, when God wants IL off he will take it
off Don't BE- frightened out Of life by the
gT1r a many are. At the first sneeza Of an
lnfiuenza many give up all as lost No new
terror has come on the earth. Thamicrobes
o. the cause OF disease wece described in the
Talmu! seventeen hundred years ago as "in-
visibie iesions o. dangerous ones" Don't be
cared out % life by Ell this talk about heart
allure That trouble has always been in the
world. a Is what ell the people that ever
passed cut OF this life have died of-heart
failure Adam had it and all of his descend
ants have had IL or Will have IL. Do not be
watching fer symptoms or YOU will have
symptoms OF everything. Some Of you will
yet tie OF symptoms. symptoms are often
only what We sometimes see in the country
"A dead owl mailed on q barn door TO scare
living owls. Put your trtIs. in God, go to
BED al ten O'Clock. nave the win1ow open SIX
inches IL let IN the fresh air, sleep on your
right side. and fear nothing. The Old maxim
was right. Get thy spindle aad distaf ready,
ANA God viii send the flax"
Bat while looking at this sundial OF. Ahaz
and / So the sha low Of 1t move. l notice
that IT went t(sck toward the sunrise instead
y forward towaTI the sunset-.oward the
morning instead o. toward the night. q
thing the world Is willing now to do, and IN
many cases has done. There have q great
many things been written and spoken about
-sle sunset Of life. | have said some Of them
ily-eif. But my text suggests a better ldea.
he Lord VIII turned back that day from
,-olng toward suudown and started it toward
s'inrlse IS willing 70 do the same thing for
al Of u. Tie theologians who stick to old re-
tTrf.T1x Z ofrr,I - - until th,r Eoo--o,
r.fics would not call it anything but CONVEX
son. i~ci.ilta change from going toward sun
lown to going toward sunrise. That man
: lo never tries to unbuckie the clasp of evil
habit and wno keeps all the sins Of the past
nd the present 1relghting him and who
l-noTes tle one redemption made by the
aniy one who could redeem. If that man will
unlne the >undlal he will find tLst the
shaaow is going forward and he is on the
gay 10 shutdown. His dav is on the TO ad to
nfght. AL the watches that tick, all the
clocks thar strike, all the sand glasses that
themselves, all the shadows that move
on all the SUNDAYS indicate the approach of
arkneaS But now. in answer to prayer, az
III my Iexr tho change was In answer 10
rr2yer, the parjoning Lord reverses things
and the man starts toward sunrise instead Of
sunset. lie turnsthe other way. The Captain
u salvation gives him the military command,
Attention. Right about face" He was
marching toward Indifference, marching
toward hardness Of heart, marching toward
nrayerlessneSs. marching toward sin. march
toward gloom, marching toward deata.
20" lie turns and marches toward peace.
marches toward light and marches toward
comfort and marches toward high hope and
Ilareles t0raria Triumph stupehdouS and
everlasting. toward osauni that ever hoist
and ta'ieiu}ans that ever roll. Now ii that
IS not tie turning Of tho shadow on the dial
III = s2X #TEy,t aQi1C toward SiIn}Dun to on-
low ira sunrise, what Is IL.
FLeVe seen day UrCal over Noun Blanc
ana the -Iatte.larn, OVER the heights or
ahanor. over Mount WASHINGTON. over
II" ~istill NetadaS, and nid-Atiantic taa
Inocnln aft.H ]" IeDartel storm When the
,eltoE5 We're LIQUID Alps and liquid Sierra
h~eFadas, but the sunrise OF the soul is more
~Iu!gsntani more transporting. II batnes
III the heights OF the soul. and dummies al
ne depths OF the soul, and whelIns all the
.acutflaf, aii1ne aspirations, all the ANTI
'01s, All the hopes with a light that sick
hess cennot eclipse. or death e~xtingui>c,
" eternity 90 anything but augment and
n~a-niiE- / preach the sunrise. As I look
y that ~retr0gr2da movement OF the shallow
7 A"4z GLtl, [ re,leinCer that il MAS =
ti:abhtzalla:1 was going TO gdt we'll
he 80 we'll. 50 | have to tell all Won
vho are Iy the grace Of God having vour
Iay turned rom decline towards night II
assent toward morning, that vou{are coinS
. get wei. Weitof al your sins, wel Of al
[our sorrows, well O. ali your earthly dis.
reSSas. .snurlaa'
Tut, say enc. all that You say NAV bs
rue hut that does not hinder the horrors OF
il>>otIl1lcn. Why, you VINO are the Lori.
re nca gong to die. All that the grave
81 Nol Is compared with your chief,
or immortal n1tr-c. is &@ the cjlpD tnes o
luf hn-er n1lli as compared with youl.
Tn5!c. BODY. ~ You run The scissors along
~ edge ot Eonr Thumb mai! and cut OFF 1lat
Vhlch i 80 use but rather Il linirance. YOU
10 nos niodrn Over the departure OF 'tAat
fragment which flies away. Deathtwl.l be
ouIl be Of 40 use, ana the soul las
% funeral over that which would be
Ii awful Nuisance II we could not
ct rid Q: Il This body as it now is.
mar 4 Ia!lure II wOuIu MAKE or heaven IL
ur departing soul had to te burdelad with
III tie next world. White others there go
Ell taou ANA mics a ninuce We Would tahe
bout an hour to walk four miles, ana While
III nei@haor isnmortaIS couii see tIundrei
llleS we could see only ten miles, ana the
eetest and the EeaithIest OF our bodies If
cen there you'd MAKE It necessary to sopea
} heaven IN asylum for cripples. No, no;
ne 81 the ba~t possible things that will han
IN 10 Us VII! b the slaAgning Off OF this
ody Ulea We have no more use for il in its
state. men i shall come up III Is
sSurrectet form we VIII be very glad to get
back again, Int not as it is now with its
.Itatsols and b-IWarIments lnlumeratla.
unrl-e
There shall bathe my weary soul
n seas Of heavenly re-t.