The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-05-28
EXCUSE ANEW YOUR ENERGIES.

With the experience you have OBJ
:ained and the opportunities OF obser-
vation you hav We bad during a long
life, you ought to be able to do in one
year now mor than you did in 10
years after you passed out of your
teens. Physical power less, your
spiritual power ought to be more. Up
to the last hour OF their lives what
power for good old Dr.. Archibald Al
exander, old DR.. Woods, old DR.. Halves
old DR.. Minor, old DR.. NcIlvaine, old
Dr.. Tying, old DR.. CAM fish, old DR..
Chalmers! What havel cen Bismarck
to Germany, and CLAD stone to Eng
land, and Oliver Wendell Holmes to
America in the time of an advanced
age? Let me say to those in the after
noon of life: Don't be putting off the
harness; when God wants 1T off he will
take it off. Don't be frightened
out OF life by the grip as many
are. At 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
we're described in the Talmud LOO
years ago as "invisible legions of dan
gerous ones" Don't be scared out of
life by all this talk about heart fail
ure. That trouble has always been in
the world. That is what all the peo-
ole that. aver passed out of this lif
have died of-hearv failure. Adam
had it and all his descendants have
had it or will have it. Do not be
watching for symptoms, or you will
have symptoms Of everything. Some
of you will yet die Of symptoms.
Symptoms are often only what we
sometimes see in the country, a dead
owl nailed to the barn door to scare
living owls.
PUT YOUR TRUsT1N GOD,
go to bed at 10 o'clock, have the win
dow open six inches to let in fresh air,
sleep on your right side and fear moth
ing. The old maxim was right: "Get
thy spindle and. distaff ready, and
Qod will ocud tlieo naA?"
But while looking at the sun-dial of
Ahaz and l see the shadow Of it
move, / noticed that it went back
toward the sunrise instead of forward
toward the sunset-toward the morn
ing instead of toward the night. That
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 the sunset of life. I have said
some of them myself. But my text
suggests a better idea. heLord who
turned back that day from going
howard shutdown and started it to-
ward sunrise is willing to do the same
thing for all of us. The theologians
who stick to old religious technicalities
until they become soporiics would
not call it anything but conversion. |
call it a change from going toward
shutdown to going toward sunrise.
That man who " tries to un-
buckle 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, if that man
will examine the sun-dial he will find
that the shadow is going forward and
he is
ON HI WAY TO SHUTDOWN.
have seen day break over Mount
Blanc and the M~atterhorn, I'VE Mt.
Washington, over the Sierra Nevadas,
dIlO lIIlu- ~ CldilCIC, Cllo l1OIAIllIS dICOA a
departed storm when the pillows were
'iouid Sierra Nevadas. but the sunrise
of the soul is more e~ffulgent and more
transporting. 1t battles allthe heights
of the soul and illumines all the
depths of the soul and whelms
all the faculties, all the aspirations,
all the ambitions, all the hopes with
a light that sickness 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 Ahaz's dial. remember that it
was a sign that Hezekiah was goingto
get we'll and he got we'll. So l have to
tell all you who are by the grace OF
God having your day turned from dc:
cline toward night to ascent toward
morning, you that are going to get
we'll of all your sins, we'll OF all your
sorrows, we'll of all your earthly dis
tresses. Sunrisel
There shall I battle my weary soul
In seas of heavenly rest.
| And not a wave of trouble roll
Across NV peaceful breast.