The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-05-14
OF AHAZ,
Dr.. Talmage Advises People Not to
Allow Themselves to Be Scared
Out of Life,
At the First Sneeze of Grip Do Not
Give Up All as Lost. Don't
Watch for Symptoms.

Brooklyn, N. Y. Especial. DIR. Tai
IMAGES sermon was full of brightness
and good cheer. His text was: II,
Kings, COLL, 'And Isaiah, the prophet,
cried unto the Lord: and he brought
the shadow ten degrees backward by
which it had gone down in the dial OF
Ahaz."
Here is the first clock or watch or
chronometer or any time piece of which
the world has any knowledge. But it
was a watch that did not tick and q
clock that did not strike. It was a
sun-dial. Ahaz the King invented
it. Between the hours given to state
craft and the cares of office he invent
ed something by which he could
tell the time of the day. This
sun-dlal may have been q great col
umn, and when the shadow of that
| column reached one point it was 8
o'clock a.. m, and when it reached an
other point it was 8 O'Clock p. M, and
all the hours and half hours were so
measured. Or it may have been a
fight OF stairs such as may now be
found in Hindostan and other old
countries, and when the shadow
reached one step it was 10 o'clock a.
M, or another step it was 4 o'clock
p. M, and likewise other hours may
have been indicated.
The clepsydra or water-clock follow
ed the sun-dial, and the sand-glass fol-
lowed the clepsydra. Then came the
| candle-ciock of Alfred the Great and
| the candle was marked into three
parts, and while the first part was
burning he gave himself to religion
and while the second part al burn
ing he gave himself to politics and
while the third part was burning he
gave himself to rest. After a while
came the wheel and weight clock and
POPE SYLVESTER THE SECOND
was it's most important inventor.
And the skill of centuries of exquisite
mechanism toiled at the time pieces
until the world had the Vick's clock
of the Fourteenth century and Huy-
ghens, the inventor swung the first
pendulum, and DR.. Hooke contrived
the recoil escapement. And the "end-
less chain" followed, and the "rachet
and pinion lever" took it's place; and
the compensation balance and the
stem winder followed, and now we
have the buzz and clang of the great
watch and clock factories of Switzer-
land and Germany and England and
America turning out what seems to be
the perfection of time pieces. 1t took
the world six thousand years to make
the present chronometer. So with the
measurement OF longer spaces than
minutes and hours. Time was calcu-
lated from new moon to new moon;
then from harvest to harvest.
Then the year was pronounced
to be 1854 days and then $50 days,
and, not until a long while after, 365
d lys. Then events were calculated
from the foundation of Rome,
| afterward from the Olympic
gamoe.-~The tha .Rahylonians
| had their measurement of the
| year and the Romans theirs and the
| Armenians theirs and the Hindoos
theirs. Chronology was busy for cent
| uries studying monuments, irscrip-
tions, coins, mummies and %astrono-
my, trying to lay a plan by which all
question of dates might be settled and
0VouUS pun Ill Ouclt IlStlo piOSo III oA0
procession of the ages. But the chro-
biologists only heaped up a mountain
of
CONFUSION AND BEwILDERMENT,
until in the sixth century Dionysius
Exiguus, a Roman Abbott, said: "Let
everything date from the. birth at
Bethlehem of the Lord Jesus Christ,
the Saviour of the world" The alb
bott proposed to have things dated
backward and forward from that
great event. What a splendid thought
for the world! What g mightything
for Christianity! MS Abeen
lsStories. Forever
aeaBhat all history isto be dat
ca with reference to the birth of Christ