The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-01-28

/ Tying, old DR.. Candlish, old DR.. Chalmerst
: What'haye been Bismarck to Germany, and
Gladstone to England, and Oliver Wendell
Holmes to America in the time of an adj
vanced age? Let me say to those in the after
noon of life: Don't be putting Off the mar
ness: when God wants il off he will take 1t
off Don't be frightened out of life by the
| grin 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 were described IN toe
Talmud seventeen hundred years ago as 'an'
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 of-hearG
failure Adam had it and all of his descend
ants have had it or will haveit. 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 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 distaR ready,
and God will send the flax"
But while looking at this sundial of Ahaz
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| that it went back toward the sunrise instead
| of forward 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 a great
! many things been written and spoken about
| the sunset of life. / have said some OF them
| myself But my text suggests better idea
The Lord who turned back that day from
| going toward shutdown and started it toward
sunrise is willing to do the same thing for
all of u.s. The theologians who stick to old re-
| ligious technicalites until they become sopo-
rifles would not call it anything but CONVEX
sion | cali change from going toward sun
down to going toward sunrise. That man
who never tries to unbuckIN She clasp OF evil
habit and VINO keeps all tha sins of the past
and the present freightipg him and who
ignores the one redemption made by the
only one who could redeem, if that man will
examine the sundial he will find that the
shadow is going forward and he is on the
way to shutdown. His day is on the road to
night. All the watches that tick, all the
clocks that strike all tine 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 pardoning 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 facet" He was
marching toward Indifference marching
toward hardness of heart marching toward
prayerlessness, marching toward sin, march
ing toward gloom, 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 if that
;- 1+ no t11ryl off ia Ch96Ow fhp
of Ahaz from going toward shutdown to go
ing toward sunrise, what is ltY
have seen day break over Mount Blanc
and the Matterhorn, over the heights OF
Lebanon, over Mount Washington. over
the Sierra Nevadas, and mid-Atantic, the
morning after a departed storm when the
pillows were liquid Alps and liquid Sierra
Nevadas, but the sunrise Of the soul is more
effugent and more transporting. 1t batheS
ali the heights of the soul, and ilinmines all
the depths of the SOUL and wheims all the
faculties, all the aspirations, all the ambl-
tions, all the hopes with a 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, remember that 1t was a
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 to
assent toward morning, that you are gong
to get well, well of all your sins, well OF all
your sorrows we'll of all your earthly dis
tresses. Sunrisel
But, says one, all that 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
rets of YOU as compared with your chief,
your immortal nature, is as the clippings OF
your finger nails as compared with your
whole body. As you run the scissors along
the edge of your thumb nail and cut OIL that
which is no use but rather hindrance you
do not mourn over the departure OF that
fragment which flies away. Death viii be
only the scissoring off of that which
could be of no use, and the soul has
no funeral over that which would De
an awful nuisance 1t we could not
get rid of it. This body as 1t now Is,
what a failure it would make OF heaven II
our departing soul had to be burdened with
il in the next world. While others there go
ten Thousand miles q minute we would take
about an hour to walk four miles, and while
our neighbor immortals could see hundred
miles we could see only ten miles, and the
Haatast and the healthiest of our bodies IL
seen there would make it necessary to open
in heaven an asylum for cripples. NO, no;
one of the best possible things that will hap
pen to us will be the sloughlng OIL OF TINS
body when we have no more use Tor IL IN us
present state. When 1T shall come up III us
resurrected form we will be very glad 10 geU
II bacly again. but not as it is now with its
limitations and bedwarfments innumerable.
Sunrise
There shall battle my weary soul
In seas of heavenly rest,
And not u wave of trouble roh
Across my peaceful breast
Sunrisel But not like one OF those MORN
inrs after you had gone to bed late or did
not sleep well, and you get up chilled and
yawning and the morning bath is a repul-
sion and you feel like saying to the morning
sun shining into your window, 81 do not see
what you find to smile about; your bright
ness is to me a mockery." But the thrush
of the next world will be a morning after a
sound sleep, a sleep that nothing can dis
faces. and in your first morning in heaven
YOU viii wade down into the sea of glass,
mingled with fire, the foam on fire
with splendor you never saw on earth, and