Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-01-11

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eessre 70 Inspire tk.s yczox ss hare IN eaf
essays hxd uaaeh 20 say sbous what has
beea accomplished By tas yozSx, II
kozna!ss. - as fo9nled Rozae VIXEN &c wss
~srsy y>nss VI 2Ss. II Coxts. who had
conquered 1sxsoo 81 tAirsy years. Of Pitt,
who was prime taissSsss Of hagiand AZ
treaty -four years: Of RzRAAel. who died At
thirty sessn ys1rss Of Cslste. who wrofs
has -fastitatss'' az twenty-six: Vi Melanc-
thcn- wao toox . learned pfofsssox's oAair
81 tweasy-oae yaArs, 81 Lathsr, who A.d
eoaqllefesi Germany fer the Reformation
by the time ne was thirty ave years And
II H. al very wsli fer IN 10 show how early
In lie Que can % very great tsings Tor God
and The welfxre OF the world. bat some VI
tse ni.shtie.. work for God AS been done
hy srpsaageaAriaas xad octog saxriaas and
Eoaas saariAuA Iadeed. there Is wesk
which aoRe bat sach can do They pre-
serve the equiposse " senAtes, Of religious
denominations. Of rvforl4stery noyensats
losag men Ter action. Old men for coan-
sci Instead Of say Of you baxinsing To
fold W Jour energies. arouse Azew yoar
energies With the experience you have
obtained and the opportunities Ut ohAersa-
ton you have had duriax long life. you
ousAt 70 b able 20 do In one year now
mors than you did in ten years right after
you hat passed eat Il your teens. Physical
power lees. your spiritual power ought to
he moro. Up 10 the last hour Of their lives
what power for good cid DR.. Archibald
Alexander. old DIR. Woods. old DR.. HAwes,
old DR.. Alnor. old DIR. AcIlvxine, old DIR.
Tynz, old DR.. Candlish. old DR.. Chalmersl
What have been Bismarck To Germany.
aud Gladstone TO England. and Oliver
Wendell Holmes 20 America In the time O!
an advanced age, Let me say to those In
the afternoon Of life: Don't be putting OH
the harness. when Gcd wants 1t OF he Will
take 1t OF. Don't DO frightened out Of
lie By tho grip ~ many IRE. At the ilsst
sHeexe OF an influenza mxay give up AL as
lost. No new terror has come on the earth
The microbes as the cause Of disease were
described in the Talmud seventeen hun
drcd years ago as invisible leg!ons Of dan
gersus ones.n Don't be scared out Of life
BY all this talk about heart failure. That
trouble has always beca In the world
That Is what all the people that ever
passed out Of this life have died of-heart
failure. Adam had II and all OF his de-
sccnlants have had il or win have il. Do
not he aacchin9 for symptoms. or you will
have symptoms Of everything. Some Of
you win yot die Of symptoms Symptoms
are often only what we sometimes see in
the couutry-a dead owl nailed On a barn
door to scare living owls. Put your trust
In Gcd, 60 70 bod at ten o'clock, have the
window open six inches to let In the fresh
air. sleep on your right side, and fear moth
ing. The old maxim was right, Get thy
spindle and dista6 ready, and God will
send the fax"
II SEE THE SHADOW MOVE"
But while looking at this sundial Of
Ahaz and see the shadow of 1t move, no
tice that it went back toward tho sunrise
instead Of forward toward the sunset-to-
ward tho morning instead of toward the
night. That thing the world is willing
now 70 do. and IN many cases has done.
There have great many things been writ
ten aud spoken about the sunset of life.
have said some Of hem myself But my
text suggests better idea The Lord who
turned back that day from going toward
shutdown and started IL toward sunrise is
willing to do tho same thing for all of us
The thcologians who stick to old religious
tcchnicalities until they become sopori6cs
would not call II srything bus conversion.
l call it a change from Seing toward sun
down to going toward SUNRISE. That man
who never tries to unbucklc the clasp OF
evil habit and who keeps all the sins of the
past and the present frcighting him and
who ignores the one redemption made BY
the only one who could redeem. IL that man
will examine the sundial he will find that
the shadow II going forward and he Is on
the way to shutdown. His day is on the
road to ngAt. 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 In
dictate the approach Of darkness But now.
in answer to prayer. as in my text the
change WAS in answer to prayer, the par
doning Lord reverscs things and tho man
starts toward sunrise instead of sunset.
He turns the other way The captain Of
salvation gives him the military c>mmand,
Attention. Right about facet" He was
marching toward indifererce, marching
toward hardness Of heart, marching to-
ward prayerlessness, marching toward sin,
marching toward gloom. mnsching toward
death. Now he tnrns and marches toward
peace. marches toward light and marches
toward comfort and mairheA toward high
pendous and everlasting. toward hosannAs
that ever hoist and hallelusshs that ever
roll. Now IL that Il not the turning Of the
shadow on the dial Of Ahaz from going to
ward shutdown to going toward sunrise.
what Is III
DArRRgAK on THE MOUNTAIN
Ihave seen day break over Mount Blanc
and the Matterhorn, over the heights Of
yAk
the Sierra Nsvadas, and mid-Atlxntic. tho
pillows wore liquid Alps and liquid Sierra
Nevaaas, but the sunrise Of the soul Is
more edulgent and more transporting. II
battles all the heights Of the soul. and illu-
mines all the depths Of the xDul, and whelms
ambitions. all the hopes with light that
sickness cannot eclipse, or death cxtinguish,
or etetaity do anything but augment and
magnify. I preach the sunrise. As
look at that rctregraae mevemcnt Of the
shadow on Ahas's dial, remember that 1t
was sign that Hexekiah was going to get
well and he got well So have to tell
all you who ara By the grace OF God hav-
ing your day turned from decline toward
night TO ascent toward morning. that you
are going to get we'll. we'll 81 all your sins.
we'll Of all yoar sorrows, well OF all your
earthly distrcsses Sunrfsoi
But, says some one. all that you say mar
be true bot that does not hinder tie horrors
OF dissolution Why. you VINO are Sae
Lords n. not e.dng to die All that the
grave gets OF ron rs compared with your
chief. your immortal nature. Is - the
clippings Of your 6rger nails ~ compared
with your whole body. As you run the
scissors along the edge Of your thumb nail