The Penn's Grove record., 1892-01-15

was right, YET thy spindle and dtStaff ready.
and God will SEMI the fax"
But while looking at this uuiial of Ahaz
and | ses this shs low of 1t move, 1 notice
that it went back toward the sunrise instead
of for ward toward the sunset Toward the
morning instead Of towari 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 AMI spoken about
the sunset Of life. / nave said soms of them
myself. But my text suggests a better idea.
The Lord VINO turned back that day from
going toward shutdown and started it towart
sunrise is willing to do the sams thing for
all OF us. The theologians who stick to Old re-
ligious technicalities until they become sopJ-
rifles would not call it anything but CONVEX
sion. Icallita change from going toward SUD
down to going toward sunrise, That man
who never tries to unbuckle tn clasp of evil
habit and VINO keeps all the sins of the past
and the present freigbtins him and who
only one who could redeem, il that man will
examine the suniial rs will tini TINT the
shadow is going forward aud he IL on the
way to shutdown. His day Is on the road to
night. All the watches that tick, all the
clocks that strike, all the sand glasses that
empty themselves, oil the sh ado Tvs 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 pardonin, 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,
''Attentioni Right about facet" He was
marching toward indifference, marching
toward hardness OF heart, marching toward
prayerlessness, marching oward 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
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everlasting, toward hosannas that ever hoist
and hallelujahs that ever roll. Now if that
is not the turning Of the shadow on the dial
of Ahaz from going toward SHUTDOWN to GO
ing toward sunrise. what is itp
nave seen day break over Noun Blanc
and the Matterhorn, over the heights of
Lebanon. over Mount Washington. over
the Sierra Nevadas. and mid Atlantic, the
morning after a departed storm when the
pillows were liquid Alps and liquid Sierra
Nevadas, but the sunrise of the soul Is more
effulgent and more transporting. 1t bathes
all the heights of the soul, and illumines all
the depths Of the soul, and whelms all the
tions, all the hopss with a light that sick
ness cannot eclipse, or death extinguish,
or eternity do anything but augment and
magnify. Ipreach the sunrise. As / look
at that retrograde movement of the shadow
on Ahaz's dial, 1 remember that 1t was .
sign that Hezekiah was going to get well
and he got well. So l have to tell all you
who are by the grace of God having you
day turned from decline toward night to
assent toward morning, that you are going
TO get well. well Of all your sins, we'll of all
your sorrows, we'll Of all your earthly dis
~tresses. Sunrisei
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
gets Of o 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 eige of your hun nail and cut Off that
which is no use but rather a hindrance, you
do not mourn over the departure Of that
fragment which flies away. Death will be
only the scissoring of Of that which
could be of no use, and the soul has
no funeral over that which would be
an awful nuisance IL we could not
get rid of 1t. This body as 1t now is,
our departing sou had to be burienel with
It 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 $50 a hundred
miles we could see only ten miles, and tho
~fieetest aud the healthiest Of our bodies if
seen there would make it necessary to open
In heaven an asylum for cripples. No, no;
one OF the bsst possible thin IS that will hap
pen to us will be the %sloughing of of this
body when we have no more use for 1t in ITS
present state. When it shall come up in its
resurrected form we will be very glad to get
It back again, but not as it is now with its
limitations and bedwarfments innumerabic.
SUNRISE!
There shall l battle my weary soul
In seas Of heavenly rect,
And not a wave Of trouble roll
Across my peaceful breast,
Sunrise! But not like one OF those morn
ings after you had zone to bed late or did
not sleep well, and you get up chilled and
yawning and the morning bath is a repui-
sion and you feel like saying to the morning
sun shining into your window, 81 do not sea
what YOU find to smile about; your bright
ness is to me q mockery." But the thrush
of the next world will be a morning after a
sound sleep, O sleep that nothing can dis
,turo, AMI you will risa, the sunshine in your
faces; aud in your first morning in heaven
you will wade down into the sea of glass,
mingled with fire, the foam OIL fire
with a splendor you never saw OH earth, ami
the rolling waves are d~oxologies, and the
rocks of that shore are golden AMI the
pebbles of hat beach are pearl and the skies
thai arch the scene are a comminglin5 OF
all the colors that st. Jehn saw on the wall
or heaven-the rims and the biua, and
the saffron, and tbs orange, and the purple,
and the gold. and the green wrought on
those skies in shape of g~ariands, OF banners,
of ladders, of chariots, of crowns, OF thrones.
What q sunrise! Do you not feel its warmth
on YOUR faces? Scoviile McCullum, the dying
boy o; our Sunday school, uttered whits shall
be the peroratiol of this sermon, Throw
back the shutters AMI let the sun ihF ANA
SO the shadow of Ahaz's sun iial turns from
sunset to sunrise