The Forrest City times., 1892-01-15

trols the sunshfne is not @ necessary lesson. for anybody can oe happy when fhings 60 rishe When you sleep eieh: hours night and rise with an appetite that cannot easily wait for breakfast and you go over 70 the store and open your mail to read more orders than you can flI and in the next letter you Ind dividend far larger than you have been promised, and your ncighbor comes in to tell you some natterfng thing he has heard said about you. and you find that all the styles of goods in which you deal have ad- vasced fifteen per cent in value. and on your way home you meet your children in full romp and there are roses on the center of the tea table and roses of health fn cheeks all round the table. what moro do you want Of consola- tionf I don't pity you bit You feel as If you could boss the world But for those in just cp- posite circumstance my text comes in with an onnipotence of meaning. The shadowi oni of sicknessi Shadow of bankrupfcyi Shadow of mental dcprcssioni Shadow of persecuticni Shadow of death! Speak out, Oh. sun-dial of Ahaz, and tell all people that God manages the shadowi As Hezekiah sat in his palace win dow wrapped in invalidism and surrounded by anodyncs and cataplasms and looked out upon the black hand of the only clock known st that time and saw 1t move back ten degrees, he learned lesson that majority of tho human race need this hour to learn,-that the best friend . man ever had controls the shadow. The set-backs are sometimes the best things that can happen. The great German author, Schiller. could not work un- less he had in h.- room the scent of rotten sp- ples and the decay of the fruits of earthly pros pcrity may become an inspiration instead of 2 depression. Robert Chambers lame feet shut him up from other work. and he became the worid-renowned publisher, and helped fashion the best literature Of the ages. The painful Disorder like that of Hezekiah. called carbun- Gle, is spelled exactly the same as the precious stone called the carbuncle. and the pang of sui fering may become the tewel of immortal value. Your setback like that of Ahaz's sun-dial may be recovery and triumph neyer had a setback but it turned out to be a set-for- ward You never would have become Chris tian if you had not had 0 setback. The highest thrones in heaven are for the set-backs. In 1881 the shadow of the sun-dizl -of this nation was set back, and all things seemed going to ruin, and 1t was set back further in 1882, and further in 1883. and still further in 1885 but there is not an intelligent and well-baianecd man, North or South. East or West, but feels it was set back toward the sunrise.
 But I promised to show you how ths shadows might be turned back First, by going much among the young people. In most family circles there are grandchildren By this divine arrangement most of the people who have passed the meridian of life can com. pass themselves with juyenility It is bad thing for an old man or old woman to sit look ing at the vivacity of their grandchildren shout ing. Stop that racketI' Better join fin the fun Let the 6oyears-old grandfather join the eyears-old grandsoa orgrznddaughter. or My father and mother nved to sec over eighty children and grandchildren and grfatgrandchil- dren and a more boisterous crew were never turned out on this sublnnary sphere and they all .od al5 foll eer and they did keep young. Don't walk with a cane unless you have to, or 6nly as a defense in a city afflicted with too many canines Don't wear giasscs stronger than necessary, putting on number tens when eighteens will do as well. Don go into the company of those who are al ways talking about rheumat sm and iumbago and shortness of breath and the brevity of human life IL Is too much for my gravity to hear an octogenarian talking about the short ness of human life. From all I can find out he has always been here and from present prospects he is always going to stay. Remain young. Hang up your stockings in Christmas time Help the boys fly their kites. Teach the girls how to dress their dolls. Bet ter than arnica for your stiff joints and catuip tea for your sleepless nights, will be large dose of youthful compsnionship.
 Sunrise But not like one of those mornings 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 repulson, and you feel like saying to the morning sun shining into your window: II do not see what you find to smile about; your brightness is to me a mock cry" But the thrush of the next world will be morning after sound sleep, sleep that nothing can disturb. and you will rise the sun shine in your faces, and in your first morning in heaven you will wade down into the sea of glass mingled with fire, the foam on fire with a splen- dor you never saw on earth and the rolling waves are doxologies, and the rocks of that shore are golden and the pebbles Of that beach are pearl, and the skies that arch the scene arc commingiing of all the cclors that St. John saw on the wall of heaven. the crimson and the blue and the saffron and the orange and the pnrple and the gold and the green wrought on those skies in shape of garlands, of banners, of ladders, of chariots of crowns, of thrones. What sunrisel Do you not feel its warmth on your facesf Scovllle McCollum. the dying boz of our Sunday-school, uttered what shall be the peroration of this sermon, Throw back the shutters and let the sun iT.i "< And so she shadow of Ahaz's sun-dial turns from sunset to sunrise.