Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-01-22
NO. 46.

huc suhshAht VI u AAg VI eAS
shine of great prosperity. But suppose
the day i darki You have TO light the
gas at noon. The SUI does not show him
self all day long. There is nothing but
shadow. How slow we are to realizs that
the storm is from God and the darkness
from God and the chill from God. Or we
buy the day before the market retreats, or
we make an investment that never pays, or
We purchase goods that we cannot dispose
Of, or a crop OF grain we sowed Is ruined
by drought or fresnet, or when we took ac-
count of stock on the first of January we
found ourselves thousands OF dollars worse
of than we expected. Who under such cir
cumstances says This loss is from God. |
must have been allowed to 60 into that un-
fortunate enterprise for some good reason;
God controls the east wind as well as the
west wind"
Ny friends, | cannot look for one moment
on that retrograde shadow OF Ahaz's dial
without learning that God controls the shad-
ows and tina. lesson we need all to learn.
That He controls the sunshine is not SO nee
essary lesson, for anybody can be happy
when things go right When you sleep
eight hours a night and rise with an appetite
that cannot easily wait for breakfast and
you go over TO the store and open your mail
to read more orders than You can I'LL, and in
the next letter you find dividend far larger
neighbor comes in to tell you some hatter-
ing thing he has just heard said about you,
md YOU find that all the styles OF goods in
which you deal have advanced fifteen per
cent in value aud 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 in cheeks
all round the table, what more DO you want
of consolation | don't pity you bit. You
81 - 70 ,,o, oauId boes hn world Rut for
those in Just opposite circumstances my taxi
comes in with an omnipoteuce Of meaning.
The shadow Oh, the shadow Shadow Of
bereavement Shadow of sickness! Shadow
OF bankruptcy Shadow OF mental de-
preston! Shadow of persecution! Shadow
of death! Speak out, oh sundial OF Ahaz
and tell the people that God manages the
shadow AS HeZekiah sat In his palace
wrapped in invalidism and surrounded by
anodynes AMI cltap!asms AMI looked
out upon the black hand of the
only clock known at that time and saw
1t move back ten degrees, he learned a
lesson that a ma aiority OF the human race
need this hour to learn-that the best friend
q man ever had controls the shadow The
setbacks are sometimes the best things that
can happen. The great German author,
! Schiller, could not work unless he had in his
room the scent of rotten apples, and the de-
| cay of the fruits of earthly prosperity may
| bee ome an inspiration Instead OF depres'
zion. Robert Chambers's lame feet shut him
up from other work, and he became the
world renowned publisher, AMI helpsi fash
ion the best literature OF the ages. ine
rainful disorder like that Of Hezekiah called
carbuncle is spelled exactly the same a!
the precious stone called the car
buncle, and the pang OF suffering
may become the jewet OF immortal value
Your setback, like that of Aha2's sundial
may be recovery and triumph. never hat
A setback but it turned out to be set Tor
ward. You never would have become {
Christian il you had not had n setback. TIT
highest thrones i'll heaven are for the set
Dncks, In 1861 the shadow Of the suudial o
his nation was set back, and all thing
seemed going 10 ruin, and it was set baci
,urther in 1852, and further in 1853, and SUI
,urther in 1865, but there is not an intei
iyent and well balanced man-north O
out1, east or weSt-but leels IL was SET odc'
.oward the sunrise.
But | promise to show you how the shaw
ows might be turned back. First, by goin
much among the young people. In mos
amily circles there are grandchildren. d.
This divine ARA 1gement most OF the peopl
who have passed the merriam OF life cal
compass themselves by Juvenility. III Is
bad thing for an old man or old woman I
lit looking at tao vivacity OF their grand
children shouting, stop that racket
Better join IN the nun: Ley tne e,!hty yeai' al
I'D grandfather join the eight-year-ol
yrandson OF granddaughter. Ny father an
mother lived to see over eighty children an
grandchildren and great grandchildren, an
i more boisterous crew were never turne
but on this subluuary sphere, and they
eemed to cry to the OLD folks, "kee
young" and they did keep young. Don
walk with a cane unless you have to or onl
IS defence in city ainicted VIII
100 many CANNES. Don't wear glass;
stronger than necessary, putting on nun
, ,ar tens when elghteens will do as wei
DON'T 90 into the company Of those who al
lways talking about rheumatism and iun
, Naco and shortness of breath and the brevit
human life 1t is too much Tor my .ravll
hear an octogenarian talking about u
9 bortncss OF human lie. From all l can fir
I ut he has always been here and from prese
! prospects he is always going to stay: hema
!, oun. Hang up your stockings IN Chrlstm
h ime. Help the boys fiy tue kite. Teach c
3 iris how to dress their dolls. Better I'M
!, rnica for your stiff joints AMI catnip t
o or vour sleepless nights will be a large dc
B. youthful companionship.
10 Set back the clock OF human life. Ma
n he shadow of the sunlial o. Ahaz retire
10 en degrees. People make themselves c
II " always talting about baing old a
l. fishing for the good old days, which we
l. ever as good as these days. From all c
II ear tho grandchildren are not hall as b
IL the grandparents were. Matters ma
e aen hushed up. But il you have ever be
lp Id people, a little deaf, We're talking o'
le id times. you will find that this age does
d. ,onopolize all the young rascais IL IN
al ow be hard to get young people up ca
OF uough in the morning but their grand
ig ents always had TO be pulled out OF b
IL is wrong now to play mischevious tricks
or be uususpcctiny. but eighty years ago
ke chool that now venerable man SAT uowh
on crooked pin not accidently placed tht
'm nd purposely drove the sleigh riding pa
it 90 near the edge of the embankment t
he Q might see how they would LOOK W
ud umblei into the snow. And that man
ay as so little patience with childish exu'
led nca was in Olden times up to pranks,
of ALI OF which if practicsd by the eighty
ve- Id of to-day would set grandfather
on randmother crazy. Revive your rem
DIS. rance of what you were between h'e
Ind EN- years OF age, aud with patience cap
OF everything join with the young rut
on. he shadow of the dial not ten degrees
ity fly and sixty and seventy degrees.
ind Set back your clocks alsJ by entering
ced ew and absorbing Christian work, In
nth iesiro to inspire the young we have in
arse ssays had much to say about what
and ,een accomplished by the young; OF
He nuius. who founded Roma when he
en- wenty years of age; of Cortes, who had
the mercd Mexico at thirty years; of
or syho was Prime Minister of Eng Ian
wentv-four years; Of Raphael, who
are It thirty seven years; of Calvin, who v
| all iis institutes at twenty six; of Me
sun. hon, who took learned professor,
'nsa- It twenty-one years; of Luther, who
ming conquered Ger many for the Reform
ocks w tho time he was thirty-five years.
how tis all very well for us to show how
dial n life one can do very great things for