Milford chronicle., 1892-01-15

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t you had passed ont of your teens. Physic
S power less your spiritual power ought tc
e be more. Up to the last hour Of their lives
r what power for good old Dr. Archibald
r Alexander old DR.. Woods, old Dr.. Hawes
G old DR. Milnor, old DR.. McIlvaine, old DR..
4 Tying old DR.. Candlish, old Dr. Chalmersl
. What have been bismarck to Germany.
e and Gladstone to England, and Oliver
2 ! Wendell Holmes to America in the time OF
} an advanced age9 Let me say to those in
the afternoon of life: Don't be putting OF
t the harness; when God wants it off he will
take it off Don't be frightened ont Of
, life by the grip as many are. At the frs,
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 the Talmud seventeen hun
dred years ago as invisible legions of dan
gerous 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-hear
failure. Adam had II and all Of his de
scendants have had it or will have it, Dc
not be watching for symptoms, or you will
have symptoms of everything Some og
you will yet die Of symptoms Symptoms
are often only what we sometimes see ir
the country-a dead owl nailed on barr
door to scare living owls. Put your trust
in God, 90 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 moth
ing. The old maxim was right, Get thy
spindle and distaff ready, and God will
send the flax"
II SEE THE SHADOW MOVE"
! But while looking at this sundial OF
| Ahaz and see the shadow of it move, no !
| tice that it went back toward the sunrise |
/ instead of forward coward the sunset-tO I
I ward the morning instead of toward the /
night. Th:.t thing the world is willing /
now to DO and in many cases has done !
| There have a greal any things been writ |
ten and spoken abot he sunset of life |
have said some Of tn n myself. But my +
text suggests a better idea The Lord who
turned back that day from going toward
shutdown and started it toward sunrise is
willing to do ohe same thing for all of us
The theolugianS> who stick to old religious
technicalities until they become soporifcs
would not call it ythng but conversion
| cal a change from going tGS.2ul sissa
down to going toward sunrise. That man
who never tries to unbuckle the clasp of
evil habit and who keeps all the sins of the
past and the present freighting him and
who ignores the one redemption made by
the only one who could redeem. If that man
will examine the sundial he viii find that
the shadow is going forward and he is ON
the way to suudown. 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, 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 S
dOning Lord reverscs things and the man {
tartS toward sunrise instead Of sunset Y
lie turns the other way. The captain of /
gives him the military command, C
Attention. Right about facep He was
toward Indifference marching n
toward hardness Of heart marching to e
ward prayerlessness marching toward sin, 4
toward gloom, marching toward e
death. Now he turns and marches toward d
peace. marches toward light and marches
toward comfort and marches toward high
hope and marches toward a triumph stu
pendous and everlasting toward hOsannas Is
that ever hoist and hallelujahs that ever b
roll. Now if that is not the turning OF the n
shadow on the dial of Ahaz from going to t,
ward sundown to going toward sunrise el
what is it? Ca
DAYBREAK on THE MOUNTAINS. st
/ have seen day break over Mount Blanc gl
md the Matterhorn, over the heights of :
lebanon, over Mount Washington, over n,
he Sierra Nevadas, and nid-A tlantic, the Il,
morning after a departed storm when the bf
lillows Wege liquid Alps and liquid Sierra m
5evadas, but the sunrise of the soul is IN
more effulgent and more transporting 1t 70
lathes all the heights of the soul, and illu- M
mines all the depths Of the soul, and whelms A
II the faculties, all the aspirations, all the
all the hopes with light that
ickness cannot eclipse, oTdeath eXtinguish,
: eternity do anything but augment and
magnify. preach the sunrise As lii
lok at that retrograde movement Of the G.
hadow on Ahaz's dial, ! remember that it an
as a sign that Hezekiah was going to get fo
ell and he got we'll So have to tell ~
Il you who are by the grace of God hav -
lg your day turned from decline toward d
light to assent toward morning, that you M
re going to get we'll, well Of all your sins, su
ell Of all your sorrows, well Of all your La
lTthly distresses. Sunrisei W.
But, says some one, all that you say may sc
, true but that does not hinder the horrors de
dissUlutior. Why. you who are the M
ori's are not going to die All that the
rave gets of you as compared with your AZ
lief your immortal nature is as the pii
ippings of your finger nails as compared me
ith your whole body. As you run the VIC
.lssors along the edge of your thumb nail no
nd cut off that which is of no use but isb
lther a hindrance you do not mourn over
ie departure Of that fragment which flies al
way. Death will be only the scissOrng n
Of that which could be Of no use, ana Fo
lie soul has nc funeral over that which IRA
ould be an awful nuisance IL we could hc
1t get rid of it, This body as it now is no
hat a failure it would make of heaven II Wi
IT departing soul had to be burlencd fro
ith it in the next world While Others fo,.
ere go ten Thousand miles a minute we ri,
Ould take about an hour TO walk fO;I -
lies. and while our ncighbor immort;lls '4is
uld see u hundred miles we could see esp
ly ten miles, and the feetest AMI the ina
althiest of oqr bodies if reen there Co
ould make it naeessary to opel -lvcn his
asylum for cripples, No, EO; one Of Tie COP
st possible things that win happen to Us 900
i'll be the sloughing of Of this body when fare
nav WIN ~ 'Gte I. i, uS ,or ~ ,,I H. ee Ger
etsd form w., a viii viii be varv sla'i N ,,et fort
ok again, but not as it is now with its Il
nitations and bedwarfments innumer
lie. Sunrisei -
There shall bathe my weary soul
In seas Of heavenly rest, s
And not wave of trouble roll .,.
Across my peaceful breast. "'H
sUNRIsEl vas
supiisel But not like one Of those morn. ,rmi
g. after you had gone to bed late or did Terri
t sleep well, and you get up chilled and oftl
wning and the morning bath isarcpnsior El
q you feel like saying tothe morning sun ui. q
ming into your window, Il do not sec t1.o,
lat you find to smile about; your bright
IS is to me mockery." But the inrush ''e'
the next world will be morning after oun
ouHd sleep, a sleep that nothing can dis had
'b, and you will rise, the sunshine IN ssln
ar taees: and in your 6rst morning. in Si9 sim
nrul