Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-01-15

OF bankruptcy Sha low OF mental de-
preston Sla low o. persscution Shallow
OF death SpsaS out, oh sun iial OF Ahaz,
and tell tas peo BE that Col manages thu
shadow As HezsSish sat Ia his palac1
wrapped in invaiiisn and surrounded by
anodynes an cltapiasns and looked
out upon the black hani OF the
only clocs known az that tins AMI saw
10 move back ten degrees, ho learned
lesson that a majority OF the human rac9
mead this hour TO learn-that the best friend
man ever hal controls the shadow. The
set5acks are sometimes the best things that
can happsl The great German author,
Schiller, could not WORK unless he had in his
room the scent Of rotten app.es. and tho de-
cay OF the fruits Of earthly prosperity may
become an inspiration instead OF u depres-
sion. Robert Chamoers's lame feet shut hi
up rom other work, anil ne became the
worl1 renowned publisher, AMI helped fash
ion the best literature OF tho ages Tho
Ianfu disorder like that Of Hez,siah clllei
a carbunc,e is spelled exactly thu same as
the precious stone called thu car
buncle, an the plng OF suffering
may become tho jewel OF immortal value.
Your setoack, ike that OF Ahaz's sundal
may be recovery and triumph. never had
a setback but it turned out 10 be set for
ward. You never would have become a
Christian if you had not had a setback. The
highest thrones in heaven are for the set
backs In 1851 tue shadow OF the sundial OF
tais natio1 was SCI baca, All all things
SCENE going to ruin, and it was set back
further i'm IS; 2. and further in 1853 and still
further in 1865, but there is not an intel
lig.nt and wei balanced man-north OF
soutl, east or wsst-but feels it was set back
toward the sunrise.
But promise to show you how the shaw
ows might be turned back First by going
much among the young people In most
family circles there are grandchildren. BY
this divine ARA lgemsnt most OF the people
who have passed tue meridian Of life eau
compass themselves by juvenlity. 1t is
bal thing for an cd man or old woman to
sit looking at the yivacity of their grand
children shouting, "5top that racket
Better Join in the fun. Let the eighty-year-
cd gran father join the eight-year.ol1
grandson or granddaughter My father and
mother lived to see over eighty children and
grandchildren and great gran ichldren, AMI
a more boisterous crew were never turned
out on this sublunarY sphere, and they all
seemed to cry to the oil folks, keep
young" and they did keep young. Don't
walk with a cane unless you have to or only
as a defence in city afflicted with
too many CANNES. Don't wear glasses
stronger than necessary, putting on num-
Der tens when elghteens will do as well.
Don't go into the company Of those who are
always talking about rheumatism and lum-
bago and shortness of breath and the brevity
Of human life. 1t is too much for my gravity
TO hear an octogenarian talking about the
shortness of human Lille. From all can tint
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 the kite. Teach the
girls how to dress their dolls. Better than
arnica for your stiff joints AMI catnip tea
for your sleepless nights will be large dose
Of youthful comp1nionship.
Set back the clock Of human life. Make
the shadow Of the sun1ial Of Ahaz retreat
ten degrees. People make themselves old
bv always talking about being old and
wishing tor the good old days, which were
never as good rs these days. From all can
hear the grandchildren are not half as bad
as the grandparents were. Matters have
been hushed up But if you have ever been
In a room adjoining room where some very
old people little deaf, were talking over
old times. you will find that this age does not
monopolizs all the young rascas. lt may
now be hard to get young people up early
enough in the morning, but their grandpa
rents always hal TO be pulled out OF bel.
IL is NIOnI HOW W lAdl llt,lhIN AOh' u A~N'S.A
the unsuspecting, but eighty years ago at
school that now venerable man sat down on
crooked pin not accidently placed there,
and purposely drove the sleigh riding party
too near the edge Of the embankment that
he might see how they would LOOK when
tumbled into the snow. AMI that man who
has so little patience with childish exuber-
ance was in olden times up TO pranks, one
half of which if practice1 by the eight-year-
grandmother crazy Revive your remem.
brance Of what you we're between five AMI
ten years OF az. aud with patience capable
of everything join with the young. Put back
the shadow OF the dial not ten degrees, but
City aud sixty and seventy degrees.
Set back your clocks also by entering on
new AMI absorbing Christian WORK. In our
desire tn inspire the young we have Ia our
ESSAYS hal much to say about wcat has
been accomplished by the yong; OF Ro'
nulus who founded Rome when Ia wa
twenty years OF age; Of Cortss, VINO had con-
ouered Mexico at thirty years: OF PITT,
WHO was Prime Minister OF England az
twenty-four years, Of Raphael, who died
at thirty seven years; OF Calvin, wac WroI9
his INSTITUTES" at twenty-six OF Mslanc-
thon. who took learned professors chaw
at twenty-one years; Of Luther. VINO had
conouere1 Ger many for the Reformation
Inv the time he was tairty-five years. AMI
II "a all very well for US to show how early
in life one can do very great things FOR Uo1
and the welfare of the world, but some OF
the mirhtiest work for God has been done
by septuagenarians aud octogenarians and
nonacenarians. Indeed, there Is WORK
which none tut such can do They pre-
serve the equipolse OF senates, Oh IelIslous
denominations, of retormatory movements
Young men for action, old men for coun'
sci Instead OF any OF you beginning 10
fold up your energies arouse anew your
energies With the experience you have
obtained and the opportunities OF ooSerVa'
tion Won have had curing a long life, you
OUGHT 10 be able to do in one year now
more than you did in ten years riSnt atter
You have passed out of your teens. Physicai
power less, your spiritual power ought %
I've more % to the last hour o. their llves
what mowers for good old DR.. Archibald
Alexander. old Dr. Woods, oil Dr. Halves
old DIR. Minor. old DR.. Mcllvane, old Or
Tying, old DR.. Candlish old DR.. Chalmersi
What have been Bismarck to Germany, and
Gladstone to England and Oliver WendeI
Holmes to America in the time of an adj
vaHced age? Let me say to those in the after.
noon Of life: Don't be putting oil the har.
ness; when Col wants il off he will tlko it
OF. Don't BE- fri .htensi ont of life by the
grip as many are. At the first Sneez9 OF an
influenza many give up all as lost. No new
terror mas come on the earth. The microbes
as the cause of disease were described in the
Talmud seventeen hundred years ago as lin
visible legions OF dangerous ones" Don't be-
scared out OF life by all this talk about heart
failure That trouble has always been in the
world. Taat is what all the people that ever
passed. out Of this life have died oi-heart
failure Adam had it and all of his descend
ants have had it or will have it. Do not bs
watching for symptoms or you will have
symptoms of everything Some Of you will
yet die OF symptoms. Symptoms are often
only what we sometimes see in the country
"a dead owl nailel on a barn door to sears
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
light side, and fear nothing. The oil maxim
was right, Get thy spindle and distaff ready,
md God will send the fix"
But while looking at this suntial OF AhaZ
and Sc. the sha low OF it move, | notice
that it went b1cS toward the sunrise instead
of forward t0wari The sunset-toward the
morning instead o. toward the night. That
thing the worl is willing now to 40, and in
many cases has done. There have n great
many things been written AMI spoken about
the sunset OF life. have said some OF them
myself. But my text su ygeSts better idea.