The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-01-13

for all Of u.s. The theologians who
stick to old religious technicalities until
they become soporifcs would not call 1T
anything but conversion. ] call 1t
change from going toward sundown 70
going toward sunrise. That man who
never tries to unbuclle the clasp Of evil
habits 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, II
that man will examine the sun-dial he
will find that the shadow is going for
ward and he is on the way to sundown-
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 suh-dials indicate the ap-
proach OF darkness. But now, in an
swer TO prayer, as In my text the
change was in answer to prayer, the
pardoning Lord reverses things and the |
man starts toward sunrise instead OF |
sunset He turns the other way. The |
Captain of Salvation gives him the mili-
1
about facet" He was marching toward
indifference, marching toward hard
ness of heart, marching toward prayer
A lessness, marching toward sin, march
ing toward gloom, marching toward
death. Now he turns and marches to-
4 ward peace, marches toward light and
marches toward comfort and marches
toward high hope and marches toward
a triumph stupendous and everlasting,
toward hosannas that ever hoist and
hallelujahs that ever roll Now II that
is not the turning of the shadow on the
! dial of Ahaz from going toward sundown
to going toward sunrise, what is 1t?
have seen day break over Mont
J Blanc and the Matterhorn, over the
I heights Of Lebanon, over Mount Wash
[ ington, over the Sierra Nevadas, and
. mid Atlantic, the morning after a de-
I parted storm when the pillows were
g LIQUID Alps and liquid Sierra Nevadas,
0 but the sunrise of the soul is more ef-
: fulgent and more transporting. IL
i bathes all the heights Of the soul and
a illumines all the depths OF the
d soul and whelms all the faculties, all
l. the aspirations, all the ambitions, all
Q the hopes with a light that sickness can
v not eclipse or death extinguish or eter-
o nifty do anything but augment and mag
% nifty. preach the sunrise. AS | look
% at that retrograde movement OF the
= shadow on Ahaz's dial, remember that
= It was sign that HezelSiah was going
l. TO get we'll and he got we'll. So ! have
70 to tell all you who are by the grace OF
re God having your day turned from de-
ID cline toward night to ascent toward
lg morning, that you who are going to ge'
le we'll, well of all your sins, well OF all
ut your sorrows, we'll Of all your earthly
distresses. Sanrisel
* But, says some one, all that you say
k. may be true, but that does not hinder
We the horrors OF dissolution Why, yo'
~ who are the Lords are not going to die
by All that the grave gets Of you as com
ed pared with your chief, your immorta
re-; nature, is as the clippings OF you
at finger nails as compared with you
no whole body. AS you run the scissor
ur along the edge Of your thumb nail an
ty. Won cut of that which is OF no use
lis but rather hindrancc, you do nc
on mourn over the departure Of that fraE
at ment which flies away. Death will b
ad only the scissoring-off Of that whic
1a- could be of no use aud the soul has
I've funeral over that which would be
to awful nuisance II we could not get RI
Try Of IL This body as II now is, what
el. failure IL would make Of heaven II OF
me departing soul had to be burdene
zen with II in the next world. WIN
to- others there go ten thousar
ed, miles a minute we would tai
,an about an hour TO walk four miles, ar
Of while our neighbor immortals could 81
Of a hundred miles we could see only u
len miles. and the fieetest and healthiest
.ad our bodies II seen there would make
BAR necessary to open in Heaven an asylu
les. for cripples. No; no; one OF the be
ned possible things that VIII happen to
ion will be the sloughing off Of this boz
you when we have no more use for 1t In
ow present state. When II shall come
ght in its resurrected form we will be We
ms glad 10 get II back agaiu, but not as
ver Il now with It's limitations and bedwa
our ments innuirerable. Sunrise!
DR.. Then shall bathe my weary soul
,ds In seas OF Heavenly rest
n And not wave OF trouble roll
u Across my peaceful breast
uu Surrisel Rut not like one Of tho
"a "a mornings after you had gone to b
Al, late, OF did not sleep we'll. and You
"a mn chilled and yawning, and the moi
.ho ing bath is repulsion, and you 4
~ like saying to the morning sun shinl
in.o YOUR window: II do not see wi
Won find to smile about; your brig
a. ness Is TO me a mockery. But the
-ush OF the next world Will be mo-
-. ;ng after a sound sleep sleep u
nj. nothing can disturb, and you will RI
60 the sunshine in your faces, and In y
,nn first moving in Heaven you Will WI
" down into the sea OF glass mingled W
Are. the foam on fire with splen
,on. Won never saw on earth and the roll
waves are doxolo ,ies, and the rocks
-, that shore are golden and the p
~. bics OF that beach are pearl, and
\ 4. skies that arch the scene are c.
~ !. minrling OF all tho colors that St J'
Ains saw on the wall OF Heaven. the Grim
~ and the blue and the saffron and
,y,I, orange and the purple and the gold
the nreen wrought on those skies
"a Il, shape OF garlAnds, OF banners, OF
ders OF chariO;s. OF crowns, OF throl
Pr, What sunTisel Do you not feel