Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-01-11
'NnIAL or AHAZ.
2N PREACHED eY REV. 7. De
WITH TALMAeE, o. D.

tsei,t Of Time-Cod Rules the shad-
Dnybreak on the Heights Of the
osaIn Tops Pun Report Of a RE-
tsbie discourse.
oKLYN. Jan. TO- DIR. Talmages
+ On this morning was full Of
Il tness and good cheer. He might
called tia receipt for happiness.
ouoyancy and elasticity OF tenn
.nent which characterize him
conspicuous throughout. and
have been impaired to his hear
4 his text was II Kings Xxx, IL,
4 y Isaiah the prophet cried unto
4 3.ord and he brought the shadow
degrees backward, by which 1t
4 gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
re is the first clock or watch or
bnDmeter or timepiece of which
wO'ld has any knowledge. But
las watch that did not tick and
jrk that did not strike. 1t was a
llial. Ahaz. the king. invented
Bpfween the hours given to state
III and the cares of Office he in
ted something by which he could
the time Of day. This sundial
III have been a great column, and
Ien the shadow of that column
lched one point 1t was nine O'Clock
In. and when it reached another
IInf it was three o'clock p M. and
THE hours and half hours were 80
assured. Or il may have been
.ht Of stairs such as may now be
md in Hindostan and other old
fsntries. and when the shadow
hched one step it was ten o'clock a.
or another step it was four o'clock
M, and likewise other hours may
1--we been indicated.
TIME MEASURE.
lTShe clepsydra or water clock fol
wed the sundial, and the sand
|slss followed the clepsydra. Then
Ame the candle clock of Alfred the
treat, and the candle was marked
ITO three parts, and while the first
srt was burning he gave himself to
bligion. and while the second part
as burning he gave himself TO poll
ics. and while the third part was
burning he gave himself to rest,
After awhile came the wheel and
weight clock. and Pope Sylvester the
Second was it's most important in.
kentor And the skill of centuries
II exquisite mechanism toiled at the
dmepieces until the world had the
vick's clock of the Fourteenth cen.
nry. and Huyghens, the inventor,
swung the first pendulum, and DR..
Hooke contrived the recoil escape
nent.
And the endless chain" followed,
md the ratchet and pinion lever"
rob it's place, and the compensation
valance and the stemwinder fol
owed, and now we have the buzz
md clang of the great clock and
vatch factories of Switzerland and
3ermany and England and America
lirning out what seems to be the
lerfection of timepieces. II took
he world xix thousand years 10 make
he present chronometer. So with
he measurement of longer spaces
han minutes and hours.
Time was calculated from new
noon to new moon; then from har
rest TO harvest. Then the year was
Pronounced TO be three hundred and
fifty four days and then three hun
Ired and sixty days and, not until
/ long while after, three hundred and
dxty Ave days Then events We're
calculated from the foundation of
Rome, afterwaid from the Olympic
games. Then the Bahylonians had
their measurement of the year, and
the Romans theirs, and the Armen'
ians theirs. and the Hindoos theirs
Chronology wns busy for centuries
studying monuments, inscriptions,
coins, mnmmies and astronomy, try
ing 10 lay plan by which all ques
tions OF dates might he settled and
events put in their right place in the
procession of the ages, But the
chronologists only heaped upa noun.
tain OF confusion and bewildeiment
until In the Sixth century Dionysius
fxiguus. n Roman abbot, said, let
everything date from the birth at
Bethlehem of the Lord Jesus Christ
the saviour of the world
The abbot proposed 10 have things
dated backward and forward from
that great event What a splendid
thought for the world What a
mighty thing for Christianity II
would have been most natural 20
date everything from the creation Of
world. But am glad the chronolo
rists could not too easily guess how
old the world was in order 10 get the
nations in the habit Of dating from
that occurrence In its documents and
historiea
Forever fixed Is il that all history
n 10 be dated with reference 20 the
birth Of Christ. aud. this matter set
tied. Hal0s. the chief chronologist
declared that the world was made
ave thousand four hundred and
eleven years before Christ. and the
tlaluge csltao three thousand one
hund,ed and tfty-tve years before
Christ. and all the illustrions events
III the last nineteen centuries and all
tho great events Of all sne 20
come have been or shall be dated
from tho birth OF Christ These
ihings / say that you may know
" hat watch Il. what a clock Is,
what an almanac Is. and learn 20 ap'
precinte through what tolls and hard
ships and perplexities the world came
10 Is present c0nveniencea and com
forfs. ana 10 help you 10 more respect