The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-01-28

your remembrance of what you were be.
tween and 10 years Of age, and with
patience capable of everything join with
the young. Put back the shadow of the
dial not ten degrees, but fifty and sixty
and seventy degrees.
| Set back your clocks also by entering
on new and absorbing Christian work
In our desire to inspire the young we
have in our essays had much to say
about what has been accomplished by
the young; of ROmuluS, who founded
Rome when he was 90 years of age: OF
| COrtes, who had conquered Mexico at &c
| years; of Pitt, who was Prime Minister
| OF England. at "a years; OF Raphael,
| who died at 81 years: Of Calvin, who
wrote his institutes at &c; of Melancthon.
| who took a learned professors chair at
81 years; of Luther, who had conquered
Germany for the Reformation by the
time he was 35 years.
But while looking at this sundiai of
| Ahaz and / see the shadow of it move l
notice that it went back toward the sun
rise instead of forward toward the sun
set-tOward the morning instead Of to-
ward the night. That thing the world
is willing now to dc and in many cases
has done. There have a great many
things been written and spoken about
the sunset of life. l have said some OF
them 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
the same thing for all of US.
Tie theOlOgians who stick to old re-
ligious technicalities until they become
sOporifics would not call it anything but
conversion. l call it change from 60
ing toward shutdown 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 treigh.ing him, and who ig.
nOres the one redemption made by the
only One who could redeem-if that man
will examine the sundial he will find that
the shadow is going forward and he is
on the way to shutdown. His day is on
the road to night.
All the watches that tick, all the
clocks that strike, all the sandglasses
that empty themselves, all the shadows
that move on all the sundials indicate
the approach of darkness. But now, in
answer to prayer, as in my text the
change was in answer to prayer, the par
doning Lord reverses things and the man
starts toward sunrise instead of sunset.
he turns the other way. The Captain
of Salvation gives him the military COM
mand: Attention! Right about FACET
He was marching toward Indifference.
marching toward hardness of heart,
marching toward prayerlessness, march
ing toward sin, marching toward gloom,
marching toward death.
Now he turns and marches toward
peace, marches toward light and marches
toward comfort and marches toward high
hope and marches toward triumph
stupendous and everlasting, toward hO-
sannaS that ever hoist and hallelujahs
that ever roll. Now if that is not the
turning of the shadow On the dial of
Ahaz from going toward shutdown to 60
ing toward sunrise, what is it?
have seen daybreak over Mont Blanc
and the Matterhorn, over the heights of
Lebanon, over Mount Washington. over
the Sierra Nevadas and mid-Atlantic, the
after departed storm when
the pillows were liquid Alps and liquid
Sierra Nevadas. but the sunrise of the
soul is more effulgent and more trans
porting. 1t bathes all the heights of the
soul and illumines all the depths of the
soul and whelms all the faculties, all the
all the ambitions, all the
hopes with light that sickness cannot
eclipse or death extinguish or eternity do
anything but augment and magnify. l
preach the sunrise.
But, says some one, all that you say
may be true, bnt that does not hinder
the horrors of dissolution. Why, you
who are the Lords are not going to die.
All that the grave gets Of you as COM
pared with your chief, your immortal ma
ture, is as the clippings Of your finger
nails as compared with your whole body.
As you run the scissors along the edge
If your thumbnail and you cut off that
which is Of no use but rather him
trance, you do not mourn over the de-
parture of that fragment which flies
away.
Death will be only the scissoring off of
hat which could be of no use, and the
soul has no funeral over that which
would be an awful nuisance if we could
lot get rid of it. This body as it now is,
what failure it would make of Heaven
t our departing soul had to be burdened
With il in the next world! While others
here 60 10000 miles minute we would |
AXE about an hour to walk tour miles, |
md while our neighbor immortals could |
zee hundred miles we could see only |
en- miles, and the fleetest and healthiest |
# our bodies If seen there would make |
t necessary to open in Heaven an asv- |
um for cripples.
No, no; one of the best possible things |
hat will happen to us will be the slough,
Eg off of this body when we have no
more use for it in it's present state.
When 1t shall come up in its resurrected
orm we will be very glad to get it back
gain, but not as it is now with its
limitations and bedwarfments innu1aer-
bic. Sunrise!
There shall battle my weary soul
In seas of heavenly rest,
And not a wave of trouble roll
Across my peaceful breast.
Sunrise! But not like one OF those
Mornings after you had gone to bed late
r did not sleep well, and you get up
billed and yawning, and the morning
ath is repulsion. and you feel like say
1g to the morning sun shining into your
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