The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-11

IeS1l Luak you are ElUNAlk VI Altf q "a SUI
down and many Of YOU are under con
sequent depression. propose this morning
TO set the hands on your watches and clocks
to going the other way. l propose 20 show
you how you uay make the shadow OF your
dial like the shadow on the dial Of Ahaz 20
stop going forward and make 1t 60 back-
ward. You think have big undertake 6
on hand, but il can he done II the same
Lord who reversed the shadow IN Hezenah'
court ward moves upon US. While looking
at the sun dial OF Hezekiah aud
we find the shadow Tetreatlng. we
ought 20 learn that God controls the
shadows. We are ell ready 70 acknowledge
his management Of the sunshine. We stand
IN the glow Of a bright morning ami we say
in our feelings il not with many words,
''This life is from God, this warmth is from
God Or, we have q rush Of pros perlty
and we say. These successes are from God.
What providential thing It was bought
that lot Just before the rise Of real estate,
Bow grateful to God | am that / made that
Investment Why, they have declared ten
per cent. dividend! What a mercy 10 was
that | sjld out my shares before that col
lapsen ., yes: We acknowledge God 10 the
sunshine of bright day or tne sunshine OF
great prosperity. But suppose
the day is darkl You have 70 light
the gas at noon. Tho SUI does not
show himself all day long. There Is moth
ing but shadow. How slow We arc to
realize that the storm is from God and the
darkness from God and the chill from God.
Or we buy the day before the markets re-
treat: OF we make an investment that never
pays; or we purchase goods that we cannot
dispose Of; or a crop Of grain we sOwed is
ruined by drought or freshet; or when We
took account OF stock on the a st Of January
We found ourselves thousands Of dollars
worse of than we expected. Who under
such circumstances says, This loss is from
God, must have teen allowed TO 20 into
that unfortunate enterprise for some good
reason, God controls the east wind as well
as the west windln
My friends, cannot look for one moment
on that retrOgrade shadow on Abaz's dial
without learning that God controls the
shadows and that lesson we need all 10 learn.
That he controls the sunshine is not so neces-
sary a lesson, for anybody can be happy
when things 60 right When you sleep
eight hours a night and rise with an appetite
that cannot easily wait for breakfast and
you go over to the store and open your mail
20 read more orders than you can ill, and
IN the next letter you find a dividend far
larger than you have been promised. and
your neghbor comes in to tell you some
fiattering thing he has Just heard said about
you. and you find that all the styles 0f goods
in which you deal have advanced fifteen per
cent. In value, and on your way home
you meet your children in full romp and
there are roses on the center of the tea table
and roses OF health in cheeks all round the
table, what more do you want of consola-
tioni don't pity you a bit. You feel as if
you could boss the world. But for those in
just opposite circumstances my text comes
III with an OmnipOteuce Of meaning. The
shadow o, tho shadow Shadow Of be-
reavementl Shadow Of sickness! Shadow
OF bankruptcy Shadow of mental depres-
sion! Shadow OF persecution Shadow of
DEATH Speak out. .. sun dial of Ahaz,
and tell all the people that God manages
the shadow As Hezekiah sat IN
his palace window wrapped in
invalidism and surrounded by ano-
dynes and cetaplasms and looked
out upon the black hand of the only clock
known at that time and saw it move back
ten degrees, he learned lesson that a ma
jority Of the human race need this hour to
learn, that the be5. friend maa ever had
controls the shadow. The set-backs are
sometimes the best things that eau happen.
The great German author Schiller, could
not work unless he had in his room the
scent of rotten apples, and the decay Of the
fruits OF earthly prosperity may become an
inspiration instead OF a depression. Robert
Chambers lame feet shut him no from other
work, and he became T. world-renowned
publisher, and helped fashion the best liter
allure Of the ages. The painful disorder
like that Of Rezeklah called a car
buncle is spelled exactly the same as
the precious stone called the
carbunce, and the pang Of suffering may
become the jewel Of immortal value. Your
setback like that of Ahass sun dial. NAV
be recovery and triumph. never had a
setback but 1t turned out TO be a set for
ward. You never would have become a
Christian il you had not had a setback.
The highest thrones In heaven are for the
Eet-backs. In 1881 the shadow of the sun
dial Of this nation was set back and all
things seemed going to ruin, aud 1t was set
back further in 1862, and further in 1868,
aud still further in 1865. but there Is not on
intelligent and well~balanced man. north or
south, east or west but feels it was set back
toward the sunrise.
But | promised to show you how the
shadows might DO turned back. First. by
going much among the young people In
NEST family circles there are grandchildren.
BY this divine arrangement most of the peo
pie who have passed the meridian of life
can compass themselves by juvenility. l,
is a bad thing for an old man or old woman
{ } sit looking at the vivacity Of their grand
children shouting, "Step that racket =
Better join in the fun. Lst the eighty-years
old gran father join the eight-years-youno
grandson or RrdnddAughte NV father auC
mother lived to see over eighty children
and grandchildren and Observation-Disclosures
and more ooisterous crew were never
turned out on this subluDary sphere ane
they all seemed to cry to the old folk,
keep young and they did keep young
Don't walk with cane unless you have to
or only as defense in q city afflicted will
too many CANNES. Don't wear glasse
stronger than necessary, putting on mum
Der tens when eighteens will do a
well Don't go into the company o
those who are always talking about rheu
matism and lumbago and shortnes
of breath and the brevity of human life. L
is too much for my gravity to hear an octo
genarian talking about the shortness of hu
man life. From all l can find out no ha
always been here, and from present pros
poets he is always going to sstay Remain
young. Hang up your stockings in Christ
mas time, Help the boys fly the kite
Teach the girls how TO dress their dolls
Better than arnica for your stiff Joints aut
catnip tea for your sleepless nights, will b,
a large dose of youthful companionship.
Set back the clock of human life. Max
the shadow of the sun dial of Ahaz retrea
ten degrees People make themselves oil,
by always talking about being old ant
wishing for the good old days, which wer
never as good as these days. From all tina
] can hear the grandchildren are not hal
as bad as the grandparents were. Matter
have been hushed up. But if you have eve
been in aroom adjoining a room where som
very old people little deaf were talkint
over old times you will find that this az
does not monopolize all the young rescals
1t may now be hard to get young peopl