The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-19

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cts looking out of the window upon the
sun'dial in the courtyard While he
watches the shadow on the dial the
shadow begins TO retreat Instead of
going on toward o'clock in the even
ing II goes back toward O o'clock in the
morning The fig .poultice had been
drawing for some time, aud. sure
enough, the boil broke and Hezekiah
got we'll Now expect you will come
on with your higher criticism, and try
to explain this away, and say it was an
optical delusion of Hezekiah and the
shadow only seemed to go back or
cloud came over and IL
was uncertain which way the
shadow did go, and MS Hezekiah ex-
pected it to go back he took the action
of his own mind for the retrograde
movement No; the shadow went back
on all the dials of that land and other
lands Turn to III. Chronicles, 80, 81, and
find that away off in Babylon the
mighty men of the palace noticed the
same phenomenon. And, II you do
not like the Bible authority. turn over
your copy of Herodotus and find that
away off in Egypt the people
noticed that there was something the
matter with the sun. The fact is that
the whole universe waits upon God and
suns and moons and stars are
not very big things to Him, and lie can
with His little finger turn back an en-
tire world rs easily as you could set
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clock or watch.
At the opening Of the new year
people are moralizing on the flight of
time. You all feel that you are moving
on toward shutdown, and many of you
are under consequent depression.
propose this morning to set the hands
of your watches and clocks TO going the
other way. propose to show you how
you may make the shadow of your dial
like the shadow on the dial of Ahaz to
stop going forward and make it go
backward. You think have n big under
taking on hand, but it can be done If
the same Lord who reversed the shadow
in Hezekah's courtyard moves upon
us. While looking at the sun-dal of
Hczekiah and we find the shadow
retreatine, we ought to learn that
God controls the shadows. We are
all ready to acknowledge his
management of the sunshine. We
stand in the glow of bright
morning, and we say in our feelings if
not with so many words, This life is
from God. this warmth is from God"
Or, we have rush of prosperity and
we say: These successes are from God.
What a providcntial thing it was
bought that lot just before the rise of
real estate! How grateful to God ! am
that | made that investment! Why
they have made 10 per cent. dividend!
What mercy it was that | sold out my
shares before that collapse" Oh, yes;
we acknowledge God in the sunshine of
bright day or the sunshine of great
prosperity. But suppose the day is
dark? You have to light the gas at
noon The sun does not show himself
all day long. There is nothing but
shadow. How slow we are 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 retreat; or we make an invest
mcnt that never pays; or, we purchase
goods that we can not dispose of; or
crop of grain is ruined by drought or
| freshct; or when we took account on
the LIST of January we found ourselves
thousands of dollars worse off than we
expected Who, under such circum-
stances, says: This lot is from God,
must have been allowed to 60 into that
unfortunate enterprise for some good
reason; God controls the east wind as
we'll as the west wind?'
NV friends, can not look for one mo-
ment on that retrograde shadow on
Ahaz's dial without learning that God
controls the shadows and that lesson
we need all to learn. That he controls
the sunshine is not so necessary'a les
son, for anybody can be happy when
things 90 right. When you sleep elght
hours n night and rise with an appetite
that can not easily wait for breakfast,
and 90 over to the store and open your
mail TO read more orders than you can
6ll. and i'm the next letter you find
dividend far larger than you have been
promised. and your neighbor comes In
TO tell you some fiattering thing nc mas
inst heard said about you, and you find
that all the styles of goods in when
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 ali
round the table, what more do you want
of consolation? :,
don't pity you bit You feel as u
, YOU could boss the world but iof
! those in just opposite circumstance my
|, text comes in with an omnipotence OF
! r,oaring The shadow! oh, the shad