The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1892-01-14

bny the day before the markets re
treat, or we make an investment tina
never pays, or we purchase goods tina
we cannot dispose OF, or a crop of graf
we sowed is ruined by drought o
freshet, or when we took account O
d stock on the first of january we foun,
ourselves thousands of dollars wors
off than we expected
Who under such circumstances saws
This loss is from God / must hav,
been allowed to go into that unfor
tunate enterprise for some good reason
q God controls the east wind as we'll a.
) the west wind?'i Ny friends / cannot
look Tor one moment on that retrogradt
shadow on Ahaz's dial without learn
ing that GOD controls the shadows and
the lesson we need all to learn, that he
controls the sunshine. is not so neces-
sary lesson, for any body can be happy
when things 60 right
When you sleep eight hours night
and rise with an appetite that cannot
easily wait for breakfast and you GO
over to the store and open your mail to
read more orders than you can fill, and
In the next letter you find dividend
far larger than you have been promised,
and your neighbor comes in to tell you
some fattering thing he has Just heard
said about you and you find that all
the styles of goods in which you deal
have advanced Is per cent in value, and
on your way home you meet your chill
dren in full romp and there are roses
in the center of the tea table and roses
of health in cheeks all around the
table, what more do you want of conso-
lation? | don't pity you a bit You
feel as if you could boss the world.
But for those in just opposite circum-
stances my text comes in with omnipo-
tence OF meaning. The shadow! o,
the shadow! Shadow of bereavement!
Shadow of sickness! Shadow of bank
ruptcy! Shadow of mental depression!
Shadow of persecution! Shadow of
death! Speak out, D. sun dial of Ahaz,
and tell all the people that God man
ages the shadow! AS Hezekiah sat in
his palace window wrapped in invalid
ism and surrounded by anodynes and
ca'aplasms and looked out upon the
black hand of the only clock known at
that time and saw it move back ten de-
grees, he learned lesson that a ma
Jority of the human race need to lean
that the best friend man ever had
controls the sha low. The setbacks
are sometimes the best things that can
happen.
The painful dis order like that of
Hezekiah, called the carbuncle, is
spelled exactly the same as the precious
stone called the carbuncle, and the |
pang of suffering may become the Jewel |
of immortal value. Your setback, like |
that of Ahaz's sun dial. may be recov-
cry and triumph. never had a set
back but it turned out to be set-for- |
ward. You never would have become |
Christian if you had not had a set
back. The highest thrones ia Heaven
are for the set-backs. In 1851 the shad- |
ow of the sun dial Of this nation was
set back and all things seemed going
to ruin, and it was set back further in
1862, and further in 1863 and still further
in 1865, but there is not an 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 be turned back. First.
by going much among the young peo-
pie In most family circles there are
grandchildren. BY this divine arrange
ment most of the people who have
passed the meridian of life can compass
themselves by juvenility. 1t is a bad
thing for an old man or an old woman
to sit looking at the vivacity of their
grandchildren shouting, stop that
racket" Better join in the fun. Let
the eighty-year-old grandfather join the
grands IN or grand
laughter. Don't go into the company
IF those who are always talking about
and lumbago and short
less of breath and the brevity of human
life. s
Remain young. Hang up your stock
ngs in Christmas tine. Help the boys I
~ the kite. Teach the girls how to
lress their dolls Better than arnica
or your stiff joints AMI catnip tea for c
our sleepless nights, will be a dose of q
'outhful companionship. Set back the
lock of human life. Make the shadow I
# the sun dial of Ahaz retreat ten de-
rees. People make themselves old by /
lways talking about being old and
Wishing for the good old days, which =
we're never as good a. these days
From all ! can hear the gra7dcN ildr,n Il
re not half as bad as the gra1dparent =
7ere. Matters have been hushed up. u
tut if you have ever been in room IL
d Joining a room where some very old
eople little deaf were talking over
Id times you vi find that this age
oes not monopolize all the young ras-
ais. 1t may now be hard to get II
Dung people up early enough in the Ia
forming but their grandparents always u
ad to be pulled out of bel. 1t is IL
-rong now to play mischievous tricks Ii
n the unsuspecting, but eighty years il
go at school that now venerable man y
It down on crooked pin not accident n
ly placed there, and purposely drove ri
lie sleigh riding party too near the II
ige of the embankment that he might n
e how they would look when tumb led tt
to the snow. And that man who has "
} little patience with childish exuber- W
Ice was in olden times up to pranks 81
lie half of which if practiced by the "
of to-day, would set ca
and grandmother crazy. dc
avive your remembrance of what Won ar