Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-04-08
Cod, God controls cont. the east wind as we'll a, tn.

.SoA hhih kutt dOu COnLTOiS the 8naQ.
ows and that lesson we need all to learn.
mat He controls the sunshine is not SO nee
essary lesson for anybody can be happy
when things go right When you sleep
eignt hours night and rise with an appetite
that cannot easily wait for breakfast and
you go over to the stors and open your mail
70 read more orders than you can fill, aud in
the next letter You find q dividend far larger
imam you have been promised, and your
neighbor comes in to tell you some fatter-
ing thing he has just heard said about you.
and you find that ell the styles of goods In
Whicn you deal have advanced fifteen per
cent. In value, and on your way
nome you meet your. children in full
romp and there are roses on the center of
the ten table and roses of health in cheeks
all round the table, what moro do you want
OF consolationf I don't pity you a Bit You
feel az IT you could boss this world. But for
tnose In just opposite circumstances my text
comes IN with an omnipotence OF meaning.
Inc shadow Oh, the shadow Shadow OF
bereavement Shadow of sicknessl Shadow
o. bankruptcy Shadow of mental de-
preston! Shadow OF persecution! Shadow
oil death! Speak out oh suudial of Ahaz,
and toll the people that God manages ths
shadowl AS Hezokiah sat In his palace
wrapped in invalidisin and surrounded by
onodynes AMI cataplasms aud looked
out upon the black hand OF tho
only c.ocl known at that time and saw
it move back ten degrees, he learned
lesson that majority OF the human race
need this hour to learn-that the best friend
a man ever had controls the shadow. Tho
setbacks ore sometimes tho bast things that
can happen. The great German author
SCHILLER, could not work unless no had in his
room tbs scent of rotten apples, aud the de-
cay OF tho fruits of earthly prosperity may
become an inspiration instead of depres-
sion. Robert Chnmbers's lame feet shut him
up rom other work, and he became the
world renowned publisher, and helped fash
Ion the best literature of the ages. The
painful disorder like that of Hezekah called
a carbuncle is spelled exactly tho same rs
tue precious stone called the car
may become tho jewel of immortal value.
Your setback. liks that of Ahaz's sundial.
may be recovery and triumph. never had
n setback but 1t turned out to be a set for
ward. You never would have become q
Christian II you had not had a setback. The
highest thrones in heaven arc for the set
bacSS. In 1851 tue shadow of the sundial of
this nation was set back, and oil THINGS
seemed going to ruin, and it was set back
further IN 1852 and further in 1853. and still
further In 1855 but there is not an intel
iigent and well balanced man-north or
south, east or west-but feels it was set bacl,
toward the sunrise.
But promise to show you how the shaw
ows might be turned back. First, by going
much among the young people. In most
family circles there are grandchildren. By
this divine arrangement most OF the people
who have passed tho meridian of life can
compass themselves by juvenility. 1t is a
bal thing for an old man or old woman to
sit looking ut the vivacity OF their grand
children shouting, ''Stop that racsetm
Better join in tue fun. Let the eighty-year-
old grandfather join the eight-year-old
grandson or granddaughter. My father and
mother lived TO see over eighty children and
grandchildren and great grandchildren, and
moro bosterous crew were never turned
out on this sublunary sphere and they all
seemed to cry to tho old folks, keep
young" and they did keep young. Don't
walk with n cane unless you have to or only
us defence in city afflicted with
too many CANNES. Don't wear plassas
stronger than necessary, putting on mum
Der tens When eIghteens will do as we'll.
Don't go into the company Of those who ara
always talking about rheumatism and lum-
baSo and shortness of breath and the brevity
of human life. 1t is too much for my gravity
to hear an octogenariau talking about thu
shortness Of human lie. From all can find
out no has always been here and from present
prospects he is always going to stay. Remain
young. Hang up your stockings in Christmas
time. Help the boys fly the Kite. Teach the
girls how to dress their dolls. Better thau
urnica for your stiff joints and catnp tea
for your sleepless nights will be q large dose
of youthful companionship.
toeb DllCh tLc ClOCh VI uuIIl1u uLO. MAKO
the shadow Of the suniial OF Ahaz retreat
ten degrees. People mako themselves old
by always talking about being old and
wishing tor the good old days, which were
never US good rs these days. From ell can
hear the grandchildren arc not half as bad
rs the grandparents We're. Matters have
been hushed up. But il you have ever been
in aroom adjoining a room where some very
old people, little deaf, were talking over
old times you will find that this age does not
monopolize all tho young rascas. 1t may
now DO hard to get young people up early
enough in the morning, but their grandpa
rents always hal TO be pulled out OF bed.
1t is wrong now to play mfscbeYious tricks on
tue unsuspecting, but eighty years ago ut
school that now venerable man sat down on
II crooked pin not nccidently placad there,
and purposely drove the sleigh riding party
too near the odge Of the embank,nent that
he might see how they would look when
tu;nbled into the snow. And that man who
has so little patience with childish oSuber-
ance was in olden times up to pranks, one
half of which if practiccd by the eight year.
old of to-day would set grandfather and
brance of what you were between five and
ten years of age and with patience capable
Of everything join with the young. Put back
the shadow OF the dial not ten degrees. but
ffty and sixty and seventy degrees.
Set back your clocks also by entering on
desire to inspire the young we have in our
essays had much to say about what has
been accomplished by the young; of Ro
mulus. who founded Rome when he was
twenty years OF age; of Cortes, who had con-
quered Mexico ut thirty years: OF Pitt.
who was Prime Minister OF England nt
twenty-four years; of Raphael, who died
Mt thirty seven years; of Calvin, who wrote
his institutes" at twenty-six; of Melanc-
thon, who took learned professors chair.
Mt twenty-one years; of Luther, who had
conquered Germany. for the Reformation
by the time he was thirty-five years. And
it is all very well for us to show how early
in life one can do very great things for God
and the welfare of the world, but some OF
the mightiest work for God has been done
by septuagenarians and octogenarians and
nonagenarians. Indeed, there is work
which none tut such can do. They pre-.
serve the equipoise of senates, of religious
denominations, Of reformatory movements
Young men for action, old men for coun
sci. Instead of any of you beginning tc
fold up your energies, arouse anew your
energies. With the experience you have
obtained and the opportunities OF obserya.
ton you have had during long life. you
ought to be able to do in one year now
more than you did in ten years right after
you have passed out of your teens. Physica