The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-19
TURNED BACK.
lust Now People Are Moralizing
on Times Flight.
cat. Backs Are Frequently Good Things for
Christlans-The Highest Heavenly
Seats Are For Good People
DIR. Talmage's Sermon.

nronhet cried unto the Lord: and He
brought the shadow ten degrees back
ward by which it had gone down in the
dial Of Ahaz.'
Here is the first clock, or watch, or
.hrouometer, or time piece of which the
world has any knowledge; but il was
. watch that did not tick, and clock
that did not strike. 1t was n sun dial
Ahaz. the king, invented it. Between
the hours given to state-craft and the
cares Of office he invented something
|by which he could tell the time of
|dav. The sun dial may have been n
great column. and when the shadow of
that column reached one point it was
10 o'clock n m, and when it reached an
other point it was 8 o'clock p. m, and
ali the other hours and half hours were
80 measured Or, it may have been a
|fight of stairs, such as may now be
found in llindustan and other old coun-
tries and when the shadow reached one
ster il was 10 o'clock n ID, or another
stan it. was 4 o clock p. m, and likewise
,.fer hours may have been indicated.
The clepsydra or water-clock follow
ed the sun-dial, and the sand-glass fol-
lowed the clepsydra. Then came the
of Alfred the Great and
the candle was marked into three parts,
and while the first part was burning he
gave himself to religion, and while the
second part was burning he gave him
self To politics, and while the third part
was burning he gave himself to rest.
After awhile came the wheel and
Weight clock and Pope Sylvester the
Second was its most important inventor.
And the skill of centuries
OF exquisite mechanism toiled
at the time pieces until the world had
the Vick's clock of the fourteenth cen
fury, and Huyghens, the inventor,
swung the first pendulum, and DIR.
Hooke contrived the recoil escapement.
And the endless chain followed, and
the ratchet and lever took its place;
and the compensation balance and the
stem .winder followed, and now we
have the buzz and clang of the great
clock and watch factories of Switzer-
land and Germany and England and
America turning out what seems TO be
the perfection of time-pieces. 1t took
the world 5000 years to make the pres
ent chronometer So with the measure
mcnt of longer spaces than minutes and
hours Time was calculated from new
moon TO new moon; then from harvest
10 harvest Then the year was pro-
to be 35i days and then 364
DAYS, and not until long while after,
S65 days. The events were calculated
from the foundation of Rome, after
ward from the Olympic games Then
the Babylonians had their measure
ment Of the year and the Ro mans theirs
and the Armcnians theirs and the
Hindoos theirs. Chronology was
busy for centuries studying monu-
ments, inscriptions, coins and mum
mics and astronomy, trying TO
Law plan by which all question
Of dates might be settled and events
put in their right place in the process
sion of the ages But the chronologlsts
only heaped up a mountain OF con-
fusion and bewilderment until in the
sixth century, Dionysius ENignus,
Roman abbot, said: Let everything
date from the birth at Bethlehem OF
the Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour oil
the world" The abbot proposed To
have things dated backward and for
ward from the great event What
splendid thought for the world
What mighty thing for Chris
tanty! 1t would have been most
natural to date everything from the
creation of the world. But ! am glac
the chronologists could not too easily
guess how old the world was in order
10 get the nations in the habit OF dating
from that occurrence in its documents
and histories. Forever fixed is IT tina
Pll history is to be dated with reference
70 the birth of Christ, and, this matte
settled, Hales, the chief chro
hologist, declared that the worl'
was made 5,4ll years betor
christ and all the illustrious event
OF the last nineteen centuries and al
The great events of all time TO com
have been or shall be dated from tn
birth of Christ. These things l sa
nat you may know what a watch II
what a clock is, what an almanac II
and learn TO appreciate through VIVA
'ols and haidships and perplexities tn
world came to its present convenience
and comforts and to help you TO NOR
nSpectful consideration of the sun'di'
B u Ahaa planted in my text
We are told that Hezekiah, the kinl
\ was dying of boil. II must have bee
one OF the worst kind of carbuncles,
von without any central core, an
@metimes beautiful. A fig was put N
Va II as a poultice. Hezekiah d
vol want TO die then. His son, wi
Vas TO take the kingdom, had not y,
zen born, and Hezekiah's death won
ave been the death of the nation.
e prays for a recovery and Is told