The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-01-28

going forward and make it go back
ward. You think have q big under
taking on hand. but it can be done. Il
| the same Lord who reversed the shadow
| In Hezekiah's courtyard moves upon US
While looking at the sundial Of Heze
kiah, and we find the shadow retreating
we ought to learn that God controls the
shadows. We are all ready to acknowl
edge His management of the sunshine
We stand in the glow of bright morn
Ing, and we say in our feelings, if not
with SO many words: ''This life is from
God. This warmth is from God" o.
we have rush Of prosperity, and we
say: ''These successes are from God.
What providential thing it was
bought that lot just before the rise OF
real estate! How grateful to God am
that l made that investment! Why,
they have declared 10 per cent. dividend!
What mercy it was that 1 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
that the storm is from God and the dark
ness from God and the chill from God.
Or we buy the day before the markets
retreat, or 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
LIST of January We found ourselves thou
sands of dollars worse off than we eX-
pected. Who under such circumstances
says: This loss is from God. must
have been allowed to go in that unfor-
tunate enterprise for some good reason;
God controls the east wind as well as the
west wind"
My friends, cannot look for one mo-
ment on that retrogade 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 lesson, for
anybody can &c happy when things 90
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 to read more orders than you can
fill, and in the next letter you find a
dividend far larger than you have been
promised, and your neighbOr comes in to
tell you some fiattcring thing he has just
heard said about you, and you find that
all the styles of goo' S 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 on
the center of the tea-table and roses OF
n hn foh
what more do you want of consolation?
you could boss the world. But for those
in just opposite circumstances my text
comes in with an OmnipOtence of mean
Shadow of bereavement! Shadow of
sickness! Shadow of bankruptcy!
Shadow Of mental depression! Shadow
Of persecution! Shadow OF death! Speak
out, sundial of Ahaz. and tell all the
people that God manages the shadow!
AS HeSekiah sat in his palace window,
in invalidism and surrounded
BY anodynes and cataplasms, and looked
)ut upon the black hand of the only
clock known at that time and saw it
move back ten degrees. he learned a
essen that majority of the human race
need this hour to learn-that the best
friend a man ever had controls the
shadow. The sctbacks are sometimes
the best things that can happen.
never had a setback but it turned
)ut to be. set forward. You never
would have become Christian if you
lad not had a setback. The highest |
thrones in Heaven are for the setbacks. |
in 1861 the shadow of the sundial of |
his nation was set back and all things |
seemed going to ruin, and it was set back |
arther in 1862. and farther in 1863, and |
till farther in 1865, but there is not an |
intelligent and well balanced man, North |
n South, East or West, but feels it was
! setback toward the sunrise.
But / promised to show you how the |
hadows might be turned back. First, |
~ going much among the young people. |
n most family circles there are grand
children. BY this divine arrangement |
most of the people who have passed the
meridian OF life can compass themselves
~ iuvenility. 1t is bad thing for an
I'D man or old woman to sit looking at
he vivacity of their grandchildren shout
ng, stop that racket Better Join in
he fun. Let the sO-year-old grand
ather join the S-year-young grandson or
granddaughter. My father and mother
wed to see over eighty children and
and great grandchildren,
nd more boiSterOus crew were never
urned out on this sublunary sphere.
nd they all seemed to cry to the old
Olks keep young" and they did keep
Dung.
Don't walk with a cane unless you
ave to, or only as defense in city af-
icted with too many CANNES. Don't
rear glasses stronger than necessary,
utting on number tens when eighteens
ill do as well. Don't go into the COM
any of those who are always talking
bout rheumatism and lumbago and
hOrtness of breath and the brevity of
uman life. 1t is too much for my CRAWL
7 to hear an OctOgenarian talking about
De shortness of human life. From all
IN find out he has always been here,
nd from present prospects he is always
DING to STAY. Remain young. Hang
p your stockings in Christmas time.
[elp the boys fly the kite. Teach the
iris how to dress their dolls. Better
ian arnica for your stiff joints and cat
in tea for your SleeplesS nights will be