The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-01-21


OF ofOmnipotence-TIms's Flight Marked
by the Suurises--Dayb1e b1 eak on the DIoun-
tain Tops.
BROOKLYN, Jan. lO.-Dr. Talnage's
sermon this morning was full of bright
ness and good cheer. lie might have
called it a recipe for happiness. The
buoyancy and elasticity of temperament
which characterize him were conspicu-
GUS throughout. and must have been
impaired to his hearers. His text was
III King Xxx, II, And Isaiah the pro.
phet criedunto the Lord; and he brought
the shadow ten degrees backward by
which it had gone down in the dial of
Ahaz."
Here is the first clock or watch or
chronometer or timeplece Of which the
world has any knowledge. But it was
watch that did not tick and q clock
that did not strike. 1t was il sundial.
Ahaz, the king, invented it,. Between
the hours given to statecraft and the
cares OF office he invented something bv
which he could tell the time OF day. 1t
took the world six thousand wears to
make the present chronometer. So with
tho measurement OF longer spaces than
minutes and borrs. Time was calculat-
ed from new nOon TO new moon; then
from harvest 10 harvest. Then the year
was proncSnced to b. three hundred and
1ilty-lour days and then three hundred
and sixty DAYS, and not until q lone
while after three hundred and sixty-liye
days. Then events were calculated
from the foundation Of Rome, aftcrward
from the Olympic games. Then the
Babylonlans had their measurement of
the year and The Romans theirs aud the
Armenians theirs and the IIindoos
theirs. Chronology was busy for GEN.
trrles studying monuments, Inscriptions.
coins, mummcs and astronomy, irving
to lay plan by which all question Of
dates might be settled and events put in
their right place in the procession of the
ages. But the chronologists only heaped
" mountain of confusion and bewil-
dcrment until in the Sixth century
DonJ slus ENiSuus, Roman abbot,
said, Let everything date from the
birth at bethlehem OF the Lord Jesus
Christ, the SaviNllr Of The world" The
ahbo5 proposed to have things dated
backward and forward from that great
event. What a splendid thought for the
world! What mighty thing for Chris
hanlty! 1t would have been most nat
ural 10 date everything from the crea-
ton OF tue world. But L am Glad the
chronolO9!sts could not too easily guess
how old the world was in order 10 oct
TIC nations IN the habit of dating from
that occurrence in it's documents and his
tCfleS. Forever fixed is it that all his
tory Is tc be dated with reference to the
Dlrth or Christ, and, this matter settled
Iales, the chief chronologist, declared
that the world was made five thousand
four hundred and eleven years before
ChrlSt, and The deluge came three th0us-
and one hundred and fifty-five years be-
tore Christ, and all the illustrious events
or the lastSnineteen centuries and all the
great events OF all time to come have
beep or shall be dated from the birth of
Christ.
= We are told that Hezekiah the kin
was dying Of q boil. 1t must have be !
one of the worst kind of carbun cles. a
boil withCpt any cen,rss,, core and sonie-
tunes oeae in": A iig was put upon it
as Fo"nY. o,. Hezeklah did not want
~, ~: 10y Ills son, who was to take
liz niv1n, had not yet been born, and
tleA1hlnaV death would have been the
ueaoii oh " e nation. So he prays for re-
So'vry w ' ,'nd ls iold he will get we'll. But
il;,>' M '.,,nS ""n.s s1omc miraculous sfgn to make
,'ni,;' ii'n su'o IF it. He has the choice OF
iiIvns nHnns 5e, Sao shadow on the sundlal of
.na,'I, nn"H "u.ah @ hcc or retreat. He rcpl ed it
"ouiu noI be so wonderful to have the
sun sun ~ uowNl, for ii always does go down
eoon1A n " i"'cr. lie asks that it 90 back
49, %.u' - othcr words, let the day in
o.o1a o"I ~ oi soin on toward sundown, turn
iiI ~ somInl hoin sunrise. 1 see the inva-
iTorkots h nnooHtered up and wrapped in
tho snn",J n,',,5;oI ing out Of the window upon
nmT otehns ono%l a,Sh the courtyard. While he
ahoJnm, m".S' , NV shadow on the dial the
sD" an;r Dlns to retreat. Iuslcud of
Sous w W. 1ard six o'clo TX in the even
thso ~ $50 lback toward six O'Clock in
I,.o,.,;. cmo niotn'sl The big poulticc he'd been
tha hn;II h,tsomelimc, and sure enough
Noua DIt ~. Ike and Hezckiali got well. .
,n,'r i;oEpH NpoHt you will come on with
ihis ,weu On criticism and try 20 explain
Laion of f1IN IlN say it was an optical de-
scemed 70 ano9F.h, and the shadow only
and Il wos ss'MSk or cloud came over
shadow lid ~ 'rIrEertain which way the
ed II to o,o hSon. aud as HeZckiah cxi ect-
oxn n';nS fnt-i he took the action of his
No. ,hn st pr The retrograde moverh ent.
d;n1s ~ Two asadow went back on all the
tm TT Thnn land and other lands. Turn
,owoa 30 picles XXxii, 81, aud find that
tLn ,,oin Tn BABYLON The mighty men of
nmn p"'aco Noticed the same phenomc.
thnr;,u nn" ,,, u: you DO not like Bible au-
fms and vG G.aa aoVer your copy of Hcrodo-
uconln nn,i nnu that away off in Egypt the
thirp a., otY:ed that there was some
fact is wy ~ atter with the sun. The
umon Ca the whole universe waits
arc no, ~ Had suns and moons and stars
can with tiH big things 20 him, and he
eniirn ,voritH little finger turn back all
hack ,hn as easily as you could set
yonr cIno,, nuHr hand or minute hand OF
AT the opel ';n" vo % ,,o w
Y0n nil fani ,Tzing on the flight Of time.
ward s1nGonsM pat on are moving ou to.
der n consenn and many OF You are un.
this morning. tent depression. l propose
watches and oioo,so ~ so' .a'e nam nanus on your
way. / proua oto'hs W solng tnc etner