The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-01-14

; ter idea The LIZ VIZ, turned fac
: that day from g1is- .e1r.,.rtl srlndow
and started il tog-tsel z-,arise is vii
ing % DIS the sane u FOR all of Il,
The lleologiaus Win, tick 10 oil
religious technicaliitti uAtil they b,
come sGporltics wollt. not call
anything but conversion. 7 call Il
change @om going toward s1lnilow-
20 going toward sunrise. That ma
who never tries to unbuckle the clas
Of evil habit, and who keeps al tn
sins Of the past and the presan
freiglring him, and who ignores tn
one redemption made by the onl-
One who could redecm-if that MAJ
win examine the sundial he viii fine
that the shadow Is going forwarv
and he IS On the way to shutdown
i HIS day is on the road to night.
! All the watches that tick, all tn,
clocks that strike, al the sandglasse.
that empty themselves, all the shad
ows that move on Ill the sundial.
indicate the approach of darkness
But now, III answer TO prayer, as IL
my text the change was in answe,
TO prayer, the pardoning Lord re
veres things and the man starts to
| ward sunrise instead Of sunset. He
turns the other way. The captain
Of salvation gives him the military
command: Attention. Right about
! face" He was marching toward in
difference, marching toward hard
ness Of heart, marching toward pray
| erlessness, marching toward sin.
| marching toward gloom, marching
| toward death.
Now he turns and marches toward
| peace, marches toward light and
| marches toward comfort and march
es toward high hope and marches
toward triumph stupendous and
everlasting, toward hosannas that
ever hoist and hallelujahs that ever
roll Now if that is not the turning
Of the shadow on the dial of Ahsz
from going toward sundoHn % going
toward sunrise, what is it2
have seen daybreak over Nc.
Blanc and the Matterhorn, over the
heights Of Lebanon, over Mount
Washington, over the Sierra Ne
vadas and mid-Atlantic, the morn
ing after a departed storm when the
blllows were liquid Alps and liquid
Sierra Nevadas, but the sunrise Of
the soul Is more efulgent and more
transporting. It battles all the
heights Of the soul and illumines all
the depths Of the soul and whelms
all the faculties, all the aspirations,
alS the ambitions, all the hopes with
q light that sickness cannot eclipse
or Death extinguish or eternity do
anything but augment and magnify.
l preach the sunrise
As l look at that retrograde move
ment Of the shadow on Ahaz's dial, |
remember that it was a sign that
Hezekiah was going to get well, and
he got well. So have to tell all YOU,
who are by the grace of God having
your day turned from decline toward
night to ascent toward morning, that
you are going to get well-weIl of all
your sins, well OF all your sorrows,
we'll Of all your, earthly distresses.
Sunrise!
But, says some one, all that YOU
say may be true, but that does not
hinder the horrors Of dissolution. |
Why, you who are the Lords are
not going TO die. All that the grave
gets OF you as compared with your
chief, your immortal nature, is as the
clippings Of your finger nails as com
pared with your whole body. AS you
run the scissors along the edge of
your thunbnail and you cut off that
which is Of no use but rather a him
dranc9, you do not mourn over the |
departure Of that fragment which
flies away
Death will be only the scissoring
off Of that which could be of no use.
and the soul has no funeral over that
which would be an awful nuisance Il
we could not get rid Of it. This BODY
as 1t now is, what q failure it would
make OF heaven if our departing s.l..!
had to be burdened with it in tie
next world While others there 90
ten thousand miles minute we
would take about an hour To walk
four miles, and while our ncighbor
could see a hundred miles
we could see only ten l1li1 IS, and the
t1eetest and the healt!iost of our
bodies if seen there would make it
necessary to open in heaven an asy-
lum for cripples.
No, NO; one of the best possible
things that will happen to us will be
the sloughing off Of this body when
we have no more use for it in it's pres
ant state. When it shall come I'D inI
It's resurrected form we will be very
glad to get it hack again, but not as
It is now with its limitations and be-
lWartmentS 1nnumerable. Sunrise
There shall battle my weary soul
In seas of heavenly rest,
And not of trouble roll
Across my peaceful breast.
SUNSH . IN YOUR FACES.
Sunr1se >,;t not like one of those ,
:, = you had gone to bed
ate or die ut sleep well, and you
get up Oh 4 and yawning, and
he morrll1s. 18th is repulsion, and
you feel IL, lying to the morning
'un shlnlI; 20 your window, 81 do
1ot see W. Jfou find to smile about;
your brig. IS is to me a mockerv.n
9uC the rli,' n Of the next world will
20 a mo-7r- ; after a sound sleep, a
deep thai l>.thing can disturb, and :
7ou- viii riac, the sunshine in your :
aces, and III your first morning in