Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-16

of bright morning and we say in ou=
feelings II not with 80 many words:
"This life Is from God, this warmth Is
from God"
o, yes; we acknowledge God in the
sunshine of bright day or the sun
shine of a great prosperity. But sup
pose 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 shadow. How slow we
are to realize that the storm is from
God and the chill from God. Or, we
buy the day before the markets re-
treat, or we make an investment that
never pays, or we purchase goods that
we cannot dispose Of, or crop OF grain
we sowed is ruined by drought or
freshet, or when we took account OF
stock on the first of January we found
ourselves thousands of dollars worse
off than we expected.
Who under such circumstances says:
''This loss is from God. ] must have
been allowed to 60 into that unfor-
tunatc enterprise for some good reason;
God controls the east wind rs well as
the west wind?" My friends l cannot
look for one moment on thatretrograde
shadow on Ahaz's dial without learn
ing that God controls the shadows and
the lesson we need all to learn, that he
controls the sunshine. is not so neces-
sary lesson, for anybody can be happy
when things go right.
When you sleep eight hours 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 dividend
far larger than you have been promised,
and your neighbor comes in to tell You
some flattering thing he has just heard
said about you and you find that all
the styles of goods 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
in the center of the tea table and roses
of health in checks all around the
table, what more do you want OF conso-
lation? l don't pity you bit You
feel as If you could boss the world.
But for those in just opposite circum"
stances my text comes in with omnipo-
tence OF meaning. The shadow! q.
the shadow! Shadow of bereavement.
Shadow of sickness! Shadow OF bank
ruptcy. Shadow of mental depression!
Shadow of persecution. Shadow OF
death. Speak out, o, sun dial OF Ahaz,
and tell all the people that God man
ages the shadow! As Hczekiah sat in
his palace window wrapped in invalid.
ism and surrounded by anodynes and
ca,aplasms and looked out upon the
black hand OF the only clock known at
that time and saw it move back ten de-
grees, he learned lesson that ma
iority of the human race need to learn
that the best friend man ever had
controls the shadow. The set-backs
are sometimes the best things that can
happen.
But / promised to show you how the
shadows might be turned back. First.
by going much among the young peo'
pie. In most family circles there are
grandchildren. By this divine arrange
ment most OF the people who have
passed the meridian of life can compass
themselves by juvenility. 1t is a bad
thing for an old man or an old woman
to sit looking at the vivacity of their
grandchildren shouting, stop that
racket Better join in the fun. Let
the eighty-year-old grandfather join the
eight-year.young grandson or grand
daughter. Don't 60 into the company
of those who are always talking about
rheumatism and lumbago and short
ness OF breath and the brevity Of human
life.
Remain young. Hang up your stock
ings in Christmas time. Help the boys
iy the kite. Teach the girls how to
dress their dolls Better than arnica
for your stiff joints and catnip tea for
your sleepless nights, will be dose of
youthful companionship. Set back the
clock of human life. Make the shadow
OF the sun dial of Ahaz retreat ten de-
grees. People make themselves old by
always talking about being old and
wishing for the good old days, which
were never as good rs these days.
From all l can hear the grandchildren
are not half as bad as the grandparents
were. Matters have been hushed up.
But il you have ever been in a room
adjoining a room where some very old
people a little deaf were talking over
old times you will find that this age
does not monopolize all the young ras-
Gals. It may now be hard to get
young people up early enough in the
morning but their grandparents always
had TO be pulled out of bed. 1t is
wrong now to play mischievous tricks
on the unsuspecting, but eighty years
ago at school that now venerable man
sat down on q crooked pin not accident
ally placed there, aNd purposely drove
the slei0h riding Iiartv too near the