The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1892-01-14

: any of you beginning to fold uE
t your energies arouse anew your
t energies Let me say to those
4 in the afternoon of life: Don't be
T putting off the harness; when God
wants it off He will take it off. Don't
be frightened out of life by the grip as
; many are. At the first sneeze of the
influenza many give up all as lost No
!: new terror has come on the earth. The
, microbes as the cause of disease were
described in the Talmud 1,70O years
!; ago as invisible legions of dangerous
ones" Don't be scared out of life by
! all this talk about heart failure. That
trouble has always been in the world.
That is what all the people that ever
passed out of this life have died Of
heart failure. Adam had it and all of
his descendants have had it or will
have it. Do not be watching for symp-
toms, or you will have symptoms of
everything. Some of you will yet die
of symptoms.
But while looking at the sun dial of
Ahaz and see the shadow of it move,
/ notice that it went back toward the
sunrise instead of forward toward the
sunset-toward the morning instead of
toward the night That thing the
world is now willing to do and ia many
cases has done. There have a great
many things been written and spoken
about the sunset of life. | have said
some of them myself. But my text
suggests better idea. The Lord who
turned back that day frcm going to-
ward shutdown and started it toward
sunrise is willing to do the same thing
for all of US. The theologian who
sticks to old religious technicalities un-
Til they become soporifcs would not
call it anything but conversion. call
it change from going toward shutdown
to going toward sunrise.
That man who never tries to un-
buckle the clasp of evil habit aud who
keeps all the sins of the past aud the
present freighting him, and who ig-
nores the one redemption made by the
only One who could redeem, if that
man will examine the sun dial he will
find that the shadow is going forward
and he is on the way to shutdown. His
day is on the road to night. All the
watches that tick, all the clocks that
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themselves, all the shadows that move
on all the sun dials indicate the APP
proach of darkness. But now, in an
swer to prayer, as in my text the
change was in answer to prayer the
pardoning Lord reverses things and the
man starts toward sunrise instead of
sunset. He turns the other way. He
was marching toward indifference,
marching toward hardness of heart,
marching toward prayerlessness,
marching toward sin, marching toward |
gloom. marching toward death. Now |
he turns and marches toward peace, |
marches toward light and marches to-
ward high hope an marches toward a
triumph stupendous and everlasting.
l preach the su lrise. AS / look at
that rrtrograde movement of the
shadow on Ahaz's dial remember that
it was sign that Hezekiah was going
to get well, and he got we'll So have
to tell all you who are by the grace of
God having your day turned from de-
cline toward night, to ascent toward
morning that you are going t. get
well-well of all your sins, we'll of all
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distresses. Sunrise.
But, says someone, all that you say
may be true, but that doe, not hinder
the horrors of dissolution. Why, you 1
who are The Lords are not going to die
All that the grave gets of you as COM
pared with your chief your immortal
nature, is as the clippings of your
niger nails as compared with your 1
whole body. Death will be only the ]
off OF that which could be of !
10 use and the soul has no funeral l
over that which Won d be an awful I
nuisance if we could get rid of it.
This body as it now is, what a failure it t
would make of Heaven If our departing t
ou1 had to be hardened in the next G
world. While others there go 10, 600 a
niles minute we would take about an {
lour to walk four miles, a Id while our 7
leighbor immortals could see a hun 8
red miles we could see only ten miles,
nd the fleetest and healthiest of our t
odles 1T seen there would make it
e essary to open in Heavel an asylum A
or Cripples. No, n; one of the best il
ssible things that will happen to us
viii be the sloughing eff of this body d
Then we have no more use for it in its l.
resent ate. When it shall come up (.
1 its resurrectcd form we will be very h
a to get it back again, but not as ii is b
ow with its lin tations and bedwarf- fl
tents innumerab!e. Sunrise!
There shall battle my weary soul iS
In seas of heavenly rest, ::
And not q wave of trouble roll ="
Across my peaceful breast
Sunrise! But not like one of those d.
after you had gone to bed al
tie, or did not sleep well, and you get b
p chilled and yawning, and the MORN
g bath is repulsion, aud you feel
ke saying to the morning sun shining L
to your window: II do not see what Ji
'u find to smile about; your bright 81
ess is to me mockery." But the in II
lsh of the next world will be a morn W
g after a sound sleep, sleep that III
1thing can disturb, and you will rise, JIG
lie sunshine in your faces, and in Ca
'ur first morning in Heaven you
i wade down into the sea of 1u
ass mingled with fire, the foam on fire ris
tin a splendor you never saw on In
nth and the rolling waves are liza
xologies and the rocks of that shore TIC