DC ———— REY. DR. TAL NAGE. BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON, “The Sundial of Ahaz" ———— %, — —— — THE Subject: Text: “And Isaiah the prophet cried anto the Lord: and He brought the shad ow ten degrees backward by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz."—11 King xx, 11. Here is the first nometar or timepiece of has any knowledge But it was a watch that did not tick and a clock that did not strike. It was a sundial. Ahaz the king, invented it, Between the hours given to statecraft and the cares of office he invented something by which he could tell the time of day, This sundial may have been a great column, and when the shadow of that col. umn reached one point it was nine o'clock A. M., and when it reacaed another point it was three o'clock pr. M., and all the hours and half hours were so measured. Or it may have been a flight of stairs such as may now be found in Hindeostan and other old coun- tries, and when the shadow reached one step ft was ten o'clock A. M., or another step it was four o'clock pr. ., and likewise other hours may have been indicated, The clepsydra or water clock followed the sundial, and the =andglass followed the clepsydra. Then came the candle clock of Allred the Great and the candle was marked into three parts, and while the first part was burning he gave himself to religion and while the second part was burning he gave himself to politics, and while the third part was burning he gave himself to rest. After awhile came the wheel and weight clock, { and Pope Sylvester the Second, was its most | important inventor. And the skill of cea- turies of sxquisite mechanism toiled the | timepieces until world had the Vick's clock of the Fourteenth century and Huy- hens, the (nventor, swung the first pendu on n snd Dr. Hooke contrived the r escapement And followed the lever” its the compensation balance stemwinder followed, and now w buzz and clang of th factories of Switzerland and gland and America turning watch or chro which the world clock or the the ‘endless and and COL! chain’ pinion “ratchet place, nd ¢ have the and Germany an ‘wh At + great clock wate inscriptions omy, tryin question of dates events put in cession of the only heaped ur bewildermont Di Exiguus, wn abbot, said, everything date om the birth at vehem of the Lord ‘arist, the riour of the world The abbot proposed have things dated backward an rward n that What a splendid ] What a mighty It would have been from the their piace in th chronologis confusion ar t Se sixth century ages the 2 ID until nysius great event hristianity to date everything creation © he worl. But I am glad the chronologists could not to) easily guess bow old the world was in order to get the pations in the habit of dating from that urrence in its ents and his tories. Forever fixed is it that all history is to be dated with reference to the birth of 1 hrist, and, this matter settled, Hales, the shief chronologist, declared that the world made five thousand four fred and even years bef : and th eo deluge came three th 3 ne bundred and fifty five years be y» Christ, and all the trious events of the centuri all the ot OC nineteen great ts of all ti shall These thir eve nted in my text flown, turn invalid king bolstered up blankets looking out of ti undial in the cour shadow on t} ’ 4 window upon the tyard While he watches the the shadow begins to retreat Instead of gon n on toward six lock in the evening It goes back toward six o'clock in the morn ing The » big pouitice had been drawing for some time, and ie the boll broke and Hezekiah g : you will ex on wi higher criticism and try to explain this away and say it was an optical delusion of Hezekiah, and the shadow only seemed to go back or a cloud came over and it was uncertain which way the shadow did go, and as Hezekiah expected it to go back he took the action of bis own mind for the retrograde move ment, N the shadow went back on | all the dials.of that land and other lands Turn to Hl Chronicles xxxil., 851, and find that away off in Babylon the mighty men of the palace boticed the same phenomenon And if you do n the authority turn over your « Herodotus and find that away off Is ] the people noticed that there was thing the matter with the sup I'he fact is that the whole uaiverss | waits upon God, and suns and moons and starsare pot very big things to Him, and He ean with His little finger turn back an tire world as ensily as you oan set back the hour hand or minutes hand of your clock or watch, At the opening of the nsw year peonla are moraliz.ng on the flight of time You all feel that you are moving on toward sun down and many of you are under a conse quent depression, propose this morning to sot the hands of your watches and eiooks to going the other way. | propose Lo show ou how you make the shadow of your dial ike the shadow on the dial of Ahaz to stop going forward and make it go back. ward, You think ! have a big undertakin on hand, but it can be done if the same Lor who reversed the shadow in Hezkiah's court. yard moves upon us, While looking at the sundial of Hezkiah and wa find the shadow retreating we onght to learn that God controls the shadows, We are all ready fo ackpowledge His manage ment of the sunshine, We stand in the glow of a bright morning and we my in our feelings If not with so many words, “This lite is from God, this warmth is from God.” Or, we have a rush of prosperity | and we say, ‘Thess su cos are from Gol What a providential thing it asd i bough that Jot just before the ostate How toful to God I Ton ot I made that investment ! why he ¥ have aelared | ten per cent, dividend Wha sbat 1sold out my if What a me aan none t like lo on - ——————— | cont. | The shadow! Ad A lapse! Oh, yes; we acknowledge God in the sunshine of n bright day or the sun. shine of a great prosperity, = But suppose the day Is dark? You have to light the | gas at noon. The sun does not show him- | self all day long, There Is nothing but shadow. How slow we are to realizs that | the storm is from God and the darkness | from God and the chill from God, Or we buy the day before the market retreats, or wo make an investment that never pays, or we purchase goods that we cannot dispose or a crop of grain we sowed is ruined by drought or freshet, or when wo took count of on found our off than we expectad., Who under such cir cumstances says, “This loss is from God, | | must have been allowed to go into that un fortunate enterprise for some good reason God controls the east wind as well as wast wind.” My friends, I cannot look for one moment on that retrograde shadow of Ahaz' without learning that God controls ths shad ows and tha lesson we need all to learn. That He controls the sunshine is not so nec essary a lesson, for anybody can be hap; y when things go rightt When you eight hours a night and riss with an appetite that cannot easily wait for breakfast and you go over to the storas and open your mail to read more orders than you can fill, and in the next letter vou find a dividend far larger than you have been promised, and your neighbor comes in to tell you some flatter ing thing he has just heard sald about you, ind you find that all the style which you deal have advanced fiftesn per in value, and on your way home you meet your children in full romp and there are roses on the iter of the tea table and roses of health in che all round the table, what more 40 you want of consolation? I don't pity you a bit feel as if you could boss the worl those in just opposite cumstanc in with an omnipotence of Oh, the shadow! ! Shadow of, stock sloop of goods in ont s my text weaning SBhadow of bereavement of sickness! Shadow bankruptcy Shadow of mental de pression! Shadow of persecution! Shadow of death! Bpeak out, sundial of Ahaz and tell the that God manage shadow Hezekinh In |} pala , wrapped invalidism surrounded by anodynes catapia and looked u 1 the a hand { i wn at tt ti and saw ten arned majority auman ra yar to learo--ths an best Irie ad contr comes ol i" oh people i the and we logre won that a wx! this bh IAN aver o MOK Ae § 2 mn } MAY A setback On it tar ward x Christian never ron had not had a tac K. further ir in and « Bast urthe how the shaw First, by IX prope grandchii . vou ight be ture ek among the ¥ aaa there are this divine arrangement most of who have passed the meridian compass themselves by juvenility bad thing for sa old man « i sit looking at the vivacity children shoutio Better join in the grandiat het i grandson or granddaugit gother live 1 10 see olng much family oir the 1e paoplo wight My fath ver asar a arian talking alx ¢. From all I can fis 0 here and (ro te o does not it pie up their w pulled out of bed y mitschevions tricks or YEAS Ago at is man sat down on a crooked p idently placad there, and purposely ve the sleigh riding party too near the ig the embankment that he might se how ti would when tambled into the snow And that in who has so little patience with childish ance was in olden up to pranks, on half of which if p od by the eight-year. of today w grandfather and grandmother crazy ive your remem brace of what you w tween five and ton years of age, and with patisnce ca able if everything join with the young. Put back the shadow of the dial not ten degrees, but fifty and sixty and seventy degree t ba by ents 1S AD CAR may | early enoug renta It is the Unsuep it i i Y alwa wron rchool that ne oy look an exube: times nots iid wot Hay 3 oh NT nex als) ristian works ang have say about what the young: tome when he of Cortes, who had thirty years; of Pits ma Minister England at pty-four years; of Raphael, who die at thirty seven years: of Calvin, who wrots his “Institutes” at twentysix; of Malan thon, who took a learnsd professor's chal: at twenty-one years; of Luther, who had smquered Ger many for the Reformation by tuo time he was thirty-five years Awl | it is all very well for us to show how early k your new and absorbing C fevire to Inspire the y Ys much been mualus, wo os ) ymplishe 1 hy wh wanded Mie - at wha was of | In life one can do very great things for God | | and the welfare of the world, but some of the mightiest work for God has been dons | by septuagenarians and oclogenarians and nonagenarians, Indeed, there is | which nous Lut such can do Thay pre serve the equipoise of senates, of religious denomipaticos, of relormatory movement Young men for action, old msn for coun sal, Instead of any of you beginning to | fold up your energies, arouse Anew your | energies, With the experience you have obtained and the opportunities oi observa tion you bavs had during a long life, you ought to be able to do In one yer now more than you did in ten years right alts | you have loss, 1 more, what powers for good old Dr, Archibald Alexander, old Dr, Soot old Dr, Hawes, old Dr. Milnor, old Dr, Melivane, old your spiritual power ought to | of life can | it isn! grandpa | : ao | i tho first of January we | selves thousands of dollars worse | { of forward toward | myself, vk | You | all of us | down Tyag, old Dr. Candlish, old Dr, Chalmers! What have been Blamarck to Germany, and Gladstone to England, and Oliver Wendell Holmes to America in the time of an ad- vanced age? Lot me say to those in the afters poon of life: Don’t be putting off the hare ness; when God wants iv off he will take it off. Don't be frightened out of life by the grip as many are At the first sneeze of an Influenza many give up all as lost No new terror has coms on the earth, The microbes as the cause of disease wore described in the | world | fallure. Ad wl ants have had it or will have it. ths | Talinnd seventeen hundred years ago as “in- visible og gions of dangerous ones "Don't be seared out of life by all this talk about heart failure. That troubls has a ways been in the 3 That is what all the people that eve wd out of this life have died of heart lam had it and all of his descend- Do not he for symptoms or youn will have of everything, Some of you will symptoms Bymptoms are often pass watching A yi ie of s dial | only what we sometimes soe in the country -a dead owl nailed on a barn door living owls. Put your trust in God, bod at ten o'clock, have the window in to let in the fresh air, sleep on your right side, and fear nothing. The old maxim was right, “Get thy spindle and distaff ready, and God will send the flax.” But while looking at this sundial of Ahaz and 1 see the shadow of it move, 1 notice that it went back toward the sunrise instead the sunset toward the morning instead of toward the night, That thing the world is willing now to ao, and in many cases has done. There have a great many things been written and spoken about the sunset of life. 1 have said some of them But my text suggests a better idea. The Lord who turned bacs that day from going toward sundown and started it toward sunrise is willing to do the same thing for The theologians who stick to old re- LO BCRIrD go to open sx hes Bat for | ligious technicalities until they become sop rifles would not call it anything but couver- sion. I call it a change from going toward sun- to going toward sunrise. That man who never tries to unbuckie the clasp of evil | habit and who keeps all the sios of the past | sun shining into your window, { and the gold, | be the peroration of this sermon, Scotland, passed out of your teens. Physiol | Up to the Inuk hour of their lives | hm and who made by the if that man will and the pre went 1ZN0res . ' nly sundial hy examines shadow is going forward His day gq) waltoae freigl one rn ald re iting tion leo, wie way to sund ht tho cate approact in answer to pray iny break Matterhorn wl mid ioparted st quid and y sunrise of the soul is Fans soul, Atiant win when Sierra Te It bathes and Mlamines all helms all the the amia that extinguish, augment and Ax | the shadow it was a to get wail the Aipn quid re orting aspiratl il te hopes with a me, al ngot or death ! thing but I proach the sunrise hat retrograde movement of n Ahaz's dial 1 remember that sign that Hesekiah was going and he got well, So | have © tell all you who are by the grace of God having ¥ day turned from decline toward night umsent toward morning, that you wall of i your wa 0 : your I pins, woll eary got well, Ur sorr inder th r, you who are ing to die All tha wu as compared with y rial nature, i as the Hppings as pared with ¥ i: Fun wi RIONE nb nall and cut off that ir nails ROT lepartur aways nitations s Inrise I bathe my weary # a {heats yt of trouble rol breast Across my peaceful But not like one of those morn ings after you had gone to bed late or did not sleep well, and you get up chilled and yawning and the ning bath is a repul sion and you feel like saying to the morning “1 do not see snide about; your bright But the inrush a morning after a RBunris mor what you find to ness is to me a mockery, of the next world will be sound sleep, a sleep that n hin an dis turn, and yeu will rise, the sunshine in your aces: and in your first morning in heaven you will wade down into the sea of glass, mingled with fire the foam on fire with a splendor you never saw on earth and ths rolling waves are doxologies, and the rocks of that shore are golden and the pabbles of that beach are pearl and the skies that arch the sosne are a commingling of all the colors that Nt, John saw on the wall si* heaven-the crimson and the blue, and the saffron, and thy orange, and the purple, and the green wronght on those skios in shape of gariands, of banners, of ladders, of chariots, of erowns of thrones What a sunrise! Do vou not feel its warmth on your faces® Scoville MeCullum, the dylog boy of our Sunday scirool uttered what shai Throw And fron back the shutters and let the sun in” #0 the shadow of Ahaz's sun lia! tarns sunset Lo sunrise, A Story of a Dnek. Mr. Barrie, of Bothwell, a sporting gentloman of well-known standing in tells a curious story of an in telligant duck at Rothray castle which work | carried its entire family of goslings, pig. aback, from the castle mont to a neigh boring duck pound. But the humblest sportsman in American waters has ob- served the preternatural sagacity of the which dives whea the flash leaves | the hunter's gun and is away down in { the wild celery before the shot come whistling along harmlessly overhead, San Francisco Chronicle. cot, A revised version of the German Bible, which has occupied several years in prop- Dr. | eration, is now completed, The English Ques a « an incowne ¢ of $5000 a duy. Twenty-three English wemen are now practicing medicine in India, strin Bonnet are managed according to the whim of the Queen Victoria's lists of household orders are all ty 2% entirely wearer, guests anc pewritten, ever manu weight in lace its The most expensive factured cost gold. Fashionable Re id butterflies in the an times women wear two or thre hair for full-dress OCCASIONS, Are very the # Embroidered kid showy, although they of the hand. gloves increass 124 Linen cufls are worn considerably tailor dresses or with toilows | severely made. One of the | mpanie if in WOMAN manager J a year, Margaret Fuller's pincusiton hibited and rezarded reverently Woman : fair in Mass TRON. The effort t le walking Tec y restore LH tual. 8 Are ine n short train wo "a 1 street costumes. ictoria was one of the exhib itors at a recent horse fair and the reports show that she had to a second I + he awarded to one of her sub in Eoglan i, rize a recent b kK, believes the “ey J onse peo; five tal- oO I LL y in proj meanor for AWAY. ian women well-dressed dolls incipaily « nsists or than irnals ; fancy and music, t) Lossip make up the sum of their existence. be latest type of the as seen in the New York feminine bat, shop windows simply awful, and consequently will It is a flat disc of felt twelve with a conical crown in diameter and two is be popular, ind diameter, ouly four inches inches high. hes in Bad complexions are the rule in Russia, AS a result bad ventilation, irregular living and want of exercise No well bred lady paints. 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