11EV. DJ. TAULAGK.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN
DAY SEI13IOX.
Subject: "The Sundial of Ataaz.n
Text: "And Isaiah the prophet crisd
unto the Lord' and lie brought the shad
ow ten degrees backward by which it had
gone down in the dial of Ahaz." II Kin?
xx, 11.
Here is the first cloc or watch or chro
nometer or timepiece of which the worl i
has any knowledge. But it was a watch
that did not tick and a clock thit did not
strike. It was a sundial. Ahaz, the kin,
invented it. Between the hours given to
statecraft and the cares of office he invented
sornethicg 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 waa nine o'cloclc
A. M.. and when it reac.iei another point it
was three o'clock p. m., and all the hours and
half hours were so measured. Or it may
have been a flight o" stairs such as may now
be found in Hindostanand other old coun
tries, and when the shadow reached one step
it was ten o'clock a. m., or another step it
was four o'clock p. m., and likewise other
hours may have been indicated.
The clepsydra or water clock followed the
sundial, and the sandglass follows! the
clepsydra. Then came the candle clock of
Alrred the Great and the caudle was marked
into three parts, and while the first part
was burning he gave nimself to religion.and
while the second part was burning ha gave
himself to politics, and while the third pant
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 cen
turies of exquisite mechanism toiled at the
timepieces until the world had the Vick's
clock of the Fourteenth century and Huy
ghens, the Inventor, swung the first pendu
lum and Dr. Hooke contrived the re
coil escapement. And the "endless
chain" followed and the "ratchet and
pinion lever" took its p'ace, and
the compensation balance and the
stemwinder followed, and now we have the
buzz and clang of the great clock and watch
factories of Switzerland and Germany and
England and America turning out what
seems to be the perfection of timepieces. It
took the world six thousand years to make
the present chronometer. So with the
measurement of longer spaces than minutes
and hours. Time was calculated from new
moon to new moon: then from harvest to
harvest. Then the year was pronounced to
be three hundred and fifty-four days and
then three hundred and sixty days, and not
until a long while after three hundred and
sixty-five days. Then events were calcu
lated from the foundation of Rome, after
ward from the Olympic games. Then the
Babylonians had t .eir" measurement of the
year and the Romans theirs and
the Armenians theirs and the Hin
doos theirs. Chronology was busy
for centuries studying monuments, (
inscriptions, coins, mummies and astron
omy, trying to lay a plan by which all
question of dates might be settled and
events put in their right place in the pro
cession of the ages. But the (jhronologists
only heaped up a mountain of confusion and
bewilderment until in the sixth century
Dionysius Exiguus, a Roman abbot, said,
"Let everything date from the birth at
Bethlehem of the Lord Jesus Christ, the
Saviour of the world." The abbot proposed
to have things dated backward and forward
from that great event. What a splendid
thought for the world! What a mighty
thing for Christianity ! It would have been
most natural to date everything from the
creation of the world. But I am glad
the chronologists could not too easily guess
how old the world was in order to get the
nations in the habit of dating from that
occurrence in its documents and his
tories. Forever fixed is it that all history is
to be dated with reference to the birth of
Christ, and, this matter settled, Hales, the
chief chronoiogist, declared that the world
was made five thousand four hundred and
eleven years before Christ, and the deluge
came three thousand one hundred and fifty
five years before Christ, and all the illus
trious events of the nineteen centuries and
all the great events of all time to come have
been or shall be dated from the birth of
Christ. These things I say that you may
know what a watch is, what a clock is, what
an almanac is, and iearn to appreciate
through what toils and hardships and per
plexities the world came to its present con
veniences and comforts, and to help you to
more res ectful consideration of that sun
Jial of Ahaz planted in my text.
We are told that Hezekiah, the king, wag
dying of a boil. It must have been one of
the wort kind of carbuncles, a boil without
my central core and sometimes deathfal.
A fig was put upon it as a poultice. Hezekiah
lid not want to die then. His son, who was
to take the kingdom, had not yet been born,
and Kezekiah's deatn would have been the
death of the nation. So he prays for re
covery and is told he will get well. But he
wants some miraculous sign to make him
sure of it. He has the choice of having the
shadow on the sundial of Ahaz advance or
retreat. He replied it would not be so won
der iui to ha ve the sun go down, for it al
ways docs go down sooner or later.
He asks that it go backward. In
ot;:er words, let the day instead of going
on toward sundown, turn and go toward
sunns?. I see the invalid king bolsters! up
and wrapped in blankets looking out of the
winnow upon the sundial in the courtyard.
While he wateiies the shadow on the dial
the shadow begins to retreat. Instead of
going on toward six o'clock in the evening
it goes back toward six o'clock in the morn
ing. The big poultice had been drawing for
some time, and vme enough the boil broke
and Hezekiah got well. Now I expect you
will come on with your higher criticism
and try to explain this away and say it
was an optical delusion of Hezekiah, and the
6hadow only seemed to go back or a cloud
came over and it wa-j 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, Iso; the shadow went back on
all the dials of that land and other lands.
Turn to II Chronicles xxxii., 81, and find
that away off in Babylon the mighty men of
the palace noticed the same phenomenon.
And if you do not like the Bible authority
turn over your copy of Herodotus and find
that away off in Egypt the people noticed
that there was something the matter with
the sun. The fact is that the whole universe
waits upon God, and suns and moons and
stars are not very big things to Him, and He
can with His little finger turn back an en
tire world as easily as you can set back the
hour hand or minute hand of your clock or
watch.
At the opening of the new year psoole are
moralizing on tne flight of time. You all
feel that you are moving on toward sun
down and many of you are under a conse
quent depression. I propose this morning
to set the hands of your watches and clocks
to going the other way. I propose to show
you how you make the shadow of your dial
like the shadow on the dial of Ahaz to
stop going forward and make it go back
ward. You think 1 have a big undertaking
on hatd, but it can be done if theamo lora
who reversed the shadow in Hezkiah s court
yard moves upon us . While looking at the
sundial of Heziiah and we find the shai?w
retreating we onfht to learn that God
controls the shadows. Ve are all
ready to acknowledge His manage
ment or the sunshine. Vo stand m the
clow of a bright morning and we say m
our feelings if not with so many words.
"This lifets from God, this warmth is from
God." Or, we have a rush of prosperity
and we say, "These suscssses are jronUod.
What a providential thing it was I bougnt
that lot just before the rise of real estate.
How grateful to God I am that I made
that investment ! Why, they have declared
ten i-er cent, dividend! What a mercy it was
i hat I out uy shares before that col
lapse r un, yes; we acknowledge God :'
the sunshine of a bright day or the sun
shine of a great prosperity. Bat suppose
the day is dark? You have to light the
eas at noon. The sun does not show him
self all day long. There is nothing but
shadow. How slow we are to realize 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
we make an investment that never pays, or
we purchase goods that we cannot dispose
of, or a crop of grain we sowed is ruined
ny drought or freshet, or when ve took ao
count of stock on the first of J anuary we
found ourselves thousands pf dollars worse
off than we expected . Who under such cir
cumstances says, "This loss is from God. I
must have been allowed to go into that un
fortunate enterprise for some good reason;
God controls the east wind as well as the
west vvind.w
My Iriends, I cannot look for one moment
on that retrograde shadow of Ahaz's dial
without learning that God controls the shad
ows and that lesson we need all to learn.
That He controls the sunshine is not so nec
essary a lesson, for anybody can be happy
when things go right. When you sleep
eight hours a 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 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 ai& about you,
and you find that all the styles of goods in
which you deal have advanced fifteen per
cent, in value, and on your wav
home you meet your children in full
romp and there are roses on the center of
the tea Table and roses of he3ith in cheeks
all round the table, what more do you want
of consolation? I don't pity you a bit. You
feel as if you could bosa the world. Bat for
those in ju3t opposite circumstances my text
coaies in with an omnipotence of meaning.
Tne shadow! Oh, the shadow! Shadow of
bereavement! Shadow of sickness I Shadow
of bankruptcy! Shadow of mental de
pression! Shadow of persecution! Shadow
of death! Speak out, oh sundial of Ahaz,
and tell the people that God manages the
shadow! As Hezekiah sat In his palace
wrapped in invalidism and surrounded by
anodynes and cataplasms and looked
out upon the black hand of the
only clock known at that time and saw
it move back ten degrees, he learned a
lesson t hat a majority of the human race
need this hour to learn that the best friend
a man ever had controls the shadow. The
setbacks are sometimes the best things that
can happen. The great German author,
Schiller, could not work unless he had in his
room the scent of rotten apples. and the de
cay of the fruits of earthly prosperity may
become an inspiration instead of a depres
sion. Robert Chambers's lame feet shut him
up Irom other work, and he became the
world renowned publisher, and helped fash
ion the best literature of the ages. The
painful disorder like that of Hezekiah called
a carbuncle i3 spelled exactly the same as
the precious stone called the car
buncle, and the pang of suffering
may become the jewel of immortal value.
Your setback, like that of Ahaz's sundial,
may be recovery and triumph. I never had
a setback but it turned out to be a set for
ward. You never would have become a
Christian if you had not had a setback. The
highest thrones in heaven are for the set
backs. In 1S61 the shadow of the sundial of
this nation was set back, and all tilings
seemed going to rum, and it was set back
further in 1862, and further in 1853, and still
further in 1865, but there is not an intel
ligent and well balanced man north or
soutb, east or west but fesls it was set back
toward the sunrise.
But I promise to show you how the shaw
ows might be turned back. First, by going
much among the young people. In most
family circles there are grandchildren. By
this divine arrangement most of the people
who have passed the meridian of life can
compass themselves by juvenility. It is a
bad thing for an old man or old woman to
sit looking at the vivacity of their grand
children shouting, "3top that racket!"
Better join in the f un. Let the eighty-year-old
grandfather join the eight-year-old
grandson or granddaughter. My father and
mother lived to see over eighty children and
grandchildren and great grandchildren, and
a more boisterous crew were never turned
out on this sublunary sphere, and they all '
seemed to cry to the old folks, "Keep
young," and they did keep young. Don't
walk with a cane unless you have to or only
as a defence in a city afflicted with
too many canines. Don't wear glasses
stronger than necessary, putting on num
ber tens when eighteens will do as well.
Don't go into the company of those who are
always talking about rheumatism and lum
bago and shortness of breath and the brevity
of human life. It is too much for my gravity
to hear an octogenarian talking about th-9
shortness of human life. From all I can find
out he has always been here and from present
prospects he is always going to stay. Remain
young. Hang up your stockings in Christmas
time. Help the boys fly 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 a large dose
of youthful companionship.
Set back the clock of human life. Make
the shadow of the sundial of Ahaz retreat
ten degrees. People make themselves old
by always talking about being old and
wishing tor the good old days, which were
never as good as these days. From all I can
hear the grandchildren are not half as bad
as the grandparents were. Matters have
been hushed up. But if you have ever been
in a room adjoining a room where some very
old people, a little deaf, were talking over
oid times, you will rind that this age does not
monopolize all the young rascals. It may
now be hard to get ycung people up early
enough in the morning, but their grandpa
rents always had to be pulled out of bed.
It is wrong now to play mischeviou3 tricks on
the unsuspecting, but eighty years ago at
school that now venerable man sat down on
a crooked pin not accidently placed there,
and purposely drove the sleigh riding party
too near the edge of the embankment that
he might see how they would look when
tumbled into the sno.v. And that man who
has so little patience with childish exuber
ance was in olden times ud to pranks, one
half of which if practiced by the eight-year-old
of to-day would set grandfather and
grandmother crazy. Revive your remem
brance of what you were between five and
ten years of age, and with patience capable
of everything join with the young. Put back
the shadow of the dial not ten degrees, but
fifty and sixty and seventy degrees.
Set back your clocks also by entering on
new and absorbing Christian work. In oar
desire to ins aire the yoang we have in our
essays had much to say about what haa
been accomplished by the young; of Ro
mulus. who founded Rome when he was
twenty years of age; of Cortes, who had con
quered Mexico at thirty years: of Pitt,
who was Prime Minister of England at
twenty-four years; of Raphael, who died
at thirty -seven vears; of Calvin, who wrote
his "Institutes"" at twenty-six; of Melanc
thon, who took a learned professor's chair
at twenty-one years; of Luther, who had
conquered Germany ?or the Reformation
by tne time he was thirty-five years. And
it is all very well for us to show how early
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 don?
by septuagenarians and octogenarians anc
nonagenarians. Indeed, there i3 work
which none but sach can do. , They pre
serve the equipoise of senates, of religious
denominations, of reformatory movements.
Young men for action, old men for coun
sel. Instead of any of you beginning to
fold up your energies, arouse anew your
energies. With the experience you have
obtained and the opportunities of observa
tion you have had during a long life, you
ought to be able to do in one year now
more than you did in ten years right after
you have pasaed out of your teens. Physical
power less, your spiritual power ought to
be more. CJp to the last hour of their lives
what powers for good old Dr. Archibald
Alexander, old Dr. Woods, old Dr. Hawes,
old Dr. MHnor, old Dr. Mcllvane, old Dr.
Tyng, old Dr. Candlish, old Dr. Chalmers!
What have been Bismarck to Germany, and
Gladstone to England, and Oliver Wendell
Holmes to America1 in the time of an ad
vanced age? Let me say to those in the after
noon of life: Don't be putting off the har
ness; when God wants iz 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 come on the earth. The microbes
as the cause of disease were described in the
Talmu d seventeen hundred years ago as "in
visible legions of dangerous ones." Don't be
scared out of life by all thi3 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 descend
ants have had it or will have it. Do not be
watching for symptoms or you will have
symptoms of everything. Some of you will
yet die of symptoms. Symptoms are often
only what we sometimes see in the country
a dead owi nailed on a born door to scare
living owls. Put your trust in God, go to
bed at ten o'clock,bave the window open six
inches 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 I see the shadow of it move, I 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 in willing now to do, and in
many cases has done. There have a great
many things been -written and spoken about
the sunset of life. I have said some of them
myseu. But my text suggests a better idea.
The Lord who turned back that day from
going toward sundown and started it toward
sunrise is willing to do the same thing for
all of us. The theologians who stick to oid re
ligious technicalities until th 37 become sopo
rifics would not call it anything but conver
sion. I call it a change from gc lag toward sun
down to going toward sunrise. That man
who never tries to unbuckle tie clasp of evil
habit and who keeps all the sins of the past
and the present freighting him and who
ignores the one redemption made by the
only one who could redeem, if that man will
examine the sundial ha will find that the
shadow is going forward and he is on the
way to sundown. His day is on the road to
night. All the watches that tick, all the
clocks that strike, all the sand glasses that
empty themselves, all the shadows that move
on all the sundials indicate the approach of
darkness. But now, in answer to prayer, as
in my text the change was iu answer to
prayer, the pardoning Lord reverses things
and the man starts toward sunrise instead of
sunset. He turns the other way. The Captain
of salvation give3 him the military command,
"Attention! Right about facel" He was
marching toward indifference, marching
toward hardness of heart, marching toward
prayerlessness, marching toward sin, march
ing toward gloom, marching toward death.
Now he turns and marches toward peace,
marches toward light and marches toward
comfort and marches toward high hope and
marches toward a triumph stupendous ami
everlasting, toward hosannasthat ever hoist
and hallelujahs that ever roll . Now if that
is not the turning of the shadow on the dial
of Ahaz from going toward sundown to go
ing toward sunrise, what is it?
I have seen day break over Mount Blano
and the Matterhorn, over the heights of
Lebanon, over Mount Washington, over
the Sierra Nevadaa, and mid-Atlantic, the
morning after a departed storm when the
billows were liquid Alps and liquid aierra
Nevadas. but the sunrise of the soul Is more
effulgent and more transporting. IC bathes
all the heights of the soul, and illumines all
the depths of the soul, and whelms all the
faculties, all the aspirations, all the ambi
tions, all the hopas with a light that sick
ness cannot eclipse, or aeaxn excmguisn,
or eternity do anything but augment and
magnify. I preach the sunrise. As I look
at that retrograde movement of the shadow
on Ahaz's dial, I remember that it was a
sign that Hezekiah was going to get well
and he got well. So I have to tell all you
who are by the grace of God having your
day turned from decline toward night to
assent toward morning, that you are going
to get well, well of all your sins, well of all
your sorrows, well of all your earthly dis
tresses. Sunrise!
But savs one. all that vou say may ba
true but that doe3 not hinder the horrors of
dissolution. Why, you who are the Lord's
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 compared with your
whole body. As you run the scissors along
the edge of your thumb nail and cut off that
which is no use but rather a hindrance, you
do not mourn over the departure of that
fragment which flies away. Death will be
only the scissoring off of that which
coxild be of no use, and the soul ha?
no funeral over that which would be
an awful nuisance if we could not
get rid of it. This body as it now i3,
what a failure it would make of heaven ii
our departing soul had to be burdened with
it in the next world. While others there go
ten thousand miles a minute we would take
about an aour to yalk four miles, and while
our neighbor immortals could see a hundred
miles we could see only ten tiiles, and the
fleetest and the healthiest of our bodies if
seen there would ma ice it necessiry to open
in heaven an asylum for cripples. No, no;
one of the best possible things that will hap
pen to us will be the sloughing off of this
body when we have no more use for it in its
presant state. Whan it shall come up in its
resurrected form we will be very glad to get
it back again, but not as it is now with its
limitations and bedwarf ments innumerable.
Sunrise!
There rball I bathe my weary asol
In seas of heavenly ret.
And not a wave of trouble rod
Across my peaceful breast.
Sunrise! Bat 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
vawning and the morainz bath is a repul
sion and you feel like Baying to the morniug
un shining into your window, "I do not see
what you find to smile about; your bright
ness is to me a mockery." But the inrush
of the next world will be a morning after, a
sound sleep, a sleep that nothing can dis
turb, and you will rise, the sunshine in your
faces' 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
the rolling waves are doxoiogies, and the
rocks of that shore are golden and the
pebbles of that beach are pearl, and the skies
that arch the scene are a commingling of
all the colors that St. Jeha saw on the wall
or heaven the crimson and the b lue, and
the saffron, and the orange, and the purple,
and the gold, and the green wrought on
those skies in shape of garlands, o .banners,
of ladders, of chariots, of crowns, of thrones.
What a sunrise! Do you not feel ita warmth
on your faces? ScoviUe McC ullum.the dying
boy of our Sunday -schooLuttered what hhaU
be the peroration of this sermon, 'Throw
back the shatter and let the sun in !" And
so the shadow of Ahaz's sundial turns from
sunset to sunrise.
A NEWSBOY-GOVERNOE.
North Dakota's Chief Executive Orig
inally a New York Waif.
GOVERNOR ANDREW H. BURKE.
Andrew H. Burke, the present Governor
of North Dakota, is one of the 75,000 waifs
of New York for whom the Children's Aid
Society of that city has provided homes in
the West, Young Andrew Burke was sent
West many years ago and was adopted by a
gentleman named Butler. For two years he
was employed in a wholesale house in Min
neapolis and was married there. From Min
neapolis he went to a small station named
New York Mills, on the Northern Pacific
Railroad, and took charge of a general store
and sawmills. Afterward he removed to
Casselton, N. D., and after six months' resi
dence became Cashier of the First National
Bank there. Three years later he was
elected Treasurer of the county and held
the position for six years. At the last elec
tion he was elected Governor on the Repub
lican ticket.
There were 4093 miles of new railway
constructed between January 1, 1891, and
January 1, 1S92, which brings the total
mileage of the United States up to 171,106.
This is a decrease of 1574 miles from last
year's figures, and the smallest mileage built
during any year since 1885, during which
only 1331 miles of track were laid.
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7( 80 50( m
35 45 25 :')
15ft 20 13 17
255 30 20( 2".
11 13 8(3 li
16 18 15fi V,
12 14 9& 11
Remarkable Bowlders.
Accepting reported measurements, the
largest erratic block, or bowlder, as yet
recognized in the United States, and
probablj in the world, is in the town of
Madison, X. II., and, according to Pro
fessor Crosby, of the Boston Institute of
Technology, ha3 the following maximum
dimensions: Length, 83 feet; width, in
excess oi 45 feet; height, 30 to 37 feet;
contents, 90,000 cubic feet; .and prob
able weight, 15,300,000 pounds, or 7,
650 tons.
Next to this ;n sire is undoubtedly the
great rock in the town of Montville,Xew
London County, Connecticut, generally
known by its Indian designation as
4i6heegan," and also as "Mohcgan." la
the opinion of some, this rock is an
isolated granite protuberance, and not a
true "erratic" or bowlder ; but recent ex
aminations have seemed to completely
negative the first supposition. Its ap
proximate maximum dimensions are:
Length, 75 feet; width, 5S feet; height,
00 feet; contents, 70,000 cubic feet;
weight, G000 tons. If allowance be made
for an immense fragment which has
fallen from its northeast side, the di
mensions and cubic contents of t4Shee
jan" would approximate more closely to
those of the Madison bowlder. One point
that goes far toward substantiating th
claim" on behalf of the "Sheegan" rock
that it is a true bowlder, is the number
of undoubted bowlders of an immense
size and of the same granite which exist
in comparative proximity. Popular
Scitnce Monthly.
Rough Diamonds in a Chicken' s Crop.
A few days ago C. Jacobson, of Hast
ings, Neb., received word from a firm
in Butte City, Montana, that one of their
customers, a Mrs. White, hail found
three rough diamonds in the craw of a
chicken sold by them a few days before
Christmas. Mr. Jacobson is a largo
poultry shipper,and supplies his hennery
with gravel from the bed of the Blue
River, seven miles south of Hastings.
The curiosity of several miners in Butte
City was aroused by the discovery, and
Jacobson has received many letters in
quiring as to where he secured the sand.
Mrs. White submitted the three rough
stones to a jeweler in Butte for inspec
tion, and he pronounced them diamonds
and offered her a good price for them,
but she refused and has sent them East
to be cut.
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