_In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death._ THE BLESSING OF SICKNESS A Christian man of intense business enterprise and activity was laid aside by sickness. He who never would intermit his labours was compelled to a dead halt. His restless limbs were stretched motionless on the bed. He was so we... [ Continue Reading ]
_He brought the shadow ten degrees backward._ THE SUNDIAL OF AHAZ Here is the first timepiece of which the world 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... [ Continue Reading ]
_Berodach-baladan _. .. _ sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah._ HEZEKIAH AND THE AMBASSADORS, OR VAINGLORY REBUKED Who among us would not have shown the strangers over our house, and our garden, and our library, and have pointed out to them any little treasures and curiosities which we might h... [ Continue Reading ]
_Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken._ THE PEACE The text is susceptible of two propositions. First, that peace is a blessing only on a basis of truth. “He said, Is it not good if peace and truth be in my days?” Secondly, that the godliest celebration of peace is to resume the soci... [ Continue Reading ]