Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-09

began to bleat and the oxen to bellCW The
secret was out, and Samuel said to the
blushing and confused Saul: "What mean
eth the bleating of sheep that l hear and
the believing of the cattle:" All! my
hearer, YOU cannot keep an iniquity still.
At just the wrong time the sheep will bleat
and the oxen Will below. Achan cannot steal
the BabylOnish garments without being stoned
10 death, nor Arneld betray his country with
out having his neck stretched. Look over the
police arrests. These thieves. these burglars,
these c5unterfeiters, these highwaymen, these
assassins, they all thought they could bury
their iniquity so deep down it would never
come to resurrection; but there was some shoe
that answered to the print in the soil, some
false keys found in their possession. some
bloody knife that whispered of the death, and
the public indignation and the anathema of
outraged law hurled them into the dungeon or
holsted them on the gallOws. Francis l., King
OF France, stood COUuSeling with his off ers
how he could take his army into Italy, when
Amerll, the fool OF the court leaped out from
corner OF the room and said: You had
better Oe consulting how you will get your
army back" and it was found that Francis /.
and not Ameril was the fool. Instead of con-
sultlng as to the best way of getting into sin
you had better consult as to whether you Will
be able to get out of it. III the world does not
expose yon, you will tell it yourself. There
Is an awful power in an aroused conscience
a hlghwayman plunged out upon Whiteheld
as he rode along on horseback, a sack of money
on the horse, money that he had raised for
orphan asylums, and the hlghwayman put his
hand on the gold and Whitcheld turned
to him and said: Touch that if YOU dare
that belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ" And
the ruflian skunk into the forest. Conscience!
Conscience. The ruflian had a pistol, but
Whltefeld shook at him the finger of DOOM
Do not think yOu can hide any great and pro
tracted san n your heart, my brother. In an
unguarded moment it will slip OF the lip or
some slight action may for the moment set
ajar This door that you wanted to keep closed.
But suppose that in this life you hide it and
you get along with this transgresslOn burning
in your heart, a ship on fire within for days
hnders the flames from bursting out by keep
ing down the matches, yet at last in the judg-
ment that iniquity Will blaze out before God
and the universe.
Learn also from this subject that there is an
1nseparable connection between all events
however remote. The universe is only one
thought of God. Those things which seemed
fragmentary and isolated are only different
parts Of that great thought. How far apart
seemed those two events: Joseph sold to the
AraOlan merchants and his rulership of
Egypt, yet you see IN what mysterious way
God connected the two into one plan. So the
events are linked together. You who are
aged men look back and gr.up together a
thousand things in your life that once seemed
isolated. One undivided chain of events
reaches from the garden of Eden to
the cross OF Calvary. and thus up to the
Kingdom OF Heaven. There is a relation be-
tween the smallest insect that huns in the
summer air and the archangel on his throne
God can trace a direct ancestral line from
the blue jay that next spring will build its
nest in the tree behind the house to some one
of the flock Of birds which, when Noah hOisted
the ark's window, with whrr and dash of
bright wings went out to sing over Mount
Ararat. The tulips that will bloom in the
garden next spring are nursed by the snow
nakes. The furthest star on one side of the
universe could not look toward the furthest
star on the Osher side of the universe and
say: ~ on are no relation to me-" for from
that bright orb voice of light would ring
across the heavens, responding: "Yes, YES,
we are sisters" Nothing in Gods universe
AepIdpOfg "
Gods way of turning leaf in the book Of His
eternal DEGREES. From our cradle to our grave
there Is path all marked out. Each event
III our life Is connected with every other event
in our life. Our losses may be the most direct
road to our gain. Our defeat and our victory
are twin brothers. The whole direction Of
your life was changed by something which at
the time seemed to you triflng, while some
occurrence which seemed tremendous affected
you but little. Gods plans are magnificent
beyond all comprehension. He mould5 us
and turns and directs u.s. and we know il not
Thousands of years are to Him as the flight of |
shuttle. The most terrific occurrence does |
not make God tremble. The most triumphant
achievement does not lift Him into ralttura,
That one great thought of God goes out
through the centuries, and nations rise and |
tall, and eras pass and the world changes,
but God still keeps the undivided mastery,
linking event to event and century to cen
tury.
We learn also from this story the propriety
OF laying up for the future. During the
,
famine, ana when 1t came he had crowded
storehOuse. The life of most men in a world
ly respect is divided into years of plenty and
famine. 1t is seldom any man masses throI0b
lie without at least seven years of plenty.
During those seven years your business bears
a rich harvest. You hardly know where all
the money comes from, it comes so fast
Every hargaln you make seems to turn into
gold. You contract few bad debts. You
are astOnished with large dividends,
You invest more and more capital. You
wonder how men can be content with |
small business gathering in only a few
hundred dollars while you reap thousands. |
those are the seven years of plenty. Now
joseph has time to prepare for famine, for to
almost every man there do come seven years |
of famine, You win be sick, you will be un-
fortunate, you will be defrauded, there will |
be hard times, you Will be disappointed, and
II you have no stOrenOuse upon which to fall |
back you may be famine-struck. We have no
admiration for this denying ones self all per- |
sonal comfort and luxury for the mere plea
sure OF boarding up, this grasping, |
grasplng for the mere pleasure of seeing |
how large pile you can get, this always |
being poor because as soon as dollar |
comes In 1t ls sent out to see if it can find an
other dollar, so that it can carry it home on |
Its back. We have contempt for all those
things, but there is an INTEL gent and noble
minded forecast which we love to see in men
VINO nave families and kindred depending
upon them for the blessings of education and
home. God sends us to the insects for a lesson,
which, while they do not stint themselves in
IHe present, 10 not forget tnelr duty TO fore
cast the future. $50 to the ant, thou slug
gard; consider her ways, and be wise; which |
having no guide, overseer or ruler, prOvIdeth |
her meat in the GUNNER and gathereth her |
food in the harvest" Now there |
are two ways of laying up money. |
One OF these is to put it in stock |
and deposit it in bank, and invest it on bond |
and mortgage. The other way to lay up |
money Is giving it away, He is the safest |
who makes both of these investments. There |
are IN this house men who if they lose every |
dollar they have in the world, would be mil |
liOnalres for eternity. They made the spir- |
ltual Investment; but the man who devOtes |
none OF his gains to the cause of Christ. and |
looks only for his own comfort and luxury, is /
not safe. | care not how the money is in |
vested. lie acts as the rose If IL should say: |
81 will hold my breath, and none shall have /
snatch OF fragrance from me until next |
week; then | will set all the garden afOat |
with aroma" OF course the rose, refusing to /
breathe, died. But above all, lay up treasures |
IN heaven. They never depreciate in va.ue. |
They never are at discount. They are al |
your $l,0.0 or $1,000 or $4,000 or 900 in-
come, but what will such an income be worth |
after you are dead? Others will get it. Per-
haps some of them will quarrel about it be-
fore you are buried. They viii be so impa-
tient 10 get hold of the will they |
will think you should be buried |
one day sooner than you are buried. They
are only waiting for you to die. What then /
Will all your earthly accumulatiOns be worth? |
If you gathered it all in your bosom and |
walked up with it to heavens gate, 1t would |
not purchase your admission. Or If allowed /
to enter it could not buy you crown or a /
look down at you and say: ''Where did that |
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