Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-06

want something that means health, aroma
ami evergreen. This is a very healthy
religion. | have known an old Christian.
with no capital OF physical health and
carrying about him all the respectable
diseases that one can carry and yet kept
alive by nothing at all but his religion.
lie did not eat enough TO sustain chilQ.
lie lived on beverage Of hOsannas. lie
lived hich, because every cay he dined
with the KING. / could not understand
his eXhilaratiOn until ] found out tnat he
lived in an arbOr Of pine brauches-gos-
pei pine branches. GA, it is a healthy re-
ligi0n. 10 is healthy for the head. IL is
healthy for the heart It's healthy FOR
the lungs. 1t is healthy for the liver. II
lis healthy for the whole man. / mean If
we get enough OF it. Now there are some
people who only get just enough religion
10 make them sick or TO bother them
But / mean fun inhalation-a full drauGht
from the breath OF the pine branches IN
Gods mount. that is living, bounding,
/ eNubtrant, undying, immortal health.
But t1Is gospel Is evergreen. / remark
| still further, what does the pine forest
care for the snow on it's brOwE II merely
considers It a crown of glory. J on eau
not freeze out this pine forest, and this
. grace OF God is just as good IN the winter
Of trouble as it Is in the summer Of pros
perlty. It is the reli0iOn you Want-nOt
dependent upon weather or upon
change. There are some Of you
who feel that you have had more
than your share OF trouble. All
the troubles seemed TO come together IN
your lie, and you may boz as badly Cd as
MucAelDacket, the fish rman, who was
Guided for mcndinp his boat on the same
day that his boy was buried. They said:
1T IS indecent for YOU to be working at
your boat when your child was Just buried
this afternoon" And he looked up in the
mans face, ana said "What am / 10 dOY
Shall ! allow the five to starye because
one of them is drowned Ii is well enough
for YOU gentles vino can sit in your
houses with your bandkerchiefs at your
/ eyes to talk that way when you have grief,
/ but the like Of us maun to our work,
/ though our heart beat like this hammer"
! Oh, yes Your bereavements and your
] pOverues and your distresses may all have
come at once. But / want 70 tell you Of
T a GOSPEL that IL full Of lite full o. comfort,
. full of peace. You nave tried every hing
/ else. You have tried the world you have
tried human sympathy. Come now and try
I the Holy Gospel. ! baVe read of a cardinal
/ who was very fond " mOdey and during
[ his sickness be used 70 ask that basin of
/ gold be brought to him and then he would
thrust his equity hands in the gold and
amuse himself and cool his hands 10y
/ turning over the gold in the basin. What
a vain attempt There IS nothing in all
the silver and the gold and the honors and
the emOluments Of this world, however
/ Driskly you may turn them over to
/ sOOthe peTturDed spirit. You cannot be
cOns0led in that way. You want some
/ thing mighher than the worlds gains to
appease your sorrow. Come and get this
consolation. A young prince refused TO
/ play with any but kings, and | wish you
would this day throw aside all other sol
aces and try this regal satisfaction.
/ Come, my friends and neighbours and try
a religion which is as good in the winter
OF trouble as II is in the summer of pros
perlty. 1t is glorious and evergreen. Go
into the mount Of God and fetch pine
branches and make booths.
The hill Of Zion yields
A thousand sacred sweet
Before we reach the heavenly fields
Or walk the golden streets
My text suggests still further that this
1 arbOr OF Christian grace ought to have in
it a good many palm branches. You know
that it is a iayorlte tree at the East. The
aucients used to make it into 300 uses.
The fruit is conserved. The sap becomes
a beverage. The stones are ground up as
food for Camels. The base OF the leaves is
twisted into rope. Baskets and mats are
made out OF it; and from the root TO the tip
top of the palm it is all usefulness. 1t
grows - feet in height is c0lumnar, its
fringed leaves sometimes four or HVe
Yards long, and the ancieuts used to carry
1t in professions as IA symbol of victory.
On, for more palm branches III our gospel
aTbor! | setulness and victory Head.
heart, tongue. pen, money, social posi-
tion-all employed for God. Counsel is
often given on worldly matters about in
vestments-tbat you must not put all the
eggs in one basket; but, in this matter of
I religion, wish that we might give all to
God and get in ourselves.
"Oh." says some man, ''my business is
to sell silks and celcoes." Then sell
silks and calicoes for the glory OF God.
Says another man: ''My business is TO
paper for the glory OF God. Saws another
man: "My business is TO raise corn and
carrots Then raise corn and carrots for
the glory Of God. Says some other man:
4 My business is to manufacture horse
shoe nails" Then manufacture horse
shoe nails for the glory OF God. Anything
that man cannot do for the glory Of
God he has no right 10 do. The vast ma
iOritv of protessed Christians in this dav
do not amount 10 anything. You have to
shovel them of the track before The chariot
Of Gods grace can advance. Whnt we
want in the church now is not weeping
willows, signing and weeping by the
water courses, admiring their long fringes
IN the glass of the stream: not hickories
fun Of knots; not wild cherry dropping
bitter fruits; but palm trees adapted to
$3.50 purposes, root, trunk, branch, leaf
producing something for God and men
and angels. Oh, am sick
and tired Of this weak, sentimental
satin-slippered, fussy, hoity-toity reli-
gOn. II amounts to nothing in this world
ana will amount to nothing in the world
10 come. Five hundred men and women
IN Brooklyn knowing nothing but Christ
and the value of the soul can capture
this city Tor God in three years. One
Thousand men and women at the fun
standard Of Christian zeal could take this
whole earth for Christ in ten years. Nv
brother. when are YOU going 10 work and
when am / going TO work. Ledgard the
great traveller had set before him by q
geographical society "a very important
work Of exploration in Africa, and, after
they had shown him what they wanted
him 10 do. the learned men looked up IN
his face and said: "Woll. when will YOU
start on this expedition He replied
Tomorrow morning And when | ASK
you what YOU are going 10 do tor God and
Christ and you tell rae that You want 10
serve him with earnestness aud cOnsecra.
ton | ask you when are you going To
start? ] want you within your soul q
say: To-day. This moment. Now
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