Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-09

! lue olu pTONerD. storms To PURIFY the
air. Thermometer at ten degrees below
zero TO tone up the system. December
and January just as important as May
ana June. tell you we need the storms
| ot life as much as we do the sunshine.
There are more men ruined by prosperity
| than by adVersity. five had our own
way in lite before this we would have
been representations Of selfshness and
worldliness and disgusting sin, and pulled
up until we would have been like julius
! Caesar who was made by sycophants to
| believe that no was divine, and the
! treckes on his face were as the stars OF
| the ornament. One of the swiitest Trans
atlantic voyages made last summer by
| the Etruria was because she had stormy
wind abaft, chasing her from New York
10 Liverpool. But to those going in oppo-
site direction the storm was n
butfeting and a hindrance. IL is "a bad
thing to have a storm ahead pushing us
back, but, if we are Gods children and
aiming toward heaven, the storms OF life
! will only chase us the sooner into the har-
Dor. / am 30 glad to believe that the
| mons00ns and typho0ns and mistrials and
sirocc0s OF land and sea are not unclaimed
maniacs let loose upon the earth, but un-
der divine supervisionl l am so glad that
the God Of the Seven Stars is also the God
of Orion. 1t was out of Dante's suffering
came the sublime Dlvina Comedia, and
out or John Milton's blindness came Par
adise Lost, and out Of miserable infdei
attacks came the Bridgewater Treatise in
favor of Christianity, and out Of Davld's
| exile came the songs Of consolation, and
out OF the sutferings Of Christ came the
possibility OF the worlds redemption, and
out Of your bereavement, your persecu-
tiOn, your poverties, your misfortunes,
may yet come an eternal heaven.
hat IL 10 L.. tha tax
and all up and down the Bible God in
duces us to look out toward other worlds !
Bible astronomy in Genesis, in Joshua, in
job, IN the Psalms, in the prophets, majo
and minor, in st. Johns Apocalypse,
practically saying: "WOrldsl worlds !
worlds! Get ready for them" We have
nice little world here that we stick to
as though losing that we lose all. We are
afraid OF falling off this little raft OF a
world. We are afraid that some mete0ric
iconoclast viii some night smash it, and
we want everything to revolye around II,
and are disappointed when we find that
| it reV0lVee around the sun instead Of the
sun revolving around it. What a fuss
we make about this little bit of a world,
its existence only short time between
two spasms, the par0xysm by which IL
was hurled from Chaos into order and
the paroxysm OF its demoliunnl Ard
off to other worlds, many Of them
larger and costlier and more respondent.
| "LOOk there" says JOB, TAT MazZar0th
and Arcturus and his sonsV "LoOk
there" says st. John, ''at the moon under
Christs feetp "Look there,j says
Joshua. Eat the sun standing still above
GideOnV "LOOk there" says Moses, sat
the sparkling irmamentV Look there"
says Amos, the herdsman, "at the seven
stars and Orionv Don't let US be so sad
about those who shove off from this world
under Christly pilOtage. Don't let us be
so agitated about our own going of this
! little barge or slOOp or canal boat OF a
world TO yet on some Great Eastern OF the
| heavens. Don't let us persist in wanting
TO stay I'm this barn, this shed, this out
! house Of "a world, when all the Kings
| palaces, already occupied by many OF our
best friends, are swinging wide open
their gates to let us in. When
read, sin my Fathers house
are many Mansions" / do not
know but that each world is
a room and as many rooms as there are
worlds, stellar stairs, stellar galleries,
stellar Railways, stellar windows, stellar
domes. How our departed friends must
pity us shut up In these cramped apart
ments, tired II we walk fifteen miles, when
they some morning by one stroke OF wing
can make circuit Of the whole stellar
system and be back in time for mathis !
Perhaps yonder twinkling constellation is
the residence OF the martyrs, that group
OF twelve luminaries is the celestial home
OF the apostles. Perhaps that steep Of
light is the dwelling place Of angels cheru-
bic, seraphic, archangelic. A mansion
with as many rooms as worlds, and all
their windows Illuminated for festivlty.
o how this widens and lifts and stimu-
/ "a
makes the present and how stupendous il
makes the futurel How it consoles
us about our pious dead that in
stead of being boxed up and
under the ground they have the range OF
as many rooms as there are worlds and
welcome everywhere, for IL Is the Faith
/ er's house, in which there are many man
sions. o, Lord God of the seven Stars and
| Orion, how can l endure the transport,
the ecstasy of such visiOnl / must obey
my text and seek Him. will seek Him.
| seek Him now, for call TO mind that it
/ Is not the material universe that Is most
valuable, but the spiritual, and that each
| OF us has "A soul worth more than all the
worlds which the inspired herdsman saw
/ from his booth on the hills Of IekOa. /
nad studied IL before, but the cathedral Of
/ Cologne, Germany, never impressed me
/ as IL did this summer. 10 Is admittedly
the grandest Gothic structure in the
world, its foundation laid In 1913 only two
or three years ago completed. More than
six hundred years in building. All Eu-
rope taxed for its construction. Its
chapel Of the Magi with precious stones
enough 10 purchase kingdom. It's chapel
OF 81. Agnes, with masterpieces Of paint
ing. Its spire spriDging 81 feet into the
heavens. It's stained glass, the chorus Of
all rich colOrs. Statue encircling the
pillars and encIrcling all. Statues above
statues, until sculpture can do no more,
but faints and falls back against carved
stalls and down on payements, over which
the kings and queens Of the earth have
walked 10 confession. Nave and aisles
and transept and portals combining the
splendOrs OF sunrise. inter.laced, inter-
fOliated, inter-cOlumned grandeur. As
stood outside looking at the double range
OF flying buttresses and the forest Of PIN
nacles, higher and higher and higher, un-
I'll almost reeled from dizzi-
ness, / exclaimed; 4" Great dOXOlogy
In stone! Frozen prayer OF many
natiOnsw But while standing there /
saw poor man enter and put down his
pack and kneel beside his burden on the
hard floor Of that cathedral. And tears OF
deep emotion came into my eyes as / said
20 myself: "There is a soul worth more
than all the material surroundings. That
man will live after the last pinnacle has
fallen, and not one stone Of all that cathe-
dral glory shall remain uncrumbled. lie is
now Lazarus in rags. and poverty, and
81 !.