Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-14


words when wiping from the swollen
brow the blood struck out In midnight
carousal; bending over the battered and
bruised form OF him who, when he took
her from her fathers home, promised
love and kindness and protection,
yet nothing but sympathy and prayers
and forgiveness, before they are asked
| for. No bitter words when the Family
| BlDle goes for rum, and the pawnbroker's
shop gets the last decent dress. Some
day, desiring to evoke the story of her sor-
rows, you say, "Well, how are you get
ting along now?" And rallying her
trembling voice and quieting her quiver-
ing lip, she says. "Pretty we'll, l thank
you; pretty WE'LL" She never will tell
you. In the delirlum Of her last sickness
she may tell all the secrets of her life-
time, but she will not tell that. Not until
the books of eternity are opened on the
throne OF judgment will ever be known
what she has suffered.
., ye, who are twisting a garland for
the victor, put il on that pale brow
| When she is dead, the neighbors will beg
linen to make her shroud. and she will
be carried out in plain box, with no sill
yer plate TO tell her years. for she has
! lived thousand years Of trials and AM
| guish. The gamblers, the swindlers who
destroyed her husband, will not come TO
the funeral. One carriage will be enough
for that funeral, one carriage to carry the
orphans and the two Christian women,
who presided over the obsequies; but there
is fash, and the opening of u celestial
door, and shout: "Llft up your heads,
We everlasting gates, and let her come in :"
and Christ will step forth and say: "Come
in; We suffered with me on earth, be glo-
rihed with me In Heaven" What
is the highest throne in Heavenf
The throne OF the Lord God Al
mighty and the Lamb. No doubt
about 1t. What is the next highest
throne in Heaven2 While l speak, it
seems to me that it will be the throne of
the drunkard's wife, il she with cheerful
| patience, endure all her earthly torture.
Heroes and heroines.
find also in this roll the heroes of
| Christian charity. We all admire the
| George Peabodys and the James Lenoxes
Of the earth, who gave tens and hundreds
and thousands of dollars to good objects.
But am speaking this morning Of those
who out of their pinched poverty help
others-0f such men as those Christian
missionaries at the West who are living
on $3.50 year that they may proclaim
| Christ to the people. One OF them writ
ing to the secretary in New York, says:
II thank you for that $26. Until yester-
day we had no meat in our
house for three months. We have suf-
fered terribly. My children have no
shoes this winter" l am speaking Of
those people who have only a half loaf of
bread, but give piece of it to others who
are hungry; and of those who have only n
| scuttle Of coal but help others to fuels and
of those who have only dollar in their
| pocket and give % cents to somebody else; /;
and OF that father who wears a shabby
coat, and OF that mother who wears a
| faded dress that their children may be
/ wv..lI all
| or ragamutfiins, or immigrants. l call
them heroes and herOines. You and |
may not know where they live or what
their name is; God knows, and they have
more angels lowering over them than you
and have, and they will have a higher
seat in Heaven.
They may have had only a cup of cold
water to give poor traveller, or may have
only picked a splinter from under the nail
of child's finger, or put only two mites
into the treasury, but the Lord knows
them. Considering what they had, they
| did more than we have ever done, and
their faded dress will become a white
robe. and the small room will be an eter-
nal mansion, and the old hat will be cor
onet Of victory, and all the applause
Of earth, and all the shouting of heaven
will be drowned out when God rises up
to give his reward TO those hum
bic workers in HIS kingdom, and to say
/ to them "Well done, good and faithful
serVantsi" You have all seen or heard OF
the ruin OF Melrose Abbey. i suppose in
some respects it is the most exquisite ruin
| on earth, and yet looking at 1t was not
so impressed-you may set it down TO bad
taste, but was not so deeply stirred-as
/ was at the Tombstone at the foot of that
Abbey, the tombstone placed by Walter
| Scott, over the grave OF an old man who
I 4 ia -, 1.a-
| house-the inscription most significant,
/ and l defy any man to stand there and
read It without tears coming into his
| eyes; the epitapb: "Well done, good and
| faithful seryantV ., when our work is
over, will it be found that because OF any
thing we have done for God, or the
church, or suffering humanity, that such
an inscription Is appropriate for us? God
grant I'll
Who are those who were bravest and de.
served the greatest mOnument-LOrd
Claverhouse and his burly soldiers, or
John Brown, the Edinburgh carrier, and
his wife? Mr.. Atkins, the persecuted
minister OF Jesus Christ In Scotland, was
secreted by John Brown and his wife,
and Claverhouse rode up one day with
his armed men, and shouted in front OF
the house. John Browns little girl came
out. He said TO her; "Well, miss, Is Mr..
ALklnb ueFeE Que Iuhue no answer lOf
she could not betray the minister OF the
Gospel. "Haw ClayerhOuse said. "then
you are a chip OF the old block, are your
have something in my pocket for you. II
il a nOsegay. Some people call IL a
| thumbscrew, but I call IL a nOsegay."
| And he got off his horse. and he put II on
the little girls hand, and began 20 turn 10
until the bones cracked, and she cried.
| He said; "Don't cry Don't cryl This is
not thumbscrew, this Is a nOsegay. And
/ they heard the child's cry, aud the father
/ and mother came out, and ClayeThOuse
said, "Hal II seems that you three have
/ laid your holy heads together determined
/ 20 die, like ali the rest Of your hypocriti-
cal. cantiDg, snivellinR crew. Rather
| than give up good Mr.. Atkins. piOus Mr.
| Atkins, you would die. / have a tole-
/ scope with me that will improve your
| vision" as be pulled out pistol. Now
| he said, 'yOu old pragmatical, lest you
/ should catch cold In this cold morning Of
/ Scotland, and for the honor and safety Of
/ the King, 70 say nothing Of the glory "
| God aud the good OF our souls. 1 Will pro-
ceed simply, and In the neatest and most
| expeditions manner, 10 blow your brains
out" John Brown fell upon his knees
and began 10 pray. "Ab." said Clayer-
house, "look OUT II you are going 10 pray
steer clear OF the king, the council and
/ Richard Cameron" 80 Lord" SAID
/ John Brown, "since it seems 20 be thy
will that / should leave this world for a