Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-07

the news to his wife. He could not
bear to tell he had suspended In business,
that he had stopped payment, that his
! fortunes had gone. He went into the
house, he closed the door upon the world,
and In domestic peace found fOretaste
OF that heaven where panics never come.
All If IL had not been for that help that
| you had. what would have been the re-
suit when you told her of your financial
embarrassment and misfortune? She was
cheerful, she was sympathetic, she was
hopeful, she helped you all through those
! dark days of trial, and after the piano
went, she could sing without the accom-
paniment just as well as she ever sang
with the accompaniment. There have
been Christian women who have so had
their domestic troubles sanctified that
they could get more music out OF a
Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine than
ever in the days of their prosperity they
got out Of Chickering grand or Stein
way.
A Christian minister in England called
upon home of great destitution. There
were the husband, the wife, and there
were the children. No comfort in the
household. Everything indicative Of want
and struggle. The minister OF the Cos
pei said to this young man: 'YOur mis-
take was In marrying so early. Do you
not think that was the mistake OF your
lifeY The man had been told that that
had been the mistake of his life before.
The minister said: lit would have been
great deal better for you to have gone
on and got something OF property before
you entered into the marriage state.
Don't you think it would have been bet
terP And then the young man looked
around, and his eyes filed with tears,
and he looked to his poorly clad wife and
said; mo, sir; she's been the same to
me all throughr
All, there are some of you who would
never have known what your homes were
worth, if trouble had not come. Perhaps
your companion in life may have been
too fond of the world and Its gayeties;
but one touch OF misfortune turned her
into Miriam shouting the triumph on
the banks OF the Red sea. II you have
| spoken Of frivOlity and fOndness of dis
| play as the chief characteristics of ofwOman,
| you may nave to correct your mistake in
some bitter pass OF lie, when, all other
resources having failed, you are
! upheld by a wife's hand, suddenly
armed of the Lord God Almighty for that
emergency. Oh, in this tremendous pass
of your earthly existence, cry unto God,
and ask his direction. Make a mistake
| here, and you make it forever. Walter
Scott wrote something, half of which do
not like, for it Is sarcastic, but the other
half do like, for it is so true;
80. woman In our hours OF ease,
Uncertain, coy and hard to please;
When pam ant anguish wiring the brow.
A minlstering angel thou"
Blessed that home in which the newly.
married couple dedicate their souls TO
Christ. Blessed the family bible in
| which their names have just been writ
ten. Blessed the hour Of morning and
| evening PRAYER. Blessed the angels of
God who JOIN wing tip to wing tip over
that home, making canopy of light and
| love and blessedness. II may be only
| yesterday that they clasped hands for
ever. The orange blossoms may fail and
their fragrance may die on the air, but
they who marry in Christ shall walk to-
| gether on that day when the church,
| which is the Lambs wife, shall take the
hand of her Lord and King amid the
swinging Of the golden censers.
Again, l remark: II is tremendous
| pass in life when man comes to his first
great success. You get in the cars some
evening. Everybody that looks at you
knows there has something glad hap
| pened. You sit down In the car, your
face illuminated. and lady comes in.
| There Is no place for her to sit, and you
| get up In great cheer and insist on her
taking your place, and with great cour-
tesy she says, "Thank you," and sits
| down. You say nothing to anybody, bat
| it is evident from your manner and ap-
pearance that great good fortune has hap
| pened unto you. Now, that Is a crisis In
your life. At such time the questions
will arise: sin what enterprise shall
inVestf What shall be the house i will
live in? What shall be the libraryf What
shall be my wardrobe? What shall l do
with my moneyV
At that point hundreds of men make a
| fatal mistake. Some go into dissipation.
Some take on great arrogance, try to make
everybody feel how small they are; whole
caravans Of camels going through the
needles eye of their meanness. They
walk through the street with an air as
much as to say: "Get out of the way!
Here comes three hundred thousand dol
larsw That Is the crisis IN life where so
many fail, because they have no God to
direct them.
There are men who before their success
are kind and amiable, and genial and use
iul, who, after their success, are arrogant
and unbearable and unchristian. Here is
man who was once very useful in so
ciety, but great success comes, and he
gets in his equipage and he drives on 4; he
lashes the fiery steeds; he goes faster and
faster, eight miles the hOur, twenty miles
the hour, one hundred miles the hour
faster and faster, until In his last mo-
ments he rOuses up TO find that he Is drawn
Dy Lne merry nOOiS Oh eitlnai disaster as
they come racketung down on the pave
ment Of hell. ., young man or man in
middle life. you want God in your great
success, your hrst great success.
Another tremendous pass In our lifO is
when we yet our first sorrow. IL would
be foolish for me TO talk TO the young
men of this day as though their life was
going TO be smooth all the way. You
might as we'll start asea-captaln ia YES
sci, wIthouta carpenter, and without any
tools, and without any c0rdage. That
would do very well while the sea was
smooth, but when the ship gets caught In
the teeth Of northeaster. and the waves
dash clear over the hurricane deck, then
the captain cries out: "W Wbsre's the
carpentorf Where are the toOlsf
Where are the rOpesp The young
men OF this day would understand
that misrepresented the matter, II | told
thom their life WAS always 10 be smooth.
They know better. They know from what
they see OF the life Of others, that life can
not always be smooth. Many men came
home from the late war without scratch
or a bruise, but In the conflict OF life IL is
not so: we all get wounded-wounded in
the head, in the hands. in the feet, in the
heart. Life Is a conflict. The Bible over
and over again states that. Paul states
IL, and be writes himself as In a war with
the world, q war with the flesh, and war
with the devil, and war oil the way
through. Now, how are you going to
meet the first trOubleY That Is the ques-