Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-27

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ness and hypocrisy how thrilling 1t is 10
find some friend as faithful III days OF sd-
! versity as in days Of prosperity. DAVID had
such a friend in Hushai The Jews mad
such q friend in Mordecai, who never for
got their cause; Paul had such friend
in OnesipbOrus, who visited him ia jan;
/ Christ had such in the TWO Marys, WHO
adhered TO him on the cross; Naomi had
| such a one in Ruth, who cried out: "En-
| treat me not to leave thee or TO return
from following after thee; for where thou
goest I will 20, and where thou lodgcst /
Will lodge; thy people shall be my people
aid thy God my God; where thou dlesJ
Will die. aud there viii be buried. The
Lord do so to me and more also II aught
but death part thee aud me-"
Again, / learn from this subject that
paths which open in hardship and dark
ness often come out in places OF JOY.
When Ruth started from Moab towards
Jerusalem 10 20 along with her mother
in-laW 4 suppose the people said; "Oh,
what foolish creature TO go away from
her fathers house, 20 90 oil with "a poor
old woman toward the land Of Judah.
They won't live to get across the desert.
They Will be drowned in the Dead sea, or
the jackals Of the wilderness Will destroy
them" 1t was very dark morning
when Ruth started OIL with Naomi, but
behold her in my text in the haryest-hcld
OF BOaZ 20 be aitauced TO one Of the lords
of the land ana become one Of the grand
mothers Of Jesus Christ, the Lore OF
Glory. And 50 il often is that path
which often starts very darkly ends
very brightly. When you started
out for heaven, OH how dark WIS the hour
OF conviction how Sinai Numbered and
devils tOrmented and the darkness
thickcned. All the sins OF your life
bounced upon you and it was the darkest
hour you ever saw when you first found
out your sins After while you went
into the harvest-ield of GCd's mercy; you
began to CLEAN in the fields Of divine
promise and you had more sheayes than
YOU could carry, as the voice of God adj
dressed you. saying: Blessed is the man
whose transgresslons are forgiven and
whose sins are covered" A very dark
starting in conviction. very bright
ending in the pardon and the hope and the
triumph of the gospel.
So, very often in our worldly business
or in our spiritual career, We start of on
"A very dark path. We must 20. The flesh
may shrink back, but there is voice
from within, or voice from above, say
ing, You must 90" and we have 10
drink the gall, and we have to carry the
cross, and we have to traverse the desert,
and we have TO break through the thorn
hedge, and We are pounded and Hailed OF
misrepresentation and abuse, and we
have to urge our way through ten thou
sand Obstacles that have been slain by our
own right arm. We have to ford the
river, we have TO climb the mountain,
we have 20 storm the castle, but,
blessed be God, the day of rest
and reward will come. On the tip
top of the captured battlements
we will shout the victory; if not in this
world, then in that world where there is
no gall To drink, no burden to carry, no
battles to fight. How do ! know it,?
Know it, ] know it because God says so.
''Ihey shall hunger no more, neither
thirst any more, neither shall the sun
light on them, nOr any heat; for the Lamb
which is in the midst Of the throne
shall lead them to living fountains Of
water, and God shall wipe all tears from
their eyes" 1t was very hard for Noah
10 endure the scoffing OF the people in his
day while he was trying to build the ark,
and was every morning qulzzed about his
old boat that would never be OF any prac-
teal use, but when the deluge came and
the tops OF the mountains disappeared
like the backs of sea monsters, and the
elements, dashed up in fury, clapped their
hands over a drowned world, then Moan
in the ark TejOiced in his own safety, and
in the safety OF his family and looked out
on the wreck Of ruined earth. Behold
Christ, bounded of prosecutors, denied a
pillow, worse maltreated than the thieves
ON either side of the cross, human hate
smacking its lips in satisfaction after IL
had been draining His last drop of blood a;
the sheeted dead bursting from the
aepulchres at his crucinXtOn. Tell me,
. Gethsemane and GOlgOtha. were there
ever darker times than tnOsey Like the
booming OF the midnight sea against the
/ rock, the surges OF Christs anguish beat
4 against the gates Of eternity TO be echoed
/ back by all the thrones Of heaven and all
/ the dungeons Of hell. But the day of re.
/ ward comes for Christ. All the pomp and
/ dominion OF this world are to be hung on
/ His throne, uncrovned heads are TO bow
I before Him, on whose head are many
crowns, and all the celestial worship is tC
come up at His feet like the humming of the
forest, like theTustling OF the waters, like
the laundering OF the seas; while al
/ heaven rising on their thrones beat time
with their sceptres. 'Hallelujah, tor the
Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. Halle
| lujah, the kingdoms of the world have be
come of our Lord Jesus Christ"
"That song of love now low ana far.
Ere long shall swell from star TO star:
That light, the breaking day which tips
The golden -spired Apocalypse
Again, have to learn from my subec
| that events which seem TO be most insig
| niticant may be momentous. Can yOt
imagine anything more unimp0rtaut thar
the coming of a poor woman from Moal
TO JudahY Can YOU imagine anything
more trivial than the fact that this Kutl
lust happened 90 alight-ae they say Jus
] happened to alignt on that field OF B0aZ
Yet all ages, all generations nave an inter
est in the fact that she was TO become IN
ancestor Of the Lord Jesus Christ, and al
nations and kingdoms must LOOK NJ tina
one little incident with a thrill Of un
speahable and eternal satisfaction. SO i
is in your history and In mine; events
that YOU thought OF no Importance at al
have been OF very great moment. Tina
casual conversation. that accidental meet
ing--you did not think OF il again fo
long while. But how II changed all th'
phase OF your lie. II seemed TO be OF M
importance that Jubal invented rude in
struments OF music, calling them hari
aud organ; but they were the intrOduc
ticu OF all the worlds minstrelsy; and a.
You hear the vibration of strrged in
striment, even after the fingers have been
taken away from 10, So all music now O
lutte and drum and cOrnct are only tn
long-continued strains of Jubafs hdrl
and Jubars organ. II seemed 10 be
matter of very little Importance that Tu
Dal Cain learned the use of copper an,
iron. but that rude foundry OF ancien
DAYS has It's echo in the rattle of BlrmiuE
ham machinery and the roar ana bang @