Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-12

made for his liberation. So let us 20 up
ana down the world with the music Of
\ KIND words and sympathetic hearts, sere-
nading the unfortunate, and trying to get
| out OF trouble men who had noble natures,
| put Dy Unforeseen circumstances have
been incarcerated, thus llberating Kings.
! More hYmn-bOok and less razor.
! Especially ought we TO be apolOgetic
and merciful toward those who while they
have great faults have also great virtues.
| Some people are barren OF virtues. No
| weeds verify, but no flowers. / must not
1 he too much enraged at q nettle along the
! fence, il IL be in field containing 10 acres
ofripe Michigan wheat. At the present
time naturalists tell us there Is on the
/ sun spot 10000 miles long, but from the
brightness and warmth, conclude that 1t
is good deal of sun yet.
Again, when read in my text that the
Lord shaves with the hired razor Of AS
syria the land of Judea, / bethink myself
OF the precision Of Gods providence. A
razor swung the tenth part Of an inch out
OF the right line means either failure or
liberation, but Gods dealings never slip,
and they do not miss by the thousandth
! part of an inch the right direction. PeO-
pie talk as though things In this world
were at loose ends. Cholera sweeps across
MGrseilles and Madrid and Palermo, and
we watch anXiously. Shall the epidemic
sweep Europe and America? People say,
''That will entirely depend on whether
the inoculatiOn is a successful expert
ment; that will depend entirely on quar-
antine regulations; that will depend on
! the early or late appearance of frost; that
epidemic is pitched into the world. and 1t
| goes laundering across the continents,
and it is all guess work and an appalling
perhaps" My friends, think, perhaps,
that God had something to do with il,
/ n nd 10 hnxr Ina
way protected us, that He may have
done so much for us as the quarantine
and the health officers. IL WAS right and
necessity that all caution should be
used, but there has come enough macca-
roni from Italy, and enough grapes from
the south OF France, and enough rags
from tatterdemalions, and hidden in those
articles Of transportation, enough ch0l-
eraic germs to have left by this time all
Brooklyn mourning at Greenwood, and
all Philadelphia at Laurel Hill, and all
Boston at Mount Auburn. / thank all
the doctors and quarantines, but more
than all, and first Of all, and last Of all,
and all the time, l thank God. In all the
! 5000 years OF the worlds existence there
has not one thing merely 'happened So"
God Is not an anarchist, but King,
Father. When little Todd. the son OF
President Lincoln, died, all the land SYM
pathized with the sorrow in the White
House. He used TO rush into the room
where the Cabinet was in session, and
while the most eminent men Of the
land were discussing the question Of a
national existence; but the child had no
care about these Questions. Now, God
| the Father, God The Son, and God the
| Holy Ghost are IN perpetual session in re-
! gard 90 tlls world and kindred worlds.
| Shall you, His child, rush In TO criticize
or arreigl or condemn the Divine gov
ernment No; the Cabinet OF the Eternal
/ Three can govern and will govern In the
wisest and best way, aud there never will
1 be a mistake. and like a razor skilltullY
swung, shall cut that which ought 70 be cut
and avoid that which ought to be avoided.
! Precision to tine very hairbreadth. Earthly
time-pieces may got ont OF order and
| strike WRONG, saying 70 Il / O'Clock when
! II is 2, or when il ia 3. Gods clock
is alwaye right, and when 1t is 1 1t
strikes 1, aud when IL Is II IL strikes u.
and the second hand is as accurate as the
minute hand.
Further, my text tells US that God
sometimes shaves nations: "In the same
day shall the Lord shave with the razor
that is hired" With one sharp sweep
He went across judah, and down went It's
pride and itH power. In 1851 God shaved
our nation. We had allowed to grow
sabbath desecration, oppression and
blasphemy and fraud and impurity and
all sorts OF turpitude. The South had its
! sins and the North its sins, and the East
its sins and the West its sins. We had
been warned again and again and we did
not heed. At length the sword OF war cut
| from the st. Lawrence to the gulf, and
from Atlantic seabOard 10 Pacific sea-
board. The pride of the land--not the
towards but the heroes--on both sides,
went down. And that which we took for
the sword Of war was the Lords razor.
In 1862 again It went across the land. In
1863 again. In 1864 again. Then the
sharp instrument was encased and put
away. Never in the history OF the ages
was any land more thoroughly shaved
than during those four years OF civil COM
bat. and. my brethren. II we do not quit
some of our individual and national sins,
the Lord will again take us in hand. He
has other razors within reach besides
war, epidemics, 0roughts, deluges,
-grasshOpper and locust--Or our
overtOwering success may so far excite
the jealousy OF other lands that, under
some pretext, the great nations OF Eu-
rope and Asia may combine 70 put US
down. This nation, go easily approached
on North and south and from bOth oceans,
might have on hand at once more HOSTILE
ties than were ever arrayed against any
/ one power. We have recently been told
| by skillul engineers that all our fOrtresses
around New York harbor could not keep
the shells from being hurled from the sea
into the heart Of these great cities.
lnsulted China, the wealthiest
OF all nations. as will be realized when
her resources are developed, will have
adopted all the modes OF modern warfare,
and at the Golden Gate may be discussing
whether Americans must "gO." II the
combined jealousics Of Europe and Asia
should como upon US, we should have
more work on hand than would be pleas
ant. / hope no such combination against
US will ever be formed, but / want 10 show
that, as Assyria was the hired razor
against judah. and Cyrus the hired razor
against Babylon, and the Huns the hired
razor against the GOths, there are now
many razors that the Lord could hire il,
because OF our national sins. Tie should
undertake TO shave US. In 1870 Germany
was the razor with which the Lord
shaved France. England is the
razor with which very shortly
the Lord will shave Russia. But
nations are tO repent In day. May a
speedy and worldwide coming 10 God
hinder, on both sides the sea, all national
calamity. But do not let us as a nation,
either by unrighteOus law at Washington
or bad lives among ourselves, defy the
Almighty. One would think that our
national symbol Of the eagle might some
H..H.