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

worldwide conquerors looked. Ask ths
day OF judgment when her crowned de-
hauches, Commodus and PertinaX and
Caligula and Diocletan, shall answer for
their infamyg AS men and as nations let
us repent, and have our trust in pardOn-
ing God, rather than depend on former
successes for immunity! Out Of thirteen
greatest battles OF the world Napoleon
had lost but one before Waterloo. Pride
and destruction often ride in the same
saddle.
But notice once more, and more than all
in my text, that God Is so kind and loving
that when IL Is necessary for Him TO cut,
lie has TO 60 70 others FOR the sharp-edged
weapon. "ln the same day shall the Lord
shave with a razor thatis hired" God is
love. God is pity. God is help. God is
shelter. God is rescue. There are no
sharp edges about Him, no thrusting
points, no instruments Of laceration. IL
YOU want balm for wounds, He has that.
If you want salve for divine eyeslght, He
has that. But If there is sharp aud cut
ting work TO do which requires a razor,
that He hires. God has nothing about
Him that hurts save when dire necessity
demands, and then He has to so clear on
20 some one else to get the instrument.
This divine geniality wHl be no novelty
to those who have pOndered the Calvarean
massacre, where God submerged Himself
in human tears, and crimsoned
Himself from punotured arteries, and
let the terrestrial and Internal
worlds maui Him until the chandeliers Of
the sky had to be turned out, because the
universe could not endure the indecency.
Illustrious for love He must have been To
take all that as our substitute, paying out
of His own heart the crimson price of our
admission at the gates of heaven. King
Henry IL, Of England, crowned his son as
King, aud on the day of coronation put on
"A servants garb and waited, he, the King,
at the sons table, 10 the astonishment OF
all the princes But we know Of more
wOndrous scene, the King of heaven and
earth Offering 10 put on you, his child, the
crown Of life, and IN the form
OF servant waiting ON you
with blessing. Extol that love, alt
painting, all sculpture, all music, all
architecture, all worshipi In Dresden's
gallery let Raphael hold him up as q
child, and in Antwerp cathedral let Rus
bens hand him down from the cross as q
martyr, and Handel make all his oratorio
vibrate around that one chord-"He was
wounded for our transgressions, bruised
for our iniquity." But not until all the
redeemed get home, and from the cOun-
tenances Of all the piled-up galleries OF
the ransOmed shall be revealed the won-
ders OF redemption, shall either man or
seraph or archangel know the height and
depth and length and breadth Of the love
of God.
At our national capital a monument in
honor of him who did more than any one
to achieve our American Independence
was for scores Of years in building, and
most OF us were discouraged aud said it
never would be completed. And how
glad we all were, when In the presence OF
the highest officials Of the nation, the
work was dOnel But will the monument
to Him who died for the eternal liberation
of the human race ever be completed For
ages the work has been going up; eyan-
gelists, and apostles and martyrs have
been adding TO the heavenly pile, and
every one OF the millions OF
the redeemed, going up from
earth has made TO it contribution Of
gladness; and weight Of glory Is swung
to the top Of other weight Of glory, and
layers Of hosannas on layers OF h0sannas.
higher and higher as the centuries 20 by,
higher and higher as the whole millen-
NUNS roll, sapphire on the top Of jasper,
sardonyx on the top Of chslcedony, and
chrysOprases above topaz, until far be-
meath shall be the walls. and towers, and
dOmes Of the great capitol, monument
forever and forever rising, and yet never
done, "Unto Him who hath loved US and
washed us from our sins in His own
blood. and made us kings and priests for
ever" alleluiR. Amen.