Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-11

him. and all the modern Sennacher1bs or
infdelity and sin have a hook in their
nose, and are turned this way and tn At
as the Lord wills it. Great marble halls
now devoted to sinful amusements will
yet be dedicated for religious assem-
blages. All these castles Of sin will sur
render under the battle cry with which
Oliver Cromwell lea his army on the field
Of Naseby: Let God arise! Let his enc
mics be scattered!' After the great
London fire there was found the ruins Of
house with nothing standing but the
arches, showing the name Of the archi-
tect who constructed it, and on these
great ruins Of humanity that astOunded
the world are marked the name OF the
God VINO built them, and the blackening
sins that consumed them. Some Of the
worst men God has harnessed for special
mission. Witness, Cyrus and Nebuchad.
nezzar. With the bayonets of bad man
the BastIle was pried open. Some OF the
most selfish and wicked merchants have,
by their talent, opened new fields for law
tul commerce.
God sometimes let's the wicked live that
/ trey may be monuments of His mercy. 1t
was so with John Newton, IL was so with
John Bunyan, it was so with Augustin.
Perhaps it was so with you and ne.
/ Those chiefs Of sinners became chiefs Of
grace. Paul the Apostle made out OF
Saul the prosecutor. Baxter the evange-
list made out of Baxter the blasphemer.
Whole sQuadrOns with streaners of
Emanuel flying from the masthead,
though they were launched from the
d0ckyards Of dIabUlism. lie let's them
live because he is going to make Jewels
out Of them for cOrOnets, tongues of fire
out of them for PentecOsts, warriors out
of them for ArmageddOn, cOnquerors out
of them to ride at the head Of the White
Horse Guards in the great review of the
last day.
God let's the wicked live that all may
understand that there must be another
world for adjustments. So many of the
bad up and so many Of the good down.
| There must he a place where brilliant
scOundrelism shall be arraIgned and inno-
cence arise from under the heel of oppres-
sion. Common fairness, as well as eternal
justice, demands it.. To the grand assize
we must adjourn the stupendOus injus-
tees OF this life. They are not righted
here. There must be some place where
they will be righted. God cannot afford
to omit the Judgment day arecOnstruc-
ton of conditions. You cannot make me
believe that that man stuffed with abOmi-
nations, having devOured widows houses
and digested them, and looked with basil
isk or tigerish eyes on his fellows, liking
no music 50 well as the sound of breaking
| hearts, is going, at death, to get out of bis
landau at the front door of the sepulchre
and pass right through to the back door of
the sepulchre and there get into celes-
tial turnout, already hitched up, to drive
tandem up the primrosed hills one glory
riding as laquey ahead and another glofy
riding as postilliOn behind, while that
poor woman who supported her invalid
husband and helpless children by taking
in washing and ironing, often putting her
| hand to her side where cancerOus
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| falling dead late one night while irving
to get one of the children's garments
ready for the Sabbath day, and going
afOOt into the front door of the sepulchre
is to cross to its back door and find moth
ing waiting, no one to say 81 am glad you
have come" and no one to show her the
way to the kings gate. 1t cannot be.
Solomon bemOaned the princes afOot and
the beggars a-hOrseback, and there must
be motive when the right foot shall get
into the stirrup. To demonstrate to all
the world that there must be another state
for rearranging these inequalities. God
lets the wicked live.
God let's the wicked live for the reason
! that He has let us live-tO give us time
for happiness. What would you and |
have been if God had followed sin with
/ immediate catastrophe? What mercy
| that God has, according to the Canticles
! Tue ilCtb iOOb VI but IbtUuCk WReu lie goes
| to save. He moves as though hOppled by
great languor aud infinite lethargies " hen
/ He comes to punish. | celebrate Gods
adjOurnments and Gods pOstp0nements
and Gods puttings off of retrihutiOn. The
slower the rail train moves the better. if
the draw-bridge is of. Let our impatient
criticism of Providence because that man
by watering stock makes a million by one
sWOOp and keeps il and these other men
roll on in bl0ated arrogance all their days,
be exchanged for gratitude everlasting
that God did let us live when we deserved
nothing but capsiZes and demolition.
How long have you lived unpardoned?
Fifteen years. twenty years, forty years,
sixty years YOU have lived through
/ great religious awakenings, through
domestic calamities, through business
/ disaster, through alarming illness,
| through prOvidences that startled ma
| tons, and living yet, strangers to God and
duty, and with no hope for a future into
which any moment you may be precipi-
/ tated Through Jesus Christ get your
nature revOlutionized and TRANSPORTED,
| for God sometimes changes his gait and
/ instead of the deliberate step he becomes
a swift witness, and people in your state
may be suddenly destroyed and without
/ remedy. Give up your war against God
and have Him your eternal ally. When
! King Philip of France led his army with
| bows and arrows to fight King Edward
| Ill. Of England, at the most critical time
1 in the battle a shower OF rain so dissolved
| the bowstrings that they were OF no
| effect, and PhiliD's army was
worsted. And, my hearers, all
/ your weapOnry will be as
/ nothing when God rains upon you discom-
future out OF the heavens. But safe are all
those who have God for friend instead of
foe. The chari0ts of God are twenty
thousand. Change allegiancel Take
down the old flag and run up the new one !
The American Congress, during the time
OF the Ameri IAN revolution, were for long
days in anxiety TO know whether the
army of Washington or the army of Corn
wallis would conquer, and when the news
/ finally arrived at the door Of Congress that
CORVALLIS had surrendered and the war
was over the doorkeeper dropped dead from
! JOYFUL eXeNement. Oh, if this moment
the long conf ct between your soul and
God could terminate in your surrender,
the glad tidings would soon reach heaven,
and nothing hut the supernatural health
of your glorlhed loved ones could keep
them from pr stration from over Joy at
the close OF the spiritual hOstiities.
LEFT HIS GIRL IN THE LURCH.
william Mcvittie Makes Love to Two