Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-16

from throwing any discTodit upon physi-
cal stamina. There are those who seem
TO nave great admiration Tor dehcacy Of
and sickness of constitution. | never
could see any glory in weak nerves or
sick headache. Whatever effort in our
day is made TO make the men and women
more athletic should have the favor OF
every good citizen as well as Of every
Christian. Gymnastics may be positively
religious. Good people sometimes
ascribo TO n wicked heart
what they ought TO ascribe to a slow liver.
The body and the soul are such near
neighbOrs that they often catch each 9TH
sick day, ard who, like Hercules, show
the giant in the cradle, have more to an
swer for than those who are the subjects
OF lifetime intirmites. He who can lift
| twice as much as you can and walk twice
as far and work twice as long will have a
double account to give in the Judgment.
How often is it that you 90 not find phys
ical energy indicative Of spiritual power.
II clear head is worth more than one
dizzy with perpetual vertigo; il muscles
with the play of health in them are worth
more than those drawM up In chronic
rheumatism; il an eye quick to catch
passing objects is better than one
with vision dim and uncertain. then
GOD Will require OF us efficiency
just in proportion to what be has given
US. Physical energy ought TO be a type
OF moral power. we ought TO have lust
as good digestion of truth dis we have
capacity to assinilate food our spiritual
| hearing ought TO be as gODd as our physi.
cal hearing; our spiritual taste ought to
be as clear as our tongue. SamsOns in
body, we ought to be giants in moral
power. But where you fad u great many
men who realize that they ought to use
1nfp
gence Alright, how few men you ind aware
OF the fact that they ought to use their
| physical organism Alright. With every
thump OF the heart there ia something
saying, Work! work !" and lest we
should complain that we have no
tools to work with, God gives us
our hands and feet with
every knuckle and with every joint
and with every muscle saving to us:
Lay hold and do something's But how
often it is that men with physical strength
do not serve Christ. They are like a ship
tuil-manned and full-rgaed, capable Of
vast tonnage, able to endure all stress OF
weather, yet swinging Idly az the docks
I when these men on aht TO be crossing and
. recrOssing the great ocean OF human sui
tering and sin vita Gods supplies Of
mercy. How often it is that physical
strength is used in doing positive DAMAGE
or in luxurious ease, when, with sleeves
rolled up and bronZed bosom fearless Of
/ the shafts of opposition, u ought TO be lay
/ ing hold with all It's miEhG TO lift up this
suuken wreck of a world. Ii Is a most
shameful fact that much of the business
( OF the church and Of the world
must be done by those comparatively
iuvalided. Richard- B8a.sr, bv reason al
his diseases, all his dags sitting in the
door OF the tomb, yet writing more than
hundred volumes and sending out an in
liuence for good that Will endure as long
as the "sants' Everlasting Rest" Ed
/ ward PaysOu, never knowing a well day,
yet how he preached, aud how be wrote,
/ helping thousands Of dying souls ike
| himself to swim in a sea OF gloryl And
I Robert McCheyne, a walking skeleton,
I yet you know what he did in Dundee and
bow be shook Scotland with zeal for God.
Philip DOddridge, advised by his
( friends, because Of his illness,
not to enter the ministry,
yet you know what he did for the "Rise
and Progress Of RELIGION" in the church
aud in the world. WIlberiorce, told by
his doctors that he could not live a fort
night, Vet at that very time entering
upon ph'lanthropic enterprises that de-
manded the greatest endurance and per-
sistence. Robert Hall, suffering eXcrucia-
tiOns 50 that sometimes while preachinghe
would have 10 stop and rest little and
/ then getting up again would preach
! about heaven until the glOries of the
! Celestial City dropped on the multitude.
doing more work perhaps than almost
any well man IN his day. Oh, how often
| il is that men with great physical endur-
( ance are not so great ~ moral ana spir-
itual stature! While there are achieve
! ments for those who are bent all their
days with sickness. achievements Of pa
/ tienee, achievements OF prayer, achieve
! ments of self-denial, achievements Of chris
/ tian endurance, / call upon men Of health.
1 men OF muscle, men Of nerve, men of
| physical power, TO devote themselves TO
! the Lord. Giants in body you ought TO
/ be giants in soul.
| Behold also in this story Of my text H.
/ lustration Of the fact OF the damage that
/ strength can do IL IL be misguided. 10
| seems 10 me that this man Of my text
| spent a great deal Of his time In doug
| evil. To pay debt which ne had lost by
! the guessing Of his riddle he rObs and
( kills thirty people. He was not only gi-
/ Rantic in strength, but gigantic IN mis-
/ chief, and type Of those men In all ages
/ Of the world who, powerful Ia body or
/ mind or IN any faculty Of social position
and wealth. have used their strength in
/ iniqu tOus purposes. IL Is not the small
| weak men Of the day who do the damage.
/ Those small men who go swearing aud
/ loahng about your stores and shops and
! banking houses, befouling the air with
/ their breath and insulting your
/ floor with their iniquitOus saliva.
( assailing Christ and the Bible and the
/ Church. they do not do the damage. They
/ have no Influence. But It is the giants Of
/ the dav, the misguided giants, giants in
/ physical power or giants IN mental acu-
I men, or, giants in social position, or
I giants in wealth, who do the damage; the
men with sharp pen that stab religion; or
who throw their poison all through our
! literature; the men who use the power of
wealth 10 sanction inquity. ard bribe
I Justice and make truth and honor bow 10
/ their golden sceptre Misguided giants
] Look out for them. In the middle OF the
/ latter part Of the last century no doubt
there were thousands Of men in Paris and
i Edinburgh aud London who hated God
and blasphemed the name OF the
/ Almighty. But they did but little
mischief They were small men. But
I there were giants in those days. Who
/ can calculate the soul-hay0c Of "A ROus-
/ seau gong on with very enthusiasm OF
/ iniquity, with fiery imagination selling
/ upon all the impulslve natures Of his day (;
I or David Hume. who employed his life as
| n spider employs his summer-in spinning
l out silken webs 70 trap the unwary; or
/ NOltaire. marshaling great host Of sgep-
| tics and leading them out in the dark land
| OF inddellty: or GibbOn, who showed an
| uncon trolable grudge against religion in
| his history OF one Of the most fascinating
! sfasaf ~.