Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-16

in. Next Sabbath they Will again be IN
the religious service. They are this mo-
Inent being sweDt into Christian assocla-
lions. Their voice will be heard in pub
lie prayer. They will die in peace, their
bed surrounded by Christian sympathles,
and be carried out by devout men TO be
buried, and on their grave be chiseled the
words: precious in the sight OF the Lord
is the death OF his saints" And on Res
direction day you will get up with the
dear children you have already buried,
and with your Christian parents who
have already won the palm. And all that
grand and glorious history begins now.
"Other sheep L have, which are not OF TINS
fold"
IL. remark again: The Heavenly
Shepherd is going to lind a great many of
His sheep among those who are positive
reiecters Of Christianity. do not know
how you came to reject Christianity. 1t
may have been through hearing Theodore
| Parker preach, or through reading Re-
mans Life OF Jesus" or through the in
fidel talk Of some young man in your
store. 1t may have been through the
trickery Of some professed Christian man
| who Disguised you with religion. l do
not ask you how you became so; but you
/ frankly tell me that you do reject 1t. GU
do not believe that Christ is Divine be-
! ing, although you admit that He was
!
| the Bible was inspired OF God, although
! you think that there are some very fine
things in it. You believe that the Scrip
| tural description ofEdeR was only an al
! legory. There are fifty things that be-
! live that you do not believe.
And vet you are an accommodating
man. Everyb body that knows you says
! that Of you. II L should ask you to do a
Kindness for me, or if any one else should
ask OF you kindness, you would do it..
| Now, have a kindness to ask OF you to-
| day. 1t is something that will cost you
nothing and Will give me great delight. |
want you by experiment to try the power
of Christ's religion. II | should come to
you, and you were very sick, and doctors
had given you up and said there was no
cnance for you, and j should take out
little bottle and say "Here is a medicine
that will cure YOU, it has cured fifty peo-
pie, and it will cure you" You would
say. Il have no confidence in it," /
would say: won't you take tito oblige
me? "Well," you would say, "if it's
any accommodation to you Pll take it,"
My friend, will you be lust as accommo-
dating in matters of religion?
There are some of you who have found
out that this world cannot satisfy your
soul. You are like the man who told me
after the service was over: 81 have tried
this world and found it an insufficient
portion. Tell me Of something better"
You have come to that. You are sick for
the need of Divine medicament. Now l
| come and tell you of a Physician who
will cure you, who has cured hundreds
and hundreds who were sick as you are.
son." you say. Il have no confidence in
HimW But will you not try Himi Accom-
modate me IN this matter; oblige me in
this matter; just try Him. / am very GER
tain He will cure you. You reply: 81
have no special confidence in Him; but
if you ask me as matter of accOmmoda-
ton, introduce him." So l introduce
Him-Christ, the Physician who has
cured more blind eyes, and healed more
CHASTITY wounds, and bound up more
broken hearts than all the doctors since
the time OF Ksculapius.
That Divine Physician is here. Are
you not ready to try HIM? viii you not
as a pure matter OF experiment state
your case before Him now? Hold moth
ing back from Him. If you cannot pray,
! If you do not know how to pray any
| other way, say: son, Lord Jesus Christ,
this is a strange thing for me to do! /
know nothing about the formulas of re-
! ligion. These Christian people have been
| talking so long about what Thou canst do
! for me, am ready to do whatever Thou
! commanded me TO do. l am ready to
! take whatever Thou commanded me to
! take. If there be any power In religion,
! as these people say, let me have the adj
/ vantage Of it,"
Will you try that experiment? | do
not, at this point Of nay discourse, say
| that there is anything in religion; but
| simply say, try it-try it. DO not take
my counsel or the counsel OF any clergy
man, if you despise clergymen. Perhaps
we may be talking professionally; per-
! haps we may be prejudiced in the matter !;
perhaps we may be hypocritical IN our
! utterances; perhaps our advice is not
worth taking. Then take the counsel OF
some very respectable laymen-as
John Milton the poet, as William
| Wilberforce the statesman, as Isaac New
| ton the astronomer, as Robert BOYLE the
| philosopher, as Locke the metaphysical
They never preached or pretended to
preach; and yet putting down, one his
! telescope, and another his parliamentary
scroll, and another mis- electricians wire,
they all declare the adaptedness of Chrsts
religion TO the wants and troubles of the
| world, If you will not take the recon-
| incubation OF the ministers OF the gospel,
then take the recommendation of highly
respectable laymen. oh, men skeptical
and struck through with unrest, would
you not like to have some OF the peace
which brOods over our souls to-day?
! know all about your doubts. l have been
through them all. l have gone through
all the curriculum. l have doubted
whether there is God, whether Christ Is
| God. have doubted whether the Bible
was true. i have doubted the Immortali-
ty OF the soul. / have doubted my own
existence. / have doubted everything;
and yet, out OF that hot desert
OF doubt, have come into
the broad, luXuriaut, sunshiny
land OF Gospel nope, and peace, and COM
fort; so have confidence in preaching TO
you and asking you To come in. However
often you may have spoken against the
Bible, or however much you NAV have
caricatured religion. step ashore from
that rocking and tumultuous sea. Ifyou
go away adhering to your intideities you
will not sleep one wink tonight. You do
not want your children to come up with
your skeptlcism. You cannot afford TO
die ia that midnight darkness, can you 2
IL you do not believe in anything else you
believe in love--a fathers love, mothers
Lore, wife's love, q child's love Then
let me tell YOU that God loves YOU more
than them all. Oh you must come. in.
You will come in. The great heart OF
Christ aches to have YOU come IN, and
Jesus this very mOment--whether YOU sit
or stand-loOks into your eyes aud says
"Other sheep l have, which are not OF
this told"
III. Again | remark, that the Heaven
ly Shepherd Is going TO find great m any
sheen among those who have bpnn hunV