Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-27

/ door bell and maa with the uuliorm OF
a policeman stands there and man with
some mbarrass nenJ and some battling,
and in roundabout way. says that IN a
! fight in some low haunt of tue city Ed
ward had been hurt. He says to Nicho-
| las: 81 heard that be was some relation
OF yours, and thought you ought to know
( it,"
''Hurt? is he badly hurtp
Eyes, very badly hurt"
sis the wound mortal"
"Yes; il is mortal. TO tell you the whole
truth, SIR" saws the policeman, ''althOugh
| can hardly bear TO tell you, be is dead"
"Dead!" cries Nicholas. Aud by this
time the whole family are In the hallway.
Tue father says: ''Just as | feared. 1t
will kill his mother when she hears of 1t.
! On, my son, my sOnl Would to God
had died for thee. On, nv son, my son!"
Wash off the wounds" says Nicholas.
land bring him right here to my house.
and let there be all re spect and gentle
ness shown him. 1t ls the last we can do
| for him."
| Oh, what obseqresl The next door
| neigbbOrs hardly knew what was going
on; but Nicholas and the father and
mother knew. Out OF the Christian and
| beautiful home of the one brother is car
| RED the dissolute brother. No word OF
| blame uttered. No harsh things said.
| On bank of camellias is spell ed out the
word 'brother." Had the prod gaI been
| true, and pure and noble in life and hon.
orable in death he could not have been
carried forth with more tenderness, or
! slept In Il more beautiful casket or been
deposited IN more beautiful garden OF
/ The dead. Amid the lOosened turf the
| brothers who lett the country for city Ii e
| 1--WE years before now part forever. The
last scene Of the hfth act of an awful
| trazedy of human life is ended.
What made the difference between these
| two young men? Religion. The one de-
pended on himself. the other depended on
God. They started from the same home,
| had the same opportunities OF education.
arrived in the CITY on the same day, and
| II there was any difference, Edward had
| the Vantage, for be was brighter and
| quicker. and all toe neig hboTs prophesiei
| greater success for him than for Nicholas
| But Oebolu and wouucr at the tIemend-
| Gus secret. Voices come up out nf this
audience and say: ID q you know these
brOthersp Yes; knew Jhem we'll"
| Did you know their parents2' Eyes;
Intimately" What was the CITY, what
the street, what the last names OF these
| young men! You have excited our curl
osty; now tell US all.
| Will. Nothing in these characters is
| fictitious except the names. Tuey are in
| every city, and in every street of every
city. and IN every country. Not two OF
them but ten thousand. Aye, aye! Right
before me to-day, and on either side of
me, and above me, they sit and stand, the
invulnerable through religious defense
and the blasted OF city allurements.
Those who snail have longevity in beau-
| ulul homes, and others who shall have
early graves OF infamy. And | am here
| to-day in the name of Almighty God to
| give you the choice OF the two characters,
| the two histories, the two experiences,
the two destinies, the two worlds, the
| two eterniiies.
Standing with you at the forks Of the
| road something makes me think that if
to-day | set before the people the termini
| OF the two roads they will all of them
| take the right one. There are before me
in this house and in the invisible au-
dieBce back OF ths-for journalism has
| generously given me every week full op-
pOrtunity to address the people in all the
towns and cities of ChristendOm say,
in the visible and invis Bile audience there
are many who have not fully made up
| their minds which road to take. "Come
| with usl" cry all tie voices OF righteous
ness. Come with us !" cry all the voices
| OF sin.
Now. the trouble Is that many make
| disgracetul surrender. As we all know,
there il honorable and dignifed surren-
der, as when small host yields to supe-
rior numbers. 1t is no humiliation for IA
| thousand men to yield to ten thousand.
1t is better than to keep on when there
can be no result except that Of massacre.
| But these who surrender to sin make n
| surrender when on their side they have
| enough reserve forces to rout all the
armies Of PerditOn, whether led on by
what demonOgrapher calls Belial, or
Beelzebub, or ApollyOn, or Abaddon, or
Ariel. The disgracetul thing about the
| surrender at Sedan was, That the
| French handed over 40 field guns and
mitrailleuses, 5000 horses and $4,000
armed men. Aud it is base for
that man 10 surrender to sin when all the
| ornaments OF almghtiness would have
| wheeled to the front to fight bis battle II
he had waved one earnest signal. But
mol He surrendered body, mind, soul,
reputation, home, pedigree, time and eSer-
nifty. while yet all the prayers of his
| Christian ancestors were on his side
and all the proffered a,d-supernal.
cberubic, seraphic, angelic, deifc.
We have talked so much the last few
| weeks about the abdicatlon of Alexander
of Bulgarla,b but what paltry throne as
that from winch the unhappy King de-
seconded compared with the abdicatiOn of
that young mau. or MIDDLE aged man, or
ola man, VINO Vult6 Ine throne OF MS OD-
portuhity and turns his back upon a
heavenly throne, and tramps off into
lgnominy and everlasting exile! That is
an add cation enough TO shake universe.
In Persia they will not have q blind man
on the throne, and when reigning mon.
| arch is jealous Of some ambitious relative
be has his eyes extinguished so that he
| cannot possibly ever come to browning
And that suggests the difference between
the way sin and Divine grace takes mold
OF man. The former blinds MIN go he
may never reach throne. while the lat
ter illumines the blind that ne may take
| coronation,
Why this sermon2 have made up my
mind that our city lite il destroying too
many Young men. There comes, IN every
! September and October. a large influx Of
hose netween 16 and "a years of age, and
New York and Brooklyn damn at least a
thousand of them every wear. They are
sboveled of and down with no more COM
Function than that With which
coal HEAVIER scoops the an-
thracite into dark cellar.
What with the wine cup. and the gam.
bler's dice. and the scarlet enchantress,
no young man, without the grace OF God,
is safe ten minutes.
There is much discussion about which
is the worst city of the continent Some
say New York, some say New Orleans
some say Chicago, some say st Louis
WHAT 1 have to say Ia you cannot make
much comparison between the intnities,