Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-06


rags most gently, and put on the oandage,
ana adm mister the cordial. And when q
soul comes to God, He does not ask Wnere
you came from or what your ancestry
was Healing for all your wounds. Par
don for all your guilt. Comfort for all
your troubles.
Then also l counsel you, il you want
TO get back 10 quit all your bad assocla-
tons. One unholy intimacy will nil your
soul with moral distemper. In all the
ages of the church there mas not been an
instance where a man kept one evil asso-
ciate and reformed. Among the fourteen
hundred million of the race not one in
stance. Go home to-day, open your desk,
take out letter paper, stamp and enVe-
lope, and then write a letter something
Ike this:
MY OLD COMPANIONs-I start to-day
for Heaven. Until am persuaded you
Will join me in this, farewell"
linen sign your name and send the let
ter with the first post. Give up your bad
companions. or give up Heaven. 1t is
not ten bad companions that destroy a
man, nor five bad companions, nor three
bad companions, but one. What chance
Is there for that young man j saw along
the street, four or five young men with him,
hating in front of grog shop urging
him to 90 in, he resisting, violently re-
slstlng, until after awhile they forced him
to go ini IL was summer night and he
door was left open. and saw the process.
They held him fast, and they put the cup
to his lips, and they forced down the
strong drink. What chance ls there for
such young man.
counsel you also, seek Christian ad-
vice. Every Christian man is bound to
help YOU. Ii you lind no other human ear
willing to listen TO your story OF struggle,
come TO me and / will, by every sym
pathy of my heart, and every prayer, and
every toll OF my hand, stand beside you in
the struggle for reformation; and as |
hope to have my own sins forgiven and
hope to be acquitted at the judgment seat
OF Christ, 1 Will not betray you. First OF
all, seek God; then seek Christian cOun-
sci. Gather up al! the energies OF body,
mind and soul, and, appealing to God for
success, declare this day everlasting war
against all drinking habits, all gaming
practices, all houses of sin. Hali-and-
half work will amount to nothing; it
must be Waterloo. Shrink back now
and you are lost. Push on, and you are
saved. A Spartan General fell at the
very moment of victory, but he dipped his
finger In his own blood and wrote on a
rock near which ne was dying: "Sparta
has conquered" Though your struggle
W SCb IIQ vi OH may hcCll W DG d
death struggle, you can dip your finger in
your own blood and write on the Rock OF
Ages: Victory through cur Lord Jesus
Christ"
o, what glorious news it would be for
some of these young men to send home to
their parents in the country these holt
days which are coming. They go to the
post office every day or two to see whether
there ars any letters from you. How
anxious they are to hear! You might
send them for holiday present this sea-
son book from one of our best publish
ing houses, or complete wardrobe from
the importers palace, IL would not please
them half so much as the news you might
send home tomorrow that you had given
your heart 10 God. / know how it is in
the country. The night comes on. The
cattle stand under the rack through
which burst the trusses of haY. The
horses just having trisked up from the
meadow at the nightTall, stand knee
deep in the bright straw that invites
them to lie down and rest. The perch OF
the howell is full of fowl, their feet warm
under the feathers. In the old farm
house at night no candle IS lighted, for
the flames clap their hands about the
great back log, and shake he shadow of
the group up and down the wall. Father
and mother sit there for half an hour, say
ing nothing. / wonder what they are
thinking of. After awhile the father
breaks the silence, and says: ''Well, |
wonder where our boy is in town to-
nightr and the mother answers: sin no
bad place, | warrant you; we always
could trust him when he was home, and
since he has been away there have been
so many prayers offered for him, we can
trust him still" Then at o'clock-for
NJ asan ri h.
kneel down and commend you TO that God
who watches in country and in town, On
the land and on the sea.
Some one said to Grecian General:
"What was the prOudest moment in your
lifeW He thought moment, and said {:
The proudest moment in my life was
when L sent word nome TO my parents
that l had gained The victory" And the
proudest and most brilliant moment in
your lite will be the moment when you
can send word to your parents that you
have conquered your evil habits by the
grace of God, and become eternal victor
Oh, despise not parental anxiety!
The time will come when you will have
neither father nor mother, and you will
20 around the place where they used to
watch you, and tind them gone from the
house, and gone from the field, and gone
from the nelghborhood. Cry as loud for
forgiveness as you may over the mound in
the churchyard, they will not answer.
Deadl Deadl And then you will take out
the white lock OF hair that was cut from
your mothers brow just before they
buried her, and you will take the cane
with which your father used to walk, and
you will think and think and wish that
you had done just as they wanted you to,
and would give the world if you had
never thrust pang through their
dear old hearts. God pity the young
man who has brought disgrace on his
fathers name! God pity the young man
who has broken his mothers heart! Bet
ter if he had never been born-better If
in the first hour Of his life, instead of be-
ing land against the warm bosom OF ma
ternal tenderness, he had been ooffined
and sepulchred. There is no balm power
full enough TO heal the heart OF one who
has brought parents TO a sorrowiul grave,
and who wanders about through the dis
NAL cemetery, rending the hair and
wripging the hands, and crying, "Mother!
MotherV Oh. that to-day by all the
memories OF the past, and by ali the hopes
of the future, you would yield your heart
to God. May your fathers God and your
mothers God be- your God fOrevert