Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-20


OF our physical faculties!
The way the battle OF Crecy was decided
against the French was by the Welshmen
killing the French horses. and that brought
their riders to the ground and when you
cripple this body, which is merely the
animal on which the soul rides, you may
sometimes defeat the soul.
Yet how many suffer from this physical
taking off. Good cheer, my brother; God
will make 1t up to you somehow. The
grace, the sympathy of God will be more
TO you than anything you have lost. II
God allows part OF your resources 10 De
cut off in one place He will add it on
somewhere else. AS Augustus, the En-
peror, took of II day from February, max
ing 1t the shortest month in the year, ana
added it to August, the month named
after himself, so advantages taken rom
one part of your nature will be added ON
to another.
But 1t Is amazing how much OF the
worlds work has been done by men OF
subtracted physical organization. D >.
Preston, the great orator OF the south
west, went limping all his life, but there
was no foot put down upon any platform
OF his day that resounded so far as MS
club foot. Beethoven was so deaf that he
could not hear the crash OF the orchestra
rendering his OratOrios. Thomas Carlyle,
the commission to drive cant out
of the worlds literature. Rev. Thomas
Stockton. OF Philadelphia, with one lung
raised his audience nearer heaven than
most ministers can raise them with TWO
lungs. In the banks. the insurance COM
panies, the commercial establishments,
the relOrmatory associations, the
churches, there are tens OF thousands or
men and women to-day doubled up Of
nh 10 a,tli m in tria
with only fragments of limbs, the rest OF
which they left at Chattanooga, or Sou h
Mountain, or the Wilderness, and they are
worth more to the world, and more 10 tue
church. and more to God than those OF us
who have never so much as had finger
JOINT stffened by felou. Put TO
full use all the faculties that re-
main, and charge on all opposing cir
cumstances with the determination of
John of Bohemia, who was totally blind,
ana yet at battle cried out: 81 pray and
beseech you to lead me so far into the
fight that J. may strike one good blow
with this sword OF mine" Do not think
so much of what faculties you have lost
as of what faculties remain. You have
enough lett to make yourself felt in three
worlds, while you help the earth, and
balk hell, and win heaven. Arise from
your disbursements, o men and wo-
men of depleted or crippled physical fac
uities, and see what. by the special help
OF God, you can accomplish
The skilled hOrsemen stood around
Bucephalus, unable to mount or manage
him, so wild was the steed. But AleXan-
der noticed that the sight of his own
shadow seemed to disturb the horse. So
Alexander clutohed him by the bride,
and turned his head away from the
shadow and towards the sun, and the
horses agitation was gone, and Alexan-
der mounted him and rode of, TO the
astonishment OF all who stood by. And
what you people need is TO have your
sight turned away from the shadows Of
your earthly lot, over which you have 80
long pondered, and your head turned to-
ward the sun-the glorious sun of Gospel
consolation, and Christian hope, and
spiritual triumph.
And then remember that all physical
disadvantages will after awhile vanish.
Let those VINO have been rheumatismed
out of foot, or cataracted out OF an eve,
or by the perpetual roar of our cities
hundred out Of an ear, look forward to
the day when this old tenement house OF
flesh will come down and better one
shall be builded. The resurrection morn
ing will provide you with better outfit.
Either the unstrung, WORKOUT, blunted
crippled organs will be so reconstructed
that you will not know them, or an entire
new set of eyes, and ears, and feet will
be given you. Just what il means by
corruption putting on interruption we
do not know, save that 1t will be glory
ineffable; no limpinY in heaven, no strain
ing OF the eyesieht to see things n little
way off; NO putting of the hand behind
the ear to double the capacity OF the
tympanum; but faculties perfect, all the
KEYS OF the instrument attuned for the
sweep OF the fingers of ecstasy. But I'M
til that day of resumption comes let US
bear each others burdens, and so fulfil
the law Of Christ.
III, Another form of disadvantage I'M
der which many labor is lack of early
education. There Will be no excuse for
ignorance in the next generation. Free
schools and illimitable opportunity OF
education will make ignorance a crime.
| believe in compulsory education, and
those parents who neglect to put their
children under educational ADVANTAGES
have but one right left, and that is the
penitentiary. But there are multitudes
of men and women in mid-life who have
had no opportunity. Free schools had not
yet been established, and vast multitudes
had little or no school at all. They feel II
when as Christian men they come to speak
or pray in religious assemblies or public
DhNilO vi pOlltiCdl, VI Suu-
cstional. They are silent because they
do not feel competent. They owe nothing
to English grammar, or geography, OF
bellies lettres. They would not know q
participle from pronoun il they met il
many times a day. Many of the most
successful merchants OF America and
men in high political places cannot write
an accurate letter on any theme. They
are completely dependent upon clerks
and deputies, and steEographers to make
things right. knew a Literary man who
in other years in Washington made his
| fortune by writing speeches for Congress
men, or fixing them up for the Con gres.
sional Record after they were delivered
The millionaire iliiteracy OF this country
| is beyond measurement.
Now suppose man finds himself In
mid-life without education, what is he tC
| do? Do the best he can. The most efFec
| tive layman in former pastoral charge
that | ever heard speak on religious
themes could, within five minutes of ex
hortation, break ali the laws OF English
grammar, and If he left any law unirac
tured he would complete the work OF lin
he followed it. But / would rather have
him pray for me. IL | were sick or In
| troubls, than any Christian man know
! OF. and in that CHURCH all the people pre-.
! ferred him in exhortation and prayer
| TO all others. WbyY Because he
was SO thoroughly pious and
had such power with God he was ire.
6istible: and as he went on in his PRAYER