Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-29


into His heavenly keeping years ago.
j should not wonder il, alter all, these
! parents pass the evening OF their lie IN
the same church. all differences of church
/ preference overcome by the JOY OF being
in the house of God where their children
were prepared TOR usefulness and Heaven.
But | can give you recipe for ruin
ing your children. Angrily contend In
the household that your church is rlght
and the church OF your companion Is
wrong. Bring sneer and carlcature 10
emphasize your opinions, and your chill
dren will make up their minds that reilg.
| ion is sham and they VIII have none OF
1T. In the northeast storm OF domestic
controversy the rose OF Sharon and the lily
Of the valley VIII not grow. Fight about
! apostolic succession, Fl ght about election
and free agency, fight about baptism, nght
! about the bisnOpric, fight about gown and
! surplice, and the religious prospects OF
| your children will be left dead on the
| field. You Will be as unfortunate as
Charles, Duke of Burgundy, who in bat
| tie lost diamond the value OF nation,
for in your fight you will lose the jewel of
salvation for your entire household. This
| is nothing against the advocacy of your
! own religious theories. Use all forcible
| argument, bring all telling illustration,
array all demonstratye facts, but let
| there be no acerbity, no singing rerOrt,
! ness, as though all others were wrong
and you infallibly right.
Take hint from astronomy. The Ptole-
malc system made the eartn the centre OF
| The solar system, and everything vas
| thought TO turn round the earth. But the
| Copernican system came and made the
sun the centre around which the planets
! reVolved. The bigot makes his little be-
| liefthe centre of every thing, but the large
| souled Christian makes the sun Of Right
| eousDess the centre. and all denomina-
lions, without any clashing, and each at
| It's own light, and in its own sphere, re.
volving around it, Over the tomb of Dean
Stanley, IN Westminster Abbey. is the
passage of Scripture: "Tby command
meats are exceeding broad" Let no man
| crowd us on to path like the bridge Al
| STRAIT, which the Mohammedan thinks
leads from this world over the abyss o;
| hell iuto Paradise, the breadth of the
| bridge less than the web of a starved spi-
der or the edge OF a sword or razor, off the
! edges OF which many fall. No; while the
way is not wide enough to take with US
| any OF our sins, it is wide enough for all
| Christian believers to pass without peril
! into everlasting safety.
But do not any OF you depend upon
| what you call sound creed for salvation.
! man may own all the statutes OF the
State Of New York, and yet not be
| lawyer, and man may own all the best
| medical treatises, and not be physician;
and man may own all the best works on
| painting and architecture, and not be
either painter or architect, and a man
may own all the sound creeds in the
world, and yet not be a Christian. Not
| what you have in your head and on your
| tongue, but in your heart and in your
lite, will decide everything.
In olden times in England. before the
| modern street lamps were invented, every
| householder was expected to have a Ian
| tern suspended in front of his house, aud
the cry of the watchmen in London a.
they went along at eventide was: "Hang
out your lights" Instead of disputing in
your home about the different kinds OF
| lanterns, as watchmaE on the walls OF
Zion | cry: "Let your light so shine be
lore men that they, seeing your good
works, may giorify your Father which is
in heaven" Hang out your lights! You
may have thousand ideas about religion.
and yet not the great idea of pardoning
| mercy. 1t is not the number OF your
ideas but the greatness of them. A mouse
hath ten offspring in her nest, while the
lIoness bath one in her lair. All ideas
about forms, and ceremonies, and church
government put together, are not worth
the one idea OF getting to heaven yourself
and taking your family with you.
But do not reject Christianity, as many
DO. because there are so MANY sects
Standing In Westminster Hotel, London,
looked out of the window and saw three
clocks, as near as | can REM mber, one on
the Parliament House, another on ST.
Margsrets chapel, anotl er on West
minister Abbey, and they we're all differ
ent. One said twelve o'clock at noon,
another said five minutes before twelve,
another SAID five III nutes after twelve.
1 might as wei nave con-
cluded that there Is no sucn thing
as time, because the three timepieces
were different, as for you to conclude
that there is no such thing as pure
Christianity because the churches differ
IN their statement of il. 1t is about -
O'Clock noon, of the glorious Cos ell dis
peusation, although tile church clock
somewhat differ, and under the present
light you have no excuse Tor neglectine
your duty because YOU do not like this or
do not like that. ''How shall we escape
if we neglect so great salyatiODY
But let US all rejoice that although part
of our family may worship on earth in
one church, and part in another church,
or, bowed at the same affairs, il must be
in a compromise of preferences, we are, Il
redeemed, on the way TO perfect church.
where all our preferences will be fully
gratifed. Great cathedral of eternity
with arches OF amethysts, and pillars OF
sapphire, anu uOOTS Ol etneTalC, ana WIN.
dGws aglow with the sunrise of heaven !.
What wide aisles, spacious enough TO
allow empires to enter! What amphi-
theatres of piled-up splendor. gallery
above gallery, Princes and Prin-
cesses, Kings and Queens bend
ing over them! What stupendous
towers, with chimes augel-hols ed
and angel-rung! What myriads OF wor-
Slippers, white-rObed and cOroneted (!
What an officistor at the altar, even ''thp
great High Priest of our profession 7"
What walls, hung with the captured
shields and flags, by the church militant
passed up to b. church trium phant. What
doxOloges II all nations! Coronet to
coronet, cymbal TO cvmbal, harp TO harp
organ 10 organ! Pull out the tremulant
stop to recall the sutierings past, Pull
out the trumpet stop to celebrate the VIC
toryl
"When shall these eyes thy heaven built
walls
And pearly gates behold?
| Thy bulwarGs with salvation strong,