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

business associates cast you of, and when
father casts you off, and when mother
casts YOU OF, and when everybody casts
you off, your first cry for help Will send
the Eternal God cleanldown into the ditch
OF your suffering and shame. The GOOD
| Templars cannot save you, although
they are d grand institution. The
Sons Of Temperance cannot save
you, although they are mighty
| pledge cannot save you, although De-
lieve in it. Nothing but the grace OF the
Eternal God can save you, aud that Will
il you will throw yourself on it. A man
said to me: "Unless God helps me l cam
not be delivered. l have tried everything,
sir; but now l have got into The habit OF
| prayer, and when | come to drinking
saloon pray thatGod will take me safely
past, and pray until / am past. He does
| help me-" For every man given to strong
drink there are scores OF traps set, and
no one but the eyerywhere-present God
| can see that man through. On! they talk
about the catacOmbs of Naples, and the
catacombs of Rome, and the catacombs
OF Egypt-the burial places under the
city where the dust of a great multitude
| lie: but tell you New York has its cata-
combs, Nashville has its catacom os and
New Orleans iIs catacombs, and Boston
it's catacombs, and Philadelphia its cata
combs, and every town and city neigh
borhood its catacombs. They are the
underground restaurants, full or dead
mems bones and all uncleanness. Young
man, you know it. God help you'll There
is no need of going into the art gallery
TO see in skillful sculpture that wonderful
representation OF a man and his sons
wound around with serpents. There are
families represented in this audience
that are wrapped in the martyrdom Of
| fang and scale and venom-a living Lao
coon of ghastliness and horror. What
are you to do? Do not put your trust in
bromide Of potassium, or in Jamaica GIN
ger, or anything else that apothecarles
can mix. Put yours trust only in the
Eternal God. and He will see you through.
some of you do not have temptation every
day. 1t is periodic temptation that
comes every six weeks, or every three
months, when il seems as II the powers OF
darkness kindle around about your tongue
the fires of the pit. 1t is well enough
at such time, as some of you do, to seek
medical counsel; but your first and most
important Cry must be to God. If the
tiends will drag you to the slaughter,
make them do it on your knees. Oh,
God! now that the paroxysm of thirst is
coming again upon that man, help him.
Fling back into the pit of hell the fend
that assaults his soul this moment. Oh!
my heart aches TO see men go on in this
fearful struggle without Christ. There
are here those whose hands so tremble
from dissipation that they can hardly
hold book; and yet l have to tell you
that they Will get preach the gospel, and
on communion days carry around the
oonsecrated bread, acceptable to every
body, because of their holy life and their
consecrated behavior. The Lord is going
to save you. Your home has got to be
rebuilt. Your physical health has got to
be restored. Your worldly business has
got to be reconstructed. The church of
God is going to rejoice over your disciple
not of this fold.'
While l have hope for all prodigals,
there are some people for whom am not
so hopeful. ] mean those who have been
church-goers all their life, who have
maintained outward morality, but who,
Notwithstanding twenty, thirty. forty
years of Christian advantages, have
never yielded their heart to Christ. They
are Gospel hardened. A sermon has no
more effect upon them than the shining of
the moon on the city pavement. AS
Christ says: THE publicans and harlots
will go into the kingdom of God before
them" They have resisted all the i'm
pOrtunities of Divine mercy,
and have gone, during these
thirty years, through most power
| full earthquakes of religious feeling,
and they are further away from God than
ever. After awhile they will lie down
sick, and some day it will be told they
are dead. No hopel But l turn to out
sders with a hope that thrills through
my body and soul. "Other sheep have,
| which are not of this fold" You are not
| Gospel hardened. You have not heard
many sermons during the last few years.
| AS you came in 10 a religious meeting to-
day everything was novel, and all the
services are suggestive of your early
days. How sweet the opening hymn
sounded in your ears, and how blessed it
is IN this place! Everything suggestive
| of heaven. You do not weep, but the
| shower is not far off. You sigh. and you
have noticed that there Is always a sigh
in the wind before the rain falls. There
are those here VINO woIld give anything
| if they could find relief in tears. They
say: sob, my wasted life! Oh, the bitter
past! Oh, the graves over which have
stumbled! Whittier shall fly? Alas for
the future Everything is dark-so dark,
so dark God help me! God pity me! !"
| Thank the Lord for that last utterance
You have begun to pray, and when man
begins to petition, that sets all heaven
| flying this way, and God steps in and
| beats back the hounds of temptation into
the kennel, and around about the poor
wounded soul puts the covert of His par
doning mercy. Harkl hear something
fall. What was that? 1t is the bars Of
the fence around the sheepfold. The shep-
herd let's them down, and the hunted sheep
OF the mountain bound in some of them,
! their fleece torn with the brambles; some
OF them, their feet famed with the dogs:
but bounding in. Thank God! "Other
sheep l have, which are not of this fold"
WALL STREET MATTERS.