The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-16

| happy amid tho most diSadVantagcOuS cir
| cumstanCes, just after the Ocean Monarch
had been wrecked in the English channel a
steamer was cruising along in the dark
ness when the captain heard a song, a
sweet song, coming over the water, and he
| bore down toward that voice, and found it
| was christian woman on plank of the
wrecked steamer, singing to the tune of St.
Martins
Jesus, lover of.my soul,
Let me to thy bosom fly,
While the billows near me roll,
| While the tempest still is high"
The heart right toward God and man, we
are happy. The heart wrong toward God
and man, we are unhappy.
Another reason why we should como to
this spirit inculcated in the text is the fact
| that all tie differences of earthly condition
are transitory. The houses you build, the
! land you culture, the places III which you
barter, are soon to go iuto other hands.
However hard you may have it now, if you
| are a christian the scene will soon end.
! Pam, trial, persecution never knock at the
door of the grave A coffin made ont of
| pine boards is just as good n resting place
as one made out of silver mounted mahog
any or rosewood. Go down among the
! resting places of the dead aud you will find
that thougl people there had a great diff
! ference Of worldly circumstances EoW they
| greeted tho senator and president. and
the king is still as tho hand
that hardened on the mechanics hammer
or the manufacturers wheel. 1t docs not
make any difference now, whether there is
4 plain stone above them from which the
traveller pulls aside the weeds to read the
name, or tall shaft springing into the
| heavens as though to tell their virtues TO
| the skies.
In that silent land there are no titles for
| great men, and there are no rumbllnRs of
chariot wheels, and there is never heard the
foot Of the dance. The Egyptian guano
which is thrown on the fields in the east for
the enrichment of the soil, Is the dust raked
out from the sepulchres of kings and lords
and mighty men. o, the chagrin of those
men if they had ever known that in the
after ages of the world they would have
been called Egyptian guano.
OF how much worth now is the own of
Cg'ars Who bids for ltf Who cares now
anything about the Amphictyoulc council
or the laws of Lycurgusi Who trembles
now because XerxeS crossed the HellespOnt
on a bridge of boats' Who fears because
| Nebuchadnezzar thunderS at the gates of
| Jerusalemf Who cares now whether or not
| Cleopatra marTieS AntOnyf VINO CrOuches
before Ferdinand, or Romface, or Alarcs
Can Cromwell dissolve the English parlin-
| ment now! Is William, prince of Orange,
king of the Netherlands No; moi However
| much Elizabeth may love the Russian
| crown she must pass it to Peter, and Peter
to Catherine, and Catherine to Paul, and
Paul to Alexander, and Alexander to
| NichOlaS Leopold puts the Germans Cepter
into the hand of Joseph, and Philip comes
down off the Spanish throne to let Ferdi-
| nand 90 on. House of Aragon, nOure of
| Hapsburg, house Of Stuart, hou-e Of BDur-
boz, quarreliug about everything else, but
| agreeing in this: "The fashion of this world
passeth away But have all these dignita-
res gOnel Can they not be called hackf !
| have Deen in assemblages where | have
heard the roll called, and many distin-
guished men have answered. If | should
call the roll to-day Of some of those mighty
ones who have gone, wonder if they would
not answer. | win call the roll. | wiil call
the roll Of tho kings first: Alfred the Great
| William the cOnquerOrl Frederick III
Louis XVI No answer. | will call the
| roll Of the poets: Robert Southey Thomas
| Campbell! John Keats! George Crabbel
Robert Burns No answer call tho roll
of artists: Michael Angelo! Paul Veron-
ese! William Turner! Christopher Wren!
No answer Eyes closed. Ears deaf Lips
silent. Hands palsied. Scepter pencil,
pen, sword, put down forever. Why should
we struggle for such baubles!
Another reason why we should culture
this spirit Of cheerfulncss is the fact that
| God knows what is best for his creatures
You know what is best for your child. He
thinks you are not as liberal with him as
you ought to be- He criticises yoar discip-
| line, but you look over the whole field, and
| yol loving that child. do what IN your de-
liherdte Judgment is best for him. Now.
I'D is the best Of fathers Sometimes his
| children think that he is hard on them and
that he is not as liberal with them rs he
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much as a father. can tell you why YOU
are not largely atfiuent, and why you have
not been grandly succe .slul 1t is because
you cannot stand the temptation. II your
path had boon smooth, you would lave de-
pended upon your own sure. .footedness; but
Cod rougnened that path, so you have 20
take hold of his hand. If the weather
along the water courses; but at
the frt howl of the storm you
quckened your pace heavenward, and
wrapped around you the warm robe of a
Saviour's righteousness.
"What have / done" says the wheat
sheaf to the farmer, what have ! done
that you beat me 50 hard with your hulF
The farmer makes no answer, but tho rake
take of the straw, and the MIL blows the
chaR to the wind, aud the golden grain
falls down at the foot Of the windmill.
After awhile the straw looking down from
the NOW upon the golden grain banked up
| on either side the iiOOr understands Why the
| farmer beat the wneat,heaf with the fail
Who are those before the thrOnei The
answer came: "These are they who, out of
great tribulation, hah their robes washed
and made white in the blood OF tho lamb"
/ Would God that we could understand that
our trials are the very best thing Tor us. II
we had an appreciation Of that truth, then
we should know why il was that john
! NOyra, the martyr, in the very midst of the
flame reached duwh and picked up one Cf
! the faggots that was consuming him, and
kissed {, and said blessed be G. ld for the
! time when ! was born TO this prefermsut
They who suffer with him on earth snail be
giorfied with him in heayen 30 content
then, with such things as you have.
Another consideration leading US 10 the
spiri of the text is the assurance that the
! Lord will provide somehow. VIII ho who
holds the wator in the hollow Of his hand,
allow his children to die Of thirst Will he
who owns the cattle on a thousand bills
and all the earth's luxuriance Of grain aud
/ fruit allow his children 10 staryef Go out
tomorrow morning at 3 o'clock into the
woods and hear the birds chant. They
! have had no breakfast, they know not where
they will dine, they have no idea IS here
they will sup; but hear the birds chant al 8
| o'cl1ck in tins morning. behold the fowls
! of the air, for they SOW not, neither do they
reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heay-
only Father fecdeth them. Are you not
much better than thoyH Seven thousand
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