The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-06

Copernican system; then sitting down in
complete blindness and deafness to wait for
the coming on of the generations who would
build his monument aud bow at his grave.
The reformer, execrated by his conten-
porarieS, fastened in a pillory, the
slow fires Of public contempt burn
ing under him, ground under the
cylinders of the printing press, yet
calmly Svaiting for the day when purity of
soul and heroism of character will get the
sanction of earth and the plaudits of heaven.
Atiiiction, enduring without any complaint
the sharpness of the pang, and the violence
of the storm, and the heft of the chain, and
the darkness of the nght-waiting until
divine hand shall be put forth TO soothe the
pang, and hush the storm, and release the
captive. A wife abused, persecutei and IA
perpetual exile from every earthly comfort
waiting, waiting, until the Lord shall
gather up his dear children in a heavenly
home, and no poor Vasht will ever be
thrust out from the palace gate. Jesus, in
silence, and answering not word, drink
ing the gall, bearing the cross, in prospect
of the rapturous consummation when
angels thronged his chariot Wheel
And bore him to his throne;
Then swept their golden harps and sung
The glorious work is done"
An Arctic explorer found "A ship floating
helplessly about among the icebergs, and
going on board found that the captain was
frozen at his log-book, and the helmsman
was frozen at the wheel, and the men on
the lookout were frozen in their places.
That was awful, but magnificent. All the
Arctic blasts ana all the iceburgs could not
drive them from their duty. Their silence
was louder than thunder. And this old
ship of a world has many at their posts in
the awful chill of neglect, and frozen of the
worlds scorn, and their silence shall be the
eulogy of the skies, and be rewarded long
after this weather beaten craft of a planet
shall have made its last voyage
thank God that the mightiest influences
are the most silent. The fires of furnace,
of a factory, or of a steamship, roar though
they only move few shuttles or few
thousand TONS but the sun that warns n
world rises and sets without n crackle, or
fanteSt sound Travellers visiting Mount
Etna, having heard of the glories of sunrise
on that peak, went up TO spend the night
there, and see the sun rise next morning,
but when it came up it was so far behind
their anticipations they actually hissed it.
The mightlest influences to-day are like the
planetary system-completely silent. Don't
hiss the SUM-
o, woman! does not this story of Vashti
the queen, Vashti the veiled, Vashti the
sacrifice, Vashti the silent move your soul2
My sermon converges into the one absorb
ing hope that none of you may be shut out
of the palace gate Of heaven. You can en-
dure the hardships, and the privations, and
the cruelties, and the misfortunes of this
life, if you can only gair admission there.
Through the blood of the everlasting cove
nant, you so through those gates, or never
go Mt all
When Rome was beseiged, the daughter
of its ruler saw the golden bracelets on the
left arms of the enemy, and she sent word
TO them that she would betray her city and
surrender it to them if they would only give
her those bracelets on their left arms. They
accepted the proifer, and by night this
daughter of the ruler of the city opened
one of the gates. The army entered. and,
keeping their promise, threw upon her their
bracelets, and also their shields, until under
the weight she died. Alas, that all through
the ages the same folly has been repeated,
and for the trinkets and glittering treas
ures of this world men and women swing
open the portals of their immortal soul for
an everlasting surrender, and die under the
shining submergement.
Through the rich grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ may you be enabled to initiate the
example of Rachel, and Hannah, and Abb
gail, and Deborah, and Mary, and Vashti.
Anpni