The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-03

any klDQ VI CudSblstul3ub upon you, ~ 10
only 10 make you useful Do not sit down
discouraged, and say, ~ have no more
reason for living. | wish | were dead"
Oh, there never was SO much reason for
your living as now! By this ordeal you
have been conseorated priest of the most
high God. Go out and do your whole work
for the master.
Again, there Is comfort in the thought
that all our troubles are a revelation. Have
you ever thought of it in that connecticut
The man who has never been through
chastiIement is ignorant about thousand
things in his soul he ought to know. For
instance, here is a man who prides himself
on his cheerfuiness Of character. He has
no patience with anybody who is depressed
in spirits. Oh, it is easy for him to be cheer
full, with his fine house, his filled wardrobe,
and wel-strung instruments Of music, and
tapestried parlor, aud plenty OF money in
the bank waiting for some permanent in
yestment. II is easy for him to be cheer
full. But suppose his fortune goes TO pieces,
and his house goes down under the sher1R's
hammer, and toe banks will not have any
thing to do with his paper. Suppose those
people who were once elegantly entertained
at his table get SO short-sighted that they
can not recognize him upon the street.
How then2 Is it SO easy to be cheerfuls
1t is easy to he cheerful in the home. AfUer
the days work is done, and the gas is turned
on, and tue house is full of romping little
ones. But suppose the piano Is shut be-
cause the fingers that played on 1t will no
more touch the keys, and tho childish voice
that asked SO many questions Will ask no
more. Then is it SO easy2 When man
wakes up and finds that his resources are
all gone, he begins TO rebel, aud he says,
God is hard; God is outrageous. He had
no business to do this to me-" My frionds,
those of us who have been through trouble
know what a sinful and rebellious heart we
have, and how much God has to put up
with, and how much we need pardon 1t
is only in the light of flaming furnace
that we can learn our own weakness, and
our own lack of moral resource.
There is also great deal of comfort in
the fact that there will be a family recon
struction In a better place. From Scotland,
or England, or Ireland, child emigrates to
this country. 1t is very hard parting, but
he comes, after while writing home us to
what good land it is. Another brother
comes, sister comes, and another, and
after while the mother comes, and after a
while the father comes. and now they are
all here, and they have time of great con-
graduation and very pleasant reunion.
Well 1t is Just SO with our families: they
are emigrating to better laud. Now, one
goes out. Oh, how haNl it is to part with
him Another goes. Oh, how hard it is to
part with herl And another, and another,
aud we ourselves will after "a while go over,
and then we will be together. Oh, what
reunionl Do you believe that Z YES"
you say. You do mott You do not believe
it as you believe other things. If you did.
it would take nine-tenths OF yonr
trouble off your heart. The fact
is, heaven to many of us is a great fog. IL
is away OF somewhere filed with an un-
certain and indefinite population. That is
| the kind of heaven that many of us dream
about; bnt it is the most tremendous fact In
all the uni verse-this heaven of the gospel.
Our departed friends are not afioat. The
residence in which you live is not SO real as
the residence in which they stay You are
afioat, you who do not know in the morn
ing what will happen before night. They
are housed and safe forever. Do not, there
fore, pity your departed friends who have
died in Christ. They do not need any of
your pity. You might as well send letter
of coincidence to Queen Victoria ON her Oh
scurity, or to the Rothschilds on their pow
erty, as to pity those who have won the
palm. Do not say of those who are de-
parted, "Poor childr' "Poor fatherp
''Poor motherl" They are not poor. You
are poor-you, whose homes have been
shattered-not they. You do not
dwell much with your fanil-
les in this world. All day
long you are off to business Will it
not be pleasant when you can be together
all the whilel II you have had four chill
dren and one is gone, and anybody asks how
many children you have, do not be so inf
del as to say three. Say four-one in
heaven. Do not think that the grave is
unfriendly. You go into your room, and
dress for some grand entertainment, and
you come forth beautifully appareled; and
the grave Is only the place where we go to
dress for the glorious resurrection, and we
will come out radiant, radiant. mortality
having become Immortality. Oh, how much
confidence there is In this thought l ex-
pect to see my kindred in heaven: expect
to see them as certainly as / expect to 90
home to-day. Ay, shall more certainly
see them. Eight or ten will come
up from the graveyard back of
Somervlle; ard one will come up
from the mountains back of Annoy. China;
and another will come up from the sea off
Cape Hatteras; and thirty will come up
from Greenwood; and shall know them
better than | ever knew them here. And
your friends--they may be across the SEA,
but the trumpet that sounds here will sound
there. You will come up on just the same
day. Some morning you have oversight
yourself, and you open your eyes and see
that the sun is high in the heavens, and
you say: II have oversight, and must be
up and off," SO you will open your eyes on
the morning Of the resurrection, In the full
blaze Of Gods light, and you will say: II
must be up and away" Oh yes, you will
come up, and there will be reunion; re-
construction OF your family. like what
Halburton, l think IL was-good old Mr..
Halburton--said in his last moments: ~
thank God that ever lived, and that have
futher ia heaven, and a mother In heaven,
and brothers In heaven, and sisters In
heaven, and | am now going up to see
them"
remark once more: Our troubles In this
world are preparative for glory. What u
transition it was for Paul-fron the slip
perry deck of fouudering ship to the calm
presence of Jesusl What a transition it
was for Latimer-from the stake TO a
thronel What a transition IL was for
Robert Hall-from insanity TO gloryl What
transition IL was for Richard Baxter
from the dropsy TO the saints everlasting
restr' And what transition It will be for
you-from world Of sorrow 10 a world Of
joy John Holland, when he was dying,
said: "What means this brightness IN the
roomi Have you lighted the candlesp
mo" they replied, I'VE have not lighted
any candles" Then said he, "Weicome
heaven" the light already beamiDg upon
his pillow. O ye who are perSecuted In
this world your enemies will get
of the track after a while, and all
will speak well OF you among the thrones
Hol ye VINO are sick now, no medicines TO
take there. One breath Of the eternal hills
Al. ..lg -. Al a