The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-10


having the first choice, chose the vase OF
gold. on which was written the word ''em-
piten and when opened it was found TO Goa
tain human blood The second son, max
ing the next choice, chose the vase of am
ber inscribed with the word glory" and
when opened it contained the ashes Of those
who were once called great. The third son
took the vase of clay, and opening 1t, found
il empty but on the bottom of it was in
scrihed the name of God. King Ninrod
asked his courtiers which vase they thought
weighed the most. The avaricious men Of
his court said the vase of gold. The poets
said the one of amber. But the wlsest men
said the empty vase, because one letter of
the name of God outweighed universe.
For him | phirst for mis- grace | beg on
his promise build my all. Without him |
cannot be happy. have tried the world,
and it does well enough so far as it goes. but
it is too uncertain a world, too evanescent
world. am not prejudiced witness. |
| have nothing against this world. | have
been one of the most fortunate, or, TO use a
| more christian word, one of the IN st blessed
of men, blessed in my parents, blessed in the
place of my nativity, blessed in my health,
blessed i'll my field of work, blessed in my
natural temperament, blessed in my family,
| blessed in my opportunities, blessed in
comfortable livelihood, blessed in the hope
| that my soul will 60 TO heaven through the
| pardoniug mercy of God, and ny body,
unless it be lost at sea or cremated in some
confiagration, will lie down in the gardens
OF Greenwood among my kindred and
| friends, some already gone and others to
come after me- Life to many has been a
| disappointment, but to Inc it has been n
! pleasant surprise, and yet | declare that if
| | did not feel that God was now my friend
and ever present help, should be @retched
and terror-struck. But ! want more of
Thought Vt
preached this sermon to myself, until with
| al! the aroused energies Of my body, mind
and soul, ] can cry out las the hart
panteth after the water brooks, so panteth
my soul after thee, o God"
Through Jesus Christ make this God
your God and you can withstand anN thing
and everything, and that which atfrightS
others will inspire you. As in time of earth
quake when an old christian woman was
asked whether she was scared answered:
mo, am glad that have a God who can
shake the world, or, as in financial panic,
when O christian merchant was asked if he
did not fear he would break, answered
Yves, | shall break when the fiftieth psalm
breaks in the fifteenth verse: Call upon me
in the day of trouble; / will deliver thee
and thou shalt glorify me-" christian
man and women, pursued of annoyances
and exasperations. remember that this
hunt, whether a still hunt or a hunt in full
cry, will soon be over. Ii ever whelp
looNs ashamed and ready to stink out of
sight, 1t is when in the Adiron1acks deer
by one long, tremendous plunge into Big
Upper lake gets away from him. The dis
appointed canine swims in a little
way but, defeated, swims out again
and cringes with Inundated yawn
at the feet of his master And how
abashed and ashamed will all your earthly
troubles be when you have dashed
into the river from under the throne of
God, and the nights and depths of heaven
are between you and your pursuors. We
are told in Revelation. xxi. Is;
without ara dogs" by which | conclude
there is whole kennel of hounds outside
the gate of heaven, or, as when a master
goes In door, his dog lies on the steps
waiting for him to come out, so the troubles
of this life may follow Us to the shining
door, but they cannot get in. without
are dogsW | have seen dogs. and owned
dogs that would not be chagrined to see in
the heavenly city. Some of the grand oil
watch dogs who are the constabrlary of
the homes in solitary places, and for years
have been the only protection of wife
and child; some of the shepherd
dogs that drive back the wolves
and bark away the focks from going too
near the precipiece; and some of the dogs
whose neck and paw Land seer, the painter,
shutting them out from the gate Of shining
pearl. Some of those old st. Bernard dogs
that have lifted perishing travellers out of
the Alpine snow the dog that John Brown,
the Scotch essayist, saw ready to spring at
the surgeon lest, in removing the cancer,
he too much hurt the poor woman whom
the dog felt bound to protect; and dogs
that we caressed in our childhood days,
or that in later time laid down on
the rug in seeming sympathy when our
homes were desolated. | say, if some soul
entering heaven should happen to leave the
gate ajar, and these faithful creatures
should quietly walk in, it would not at all
disturb my heaven. But all those human
or brutal hounds that have chased, and
torn, and lacerated the world; yea, all that
now bite, or worry, or tear to pieces, shall
be prohibited. without are dogsw No
place there for harsh critics. or backbiters,
or despolers of the reputation of others
Down with you to the kennels of darkness
and despair! The hart has reached the
eternal water brooks, and the painting of
the long chase is quieted in still pastures,
and There shall be nothing to hunt or de-
stroy in all Gods holy mount"
Oh, when some of you get there it will be
like what hunter tells of when he was
pushing his canoe far up north in the win
ter and amid the ice foes, and hundred
miles, as he thought from any other hui
man beings. He was startled one day as he
heard stepping on the ice, and he cooked
the rifle ready to meet auyUhi that came
near. He found man, barefooted and in
| sane from long exposure, approaching him
| Taking him into his canoe and k ndlng
! fires to warm HIM, he restored him and
| found out where he had lived. aud took
| him to his home, and found all the village
| in great excitement. A huudred men were
| searching for this lost man, and his
! family and friends rushed out to meet him;
and as had been agreed at his fist appear
auce, bells were rung, and guns were dis
| charged, and banquets spread, aud tho res
cuer loaded with pres uts. Well, when
some OF YOU step out of this wilderness,
where you have been chilled and torn and
| sometimes lost amid the cebergs into the
warm greetings of all the villages of the
! glorifed, aud your friends rush out to give
! you welcoming kiss, the news that there is
another soul forever saved will call the
! caterers of heaven to spread the banquet.
| and the bell men to lay hold OF the roDe in
| the tower, alt while the chalces click at
the feast, and the bells claug from the tow
ers, 1t will be a scene SO uplifting | pray
God may be there to take part IN the CO.
! leStial merrlment. Aud now do You not
| think the prayer in Solomon's song, where
| he compared Christ to a reindeer coming
down in tn night to pasture on the plains
would make an exquiSitelv appropriate
peroration to my sermon: Until the day
| break and the shadows fee away, te thou