The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-06
THE YEAS AND THE NAYS.
Rev. Allen #. De Camp breaches q
Sermon on the Glasses of Men.

O~~%DDND
The attendance at the churches is usually
small at this season. The Independent
Presbyterian church is no exception in this
respect Rev. A. F. DE Camp breaches,
however, with the same earnestness and
faithfulness as if the church was crowded
at each service Since entering upon his
duties as temporary pastor he has steadily
grown in the peoples favor, and the
general opinion expressed by the church
members is that he will be induced to make
his ministry and stay in Savannah per-
manent.
! At the morning service Yesterday, after
the rendering Of the "offartory" Cast thy
burden on the Lord" by Miss Marie
Lesesne, with organ accompaniment by Miss
| Florence Colding Mr. De Camp preached
from the text, II. Cor, i, 20. "For all the
promises of God In Him are yea and amen"
All men are divided into the yeas and the
mays" the 'vesn and the ''no" classes said
the preacher The "non man is he who is
welded to the past He is a lineal descend
ant of Lots wife, for he is always looking
back. He lives in cemetery, He never
sings but in the minor key. He is a pessi-
mist. He believes that everything is going
to the bad.
The yes" man is the very opposite. He
is hopeful and progressive. He believes
that the world IS moving on to a grander
| through the ages an increasing purpose
runs, and the thoughts Of men are widened
| with the progress of the times.
| The everlasting God has promised to
rrovide for all the real needs of his crea-
lures. Is there hunger, be sure there is
food somewhere Is there thirst, there is
drink. Is there aspiration, there is higher
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universe of Col an everlasting yea
The successful man of business is a yea
man-that is, a positive man. He looks
| you in the eye He means business. He is
not "Micawber," waiting for something
to turn up This man imnerses himself in
business with an ardor which consumes
| him, but he wins success as only the yea
man can and does. What all the inspira-
| lions of the discovery by Columbus Of a
new world were. we cannot tell. One of
the greatest, probably, was the crowded and
tangled condition of Europe. Whatever
| they were, his was a mighty deed, to be
accomplished only by a yea man. The
same may be said of the discovery Of the
steam engine by James Watt, on &C
| count of which the wilderness was
made to blossom as a fruitful field.
| Emerging from the night of the middle
| ages, good men inquired what they might
do to prevent second night, and were
| soon convinced that knowledge was the
great requisition. Writing was q great
| boon, but if for one written document
there might be million, if only facts,
truth, literature might lie within reach OF
ak This aspiration lead to the invention
of movable types, which have developed
into the great Hoe press, which prints and
folds in single minute hundreds of news
papers.
When Morse broodcd on the thought that
all men ought to be able to gain intelligence,
this great need was met by the yea of the
telegraph.
Men often ask, will the next fifty years
be as rich in discoveries as the fifty years
just paste Will the air ever be navigated 7
| Why notl
If it is a real need, men will search for
the yea of its solution until they find it,
I'm Christ is the yea" says the new YER
sion Christ certainly was positive He
taught men with authority. His word was
with power. This Savior has not changed,
the preacher said. He is still the yea which
| meets and allays all our fears and doubts.
A little girl lay dying, and her broken
hearted father, who was a lawyer and a
skeptic, asked; MARY, are you not afraid
to diei" She answered. "No." "Are you
not afraid to staud before the great white
throne and be judgeif' mo father" was
the answer. why Jesus will be my law
| y6t. Ab To the yea Oh Tue cnurcO, once we
| become members of this church we are in
position to carry out this yea
In all the circumstances of life as the yea
man beholds the needs of men, of whatever
sort, he will naturally seek to discover their
alienation. When the great evils of intern
peraucs are presented, that the monster costs
our country 5000, 00O, 900, that it furnishes
| nine-ent of all the inmates in our prisons,
| that 1t mustels an army of 600, 900 drunk
| ards, and that no drunkard shall inherit the
! kingdom of heaven, these facts will arouse
a yea man and set him against the stupen-
| dous evil.
| In conclusion the preacher said: 81 invite
| you all into the kingdom of the yea, the
kingdom Of Christ, which is the kingdom
of life and righteousness. In doing this,
call you to the manly side of life. The su-
| perficial may think it manly to find fault,
to criticise, to discourage and to pull down,
| but it Is not so. Any one can smash crys-
| tai goblet; child or a fool can do this
but not every one can make another COB
| let, still less a better one. | call you to tho
charitable side of life, the side which dis
covers weakness and humiliation only that
| it may prove an alienation. call you to
the winning side, the side of which nature
is an al v and on which the heroes Of the
past worked.
Best OF all, it is the side to which God has
| pledged himself, for in him is the yea,
everlasting yea, and not to respond TO this
cell is TO put ones self out of harmony with
nature, out of sympathy with the heroic OF
all ages, out of step with God.