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

thousand were fed. and the more they ate
the larger the loaves grew until the pro
vision that the boy brought in one Satchel
was multiplied so he could not have carried
the fragments home in six satchels. ~,
YOU say, 'Stimes have changed, ana the day
of miracles have gone" reply that, what
God did then by race he does now IN
some other way and by natural iaws'
have been young said David, "but now
am | Old; yet have | never seen the
righteous fOrsaken, nor his seed begging
hread.n 1t is high time tina. you people
who are fretting about worldly crcum-
stances, and who are fearing you are COM
ing to want, understood that the oath OF
the eternal God is involved in the fact that
you are to have enough to eat and to wear,
AGAIN: | remark that the religion OF
Jesus Christ is the grandest influence to
make a mau contented. Indemnity against
all fl aucial and spiritual harml 1t Gains
the spirit dwindleS the earth into inSlgnln-
canCe, and swallows up the soul with the
thought of heaven. Oh, We who have been
going about from place to place, expecting
TO find in change of circumstances some
thing to give solace to tine spirit, | com
mend vou, this morning, to the warm
hearted, earnest, practical, commons Ise
religion OF the Lord Jesus Christ. There
is no peace, saith my God, for the wicked,
and as long as you continue in your sin you
will lie miserable. Come to Christ. Make
him your portion and start for heaven, and
You viii be happy man-you will be
happy woman.
Yet my friends, notwithstanding all
these Inducements to spirit of content
ment, have to tell you this morning the
human race is divided into two clasSes-
those who scold and those who get scolded.
The carpenter wants to be anything but a
carpenter, and the mason anything but a
mason, and the banker anything but Il
banker, and the lawyer anything but n
lawyer, and the minister anything but a
minister, and every body would be happy II
he were only somebody else The anemone
wants to be a sunhower, and the apple
orchards throw down their blossoms be
cause they are not tall cedars, and the
scOw wants to be "A schooner, and the sloOp
would like 60 be a ssventy-four FOUNDER, and
parents have the worst children that ever
were, and everybody has the greatest mis-
fortune, and everything is upside down, or
going to be. Ali my friends, you never
make anv advance through such a spirit as
that. You cannot fret yourself up; you
may fret yourself down. Amid all this
grating Of tones | strike this string Of the
gospel harp: Goodness with contentmtnt
is great gain We brought nothing into the
world, aud it is very certain we can carry
nothing out; having food and raiment let
us Herewith be content"
Let us ali remember, II we are christians,
that we are going after awhile, whatever
be our circumstances now, t) have a
glorious vacation. As in summer we put
off our garments and go down into the cool
sea to bathe, so we will put Off these
garments of hesh and step into the cool
Jordan. We will look around for some
! place TO lay down our weariness; and the
| trees vii say: "Come and rest under our
| eIa MI l,a a-th ttyill
and sleepin my BOSOM" and the winds will
say: "Hush while | sing thee a cradle
| hymn" and while six strong men carry us
out TO our last resting place, and ashes
come to ashes and dust to dust, we Will sec
! two SCARED feet standing amid the broken
soil, aud a lacerated brow bending over the
open grave, while a voice, tender with all
affection and mighty with all -omnpotence,
will declare: 81 am the resurrection and
the life he that beleveth in me, though he
were dead yet shall he live." Comfort
one another with these words.