The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-26


business partner that his blind old grand
mother had seen something that looked very
suspiciousw
The most loathsome, miserable, God-for-
saken wretch on earth is a gossip. / can
tell her on the street, though have never
seen her before. She walks fast and has her
bonnet strings loose, for she has not had
time to tie them since she heard that last
scandal. She looks both ways as she passes,
hoping to see new evidences of depravity in
the windows. ! think that when Satan has
a job so infinitely mean that in all the pit
he cannot find devil mean enough to do it,
and all brides and threats have failed to get
one willing for the Internal crusade, be saws
to one of his sergeants: go up to Brook
lyn, and in such a street, on such a corner,
get that gossiping woman, and she will be
glad to do it." And sure enough, like a
hungry fish. she takes the hook in her
mouth, and Satan slackens the line, and lets
her run out farther and farther, until after
awhile he says: st is time to haul in that
lne," and with few strong pulls he brings
her to the beach of fire. What do YOU sayf
That she was a member of the church? |
can not help that. When Satan goes a-fi5h-
ing, he does not care what school the fish
belong to, whether it is a Presbyterian
mackerel or an Episcopalian salmon.
Amidst the thunder crash of Sinai. God
said: Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbor." And in Leviticus
he said: "Thou shalt not go up and down
as a tale bearer" Take not into your ear
that scum of hell that people call title
tattle. whatsoever willingly listens to a
SANDER is equally guilty with the one that
tells it, and an old writer says that they
ought both to be hanged the one by the
tongue and the other by the ear. Do not
smile upon such a spaniel. lest like n
pleased dog he put his dirty paw upon
you.
Throw back the shutter of your soul, Oh
christian men and women, and see if there
be within you vulture with filthy talons
and cruel beak Let not this uuclean
thing roost in your soul, for my text says:
aye shall hold in abomination among the
fowls, the vulture
Again, taking the suggestion of the text,
drive out the bat from your soul. No won
der God set this bird among the unclean.
1t is an otfense to every one. Let it fly into
the window of summer night, and all the
hands, young and old, are against it. 1t is
half bird and half mouse 1t seems made
partly to walk and partly to fly, and doe
neither WE'LL and becomes an emblem of
those christians who try to cling to earth
and heaven at the same time. They want
to walk on earth in worldliness. and yet fly
toward heaven in spirituality; and their
soul, between feet and wings, is constantly
perplexed. Oh, my brethren be one thing
or the other. Choose the world, if you pre-
fer it; and see how many dollars you can
win. and how much applause you can gain,
and how large business you can establish,
and how grand house you can build, agd
how fast span of horses you can drive.
You may be prospsred until you can fail
for five hundred thousand dollars, instead
of having the disgrace of failing for ouly
ten thousand as some, unenterprising people
do. 1t is quite a reward TO be able for ten
or twenty years to be called one
of the solid men of Brooklyn or Boston and
then, to make your fortune last as long as
possible, we will give you a splendid
funeral, and you shall have twenty-five
carriages following you, with somebody in
the most of them, and your coffin shall haye
silver handles on the sides, and we will
mourn for you in splendid pocket handker-
chief bound with Grape, and with bomba-
zine twenty full yards long, trailing half
across the parlor, so that all the company
may stand upon it, and we will write our
letters for the next six months on paper
edged with black. But my friends, your
worldly fortunes will not last. | will buy
out now all that you will be worth in
worldly estate seventy-five years from now.
! have the money in my pocket with which
to do it, Here it isl Two cents! IL is a
large sum to offer for all you will pos
sess at the close of seventy-fve years.
Choose the world, if you s..sswant to;
but, if not, then choose heaven. That
estate lies partly on this side of
the river, but mostly on the other. 1t is
ever accommodating. The prospect of it
makes one independent of earthly misfor-
tunes; SO that Rogers, the martyr, slept so
soundly the night before his burning they
violently shook him in order to get him
awake in time for the execution: and Paul
eXults at the thought of the 10y unspeaka
bic and full of glory" Oh, choose earth or
heaven Make up your mind whether you
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heavenly expectations. Be not a bat, fit
neither TO walk nor fly, having just enough
of heaven to spoil the world, and SO mucn
of the world as to spoil heaven. Christ
says that your present condition nauseates
him to positive sickness because thou art
neither cold nor hot, | will spew thee out Of
my mouth" In the ruins of Pompeii
there was found a petrifled woman,
VINO, instead of trying to fly from
the destroyed city, had spent her time in
gathering up her jewels. She saved neither
her life nor her jewels. There are multi
tudes making the same mistake. In irving
TO get earth and heaven they lose both "Ye
can not serve God and mammon." Be one
thing or the other. Tread the earth like
lion or mount the air like the eagle, for my
text says ''Ye shall have in abominati0n
among the fowls, the bat"
Again, taking the suggestion OF tho text,
drive out the chameleon from your soul
There islsolne difference among good men
rs to the name of this creeping hing which
God pronounced uncean, but / shall take
the opinion which seems best suited to my
purpose. The chameleon is reptile, chiefly
known by its changeableness of color, TAX
ing the color of the thing next TO it, some
Il; mes brown, sometimes red and sometimes
stray, but always the color of its
surroundings, type of that class
III christians who are now one thing in re-
ljgious faith, aad now another, just TO sui
circumstances. always taking their color of
religious belief from the man they are talk
ing TO. They go to one place, aud are first
rate UnitaIians. Jesus was q good man,
but nothing more" They go to Princeton,
and they are Trnitarians, almost willing to
die for the divinity of Jesus. Among the
Uuiversalists they refuse the idea Of future
Punishment; and going among those OF
opposite belief, announce that there is a hell
with gusto that makes you think they are
IIlad of it. Drive out that unclean chame-
Icon from your soul Do not be ever chang
ing the color of your faith. My friends.
liberal christianity, falsely so-callei, be-
Iieves in nothing. God is ANYTHING
.rou want 10 make him. The
bible is TO be believed in so far as you
Ike it. Heaven grand mixing up of
Jieros and Pauls. The man who dies by
suicide in his right mind in 1855, beating
nto glory by ten years the christian man
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