The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-15

The undiscovered country, from whose bourne
| No traveller returns-puzzles the WHY
Would u that the coroners would DC
brave in rendering the right verdict, an
| when in a case OF responsibility they say
''yVhile this man was deniente1 he took his
life" in the other case say: "Havlng read
intid.! books and attended intidel lectures,
which obliterated from ttis mans mind all
appreciation Of anything like future re-
tribution, he commi ted self-slaughterV'
All! infideli.v, stand up and take thy
sen eHcel IN the presence of u )d anu an
ges a d Il al, stand up, thou monster, thy
! lip blasted "Ish biaSpnemy, thy cheek
Scared with lus-, tlv breath foul with the
corruption of the ages Stand up, Satyr,
| filtny goat. buzzar of he nations. lepef of
the cemtu ie,, Stan ~, thou monster, in
fidelity! Part man, part panther, part rep
tile, part dragon. stand up ald take Thy
sentence, Thy hands red with the blood
in which thou hast washed, thy feet crimson
with the human gore through which thou
hast waded, stand u and take thy
sentence! Down with thee 10 the pit and
SUP on the sobs an / groans of families thou
hast blasted, and roll on the bed of knives
which thou hast sharpsued for others, and
let thy music be the everlasting miserere of
those whom thou hast damned! / brand
the forehead of infideliy with all the crimes
OF accommodation for the last century on
the part of those who had their reason.
My friends if ever your lie through is
abrasions and its molestations should seem
to be unbearable, and you are tempted to
quit it by your own behest, do not consider
yourself as worse than others. Christ him
self was tempted to cast himself from the
roof of the temple; but as he resisted, so
resist We. Christ came 10 medicine all our
woun is. | your cubic | prescribe life
instead Of death. People who have had it
worse than YOU will ever have it have gone
songful on the wav Remember that Go d
keeps the chrono3gy of your life WITH as
much pTecisioI as ne keeps tbs chronology
of nations. your death as well as your cradle.
Why was ii that at midnight, just at mid
night, the destroying ang j struck the blow
{ at set the Israelites free from bondages
The four hundred and thirty years were up
at twelve o'clock that night. The four
hundred and thirty years were not up at
eleven, and one o'clock would have been
tardy and too late. The four hundred and
thirty years were up at twelve o'clock, and
the destroying angel struck the blow, and
Israel was fire. And God knows Just the
hour when it is time to lead you up from
earthly bondage By his grace make not
the worst Of things, but the best of them.
If you must take the pills, do not chew
them. Your everlasting rewards will &C
cord with your ear hly pertuFbations, Just
as Caius gave TO Agrippa chain of gold as
heavy as had been C ain of iron. For
the asking-and do not know to whom |
speak in this august assemblage, but the
word may be especially appropriate-for
your asking you may have the same grace
that was given to the Italian martyr,
Algerius, who, down in the darkest of dun
geons dated his letter from ''the delectable
orchard of the Leonine prison.
And remember that this brief life of ours
I.lt .frn
rim is great eternity, and You had better
keep out of it until God breaks that rim and
separates this from that. To get rid of the
sorrows of earth, do not rush into greater
sorrows. To get rid of swarm of summer
insects, leap not into jungle of Bengal
tigers.
There is sorrowless world and it is so
radiant that the monday sun is only the
lowest doorstep and the aurora that lights
up our northern heavens, confounding as
tronomers as to what it can be. is the wav-
ing of the banners of the procession come
to take the conquerors home from church
militant to church triumphant, and you
and | have ten thousand reasons for want
ing to go there, but we will never get there
either by self Immolation or lmpeaitency.
All our sins slain by the Christ who came
to do that thing, we want to go in at just
the time divinely arranged, and from a
couch divinely spread, and then the cang
of the sepulchral gates behind us will be
overpowered by the clang of tie opening of
the solid pearl before us. o God, whatever
Others may choose, give me a christian's
life. christians death, a christians burial.
q christians immortality.