The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-09

he brought the distant worlds nigh, and 1t
is my ambition now, this hour, to clear the
lens of your spiritual vision, 80 that looking
through tho dark night of your earthly
troubles you may behold the glorious con
stelation of a Saviour's mercy and a
Saviour's love o, my friends, do not try
to carry all your ills alone DO not put
your shoulder under the Apennines when
the Almighty Christ is ready to lift up all
your burdens When you have trouble or
any kind you rush this way and that way,
and you wonder what this mau will say
about IL and what that man will say about
it, and you try this prescription ana
that prescription and the other prescription.
Oh, why do you not go straight to tho
heart Of Christ knowing that for our own
SHINING and suffering race he took the
vinegari
There was vessel that had been tossed
on the seas for great many weeks, and
been disabled, and the supply of water
gave ont. and the crew were dying OF
thirst. After many days, they saw sail
against the sky. They signalled it. When
the vessel came nearer, the people on the
suffering ship cried to the captain of the
other vessel; "Send us some water. We
are dying for lack of water" And the cap
tain on the vessel that was hailed responded:
Dip your buckets where you are You
are in the mouth OF the Amazon and there
are scores of miles of fresh water all around
about you, and hundreds of feat deep"
And then they dropped their buckets over
the side of the vessel and brought up the
clear, bright, fresh water, and put out the
fire of their thirst. So | hail you today,
after long and perilous voyage, thirsting
as you are for pardon. and thirsting for
comfort, and thirsting for eternal life; and
| ask you what is the use OF your going in
that death-struck state, while all around
YOU is the deep, clear wide, sparkling
flood of Gods sympathetic mercy. o, dip
your buckets, and drink, and live for ever.
"Whosoever will, let him come and take OF
the water Of life freely"
Yet, my utterance is almost choked at
the thought that there are people here who
will refuse this divine sympathy; and they
will try to fight their own battles, and
drink their own vinegar, and carry their
own burdens; and their life, instead of
being triumphal march from victory TO
victory, will bo q hobbling on from defeat
to defeat, until they make final surrender
to retributive disaster. O, | wish rcould
to day gather up in mine arms all the woes
of men and women--all their heart-aches-
all their disappointments-a their chagrins
and Just take them right to the feet of a
sympathizing Jesus. He took the vinegar.
Mana Sahib, after he had lost his last bat
tle in India, fell back into the jungles of
Iheri-jungles SO full Of malaria that no
mortal can live there. He carried with him
also ruby of great lustre and of great
value He died in those jungles; his body
was never found, and the ruby has never
vet been recovered. And fear that to-day
there are some who will fall back from this
subject into the sickening, killing jungIes
of their sin, carrying gem of infinite value
a priceless soul--to be lost forever o.
that that ruby might fash in the eternal
n,,+
fear, in this audience who turn away from
this offered mercy, and comfort, and divine
sympathy notwithstanding that Christ, for
all who would accept his grace, trudged the
long way, and suffered the lacerating thongs,
and received in his face the expectorations
of the filthy mob, and for the guilty, and the
discouraged, and the discomforted of the
race, took the vinegar May God Almighty
break the nfatuation and lead you out into
the strong hope, and the good cheer, and
the glorious sunshine of this triumphant
gospel