The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-27


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Gu Re- aiJtrai 90 emf tbroug the bridr
~ cn,,,.+a, nnl-vij did ! aIletiatatbe mat
tar az alI hat instead Of two three PEG
IL Loirg burt there ware seveltv-flvt
rr1orcle5 and cr.llShed7 Bee use Others az
sra danraved is that av ex
c1se for nv daprevi-v7 Am
better than thew ParbarS they had
worse ternpr tions than / have lad. p
bars their .ound nrs in fe were m re
overno q erinp Perm rs. 0 ma. if YOU
had heen under the same trass OF np.a-
tjon. ms cad OF sit-i z here { day, you
vonld have been looking thraug the bars
of a ) eniteutiarv. Perhaps. O woman If
Won had h en- urdsr the same How-r Of
Termination. instead of sitting here day,
yru wruld b. trampinE the street, tn
ianghir sock OF men and the grief Of g
a gels OF Cod dun eoned, 30 y, mind and
sonl in the blzckn.Ss Of despair. 4 l, d.
not let US solace curse yes with the thought
that other re pie are wore than sc.
ParhaDs in the future when our for
times NAV change, unless God prevents it,
we NAV b. worse than tnev are Many a
MAJ after tbir yeas, after forty years
after fifty years, at e sixty years, haS.c n
TO pleces O the sand bars. OH instAd of
wasting our ii G In hypercri-clsm abou
Others, lei us ask ourselves The questions
Where do we stand! w 1t are GU sIasf
What are our deficits 81 WHAT are our peTls:
What our hopes1 Let eac one say to him
self: "Whe will be! Shall | range IN
summary fields. or gri al in The mi Is o,
great night! Wherel " nere|
Some wi ter morning you g out and see
a snow tank in graceful drlt :, rs though
bv some heavenly compass 10 I'D been
curved; and as the SUI gil tsiJ the luster $
almost insutferaoie, and It seem as 4 q ID
had wrapped the earth IN sh- I'D with
white paits oven IN loo MS celesu Il. An
you ,ay "Was there ever anything so pure
as the snow, so beautif Il as the
suow!n But you brought 4
pail Of that snow and put it upon the
stove and melted 1t, and you fou d
that there was a sediment at the
bottom, aud every drop # that snow wa er
was riled; and you found that the o -
bank had gath red up e implritg Z the
field, aud that after al. 1t was not hit to
wash IN. And so say 1t will be If you try
TO gather up tn Sc contrasts and conparI-
sons WITH 9th rs, and win these apologies
at;emp to wash out tle 81 Of your cart
and life. /, VIII an uasucc ssf u a5lu-
ton. Such snow water will ever wash
away a single stain Of an lmmOrt iouL
But / hear some one say: II VIII try
something better than that | will try tue
force of a good resolution. That viii be
more punge /, mo caustic, more extir-
patlng, more clean ing. The snow water
has failed, and now VIII try the alkall OF
the good strong resOlu lon." My dear
brother, have YOU any iaea tn resolu-
ton about the future viii liquidate the
pastl Suppose | owed you five thousand
dollars and should come to you to-nO row
and say. ST, | will never run IA debt 70
you again; if should live thirty years, |
will never run in deb to you again" viii
you turn tome and say: III You WI not run
in debt in the future, | will forgive on the
five thousand dollars. VIII you do thats
No! Nor will God We have been run
ming up a long score Of Indebtedness with
God. If for the future We should abs.ail
from sin, that would he no defrayment Of
past Indebtedness. Though you should live
from tlis tine forth pure as an archan eel
before the throne, that " uld not redeem
the past. God, in tne Bible, distinctly de-
clares that he Twill require that which IS
past"-past opportunities, past neglecls IS, pas
wicked words, past impure lmaginations,
past everything. The past lsa gre tcemetery
and every day is bur ed IN 1t. And ere IS
a long 70" of tn ee hundred and ixtF-fve
graves. They are the dead days Of 1888.
Here IS a long row of three hundred and
sixty-fve ore graves, aud they are the
dead DAYS of 1887. And here is 10 & row
of three nu bred d sixt five more
graves, and they are the dead days of 1885.
1t is a vast cemetery Of the past. But God
viii rouse them all up it, resurrecI na y
blast, aud as The prisoner anIS face {"
face With juror and judge, so youaad Will
have to come up aud 10 X on tn So de-
parted days face to face, eXulting IN their
smile or covering in their fro"n
Murder viii out" Is a p overD that
stops TOO OFT. Every 81, however small,
as well as great, W u out. In hard I'm IS il
EnCla d. years ago, II Is automatically
s-a ed that man facturer was on the way,
with Bag of money. 70 pay fl his hands
q man iufuria Ell VII hu GER m-t hI Ga
the road, aud toak a all with nail in 1t
from pal.-g fence and srrU k han down,
and the nal el,eiug the skull .staatly
sles him. G.lrty years after that z mIc-
derer we back to mat lace He pass j
INTO the graz eyard where tie sexton
was digging gave. 4 while n
81 tbe-e the spa Of the sax o tur ed
up a eku d and. DO. the murderer saw a
nsil prOtrudiug from the back part Of the
skull: and Is the sexton turned the >k.l. it
seemed with hollow eyes - glare ~ the
murderer; and he first pe,-Ifei with nor
ror. stood n silence. < so . cried out
Guilty guilty. D Cod The mys cry Of
tie crlu- was over. The ma was ed
al execu.ed. Nv friends, all the unDar-
done SIS + our i've, .tougn we may
think tceF are uried OUT OF slEut I'D 9 ne
into mere ske.e-o Of emory. viii turn Up
in tie Gene cry OF lie pas. and gsowe.up 4.
Us with their misioiaEs. say a. our AZ
pardoued sins Or. IA YOU done the pre-
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