The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-09

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! may ring out the marriage Of the hi Y 5
| Son. Cleanse all your cOu thOusss, for the
/ Judge Of all the earth may appear. Let all
/ your legislat We halls he gild-d, for great
| Laxgiver may b. alb ut 70 come. Drive OF
the hrones Of despOtism all the occupants,
for the King of heaven earth may be
about 81 reign. The darkness OF toe night
is blooming and whitening into the lilies OF
| morning cloud, and tue lilies eddie ing into
the roses of stronger day-ft garla d5,
whether white or red, for him on whose
head are many crowns. The day is at
| hani!"
One more ray of the dawn see in facts
/ chronological and mathematical Come
| now do not let US do another stroke Of
work until we have settled one matter.
| What is going to be the final issue of this
/ great contest between sin and righteous
res. Whic is going to prove himself the
stronger, God or ID abOius! Is this world
| going 10 be all garden or all desertl Now
| let US have that matter SO tied. II We be-
| lieve Isaiah and Ezekiel and Hosea, aud
Micah and Malachi, and John and Peter,
| and Paul and Christ, we bel eve
| tn t it is going 10 be all garden.
whether we are working on toward
uccess or toward a dead failure. If there
| is child in your house SICK, and you are
sure he is goi x TO get well, you sympathl' g
with prese It pains, but all the toreb ding
is gone. If you are in n cyclone OF the
Florida coast, and the captain as es you
the vessel is stanch aud the winds are clang-
ing for a better q Iarter, and ne Is sure he
Will bring you fe into the harbor, you
paticutly submit TO present distress with
the thought Of safe arrival Now l want
to know whether we are cjming on toward
dismay, darkness and defeat, or on toward
light and blessedness. You and l believe
the latter, and if So every
year we spend is one year sub
tracted from the worlds woe, and every
event that passes. whether bright or dark,
bri Igs US one event nearer a happy con-
summation, and by all that is inexorable in
chronologt aid mathematics, | CONNIE ID
you TO good cheer and courage. Ii there is
anything in arithmetic, if you subtract TWO
from i've and leave three, then by every
rolling sun we a comilg on toward a
magnificent terminus Then every winter
passed is one severity less for our poor
world. Then every summer gone by brings
us nearer unfadinga b jrescence. Put your
algebra down on the Top Of your bible and
rejoice
If 1T is nearer morning at 3 o'clock than
1t Is at q if 1t is nearer morning at o'clock
than 1t is at 3, then we are nearer the dawn
Of the worlds deiverance. Gods clock
seems to go very slowly, but the pendulum
strike noon. The sun and the moon stood
still once; they will never stand still again
until they stop forever. If you beheve
arr Inn sic as well as your Ri lie, you must
believe are nearer the dawn. THE day
is at b md"
There is a class of phenomena that make,
me think that the spiritual and the heavenly
world may, Ter a while, III Ike "a demon
stration III this world which will bring all
moral aud sDirituaI thi orS tn a nIitnaxr
Now, am no spi iJualist, but every intelll-
gent ma has noticed that there are strange
and mysterious thllgS which indiclte to
INN that perhaps the spiritual word is not
so far off as sometimes we conf ,cture, and
That after while, from the spiritual
and heavenly world there may bs
demonstration upon our world
for its be .terment. We call it
magne ism, or we call it mesneris.n. or
We call 1t eject icity, because we want 50 ne
term to cover up our ignorance. | do It
know wnat that is. | never heard an au Ii
bic voice from the other world. | am per-
sladed of this, however: that the veil pa
t. cen this world and the nex5 is g inE
Thu ner and thinner, and that pe ais
after while, at the call of God-nOt at the
call of the Davenport brothe S. or And ew
jackson Davis-some of the old sci tn a
Warriors, so ne of the spi it's of other DAYS
mighty for Coda Joshua, or a CAleh. or a
David, or Paul-iHay come down and
help Us in this battle against uprighteous-
ness On, how | would like to have them
here-hlm of the Red sea, him of the valley
of Ajalon, him of Mars i'll. History saw,
that Robert Clayton, OF the Il lglish cavalry.
at tho close of a war bouguU no ali 70 old
ivalry horses lest they be turned out to
drndgery and hard work, and bought a
piece of ground at NaverSmre heath d
turned these old war rises into the thickest
aud richest pasture t. spend the rest of their
da for what tLey had done in other DAYS.
One day tnunder storm came up, aud
these war horses m!stook the thunder
OF the skies for the thunder of battle. and
they wheeled into line-no riders on their
backs-they wheeled iuto line read for the
fay. And | doubt me whether. when the
last thunder of this battle for God and
truth goes booming through the heavens,
the old scriptural warriors can keep their
places on their hrones. Me links tn " will
spring into the fight and exc lange crown
for helmet and palm branch for ~ pon.
aud come down out of the kings galleries
into the arena, crying: Make room! |
must fight IN this great Arma Sedionn
My beloved people, prelca this serm N
because | want you IT, toll with the sunig t
IN your faces. | want Y u Id nan 70 IN
derst nd ue. ore you die that all the work
You did for God wlile yet your ear was
dlerV anu you loot feet Is going to be
counted up l the hlal veto les | want
ali these younger people to understand that
when ey toll for God they always wi
the day; that all prayers are a swered, and
all christian work is IN some way effectuaI.
ana That the tide Is setting in the RICH
dire ton, and that all heaven Is on our SD.
sanity, cherubic, serAphic, archange c.
ON 'lpo emit, chariot and throne, 1ox logy
and procession, principalitieS and domin-
ION, he who hath the moon under his feet
all the armies of heaven on white
horses.
Brotherl hrotherl all | am afraid of is.
not that Oh iso will lose the battle, but that
you and | viii no get into it q lick enough
70 DO so neth & worthy of our blooi-
bought inmo tality. On, Christ! how
shall l meet thee, thou # the Scared brow
aud the SCARED back and the care hand
ana the Scared foot aud The Scared breast.
II nave no scars or funds g )tten in thy
serylce' 1t shall not bs 50. | step out to-
day IN front of the battle. Come on.
you foes of God, | dare you to til
combat. Come on, with pens dipped
in malignancy. Come on, WITH
tongues forked and viperine and adderous.
Come N, with types soaked in the scum of
the eternal it. defy you'll Come on!
bare my brow, unc lver NV heart s rIkel
can OF see my Lord until have been hxt
for Christ. If we do not ,utfer With him6n
ear "e cannot gl)rify with him / deavsl.
Take good neart Oal OIL On! See! the
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