The morning news., 1889-03-18

years. These destitute children receive
! religious instruction, concluding with
bcakes and sandwiches. How do |
know that that has been going on
for many yearsl / knew it in this way:
GREED CURED BY CHRISTIAN WORK
That was the first home in Philadelphia
where | was called to comfort a great sor-
row. They had a splendid boy and he had
been drowned at Long Branch. The father
and mother almost idoized the boy. and
the sob aud shrek of that father and
mother as they hung over the coffin re-
sound in my ears to-day. There seemed to
be no u,e praying, for when | knelt down
to pray, the outcry in the room drowned
ouo all the pray. But the Lord
comforted that sorrow They did
not forget their trouble. II you
should go on the snowest winter after
noon into Laurel Hill you would
find a monument with the word "Walter"
inscribed upon it, and a wreath of fresh
flowers around the name. think there has
not been an hour all these years, winter or
summer, when there was not wreath of
fresh flowers around Walters name But
the christian mother who sends those
flowers there, having no child left, Sabbath
afternoons mothers ten or twenty of tue
lost ones of the street. That is beautiful.
That is what / call busy and triumphant
sadness. Here is maa who has lost his
property. He does not go to hard drinking.
He does not destroy his own life. He comes
and SAYS: Harness me for christian work.
My moneys gone. / have no treasures on
earth. l want treasures in heaven.
have voice and a heart TO serve God"
You say that man has failed. De has not
failed-he has triumphed o, wish | could
persuade all the people who have auy kind
Of trouble never to give up | W sh they
would look at the miduight rider Of the text,
I'D hot bo nPf bat
which Nehemiah rode might cut to pieces
all your discouragements and hardships and
trials. Give up! Who is going to give up,
when on the bosom of God he can have a
his troubles hushe1? Give up! Never think
Of giving up. Are you b1rne down with
poverty2 A little child was found olding her
dead mothers hand in the darkness of teDe-
ment house, and some one coming in, the
little girl locke up, while holding her dead
mothers hand, and said, "Oh, l do wish
that God had made more light for Door
folks" NY dear, God will be your light,
God will be your shelter, God will be your
home. Are you borne down with the be-
reavements of life! Is the house lonely
now that the child is gone! Do not give
up. Think of what the old sexton said
when the minister asked him why he put SO
much care on the little graves in the
/ cemetery-so much more care than on
the larger graves, and the OLD sexton said,
"Sir, you know that of such is the king
dom OF heaven ard think the Saviour is
pleased when he sees 80 much white clover
growing around these little graves But
when the minister pressed the old sexton
for a more satisfactory answer, the old sex
ton said, "Sir, about these larger graves, |
don't know who are the Lor1s saints and
who are not; but you know, sir, 1t is clean
different with the BARNS" Oh, if you have
had that keen, tender, indescribable sorrow
that comes from the loss of a child, do not
give up. The old sexton was right. 1t
is all well with the BARNS. Or, if you have
sinned, if you have sinned grievously-
sinned until you have been cast out by the
church, sinned until you have been cast out
by society, do not give up. Perhaps there
NAV be in this house one that could truth
fully utter the lamentation of another:
Once l was pure as the snow, but fell
Fell like a snowflake, from heaven TO hell
Fell, to be trampled as filth in the street
Fen, to be scOtfed at, spit on and beat;
Praying culsng, wishing TO die,
Selling my soul to whoever would buy
Dealing in shame for a mOrsel of bread,
Hating the living aud fearing the dead.
Do not give up. One like unto the Son Of
God comes TO you to-day, saying: 800 and
sin no more,n while he cries out to your as
sailants: LET him that is without sin cast
the first stone at her." Oh there is no
reason why any one in this house, by
reason Oh any UfOuD q OF SIN, SuOutd give up.
Are you foreigner, and In a strange land2
Nehemiah was an exile. Are you penniless
Nehemiah was poor. Are you homesicke
Nehemiah was homesick. Are you broken
hearted9 Nehemiah was broken hearted.
But jut see him III the text, rid
ing along the sacrileged grave Of his
father, and by the dragon well, and
through the fish gate, and by the kings
poo, in and out, in and out the moonlight
falling on the broken masonry, which
throws long shadow at which the horse
shies, and at the same time that moonlight
kindllng up the features of this man TILL
you see not only the mark Of sad remi is
cence, but the courage, the hope, tae Ell.
thusiasm of man who knows that Jeru-
salem will be rebuilded. pick you up to-
day out of your sins and out of your sor-
row, and put you against the warm heart
of Christ ''The eternal God is thy re-
fuge, and underneath are the everlasting
arms y