The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-25

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( grace take up the harmony, for tie Bible
saws ''no man could learn that song but lie
hundred and forty AID four thousand which
were redeemed from the earth"
A great prima donna, who can now do
ANYTHING with her voice, told me that
when she first started in music her teacher
in Berlin told her she could b. good
singer but certain note she could never
reach. Aud then" she said, II went to
work and studied and practice1 for years
until did reach it." But the song of the
sinner redeemed. the Bible says,
the exalted harmonists who have
never snned could not reach and
never will reach. Would you like 10
hear me in very poor way play
snatch of that tunes can give you only
one bar of the music on this gospel harp:
unto him that hath loved us and washed
Us from our sins in his own blood and hath
made us kings and priests unto God and
the Lamb, to him be the glory and domin-
ion forever and ever, Amen" But before
leaving this interrogatory, why God let s n
come into the world let me say that great
battles seem to be no hing but suffer
ing and outrage at the time Of their
occurrence, yet after they have been
long while past we can SEQ that it was bet
t n for them to have been fought, namely,
Saamis, Inkerman, Toulouse, Arbella,
Agincourt, Trafalgar, Blenheim, Lexing-
ton, Sedan. SO now that the great battles
against sin and suffering are going on, we
can see mostly that which is deporable.
But twenty thousand years from nov,
standing in glory, we shall appreciate that
heaven is better Off thar if the battls Of
this worlds sin and suffering had never
been projected.
But now come nearer home and put
dark saying on the gospel harp, style OF
question that is asked million times every
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have it 50 hard while others have it SO easy ?
or, why do | have so much difficulty in
getting livelihood while others g around
| with full portemDunaies or, why must
| wear these plain clothes while others have
| to push hard to get their wardrobes closed,
| SO crowded are they with brilliant attire?
OF, why should | have t. work SO hard while
others have 365 holidays every year? They
are all practically one question. | answer
them by saying, it is because the Lord has
| his favorites and he puts extra discipline
| upon you, and extra trial, be-
cause he has for you extra glory, extra en-
thronemen5 and extra feicities. That is no
guess Of mine, bnt divine say-so: Whom
the Lord loveth he chasteneth" "Well,"
says some one, Il would rather have a
| little less in heaven and Il little more here
| Discount my heavenly robs 10 per cent.
| and let me now put it on, a fur lined
overcoat put me in a less gorgeous room
| of the house of many mansions and let
me have house here in better neigh
| borhood" No, no; God is not going to rob
| heaven, which is TO be your residence for
nine hundred quadrilliOn Of years. to fix up
| your earthly abode, which you will occupy
at most for less than century, and where
| you may perhaps stay only ten years
| longer, or only one year, or perhaps n
month more. Now, you had better cheer
| fully let God have his way, for, you see,
he has been taking care Of folks for near
seven thousand years, and knows how
to do it, and can see what is best for
you better than you can yourself Don't
think you are too insignificant to be divinely
cared for 1t was said that Diana, the god
| dess, could not b. present to keep her
temple at Ephesus from burning, because
| she was attending upon the birth of him
who was to be Alexander the Great. But l
| tell you that your God and my God is so
great in small things as well as large things
that he could attend the cradle of babe
| and at the same time the burning of a
world.
And God will make it ell right with you,
and there is one song that you will sing
every hour your first ten years in heaven,
anu the refrain Of that song viii be: II am
| so glad God did not let me have it my own
way Your case will be all fixed up in
heaven and there will be such reversal of
conditions that we can hardly find each
other for some time. Some of us who have
lived in first rate houses here and in first
rate nelghbF rhoods will be found, because
of our lukewarmneSs Of earthly service liv-
ing on one of The back streets of the
celestial city. and clear down at the end of
it at No SJS, or 900, or 1905, while some
who had unattractive earthly abodes. and
cramped ones at that, will, in the heavenly
city, be in a house fronting Che ROYAL
pla 10Th hxy no iV,nn ioI tot
the nights overlooking the River of Life,
the chariots Of salvation haltiug at
your door while those visit you
VINO are more than conQuerors, aid
those who are kings and queens unto
God forever. You, my brother, and yoa,
my sister, who have it so hard here will
have 1T so fine and grand there that you
will hardly know yourself and will feel dis
posed to dispute your own identity, and
the first time | see you there | will cry out
Didn't l tell you so when you
sat down there in the Brooklyn Taber-
nacle and looked incredulous because you
thought it too good to be- true" And you
will answer: "You were right, the half
was not told mel" So this morning I
open your dark saying of dependency
and complaint on my gospel harp and
give you just ons bar of music, for do not
pretend to be much of player, 1.-THE
Lamb which is in the midst of the throne
shall lead them TO living fountains of wa
ter and God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes" But must confess | am lit
tie perplexed how some of YOU good chris
tiani are goi to get through the gate,
because there will be so many there to
greet you and they will all wait t. shake
hands at once and will all want The first
kiss. They viii nave heard that you are
coming, and they will all press around TO
welcome YOU and will want you to saw
whether you know them after being so long
parted.
Amid the tussel and romp of reunion
tell you whose hand of welcome you had
better first clasp and whose cheek s en-
ii led TO the first kiss. 1t is the hand and
the check of him without whom you would
never have got there at all, the Lord Jesus,
the darling of the skies, as he cried out:
81 have loved thee with an everlasting love
and the fires could not burn it and the
floods could not drown itn Then You, my
dear people, having no more use for my
poor harp on which | used to open
your dark sayings and whose chords
sometimes snapped, despoiing the
symphony, will take down your
own harps from the willows that
grow by the eternal water courses aud
play together those celestial airs some of
the names of which are entitled, The King
in His Beauty tho Land That Was Far
on Jerusalem, the Golden" Hone
Again The Grand March Of God, a." "The
Life Everlasting And as the last dark
Certain of mystery is forever lifted il will