The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-01

the Methodist church. Mighty associa-
| tions of the Baptist church. Mighty
conventions of he Episcopal church.
think before long the best investments
| will not be in railroad stock or Western
! Union, but in trumpets and cymbals and
! festal decorations, for we are on the eve of
victories wide and world uplifting. There
| NAV be many years of hard work yet be-
| fore the contamination, but the signs are to
me so encouraging that I would not be I'M
believing il / saw the wing of the apoca-
| lvptic angel spread for its last triumphal
| flight in this DAYS sunset; or if tomorrow
morning the ocean cables should thrill us
with the news that Christ the Lord had
alighted on Mount Olivet or Mount Calvary
to proclaim universal dominion.
Oh, YOU dead churches wake upl Throw
back the shutters of stiff ecclesiasticism,
and let the light of the spring morning
come in. Morning for the land. Morning
for the sea- Morning of emancipation.
Morning of light and love and peace.
Morning of day in which there shall be no
chains to break, no sorrows to assuage, no
despotism to shattar, no woes to compass
sionate. Oh, Christ, descend Scared
| temple, take the CROWN Bruised hand,
take the scapterl Wounded foot, step the
thronel "Thine is the kingdom"
These things | say because | want you to
be alert want you to be watching all
these wonders unrolling from the heavens
and the earth God has classified them,
whether calamitous or pleasing. The divine
/ PURPOSES are harneSsed in traces that can
not break, and in girths that cannot slip,
| and in buckles that cannot loosen, and
are driven by reims they must answer |
preach no fatnlism. A swarthy engineer,
| at one of the depots in Dakota said: Nv hen
will you get on the locomotive and take
ride with USE! "Well,n ] said, now if that
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comotive and Methodist minister,
who was also invited, got on the other side,
and between us were the engineer and the
stoker. The train started. The engineer
| had his hand on the agitated pulse of the
| great engine The stoker shOveled in the
coal and ut the door with a loud clang.
| A vast plain slipped under US and the hills
| swept by, and that great monster on which
we rode trempled and bounded and snorted
and ragged as it hurled us on. / said to
| the Methodist minister on the other side
the locomotive: my brother, why
should Presbyterians and Meth
odists quarrel about the DEGREES
and free agency2 You see that track,
that firm track, that iron track; that
is the degree. You see that engineers arm9
That is free agency. How beautifully they
work together. They are going to take us
through. We could not do without the
track, and we could not do without the
engineer So rejoice day by day. Work
for us all to do, and we may turn the crank
of the christian machinery this way or that
for we are free agents; but there is the
track laid 80 long ago no one remem-
bers it, laid by the hand of Almighty
God in sockets that no terrestrial or
satanic pressure can ever affect. And
along that track the car of the worlds re-
demption will roll and roll to the Grand
Central depot Of the millennium. l have
no anxiety about the track. | am only
afraid that for our Incidence God will dis
charge us and get some other stoker and
some other engineer. The train is going
| through with us or without U.s. so, my
| brethren, watch all the events that are
going by. II things seem to turn out right,
give wings to your joy. If things seem TO
turn out wrong, throw out the anchor Of
| faith and hold fast.
There is a house in London where Peter
| the Great of Russia lived awhile when he
was moving through the land incognito and
| in worginkman's dress that he might learn
the wants of the people. A stranger was
| visiting at that house recently, and saw
| in a dark attic an old box and he said to
the owner of the house: whats i'll that
boxm The owner said 81 don't know
that box was there when | got the
house and it was there when my father got
il. We haven't had any curiosity to look
at it, / guess there's nothing
in it," "Well," said the strange,
"pll give you two pounds
for tn "Well. done" The CO are paid
and recently the contents of that box were
sold to the car of Russia for $4,000 In
it the lathing machine of Peter the Great,
his private letters and documents Of value
beyond all monetary consideration. Aud
| here are the events that seem very insig 1id-
cant and unimportaut, but theY incase treas
ures of divine providence and eternities of
| meaning which after q while God will
demonstrate before the ages as being of
stupendOus value. AS near as | can tell
from what | soc, there must be God
somewhere about.
When Titans play quoits they pitch
| mountains; but who owns these gigantic
forces you have been reading about the last
| two monthsi Whose hand is on the trottle
valve of the volcanoesl Whose foot sud-
| denly planted on thu footstool makes the
continents quiverl God! Godl He looketh
upon the mountains and they tremble. He
toucheth the hills and they smoke. God |!
| God! | must be at peace with him. Through
the Lord Jesus Christ this God is mine and
| he is yours | put the earthquake that
shook Palestine at the crucifxion against
all the down rockings of the centuries.
| This God on our side, we NAV challenge all
the centuries of time and all the cycles of
eternity.
Those of us who are in mid-life may well
thank God that we have seen so many
wondrous things; but there are people here
to-day who will see the twentieth century.
Things obscure to us will be plain to you
yet The twentieth century will be as far
ahead of the nineteenth as the nineteenth
is ahead Of the eighteenth, and as You carl
cature the habits and customs and ignorance
of the past, others will caricsture this age.
Some OF you may live to see the simmer
| ing veil between the material and the
spiritual world lifted Magnetism, a
word with which we cover up our
| ignorance, will yet be an explored
realm. Electricity, the fiery courser Of
the sky, that Benjamin Franklin lassoed,
and Morse and Bell and Edison have tried
to control. will become completely manage
BILE, and locomotion will be swiftened, and
a world of practical knowledge thrown in
upon the race. Whether we depart in this
century, or whether we see tho open gates
of a more wonderful century, we will see
these things. 1t does no make much diff
ference where we stand, but the higher the
standpoint the larger the prospect. We
will see them from heaven if we do not
see them from earth. l was at Fire Island,
| Long Island, and | went up in the Gu
pola from which they telegraph to New