The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-28
made over again by the power of the grace

of God.
A few years ago ship captain came in
here and sat yOuder under the gallery. no
came in with a contempt for the church OF
God and with an especial dislike for Tai
maze. When an opportunity was given he
arose for prayer and as he was more than
six feet high when he arose for prayer no
one donbted that he arosei That hour he
became a christian He went out and told
the ship owners and the ship commanders
what great change had been wrought in
him. and scores and scores have been
brought TO God through his in ,trumentaliJy.
A little while after his conversion he was
on a ship off Cape Hauteras in a thick and
prolonged fog, and they were at their wits
ends and kne n not what TO do, the ship drift
ing hitler and thitheT, and they los, their
bearings Add the converted sea captain
went to his room and asked God for the sal
walton of the ip. and God revealed 1t to
him while he was on his knees that at GER
tain hour, only a little way off, the fog
would lift, and the converted sea captain
came out on the deck and told how God
heard his prayers. He said: ut is all
right, BOYS. Very soon now the fog will lift, "
mentor ing the hour A man who stood
there laughed aloud in derision at the idea
that God would answer prayer, but at just
the hour when God had assured the captain
tho fog would lift there came a flash Of
who had ieered and laughed was stunned
and fell to tue deck The fog lifted. Yon-
der was Cape Hatteras lighthouse. The
sho was put on the right course and sailed
on to the harbor of safety.
When in seaport the captain spends most
of his time in evangelical work. He kneels
down by one who has been helpless in the
bed for many months and the next day
she walks forth in the streets well. He
knees beside one who has long been de-
crepit, and he resi- yns tie crutches lie
He kneels beside one who had not seen
enough to be able to read for ten years, and
she reads the Bible that day. Consumptions
go away and those who had diseases that
were appalling to behold come up to rapid
convalescence and to complete health. |
am not telling you anything second
handed. | have had the story from the
lips of the patients i'll this very bouse, those
VINO were brought to health of body while
at the same time brought to God. No
second hand story this. have heard the
testimony from men and women who have
been cured. You may call it faith cure, or
you may call it the power of God coming
down in answer to prayer; | do not care
what you call it, it is a fact The soothing
sea captain, his heart full of hatred for
Christianity now becomes follower of the
meek and lowly Jesus, giving all the time
to evangelical labors, or all the time he can
spare from other occupations. That IS re-
generation, that is regeneration. Man all
made over again.
There is your absurd doctrine of vica-
rious sacrifice" say these men who have
chewed up the little book of creeds and
have the consequent embittered stomach.
"Vicarious sacrifice Let every man suffer
for himself Whv do | want Christ to
suffer for me? I'll suffer for myself and
carry my own burdens" They scott at the
| idea of vicariouS sacrifice, while they ad
mire it everywhere else except in Christ.
People see its beauty when a mother suffers
for her child. People see its beauty when
a patriot suffers for his country. People
see its beauty when a man denies himself
for friend They can see the beauty of
vicarious sacrifice in every one but Christ.
A young lady in one of the literary insti-
| buttons was a teacher She was very reti-
| cent and retired in her habits, and she
| formed no comprehensive in the new
| position she occupied, and her dress was
very plain-sometimes it was very shabby.
| After a while she was discharged from
| the place for that reason, but no reason was
| given In answer to the letter discharging
| ner from the position, she said: well, ii
| have failed to please, | suppose 1t is my OWE
| fault" She went here and there for EN-
| plovment, and found none, aud in dssper
| alton and in dementias she ended her life by
| suicide. investigation was made a9d IL was
! found that out of her small means she had
supported her father, so years If age, and
was paying the way for her brother in Yale
| College on his way to the ministry. 1t wa!
| found that she had no blanket ON the bed
| that winter, and she had no fire on the very
| coolest day of all the season. People found
it out and there was a large gathering al
| the funeral, the largest ever as any funera
! III that place, and the very people who had
scotfed came and looked upon the pale face
/ of the martyr, and all honor was done her;
| but it was too late. Vicarious sacrifice
| All are thrilled with such instances as that
| But many are not moved by the fact that
| Christ raid his poverty for our riches, his
| self-abuegation for our enthronement, anC
| knelt on the sharp edges of humiliation that
we might climb over his lacerated shoulder
into peace and heaven.
Be it ours to admire and adore these doc
| triues at which others leer. Oh, the depths
| OF the riches both of the wisdom and knowl
edge of Cod How unsearchable is hi
wisdom, and his ways are past finding out
| On the hight, the depth, the length, the
BREADTH tue infinity, the immensely, the
eternity of that love- Let our earnest
| PRAYERS go out in behalf of all those who
| scott at these doctrines of grace. When the
| London plague was raging in the year 1861
there was a hotel near the chief burial
place that excited much comment England
was in fright and bereavement. The dead
carts went through the streets day anC
night, and the cry: Bring out your dead :"
was answered by the bringing out Of the
| forms of the loved ones, and they we're put
twenty or thirty in a cart, and the wagons
| went on to the cemetery; and these deaC
we're not buried in graves, but in great
! trenches, in great pits. in one pit eleven
hundred and fourteen burialsl The cart,
would come up with their great burden o
twenty or thirty to the mouth of the pit
| and the front of the cart was lifted
a Il the dead shot into the pit
All the churches in London wer,
| open for prayer day and night, and England
was in a great anguish. At that very time
at a hotel at g waysIde inn near the chiei
| burial place, there was group of hardened
men, who sat day after day and night after
night blasphemng G ID and initiating
the grief-struck who went by to the burla
! place These men sat Their day after day
and night after night, a d they scoffed al
men, aud they scotfed at women, and they
scoiTed at God. But after a while one o.
| thom was struck with the plague, and in tive
weeks all of the group were down in the
! trench from the margin of which they nae
IL tered their ribaldry. Ny friends, a greater
plague is abroad in the world. Millions have
| died of il. Millions are smitten with i
now. Plague of sin, plague of sorrow
! plague of wretchedneSs, plague Of woe
! And consecrated women aud men from
| all christie Idom are going out trying Il
| stay the plague and alleviate the anguish
and there is a group OF men in this country
! bnSa eoOuph to sit and darida the work