The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-14

your own house, but for the vast popula-
ton OF our great cities, who are treadng on
toward death, with no voice of mercy to
arrest them. All! when the prodigal comes
INTO the church, do not stare at nim as
though he had no rightto co e. Give him the
best seat you can find for him. S metimos
a man wakes up from his sin, and he says;
IN go to the house Of Cod Perhaps he
comes from one motive, perhaps from
another. He finds the church dark, and the
christian people frig,d (and there are no
people on earth who can be more frigid
than christian people when they try aud
the mu ic is dun, and he never comes again.
suppose one Of these men enters the church.
As he comes in he hears song which hiS
mother sang when he was boy; he remem-
hers it. He sits down, aud some one hands
hlm book open at
Jerusalem, my happy home,
Name ever dear TO me"
Yes" he SAYS, al have heard that many
times lie secs cheerful christian people
there every mans face q psalm If thanks
giving to God. He saws: "Do you ha g
this so every Sunday ! have heard that
the ii use Of God was a doleful place, and
christians were lugubrious and repell,ngl
have really enjoyed mysefm The next
Sabbath the man is again in the same place
Tears Of repentance start down his cheek;
tab e is spread, he sits at it, and some one
reaches over aud says: 81 am surprised TO
find you here. | thought you didut believe
in such things.n "Ahn he saws, 81 have
been captured. ! came in one day, and /
found you were all so loving and che arful
here that conc uded would come among
you. Where thou goest | will 60; thy poo
pie shall be my people, and thy God my
God. Who're thou diest will | die, and
there will be buried"
All you can't drive men out Of their
sins, but you can coax them out--you can
charm them out.
| would to God that we could all come to
a higher appreci ton of this Sabbath herit-
age! We cannot count the treasures Of one
christian Sabbath. 1t spreads out over us
the two wings T the archangol of mercy
Oh, blessed Sabbath blessed Sabbathl
They scoff a great deal about the old Furi-
tanic Sabbaths, and there is "a wonderful
amount of wit expended upon that subject
now-the Sabbaths they used 60 have in
New England.
| never lived in New England, but /
would rather trust the old Puritanic Sab
bath, with all its faults, than this modern
Sabbath, which IS fast becoming no Sab
bath at all If our modern Sabbatism
snail produce as stalwart christian cherac-
ter as the old New England Puritanic Sab
batism, | shall be satisfied, and | shall be
surprised.
Oh, blessed day! blessed day. l should
like 80 die some Sabbath morning when the
air is full of church music and the bells are
ringing. Leaving my home group with IA
dying blessing, | should like to look off
upon some christian assembage chanting
the praises of God as | went up to join the
one hundred and forty and four thousand
and the thousand Of thousands standing
Of I
the bells of the old kirk on the hi lside of
heaven. 1t is a wedding bell, for behold
the bridegroom cometh. 1t is a victor's
bell, for we are more than conquerors
through him who hath loved us II is a
Sabbath bell, for it calls the nations Of
earth and heaven TO everlasting repose.
"Oh when, thou city Of my God,
Shall thy courts asceqdY
Where con gre cations ne'er break up,
And Saba his have no end.