The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-22

and to spare. No thin slices at the Lords
table. remember when the Master street
hospital, in Philadelphia was opened dur
ing the war, a telegram came saying:
there will be 300 wounded men tonight; (;
De ready to take caro- OF them:n and from
my church there went in some twenty
or thirty men and women to lock
after these poor wounded fellows. AZ they
came, some from one part Of the lanu, some
from ano her, no one asked whether this
man was from Oregon, or from MasSachu-
| settS, or from Minnesota, or from New
York. There was a wounded soldier, and
the only question was how to take Off the
rags most gently, and put on the bandage,
and administer the cordial. And when a
soul comes u God no does not ask whore
you come from or what your anc stry was.
| Healing for all your wounds Pardon for
all your guilt. Comfort for all your troubles.
Then, also, | counsel you, if you want TO
get BACK, TO quit all your bad associations.
Oae unholy intimacy will fill your soul
with moral diStamper In all the ages Of
the church there has not beon an instance
where man kept one evil associate aud
was reformed. Among the fourteen hun
dred million Of the race not one instance.
10 homo to-day, open your desk, take out
letter paper stamp and envelope, and then
write letter something like thiSi
My old companions; | start this day for
heaven. Until | am persuaded you will Join
me In this, farewell"
Then sign your name, and send the letter
with the first post. Give up your bad COIN
paniOns, or give up heaven. IL ia not ten
bad companions that destroy a man, nor
i've bad companions. nor three bad com
panOns, but one What chance is there
for that young man | saw along the street,
four or five young men with him, halting
in front Of a grog shop, urging him to go
in, he resisting, violently resisting, until
after n while they forced him TO go inf 1t
WIS a summer night, and the door was left
open, and / saw the process. They held
him fast, and they put the cup to his lips
aud they forced down the strong drink.
What chance is there for such young
mani
| counsel you, also, seek christian ad-
vics. Every christian man is bound to help
you. First Of ali, seek God; then seek
christian counsel. Gather up all the ener
gies Of body, mind aud SOUL and, appealing
TO God for SUCCESS declare this day ever
lasting war against all drinking habits. all
gambling practices all houses of sin. Half
and-half work will amount to nothing; It
must be Waterloo. Shrink back now and
you are lost Push on and you are saved.
A Spartan general fell at the very moment
Of victory, but ne dipped hts finger in his
own bio d and wrote on rock near which
he was dying "Sparta has conquered" "
Though your struggle to get rid Of sin
may seem TO be almost a death struggle,
you can dip your finger in your own blood
and write on the Rock OF Ages, "Victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ"
Oh, what glorious news it would be for
some OF these young men to send home TO
their parentsl They 60 to tho postoifice
every day or two to sec whether there are
any letters from you. How anxious they
are to hear.
Some one said to Greclan general,
What was the proudest moment in your
lfeP He thought a moment and said:
The proude,t moment In my life was
when l sent word home to my parents that
| had gained the victory Aud the proud
est d most brilliant moment in your life
will he the moment when you can send word
20 your parents that you have conquered
your evil habits by the grace Of God and be-
come eternal victor. Oh, despise not parental
anxiety The time will come when you will
have neither father nor mother, and you will
go around the place whore they used TO
watch you and find them gone from the
house, and gone from the field, aud gone
from the neighborhood Cry as loud for
forgiveness as you may over the mound in
the churchyard, they will not answer.
Dead Dsadl And then you will take out
the white lock Of hair that was cut from,
your mothers brow just before they buried
her, AMI you will take the cane with
which your father used TO walk, and
you will think and think and wish
that you had done just as they wanted
you to, and would give the world If you
had never thrust pang through their dear
old hearts. God pity the poor young man
who has brought disgrace on his fathers
pame God pity the young man who has
broken his mothers hearth Better II he
hal never been born-bstter, il, In the
first hour Of his lite, instead OF being laid
against the warm bosJm of maternal
to Iderness, he had been coifined and
sepulchsred. There ia no balm power
ful enough TO heal the heart Of one who has
brought parents TO a sorrowful grave, and
who wanders about through the dismal
cemetery, re ding the hair, and wringing
the hands, and crying, "Motherl motherl"
Oh, that to-day by ali the memories Of the
past and by all the hopes Of the future, you
would yield your heart to God. May your
fathers God and your mothers God be your
God forever