The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-01

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| Real troubles have no heralds running
ahead Of their somber chariots, and no one
| has any authority in our time to announce
/ their coming Load yourself up with help
| full words and deeds. The hymn once sung
in our churches is unfit to be sung, for it
says
We should suspect some danger near
Where we possess delight.
| In other words. manage to keep miserable
all the time. The old song sung at the
pianos quarter of a century ago was right
kind words can never die" Such kind
words have their nests in kind hearts, and
when they are Matched out and take wing
they circle round in flights that never
| cease, and sportsmans gun cannot shoot
! theIa and storms cannot ruff1e their wings,
and when they cease flight in these lower
skies Of Earth they sweep around amid the
! higher attitudes of heaven. At Baltlmorea
few DAYS ago | talked into a monograph.
| The cylinder containing the words
was sent on to Washington, and the next
day that cylinder, fr m another phono-
| graphic instrument, when turned gave back
| to me the very words | had uttered the day
| before, and with the same intOnations
Scold into a monograph, and it will scold
back. Pour mild words into a photograph
I and it will return the gentleness. Society
| and the world, and the church, are phono-
/ p
treatment, aud acerbity and rough treat
ment you will get back. Give them prac-
ticll friendliness and they will give back
practical friendliness a father asked his
little daughter: MARY, why is it that
everybody loves youp She answered: Il
don't know unless it is because | !ove every
body.n "A man that hath friends must
show himself friendly" We want some
thing like that spirit Of sacrifice for others
which was seen in the English channel,
where in the storm boat containing three
men was upset. and all three were in the
water struggling for their lives. A boat
came to their relief, and rope was thrown
to ole of them, and he refused to take it,
saying: First fling it to Tom; he is Just
ready to go down | can last some time
longer" A man like that, be he sailor or
ldndsman, he he in upper ranks of society
or lower ranks will always have plenty of
friends. What is true MAYNARD is true
Godward. We must be the friends of God
if we want him TO be our friend. We can
not treat Christ badly all our lives and ex-
pect him to treat us lovingly. / was read
ing of sea fight, in which Lord Nelson
captured a French officer, and when the
French officer offered Lord Nelso1 his hand
Nelson replied: First give me your sword
and then give me your hand" Surrender
of our resistance to God must precede G. DDS
protfer of pardon to Us. Repentance before
forgiveness. You must give up your rebel
lious sword before you can get a grasp Of
the divine hand
O, what a glorious state of things to
have the friendship of God Why, we
could afford to have all the world against
us and all other worlds against us If we had
God for US. He could in a minute blot out
this universe, and in another minute make
better universe. | have no idea that
God tried hard when he made all things
- hill
light, and for the creation of that he
only used word of command As
out Of a flint frontiersman strikes a
spark so out of one word God struck
the MONDAY sun. For the making of
the present universe do not read that God
lifted so much as finger. The Bible fire.
quently speaks of Gods hand, and Gods
arm, and Gods shoulder, and Gods foot:
then suppose he should put hand and arm
and shoulder and foot to utmost tension,
what could he not make! That God, of
such demonstrated and undemonstrated
strength you may have for your present
and everlasting friend. But stately and
reticent friend, hard to get at, but as ap-
proachable as a country mansion on a
summer day when all the doors aud win
dows are wide open. Christ said: 81
am the door" And he is a wide door, n
high door, palace door, an always open
door. My 4-year-old child got hurt and did
not cry until hours after when her mother
came home, and then she burst into Weep
ing, and some Of the domestics, not under
standing human nature, said to her; "Why
did you not cry beforeP' She answered:
There was no one to cry to-" Now have
to tell you that while human sympathy NAV
be absent, divine sympathy is always ac-
cessible. Give God your love and get his
love; your service and secure his
help; your repentance and have his
pardon. God friend? Why, that
means all your wounds medicated, all
your sorrows soothed, and if some sudden
catastrophe should hurl you out of earth it
would only hurl you into heaven. II God
is your friend, you cannot go out of the
world too quickly or suddenly SO far as
your own happiness is concerned. There
were two christians last Tuesday who en-
tered heaven; the one was standing at a
window in perfect health watching a
shower, and the lightning instantly slew
him; but the lightning did not flash down
the sky as swiftly as his spirit
flashed upward. The Christian man
who died on the same day
next door had been for year
or two failing in health and
for the last three months had suffered from
disease that made the nights seepless and
the days an anguish. Do you not really
think that the case of the one who went
AIlaIdutiy was more ueSlraOle than the one
who entered the shining gate through a
long lane of insomnia and ,onge,tiou? In
the one case 1t was like your standing
YEARLY at a door, knocking and waiting,
and wondering if it will ever open, aud
knocking and waiting again, while in the
other case 1t was swinging open Of the
door at the first touch of your knuckla.
Give your friendship to God, and have
Gods friendship for you, and even the
worst accident will be victory.
How refreshing is human friendship, and
true friends, what priceless treasures! When
sickness comes and trouble comes. and
death comes, we send for our friends first of
all, and their appearance in our door way in
any crisis is reinforcement, aud when they
have entered, we say: Now it is all
rlghtW Oh, what would we do without
friends, personal friends, business friends
family friends9 But we want something
mlghtier than human friendship in the
great exigencies. When Jonathan Edwards
IN his final hour had given the last good-by
TO all his earthly friends, he turned on his
pillow and closed his eyes confidently saw
ing: Now where is Jesus of Nazareth. nv
true and never failing friend!" Yes, l ad-
mlre human friendship, as seen in the case
of David and Jonathan, Of Paul and Onesi-
phords, of Herder and Goethe, of Gold
smith and Reynolds, of Beaumont and
Fletcher, of COwley and Harvey, of Eras
mus and Thomas More, of Leasing and
Mendelssohn, of Lady Churchill and
Princess Anne, of Orestes and Pylades,