The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-24

earth, and makes the midnight heavens
culver with aurora, constructing win
dow. l cannot understand It, but
believe it. A skeptic said to an old clergy
man: 81 will not believe anything cannot
explain "Indeedln said the clergyman,
"You will not believe anything you cannot
explain. Please to explain TO me why
some cows have horns, and Others nave no
horns" mol" said the skeptic, Il did not
mean exactly that | mean that | VIII not
believe ANYTHING | have moi seenW IN
deed. " said the clergyman, ~ oC VIII not
believe anything you have not seen. nave
YOU backbonew ''Yes, - said tne skeptic.
''How do you known said the clergyman,
"Have yOu ever seen itp This mystery
of Godhead and humanity lnterJolned 1
cannot understand, aud | cannot explain,
but | believe it. / am glad there
are so many things we cannot understand.
for that leaves something for heaven. IL
we knew everything here, heaven would De
O great Incidence What foolish people,
those who are in perpetual fret because they
cannot understand all that God says and
does. A child in the first juvenile primer
might as well burst into tears because 1t
cannot understand comic sections. In this
world we are only in the abb class, and
we cannot now understand the libraries OF
eternity, which put to utmost test faculties
archangelic. | would be ashamed of heaven
if we do not know more there, with all our
faculties intensified million-fold and at
the center of the universe, than we do here
with our dim faculties and clinging to the
outside rim of the universe.
In about two hours we pass through Cana,
the village of Palestine, where the mother
of Christ and our Lord attended the we'd
ding of a poor relative, and having come
over from Nazareth for that purpose. The
mother of Christ-for women are first to
notice such things-found that the provis-
ions had fallen short and she told Christ,
and he to relieve the embarrassment of the
housekeeper, who had invited more gu ests
than the pautry warranted, became the
butler of the occasion, and out of a cluster
of few sympathetic words squeezed q
beverage of a hundred and twenty-slx
gallons OF wine, in which was not one drop
of Intoxicant, or it would have left that
party as maudlin and drunk as the great
centennial banquet, in New Y orK two years
ago, left senators, and governors, and gen.
erals, and merchant princes. The difference
bet cen the wine at the wedding in Cana
and the wine at the banquet In New York be-
ing that the Lord made the one and the devil
made the. other. We got off our horses and
examined some of these water jars at Cana
said to be the very ones that held the plain
water that Christ turned into the purple
bloom of an especial vintage. me tsured
them and found them eightesn inches from
edge to edge and nineteen inches deep. and
declined to accept their identity. But we
realized the immensity of supply of a
hundred and twenty-sx gallons of wine.
What was that fora Probably one gallon
would have been enough, for it was only an
additional iustallment of what had already
been provided, and it is probable that the
housekeeper could not have guessed more
than one gallon out of the way. But
hundred and twenty-six gallonsl What
4 ~. 4.
it was Just like our Lord! Those
young people were about to start in house
keeping, aud their means were limited, and
that big supply, whether kept in their PAN
try or sold, will be a mighty help. You see
there was no strychnine, or logwood, or nux
vomica. in that beverage, and, as the Lord
made it, it would keep. he makes noun
tains and seas that keep thousands of years,
and certainly be could make a beverage
that would keep four or five years Amo e
the arts and inventions Of the future | hope
there may be some one that can press the
juices from the grape and so mingle
them and without one drop Of damning
alcoholism, that It will keep for years. And
the more of it you take the clearer will be
the brain and the healthier the stomach.
And here is a remarkable fact in my recent
Journey Travelled through Italy, and
Greece, and Egypt, and Palestine, and
Syria, and Turkey, and how many intoxi-
Gated people do you think saw in all those
Ave great realnsl Not one. We p1ust in
our Christianized lands have got hold of
some kind of beverage that Christ did not
make.
Oh, am glad that Jesus was present at
that wedding. and, last December, standing
at Cana. that wedding came back. Night
had fallen on the village and its surround
ings. The bridegroom had put on his head
a bright turban and garland of flowers,
and his garments had been made fragrant
with frankincenss and camphor, an odor
which the oriental especially likes. Ac-
companied by groomsmen, and preceded by
a band of musicians with flutes, and drums,
and horns, and by torches in full blaze, he
stirts for the brides home. This river of
fire is met by another river of fire, the
torches of the bride and brides
maids; fambeaI answering fam
beau. The bride is in white
robe, and her veil not only covers her face,
but envelopes her body. Her trous-
seau is as elaborate as the re-
sources of her fathers house permit. Her
attendants are deoked with all tho orna-
ments they own or can borrow; but their
own personal charms make tame the jewels,
for those Oriental womeu eclipse in attract
iveness all others except those of our own
land. The damson rose is in their cheek,
and the diamond in the lustre of their
eyes, ana the blackneSS OF the night In their
long locks, and in their step is the graceful
ness of the morning. At the first sight of
the torches OF the bridegroom and his at
PENDANTS coming over the hill the cry rings
through the home of the bride: They are
IN sighti Get ready Behold, the BRIDE
groom comethl Go ye out to meet
him." AS the two PROFESSIONS approach
each other, the .timbrels rike, and
the songs commingle, and thea the
two professions become one and
march toward the bridegrooms house, and
met third procession which is made up of
the friends of both, bride and bridegroom.
Then all enter the house and the dance be-
gins. and the door is shut. And all this
Christ uses to illustrate the Joy with w hich
the ransomed of earth shall meet him when
he comes garlanded with clouds, and robed
in tho morning and trumpeted by the
thunders of the last day. Look! there he
| comes down off the hills of heaven, the
bridegroom And let us start out to hail
him. for | hear the voices of the judgment
day sounding, behold, the bridegroom
cometh Go we out TO meet him!" And
| the disappointment of those who have de-
clined the invitation to the gospel wedding
is presented under the figure of door
heavily closed. You hear it slam. Too
late. The door is shutl
But we must hasten on, for do not mean
TO close my eyes tonight till l see from q
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