The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-03

Sinai than at the base of Calvary. They
have been singing the only poor hymn that
Newton ever wrote;
IT'S point long to know,
Oft it causes anxious thought
Do love the Lord or no,
Am his or am not?
Long to know, do youl Why do you not
find outl Go to work for God and you will
very soon find out. The man who is all the
time feeling of his pulse and looking at his
tongue to see whether it Is c0atsd is morbid
and cannot be physically well. The doctor
will say: ''Go out into the fresh air
and into active life and stop thinking
Of yourself and you will get well
and strong" So there are people who
are watching their spiritual symptoms,
and they call it determination and they
get weaker and sicklier in their faith all
tue time. Go out and do something
nobly christian. Take holy exercise aud
then examine yourself, aud, instead OF
Newton's saturnine and bilious hymn that
l first quoted, you will sing Newton's other
hymn:
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like mel
once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind, but now see.
Is TO get your grave clothes off. / rejoice
that you have been brought from the death
of sin to the life of the gospel, but you need
to get your hand loose and your feet loose
and your tongue loose and your soul loose
There is no sin that the Bible so arraigns
| and punctures aud fagellates as the sin of
unbelief and that is what is the matter with
you. 90" you say, 'lf you knew what
once was and how many times l have griev-
| ously s.rayed, you would understand why
l do not come out brighten Theu /
| think you would call yourself the chief OF
sinners l am glad you hit upon that term,
| for have a promise that fits into your case
as the cogs Of one wheel between the cogs
of another wheel, or as the key fits into the
| labyrinths of a lock. A man who was once
called Saul, but afterwards Paul, declared:
"This is faithful saying and worthy of all
acceptation. that Christ Jesus came into the
world to save sinners, of whom
am chief" Mark that-''of whom
lam chief" "Put down your over
crats and hats and 1 will take care
| of them while you kill Stephenn-so Saul
said to the stoners Of the first martyr-'I
do not care to exert myself much, but
will guard your surplus apparel while you
| do the murder" The New Testament ac-
count says: 1.-The witnesses laid down their
clothes at a young mans feet whose name
/ was Saul" No wonder he said: 'Sinners
of whom l am the chief.n Christ is used t.
climbing. He climbed to the top Of the
temple. BE climbed to the top Of Mount
| Olivet. He eli nbed to the top of the
| cliffs about Nazareth. He climbed to
| the top of Golgotha. And to the top of the
hills and the mountains of your transgres-
sion he is ready to climb with pardon for
| every one of you. The groan of Calvary is
mightier than the thunder of Sinai. Full
receipt Is offered for all your indebtedness.
Ii one throw stone at midnight into a
bush where the hedgebird roosts, it imme-
dihtely begins to sing; and into the mid
| night hedges of your dependency these
words / hurl, hoping to awaken you to an
them. Drop the tunes in the minor key and
take the major. Do you think it pleases
| the Lord for you to be carrying around
| with you the debris and carcasses of old
trans ressionsi You make me think of some
ship that has had a tempestuous time at
sea, and now that it proposes another
| voyage, keeps on its davits the damaged
lifeboats, and the splinfers of a shivered
mast, and the broken glass of a smashed
| skylight. My advice Is clear the decks,
| overheard with all the damaged rigging,
| brighten up the sailed smokestacks, open q
new log book, haul in the plank, lay out a
new course, and set sail for heaven. You
have had the spiritual dumps long enough.
You will please the Lord more
by being happy than by being miserable.
| Have you not sometimes started out In the
rain with your umbrella. and you were
busy thinking, and you did not notice that
the rain had stopped, and though it had
| cleared Off you still had your umbrella up,
| and when you discovered what you were
doing you felt silly enough2 That is what
some of you are doing in religious things.
| You have got 50 used to sadness that though
the rain has stopped you still have your
umbrella up. Come out Of the shadow.
Ascend the stairs Of your sepulcher. Step
out into the broad light Of monday. We
come around you to help remove your
grave Clothes and voice from the heav-
ems, tremulous, but omnipotent, commands:
"Loose him. aud let hlIn CO."
Again, my text has good advice concern
ing any christian hampered and bothered
and bound by fear Of his own dissolution.
To such tho book refers when 1t speaks Of
those who through fear Of death we're all
their lifetime subject to bondage. The most
Of us, even if we have the christian hope,
are towards about death. If plank fall
from scaffolding and just grazes our hat,
how pale we look. If the Atlantic ocean
plays with the steamship, pitching it toward
the heavens and letting it suddenly drop,
how even the CHRISTIAN passengers poster the
steward or stewardess as to whether there
is any danger, and the captain, who
has been all night on the bridge and chilled
through, coming in for cup Of coffee, is
assailed with a whole battery OF questions
as to what he thinks of the weather. And
many Of the best people are, as Paul says,
throughout their lifetime in bondage by
fear OF death. My brothers and sisters, *
we made full use of our religion we would
soon get over this. Backed up by the
teachings Of your Bible, Just LOOK through
the telescope some bright night and see
how many worlds there are, and re-
fleet that all you have seen compared
with the number of worlds In exist
eace are less than the fingers of your right
hand as compared with all the fingers of
the human race. How foolish then for US
to think that ours is the only world fit for
us to stay in. think that all the stars are
inh bited and by beings like the human race
in feelings and sentiments, and the differ
ence is in lung respiration and heart beat
and physical confirmation, their physical
conformation fit for the climate of their
world, and our physical conformation fit for
the climate Of our world. So we shall feel
at home in any of the stellar
neighborhoods, our physical limita-
tions having ceased. One Of our first
realizations in getting out Of this world, ]
think, will be that in this world we were
very much pent up and had cramped apart
ments and we're kept on the limits. The
most even of our small world Is water, and
the water says to the human race: 'Don't
come here or you will drowH.n A. few
thousand feet up the atmosphere is unin
habitable, and the atmosphere says tC
| the human race. dDOn1t come mr.