The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-11

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life, aged man. would utter a protest against
IL, and the graves Of your christian dead
would charge you with being al migrate, al
your little grandchildren would say, Grand
father, don't do that, Jesus is the one to
whom we say our prayers at night, and who
Is to open heaven when we die. Grand
father, don't do that" Tired of Jesus. The
Burgundy rose you pluck from the garden
is not so fresh and fair and beautiful
Tired as Jesus! As we'll get weary of the
spring morni &, and the voices of the
mountain runnel, and the quiet of your
own home, and the gladness of your own
children. Jesus IS bread and the appetite
for that is never oblterated
notice, in regard to this article OF food,
you take it three times a day. 1t is on
your table morning, noon and night; and if
it is forgotten, you say, "Where is the
breadP Just SO certainly you need Jesus
three times day. o, do not start out
without him; do not dare to go out of the
front do IT; do not dare TO 60 off the front
steps, without having first communed with
him. Before noon there may be
perils that will destroy body, mind
and soul forever. You cannot afford
TO do without him. You will,
during the day, be amidst sharp hoofs
aud swift wheels and dangerous scaffoldings
threatening the body, ana traps for the soul
that have taken some who are more willy
break against the side of ir bottle of wine.
That is sort of superstition among sailors.
But oh, on the launching of every day, that
we might strike against it at least one
earnest prayer for divine protection! That
would not be superstition; that would be
christian.
Then at the apex of the day, at the tip
top of the hours, equidistant from morning
and night, look three ways. Look back
ward to the forenoon; look ahead to the
afternoon; look uD to that Savior who
presides over all. You want bread at noon.
You may find no place in which to kneel
amidst the cotton bales aud the
fierce of rice; but if Jonah could
find room TO pray in the whales
be in such a crowded place that you cannot
pray. Bread at noon! When the evening
hour comes, and your head is buzzing with
the days engagements, and your whole
nature is sore from the abrasion of rough
life, and you see great many duties you
| have neglected, then commune with Christ,
asking his pardon, thanking him for his
| love- That would be a queer evening repast
at which there was no bread.
This is the nutriment and life of the plain
| gospel that | recommend you. l do not
know how some of our ministers make it so
intricate and elaborate and mystifying a
thing. 1t seems as if they had a sort of
mongrelism in religion-part humanitarian
| ism, part spiritualism, part nothlugarian-
| ism; and sometimes you think they are
building their temple out Of the Rock of
Ages" but you find there is no rock in it at
all. 1t is stucco. The gospel is plain. 1t
| is bread. There are no fog3 hover
ing over this river of life. All
| the fogs hover over the marsh
of human speculation. If you cannot tell,
when you hear a man preach, whether or
| ho in ba Df
the scriptures, it is because hedoeS not be-
lieve in it. If, when you hear man preach,
you cannot tell whether or not he believes
! that SIN is inborn, it is because he does not
think it is congenital. If, when you hear
man talk in pulpit or prayer meeting, you
cannot make up your mind whether OF not
| he believes in regeneration, it is because he
does not believe ia it. If, when you hear a
man speak on religious themes, you cannot
make up your mind whether or not he
thinks the righteous and the wicked will
come out at the same place, then it is be-
cause he really believes their destinies are
conterminous
Do not talk to me about q man being
doubtful about the doctrines of grace. He
Is not to me at all doubtful Bread is
bread, and know it the moment | see it.
l had corn field which cultured with my
own hand. | did not ask once in all the
summer: SIS this corn9' / did not hunt
up The Agriculturist to get a picture of
corn. was born in sight Of corn field,
and l know all about it. When the Israe-
lites came to Canaan and looked off upon
CORN And if man has once
tasted of this heavenly bread, Re
knows it right away. He can tell this corn
of the Gospel Canaan from "the chaff
which the wind driveth away" bless God
so many have found this gospel corn. 1t is
the bread of which if a man eat he shall
never hunger | set the gladness of your
soul to the tunes of 'Arel" and "Antioch.
l ring the wedding bells, for Christ and
your soul are married, and there is no
power on earth or in hell to get out letters
of enforcement.
But, alas! for the famine struck Enough
corn, yet it seems you have no sickle to cut
it, no mill to grind it, no fire to bake it, 10
| appetite to eat it. Starving to death, when
the plain is golden with magnificent har-
| vestl
[ rode some thirteen miles to see the
Alexander, a large steamship that wa S
| beached near Southampton, Long Isla nd
1t was a splendid vessel. As | walked up
and down the decks and in the cabins,
said, ''What pity that this vessel should go
to pieces, or be lying here idle!n The coast
| wreckers had spent thirty thousand dollars
trying to get her Off, and they succeeded
once but she came back again to
the old place. While was walking on deck,
every part of the vessel trembled with the
beating of the surf on one side. Since then
l heard that that vessel, which was worth
hundreds Of thousands Of dollars, was sold
for $500, and knocked to pieces. They had
given up the idea of getting her to sail
again. How suggestive all that is to me!
There are those here who are
aground in religious things. Once you
started for heaven, but you are
now aground. Several times it was
thought you had started again heavenward
but you soon got back to the old place, and
there is not much prospect you will ever
reach the harbors of thu blessed. Gods
wreckers, fear, will pronounce you hope
less case. Beached for eternity! And then
it will be written in heaven concerning
some one of your size aud complexion and
age ard name that he was invited to be
saved, but refused the offer and starved to
death within sight of the fields and grana-
ries full of the old corn of Canaan.