The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-05

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over to business at 10 o'clock in the morn
ing, and comes away at 8 o'clock in the
afternoon, he has sometime for religion; but
how shall you find time for religious con-
temptation when you are driven from sun
rise to sunset, and have been for five years
going behind In business, and are frequently
dunned by creditors whom you cannot pay,
and when from Monday morning until
Saturday night, you are lodging
bills that you cannot meeta You walk day
by day in uncertainties that have kept your
brain on fire for the past three years. Some
with less business troubles than you have
gone crazy. The clerk has heard q noise in
the back counting room, aud gone In, and
found the chief man Of the firm raving
maniac; or the wife has heard the bang OF
a pistol in the back parlor, and gone in.
stumbling over the dead body of her hus-
banda suicide. There are in this house
to-day three hundred men pursued,
harassed, trodden down, and scalped,
of business perplexities, and which
not know. Now God will not be hard on
you. He knows what obstacles are in the
way Of your being a christian. and your
| first effort in the right direction. He will
| crown with success. Do not let satan, with
cotton bales, and kegs, and hogsheads, and
counters, and stocks of unsalable goods,
block up your way to heaven. Gather up
dh YOUR enoTgies. llSuOen eue Biruie apout
| your loins. Take an agonizing look into
the face Of God, and then say, Here goes
one grand effort for life eternalln and then
bound away for heaven, escaping as with
the skin of your teeth.n
In the last day it will be found that Hugh
Latimer, and John Knox. and Huss, and
Ridley were not the greatest martyrs. but
christian men who went. up incorrupt from
the contaminations and perplexitles OF
Wall street. Water street, Pearl street,
| Broad street. State street, and Third street.
| On earth they were called brokers, or stock
| jobbers, or retailers, or importers; but in
heaven christian heroes. No fagots were
heaped about their feet no inquisition de-
manded from them recantation; no soldier
| aimed pike at their heart; but they had
| mental tortures, compared with which all
| physical consuming is as the breath of
| spring morning.
l find IN the community large class Of
| men who have been so cheated, so lied
| about, so outrageously wronged that they
have lost their faith in everything. In a
world where everything seems SO topsy-
| turvey, they do not see how there can be
| any God. They are confounded and frenzied
| and misanthropic. Elaborate arguments TO
| prove to them the truth of christianity, OF
| the truth OF anything else, touch them no
| where. Hear me, all such men. l preach
| to you no round periods, no ornamental
DISCOURSE; but put my hand on your
shoulder and invite you into the
| peace of the gospel. Here Is O
rock on which you may stand firm,
though the waves dash against it harder
than the Atlrntic, pitching its surf clear
| above Eddystone lighthouse. Do not charge
upon God all these troubles OF the world
As long as the world stuck to God, God
stuck to the world but the earth seeded
from his government and hence all these
| al oil 81 L. ..o1
For many hundreds of years he has been
coaxing the world to come back to him;
but the moro he has coaxed, the more vio-
| lent have been men In their reslstance, and
they have stepped back and stepped back
until they have dropped into ruin.
Try this God, ye who have had the blood
hounds after you, and who have thought
that God had forgotten you. Try him, and
sec If he will not help. Try him, and see If
he will not pardon. Try him, and sec If he
will not save. The flowers Of spring have
| no bloom so sweet as the Towering OF
| Christ's affections. The sun has no warmth
compared with the glow Of his heart. The
waters have no refreshment like the foun-
tain that will slake the thirst of thy soul.
At the moment the reindeer stands with
his lip and nostril thrust in the cool noun
tain torrent the hunter may be coming
| through the thicket. Without cracking a
stick under his foot, he comes close by the
stag, aims his gun, draws the trigger, and
| the poor thing rears in his death-agony and
falls backward, its antlers crashing on the
rocks; but the painting hart that drinks
from the water brooks of Gods promise
shall never be fatally wounded, and shall
| never die.
This world Is poor portion for your
| soul, Oh business mani An eastern king
had craven on his tomb two fingers, repre-
sented as sounding upon each other with
snap, and under them the motto, "All is
not worth that" Apicius Ceiius hanged
that he had only eighty thousand pounds
sterling left. ALI of this worlds riches
make but a small Inheritance for a soul.
| Robespierre attempted to win the applause
OF the world; but when he was dying q
woman came rushing through the crowd
crying to him, Murderer Of my kindred,
| descend to hell, covered with the curses of
every mother in Francew Many who have
expected the plaudits OF the world have
died under its Anathema Maranatha.
| o, find your peace in God. Make one
| strong pull for heaven. No halfway work
will do it, There sometimes comes time on
shipboard when everything must be sacri-
feed to save the passengers. Tho cargo is
nothing, the rigging nothing. The captain
puts the trumpet to his lips and shouts, "Cut
| away the masSl' Some of you have been
tossed and driven, and you have, in your
effort to keep the world, wellnigh lost your
sou1. Until you have decided this matter
let everything else go. Overheard with all
those other anxieties and bnrdensl You
will have to drop the sails of your pride and
cut away the mast. With one earnest cry
| for help, put your cause into the hand Of
him who helped Paul out of the breakers of
Melita, and who. above the shrill blast OF
the wrathiest tempest that ever blackened
the sky or shook the ocean, can hear the
faintest imploration for mercy.
shall go home. this day feeling that some
Of you, who have considered your case as
hopeless, will take heart again, and that,
with blood-red earnestness, such as you
have never experienced before, you will
start for the good land of the gospel-at
last TO look back, saying, "Wnat a great
risk rani Almost lost, but savedl Just
| got through. and no morel Escaped by the
| skin of my teeth"
nuANarTa OF THU GRIP