The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-07

With what you have seen with your own
eyes, and from what you have heard with
your own ears, is there power in this gospel
to give calmness and triumph in the last
exigencyg The response comes from all
sides, from young, and old, and middle
aged: I'VE are witnessesw
You see, my friends, have not put be-
fore you to-day an abstraction, or chimera,
OF anything like guess-work. present you
atiidavits Of the best men and women,
living and dead. Two witnesses IN court
will establish fact. Here are not two wit
nesses. but thousands of witnesses-on
earth millions of witnesses, and in heaven a
great multitude Of witnesses that no man
can number, testifying that there is power
In this religion to convert the soul, to give
comfort in trouble, and to afford COM
posture in the last hour. II ten men should
come to YOU when you are sick with
appalling sickness and say they had the
same sickness, and took certain medicine,
and 1t cured them, you would proba-
bly, take 1t. Now, suppose ten other men
should come up and say: ave don't be-
lleve there is anything I'm that medicine.
We'll" | say, have you ever tried itp
mo, | never tried it, but | don't believe
there is anything in it" OF course you dis
credit their testimony. The skeptic may
come and say. There is no power in your
religion Have you ever tried itp "No.
no." Then, avauntln Let me take the
testimony of the millions of souls that have
been converted to God, and comforted in
trial, and solaced in the last hour. We will
take their testimony as they cry, "We are
witnessesm
Some time ago Prof. Henry of Washing
ton discovered IA new star, and the tidings
sped by submarine telegraph, and all the
obser yatories of Europe were Watching for
that new star. o, hearer, looking out
through the darkness of thy soul to-day.
canst thou see a bright light beaming on
thee! where" you say; "wherel how can
| find it~ Look along by the line of the
cross Of the Son of God Do you not see 1t
trembling with all tenderness and beaming
with all hopei 1t is the star OF Bethlehem
Deep horror then my vitals froze
Death-struck, / ceased the tide to stem,
When suddenly a star arose
IL was the Star of Bethlehem.
Oh, hearer, get your eye on it. It is
easier for you now to become christians
than it is to stay away from Christ and
heaven.
When Madame Sontag began her musical
career she was Kissed off the stage at Vienna
by the friends Of her rival, Amelia Stein
niger, who had already begun to decline
through her dissipation. Years passed on,
and one day Madame Sontag, in her glory,
was riding through the streets of Berlin,
when she saw little child leading a blind
woman and she said, Come here, my little
child, come here. Who is that you are
leading by the handp And the little child
replied. That's my mother; that's Amelia
Steininger. She used TO be a great singer,
but she lost her voice, and she cried so
much ab tut it that she lost her eyesight."
"Give my love TO herr said Madame Son
tag, land tell her an old acquaintance will
call on her this afternoon" Tho next week
in Berlin a vast assemblage gathered at a
benefit for that poor blind woman, and 1t
was said that Madame Sontag sang that
night as she had never sung before And she
took skilled oculist. who in vain tried TO
give eyesight to the poor blind woman
Until the dav Of Amelia Steininger's
death Madame Sontag took care
of her, and her daughter after
her That was what the queen of song did
for her enemy. But. oh, hear more
thrilling story still. Blind immortal, poor
and lost, thou who, when the world and
Christ were rivals for thy heart, did hiss
thy Lord away-Christ comes now to give
thee sight, to give thee home. to give thee
heaven. With more than Sontag's gem
erosity he comes now to meet your need.
With more than a s )ntag's music he comes
to plead for thy deliverance.