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

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who love God" weeping may endure for
night. but joy cometh in the morning" l
know there are those who, when they try
TO comfort people, always bring the same
stale sentiment about the usefulness OF
trial. Instead of bringing up new plaster
for new wound, and fresh mamma for
fresh hunger, they rummage their haver-
sack to find some crumb of old consolation.
when from horizon TO horizon the ground IS
white with the new fallen mama OF Gods
help not five minutes odd
But aft er fourteen thousand six hundred
consecutive days offallng manna-Sundays
excepted-the mama ceased. Some Of
| them were glad of it. You know they had
complained to their leader, and wondered
| why they had TO eat mama instead of
onions Now the fare is changed. Those
people in that army under forty years of
age had never seen a corn field, aud slow,
when they hear the leaves rustilng and see
the tas els waving and the pillows of green
flowing over the plain as the wind
touched them, it must have been q
new and lively sensation. Comp cried
the old man. as he opened an ear.
'Cornh cried the children as they counted
the shining grains. "Cornw shouted the
vanguard Of the host as they burst open the
granaries of the affrighted population, the
granaries that had been left in the posses
sion of the victorious Israelites. Then the
fire was ndled and the ears of corn were
thrust into it, and, fresh and crisp and ten
der, were devoured of the hungry victors;
and bread was prepared, and many things
| that can be made out of flour RECALLED the
appetites that had been sharpened by the
long march. land the mama ceased ON
the morrow after they had eaten of the old
corn of the land
Blessed be & ID, we stand in Just such a
| field to-day, the luxuriant grain coming
| above the girdle, the air full of the odors
| of the ripe old corn of the Gospel Canaan.
"O!" you say, 1.-THE fare is too plain" Then
| remember you will soon get tired of q
| fanciful diet. While l was in Paris liked
| for awhile the rare and exquisite cookery,
but l soon wished | was home again and
had the plain fare Of my native land. So
| 1t Is fact that we soon weary of the syrup
and the custards, and the whipped foam OF
| fauciful reigionlsts, aud we cry, "Give us
| plain bread made out of the old corn of the
Gospel Canaan" This is the only food
that can quell the SOULS hunger.
There are men here who hardly know
what is the matter with them. They have
tried to get together a fortune and larger
account at the bank, and to get invest
ments yielding larger percentages. They
are trying to satisfy their soul with diet
of mortgages aud stocks. There are others
here who have been trying to get
famous, and have succeeded to a
greater or less extent; and they
| have been trying to satisfy their soul
with the chopped feed of magazines
and newspapers. All these men are no
more happy now than before they made
the first thousand dollars; no more happy
now than when for tine first time they saw
their names favorably mentioned. They
cannot analyze or define their feelings; but
| will tell them what is the matter-they
are hungry for the old corn of the gospel
| That you must have, or be pinched, and
wan, and wasted, and hollow-eyed, and
shriveled up with an eternity of famine
The infidel scientists of this day are offer
ing us q different kind of soul food; but
| they are, of all men, the most miserable. |
have known many of taem; but l never
| knew one of them who came within a
thousand miles of being happy. The great
! John Stewart Mill provided for himself a
new kind of porridge: but yet, when he
comes to die, he acknowledges that bis
philosophy never gave him any comfort in
| days of bereavement, and, in a
roundabout way, he admits that his
infidel scientists. They are trying to live on
telescopes and crucibles and protoplasms,
and they charge us with cant, not realizing
that there is no such intolerable cant in all
the sworld as this perpetual talk we are
hearing about positive philosophy and
1.-The absolute and the great to ben and
| "she everlasting no,n and 1.-THE higher I'M
| ity," and "the latent potentialities, and "the
cathedral Of the immensities." | have been
| translating what these mel have been writ
| ing, and have been translating what they
have been doing, and l will tell you what
it all means-it means that they want to
| Kill God And my only wonder is that God
has not killed them. | have, in other DAYS,
tasted of their confections, and | come back
| Ill - 4 tk,A 80,
ment or life or health in anything but the
bread made out of the old corn of the gos-
pei. What do 1 mean by that? l mean
that Christ is the bread of life, and taking
him you live forever.
But, you say, corn is of but little practi-
cal use unless 1t is threshed and ground and
baked. l answer, this gospel corn has gone
through that process. When on Calvary
| all the hoofs of human scorn came down on
the heart of Christ, and all the fails OF
satanic fury beat him long and fast, was
not the corn threshold When the mills of
Gods Indignation against stu caught Christ
b tween the upper and neither rollers,
was not the corn grounds When Jesus de-
scended into hell, and the flames of the lost
world wrapped him all about, was not the
corn baked? Oh, yes! Christ is ready. His
pardon all ready his peace all ready every
thing ready in Christ. Are you ready for
| him9
You say, "that is such simple gospelp
| know it is. You say you thought re-
ligion was strange mixture of elaborate
compounds. No; it is SO plain that any
abecedarian may understand it. In
its simplicity is its power. If you could
this morning, realize that Christ died to save
from sin and death and hell not only
your minister and your neighbor and your
father and your child, but you, it would
make this hour like the Judgment day for
agitators, and no longer able to keep your
seat, you would leap up crying, For me
For mep God grant that you, my brother
may see this gospel with your own eyes,
and hear it with your own ears, and fee
with your own heart that you are a lost
soul, but that Christ comes for your ex
tricatlons Can you not take that truth and
digest it, and make it part of your i'm
mortal llfea 1t is only breal.
You have no ICED that invalids cannot
take all kinds of food. The food that will
do for one will not do for another There
are kinds of food which will produce, il
cases OF invalidism, very speedy death. But
you have noticed that all persons, however
weak they may be. can take bread. Oh,
soul sick with sin, invalid in your trans
gressons, think this Gospel will agree
with you! think IL you cannot take any