The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-10

and you will yet find your child IN the
temple, either the temple here OF the temple
above.
Out on the western prairies was a happy
but isolated home. Father, mother and
child. BY the sale Of cattle quite large
sum Of money was one night in that cabin.
and the father was away. A robber who
had heard of the money one night looked in
at the window, and the wife and mother Of
that home saw him, and she was helpless.
Her child by her side, she knelt down and
prayed among other things for all prodiRals
who were wandering up and down
the world. The robber heard her
prayer and was overwhelmed, and
entered the cabin, and knel5 beside
her and began TO pray. He had come to
rob that house, but the prayer of that wo-
man for prodigals reminded him of his
mother ard her prayers before he became a
vagabond, and from that hour he began a
new lie. Years after that woman was in
a city in great audience. and the orator
who came on the platform and plead
gloriously for Righteousness and God was
the man who many years before had looked
into the cabin on the prairie as a robber.
The speaker and the auditor Immediately
recognized each other. After so long a
time, mothers prayers answered.
But we must hurry on, for the muleteers
pitch our tents for tonight at Bethel. 1t is
already getting so dark that we have to
give up all idea of guiding the horses, and
leave them to their own sagacity. We ride
down amid mud cabins and into ravines
where the horses leap from depth to depth,
rocks below rocks, rocks under ROCKS
Whoa Whoal we dismount in this place,
memorable for many things in Bibe
history, the two more prominent, theO-
AL II A. i
ministers, and for Jacobs dream. The
students of this Bethel Theological Sem
mary were called "Sons of the Prophets. :"
Here the young men were fitted for
the ministry, and those of us who ever had
the advantage of such institutions will
everlastingly be grateful, and in the calen-
dar of saints, which | read with especial
affection, are the doctors of divinity who
blessed me with their care. 1 thank God
that from these theological seminaries
there is now coming forta q magnificent
crop of young ministers. who are taking
the pulpits i'll all parts of the land. | hail
their coming, and tell these young brothers
to shake off the somnolence of centuries, and
get out from under the dusty shelves of the
logical discussions which have no practical
bearing on this age, which needs to get rid
of its sins and have its sorrows comforted.
Many of our pulpits are dying of humdrum.
People do not go to church
because they cannot endure the
teohnicalities and profound explanations of
nothing, and sermons about the eternal
generation of the son." and the difference
between sub-lapsarianism and supra -lapsa-
rianism, and about who Melchisideck
tCdSTlt. There ought to be as much differ
ence between the modes Of presenting truth
now and In olden time as bet ween a light
ming express rail-train and a canal boat.
Years ago went up to the door of a fac
tory in New England. On the outside door
l saw the words, mo admittance" | went
in and came to another door over which
were the words, mo admittance. :"
OF course went in. and
with the words ''no admittance" Having
entered this, / found the people inside
making pins, beautiful pins, useful pins,
and nothing but pins So over the outside
door OF many of the churches has been
practically written the words ''no admit
lance" Some have entered and have come
to the inside door. and found the words mo
admittance." But, persisting, they have
come inside, and found us sounding out our
little niceties of belief, pointing out our
little differences Of theological sentiment
making pinsl
But most distinguished was Bethel for
head on collection of stones. He had no
trouble in this rocky region in finding a
rocky pillow. There is hardly anything
else but stone. Yet the people OF those
lands have way of drawing their outer
garments up over their head and face. aud
such pillow, suppose, Jacob had under
his head. The plural was used lin the Bible
story and you find it was not pillow of
stone,. but of stones, I suppose, SO
h0f
surface he would turn over in the
night and take another stone, for with such
a hard bolster lie would often change in the
night. Well, that night God built in
Jacobs dream long splendid ladder, the
feet of it on either side Of the tired Pilgrims
pillow, and the top of it morticed in the
SKY. Aod bright immortals came out from
the castles of amber and gold, and put their
shining feet on the shining rungs of the
ladder, and they kept coming down and
gong up, procession both WAYS
| suppose they had wings, for the Bible
almost always reports them as having
wings, but this was a ladder on which they
used hands and feet to encourage all those
OF us, who have no wings. to climb, and
encouraging us to believe that, if we will
use what we have God will provide way
and if we will employ the hand and the
foot, he will furnish the ladder. Young
man! Do not wait for wings. Those angels
folded theirs to show you wings are not
necessary. Let all the people who have
hard pillows, hard for sickness OF hard for
poverty or hard for persistence know that
a hard pillow is tho landing-place of angels
They seldom descend to pillows of elder
down. They seldom build dreams in the
brain of the one who sleeps ca Y.
The greatest dream of all time was that
OF st. John, with his head on the rocks of
Patmos, and in that vision he heard the
seven trumpets sounded, and saw all the
pomp OF heaven in procession cherubic,
seraphic, archangelic. The next most
memorable and glorious dream was that of
John Bunyan, his pillow the cold stone of
the floor of Bedford Jail, from which he
saw the celestial city, and so many entering
it, he cried out in his dream: II wish
myself among them" The next II ost
wonderful dream was that of Washington
sleeping on the ground at Valley Forge, his
head on white pillow.case of snow, where
he saw the vision of nation emancipated.
Columbus slept on a weaver's pillow, but
rose on ladder let down until he could see
a new hemisphere. Demosthenes slept on a
cutters pillow, but on the ladder let down
arose to see the mighty assemblages that
were to be swayed by his oratory. Ark
wright slept on BARRIERS pillow, but went
up the ladder till be could see all England
aquake with the factories he SGT going
Akenside slept on butchers pillow. and
took the ladder up till he saw
other generations helped by his
scholarship. John Ashworth slept on
a poor mans pillow, but took the ladder up
until he could see his prayers and exertions
DrinrinO thousands of ba 6aet,4t,ta -,