The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-15

on the way up By making flute out OF MS
prison stool. aud Casova. the sculptor, must
toll on through orphanage, modelling lion
in butter before he could cut his statues in
marble. And the great Stephenson must
watca COWS in the q elds for a few pennies
and then become a stoker, and efte-Ward
mend clocks, before he puts the loconoti 20
on its track and calls forth plaudits from
parliaments, and medals from kings Abel
Stevens is picked up neglected child OF the
street, and rises, through MS colsecrated
| genius, 70 be one of the most inusurIous
| clergyman and higtorians of the century.
| And Bishop james, of the same church, IN
! boyhood worked his passage from Telnnn
to America, and up to usefulness, where.
| in the bishopric he was second TO no one
who ever adorned it.
While in hanishment Xonophon wrote
his "Anabasisn and Thucvdides his History
| of the PeloponnesIau War and Victor
| Hugo must be exiled for many years to the
| island of Guernsey before he can come to
that hight IN the affections OK his country
men, that crowds Champs Elysees and the
1 adjoining bOulevardS with one million
mourners, as his hearse rolls down to the
! Church Of the Madeleine. On, IL is tough
| old world, aud it will keep you back, and
| keep you down, and keep you under as long
| as it can Hail, sons and daughters Of the
| fire.
Stand, as the anvil when the stroke of stalwart
men falls fierce and fast.
Storms but more deeply root the oak whose
brawny arms embrace the blast.
Stand like an anvil; noise and heat are born OF
earth and die with time;
The soul, like God, its source and seat, is sol
emn, still, sere1e, sublime.
Thirty years from now the foremost men
in all occupations and professions will be
those who are this hour in awful struggle Of
early life, many of them without five dol
lars to their name. So in spiritual life it
takes a course Of bereavements, persecu-
tions, sicknesses, and losses to develop stall
wart christian character. l got letter a
few days ago saying: II have hardly seen
a well day since | was born, aud | could not
write my own name until | was fifty years
of age, and | am very poor, but | am, by
the grace Of God, the happiest man in Chi
cago." The Bible speaks Of the SHOWS Of
Lebanon, and at this season of the year the
SHOWS there must be tremendous The
would be Insignificant compared
with the mildest winter of SHOWS on those
Lebanon mountains. TIE cedars catch that
skyfull of crystals on their brow and on
their long arms Piled up in great hefts
are those SHOWS, enough to crush other
trees TO the ground, splitting the branches
from the trunk and leaving them rent aud
torn, never TO rise. But what do the cedars
care for these SHOWS on Lebanons They
on Empty the white heave upon US, and
when this storm is passed, let other process
slons OF tempest try to bury US in their
fury. We have for five hundred winters
been accustomed to this, and for tho next
five hundred winters we will cheerfully
take all you have to send. for that is the
way we develop our strength, and that Is
the way we serve God and teach all ages
how to endure and conquer" So | say:
Good cheer to all people who are showed
under. Put your faith in God and you will
come out gloriously. Others may be
stunted growths or weak Jumpers on the
lower levels OF spirituality, but you are
going to be Lebanon cedars. at last it will
be said OF such as you: These are they who
came out OF great tribuation aud had their
robes washed and made white in the blood
Of the Lamb"
But while crossing over these mountains
of Lebanon bethirik myself Of what an ex-
citing scene it must be when one Of the
cedars does fall. 1t does not go down
like other trees, with a slight crackle that
hardly makes the woodsman look up or a
hawk fiutter from a neighbUring bough.
When cedar falls it is the great event in
the calendar OF the mount aims. The AK
men fly. The wild beasts stink to their dens.
The cartridges swoop to the valley for escape
The neighboripg trees go down under the aw-
flu weight Of the descending monarch. The
rocks are moved out Of their places, and the
earth trembles as from miles around all
ravines send back their sympathetic echoes.
Crash Crash Crashl So when the great
cedars OF worldly or christian influence fall
it is something terrific Within the past
few years how many mighty aud over5op-
ping men have gone down There seems
now TO DO an epidemic of moral diseste'.
The moral world, the religious world, the
political world, the mmsrcial world are
quaking with the fall of Lebanon cedars
1t is awful. We are compelled to cry out
with Zachariah the prophet, Howl. fir
trees, for tue cedar is fallenm Some of the
smaller trees are glad of it. When
some greet dealer in stocks goes
their hands and say Good for himp When
great political leader goes down the small
politicians clap their hands and say "Just
as expectedH' When a great minister of
religion falls, many little ministers laugh
up their sleeves and think themselves some
how edvantaged. All, beloved brethren,
! no one makes anything out of moral ship
wreck. Not a willow by. the rivers of
! Damascus, not q sycamore on the plains of
! Jericho, not an olive tree in all Palestine is
! helped by the fall of Lebanon cedar. Bet
ter weep and pray and tremble and listen
to Paurs advice to the Galatians when ne
says Considering thyself lest thou also be
tempted" No man is safe until he is dead
unless he is divinely protected. A greater
| thinker than Lord Francis Bacon the world
never saw, and ne changed the worlds mode
Of thinking for all time, his NOUum Organ
um, miracle of literature. With thirty
eight thousand dollars salary and estates
worth millions, and from the highest judicia
bench in the world, he goes down under the
power Of bribery, and confessed his crime
and was sentenced to the Tower and the
scorn of centuries. Howl. fir tree. for the
cedar is fallenl
Warren Hastings, rising until he became
| Governor General Of India and the envy Of
the chief public men of his day, plunges
into cruelties against the barbaric people he
had been sent to rule, until his name il
chiefly associated with the criminal trial il
| Westminster Hall where upon him came the
anathemaS Of Sheridan, Fox, Edmund
Burke, the English na5ion, and all time
Howl, firtree, for the cedar is fallen. Al
eminent instances Of moral disaster are
found in our own land and our own time
instances that [ do not recite lest
wound the feelings of those nov
alive to mourn the shipwreck. lie
your indignation against the faller
turn to pity. A judge in one of our Ameri
can courts gives this experience: In re
spectacle but poor family daughter was
getting a musical education. she needed
one more course of lessons TO complete tina
education. The fathers means were ex
hausted, and, SO great was his anxiety t
help his daughter, that he feloniously tool