The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-31


string, and th-p they dictate 10 an at
tornev a last vii and testament, in which
they spite some GaLglter because She mar
ried against b r fathers wish, ami fling a
few cr,lsts - Col and suffering humanity.
+ as muea as T. ssv: Il have kept this sur
plus property, Trough all these severe
winters, and through all these long years.
from uesiv ana suffering world, AID
would keep II longer II / O. -uli bu. h
must give T. up, 1Gke =, aud muc1 good
may i. ID You" Now we bsEIn 70 under
sta-d the teyt: Batter IS living dog than
! q dead 10 ~
Who ouli a'temDt 20 write the obi usry
/ Of the dead lions Of commerce, the dead
/ lions re las, tie al lions Of me .iciue, the
Z dead J. Us OF social iiUeace. Vast Q Iacitv
I hal they. anu mighty range, aad other men
/ ID taei- presence we're a. POwerless a the
antelope Or Heifer or giraffe whel from the
jungle n Numi1'an lion springs uDol is
T prey. But they get through with Ire.
/ Tney lay down in their magnificent lai-.
+ Tuay have made their last sharp bargain.
They have spoken thor last hard word.
! They have committed their last mean act.
3 When tawnv iLhabitant Of the desert
rolls over helpless, the Honess aud wheips
fiji the air with shrieils and hIwls. and lash
themselves into lamentauo1, a d il IS
/ genuine grief to the poor things. Bat when
this dead lion of mons. rous useless1ess ex-
pir5s there is nothing but ORA nat Zad woe,
for better is living dog than dead
lion"
My text also means that an opportunity Of
the living present is better than great CD-
portunity passed. We spend muc3 OF our
time in saying: IF l only had We can
all look b2ct ard see some occasion where
we might have done a grsa- deed, OF might
have effected an impO taut rescue. or We
| might have dealt a sS.Oke that would have
aceomph he'd vast resulT. t rough stu
pldity or lack OF appreciation of the crisis
OF through pr crastinatiou, we let the
chance go by. How much time we have
wasted in thinking Of what we might have
said or might have donel We spend
! hours and days and years II
walking around that dead lion. We
| cannot resuscitate it. 1t will never open its
| eyes again. There will never be another
| spring in its paw. Dead as any feline ter-
ror of South Africa, through whose heart
| thirty Years ago Gordon Cumming sent the
slug. Don't let US give any more time t.
| the deploriug Of the dead past. There are
other opportunities renal ing. They may
not be as great, but they are worth our at
tention. Small opportunities all around,
| opportunities for the saying of kind words
and doing of kind deeds. Helplessness to
| be helped. Disheartened ones to be euccur-
| aged. Lost ones to be found. Though the
present may be Insignificant as compared
with the past, Better is living dog than
dead lionn
The most useless and painful feeling is
the one Of regret Repent of lost opportu-
mites we must, and get pardon we may, but
| regrets weaken, d.Shearten, and cripple for
| future work. If a sea captain VINO once
had charge of a White Star steamer across
the Atlantic ocean, one foggy night runs on
| a rock off Newfoundland, and passengers
and ship perish, shall he refuse T. take com
mand OF small beat up the North river
and say, II never will 20 on the water
again unless I can run one of the White
Star ineW Shall the engineer of & light
ming express, who at station ms-read the
telegram of a traiu-disDatcaer and went
| into collision, and for that has been put
down to the work of engineering q freight
train, say, - never will again mount an
engine unless | can run q vestibule ex-
press" Take what you have of opportu-
! nifty left. Do your best with hat remains
Your shortest winter day is worth more to
you than can lie the longest day of the pre-
vious summer. Your opportunity now, as
compared with previous opportunities, may
be small, as a rat-terrier compared with the
lion. which at Matabosa, fatally wounded
by the gun OF David Livingston, in its death
agony leaped upon the missionary explorer,
and with Its Jaws crushed the bone OF his
arm to spliuters, and then rolled over and
expired, but, Better is living dog than a
dead liop.n
My text also means that the condition
of the most wreched man alive is better
than that Of the most favored sinners de-
parted. The chance of these last is gone
| Where they arc they cannot make any
earthly assets available. After Charlie
| Hagne was dead he was set in an orRa-
| mented sepulcher on golden throne and
| crown was put on his cold brow and
scepter in lis stiff hand, but that gave him
no dominion III the next world. One Of the
| most intensely interesting things | saw last
winter in Egypt was Pharaoh of olden
times. the very Pharaoh who oppressed the
Israehtes. TIE inscriptions on his sarcoph-
agus and the writing on his mummy band
| ages, proves beyond controversy that
| he was the Pharaoh of Bible times
All the Psychologists and the
explorations agree that it is
the old scoundrel himself. Visible are the
| very teeth with which he gnashsd against
the Israeliti,h brick makers There are tine
sockets OF the merciless eyes with which he
looked upon the overburdened people OF
God. There is tue hair that fiOated In the
breeze off the Red Sea. There are the very
lips with which he commanded them 10
make bricks without straw. Thousands OF
years afterward, when the wrappings OF
the mummy were unrolled, old Pharaoh
lifted up his arm as if in inploration, but
his skinny bones cannot again clutch his
shattered scepter He is dead lion. And
Is not any man now living, IN the fact that
he has an opportunity of repentance aad
salvation, better off than any of those de-
parted ones who, by authority or possessions
or influence, were positively leonlne, and
yet wicked?
What thing to congratulate you on is
your life! Why, it is worth more than all
the gems OF the universe kindled into one
precious stone l am alivel What does
that means Why il means that | still have
all opportunity of being saved myself, and
helping others to be saved. To be alive
Why, it means that l have yet another
chance to correct my past mistakes, and
make sure work for heaven Alive, are
we! Come, let US celebrate it by new re So
buttons, new determination, new couse-
Grafton, and new career. The smalles
and most Insignificant to-day is worth tc
us more than five hundred Yesterdays
! Taking advantage Of the present, let Us get
pardon for ali the past aud security for
all che future. Where are our forgiven
sinsl | don't know. God don't Know
, either. H. says: Your sins and iniuui-
ties Will | remember no more"
What encouragement in the text for al
christian workers! Despair of 10 ones sal
walton. While there is life there is hope.
} Whom in England young lady asked for 6
class in a Sunday school, the SUPERINTENDENT
said: Better 20 out in the street and ge