The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-10


that rock. And all our mistakes
in the past ought to be huoys warn
ing us TO keep in the right chan
mel. There is no excuse for US If we split
on the same rock where we split before
Going along the sidewalk at night where
excavations are being made, we frequently
see lantern on a framework, and we turn
aside, for that lantern says, keep out of this
hole And all along the pathway Of life
lanterns are set as warnings, and by the
time we come to mid-life we ought to know
where it is safe TO walk and where it is uu-
safe.
Besides that, we have all these years been
learning how to be useful, and In the next
decade we ought TO accomplish more for
God, and the church. and the world than in
any previous four decades. The best way
to atone for past Incidence or past trans
gression Is by future assiduity. Yet you
often find christian men who were not con-
verted until they were forty or fifty, as
old age comes on. saying: well, my work
is about done and it is time
for me TO rest" They gave forty
little fragment of their life TO God. aid
now they want TO rest. Whether that
belongs to comedy or tragedy l say not.
The man who gave one-half IT his earthly
existence to the world and of the remaining
two-quarters one to christian work and the
other to rest, would not, l suppose, get
very brilliant reception in heaven. IL there
are any dried leaves in heaven they would
be appropriate for his garland; or if
there is any throne with broken steps
it would be appropriate for his coronation;
or any harp with relaxed string it would be
appropriate for his lingering My brother,
you give nine tenths of your life to sin and
Satan and then get converted, and then rest
awhile III sanctided lazlness, and then go up
| warrant it VIII not take the
cashier of the royal banking house a
great while to count out TO you all
your dues. He will not ask you whether
you will have it in bills of large denomina-
tion or small, | would like to put one SEN
tence Of my sermon in italics, and have it
underscored, and three exclamation points
at the end OF the sentence, and that sentence
is this: AS we cannot live our lives over
again, the nearest we can come to atone for
the past is by redoubled holiness and indus
try In the future.
II this rail train of life has been detained
ard switched Off, and is far behind the time
table, the engineer for the rest of the way
must put on more pressure OF steam and 90
a mile minute in order to arrive at the
right time and place under the approval of
the conductor and directors.
As | supposed it would be, there are
sermon on whom this subject has acted
with the force of galvanic battery. With
| out my saving q word to them, they have
soliloquiZed, saying: "As one cannot live
his life over again, and l can make only
one trip, | must look ont aud make no
mistakes; have but one chance and
must make the most of it.n NY young
friends, am glad you made this application
Of the sermon yourself. When a min
lister toward the close Of his sermon says:
Snow few words by way of application, y
people begin to look around for their hats
and get their arm through one sleeve of
their overcoats, and the sermonic applica-
tion is a failure. | am glad you have made
your own application and that you are re-
solved, like quaker OF whom | read years
ago, who, in substance, said: II shall be
along this path of life but once, and
so | must do all the kindness | can and
all the good / can" My hearers, the
mistakes OF youth can never be cor
rected. Time gone is gone forever. An
opportunity passed the thousandth part of
a second has by one leap reached the other
side of a great eternity. In the autumn
when the birds migrate.you look up and see
the sky black with wings and the flocks
stretching out into many leagues Of air,
and so to-day look up and see two large
wings in full sweep. They are followed by
flock of three hundred and sixty-five. aud
they are the flying days. Each of the
flying days is followed by twenty-four,
and they arc the flying hours, aud each of
these is followed by sixty, aud these are the
flying minutes. Where did this great flock
start from9 Eternity past. Where are
they bound3 Eternity to come. You
might as well go a cunning for the quails
that whistled last year in the meadows, or
the robins that last year caroled in the sky
as to try to fetch down and bag one of the
| ,fx No 1fo
IL will lounge now and make 1t up after
wards" Young men and boys, you can't
make it I'D. Ny observation is that those
who in youth sowed wild oats, to the end Of
their short life sowed wild oats, and that
those who start sowing Genesee wheat
always sow Genesee wheat. And then the
reaping Of the harvests is so different
There is grandfather now. He has lived to
old age because his habits have been good
His eyesigh5 for this world has got some
what IN, but his eyesight for heaven Is
radiant. His hearing is not 50 acute as il
once was, and he must bend clear over tc
hear what his little grandchild SAYS when
she asks him what he has brought for her.
But he easily catches the music raised from
supernal spheres. Men passing in the
streets take of their hats in reverence
and women say: "What good old man
he is" Seventy or eighty years all for God
and for making this world happy. Splen-
didl Gloriousl Magnificent He will have
hard work getting into heaven because
those whom he helped to get there will ill
up and crowd the gates to tell him how
glad they are at his coming until he says
"Pleass to stand back a little till | pas
through and cast my crown at the feet oi
him whom having not seen love" | dc
not know what you call tnat. / call it tht
harvest of Genesee wheat.
Out yonder is u man very old at forty
years Of age, at time when he ought to be
bouyant as the morning. He got bad habit
on him very early, aud those habits havl
become worse. He is a man on fire, ON fir
with alcoholism, on fire with all evil habit
out with the world and the world out witt
him. Down and falling deeper Hi
swollen hands in his threadbare pocket
and his eyes fixed on the ground, he passe
through the street, and the quick step of al
innocent child or tue strong step Of younj
man or the roll OF a prosperous oar
riage maddens him, and he curses SO
, ciety aud he curses God. Fallen sick witt
no resources. he is carried to the almshouse
A loathsome spectacle, he lies all day lonl
waiting for dissolution, or in the night rise
on his cot and fights apparition Of what b
might have been, and Of what he will be
, He started life with as good prospect a
any man on the American continent, bu
there he ID, "a bloated carcass waiting for tn
shoves OF public charity to put him fiv
feet undar He has only reanan wha