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


ness, the eernestness, tire supernatural cour-
age. the infinite self-sacrIfice Of RiEpah. the
mother. A mother in the quiet home
watching by the casket OF a dead child for
one night exerts the artist TO his utmost,
but who is sufficient to put upon canvas a
mother for six months of midnights guard
Ing her whole family, dead and glbbeted
upon the mountains. Go home, RiZpahl
You must be awfully tired. You are sacri-
ficing your reason and your life for
those whom you can never bring back
again to your bosom. As | say that, from
the darkest midnight Of the century RiZpah
turns upon me and cries: "Eow dare you
tell me TO go homer am a mother. / am
not tired. You might as we'll expect God
to get tired as for mother TO get tired. |
cared for those boys when they lay upon
my breast in infancy, and will not forsake
them now that they are dead. Interrupt
me not. There stoOps an eagle that | must
drive back with my agonized cry. There is
a panther must beat back with my club"
Do you know what that scene by our
roadside in Palestine makes me think off
1t IS no unusual scene. Right herein these
three cities by the American seacOast there
are a thousand cases this mo-
ment worse than that Mothers
saloon, that annex OF hell, has gibbetted in
a living death. Boys hung in chains of evil
habit they cannot break. The father may
go to sleep after waiting until II o'clock at
night for the ruined boy to come home,
and, giving 1t up, he may say: Mother,
come to bed; there's no use sitting up any
longer" But mother will not go to bed.
1t IS O'Clock in the morning. 1t is
half-past one. IL Is 2 o'clock. 1t is half
past two when he comes staggering through
the hall. Do you say that young
aliva1 hn e
dead. Dead to his fathers entreaties.
Dead to his mothers prayers. Dead to the
family altar where he was reared. Dead
to all the noble ambitions that once in
spired him. Twice dead. Only corpse of
what be once was. Gibbeted before God
aud man and angels aud devils. Chained
IN death that will not loosen its cold grasp
His father is asleep, his brothers are asleep,
his sisters are asleep, but his mother is
watching him, watching him in the
night. After be has gone to bed and fallen
into drunken sleep, his mother will go up
to his room and see that he is properly COW
cred, and before she turns out the light will
put kiss upon his bloated lips. mother,
why don't you go to bedP' "Ahm she says,
II cannot go to bed. am Rizpah watch
ing the SLANT"
And what are the political parties of this
country doing for such casess They are
taxing care not to hurt the feelings of the
Jackals and the buzzards that roost on the
shelves of the grog-snops, and boot above
the dead am often asked to what politi-
cal party belong, and | now declare nv
opinion Of the political parties to-day.
Each one is worse than the other, and the
only consolation in regard to them is, that
they have putrefied until they have no
more power 90 rot. o, that comparatively
tame scene upon which Rizpah looked She
looked upon only seven of the slain. Amer
lean motherhood and American wifehood
this moment are looking upon sew
enty OF the slain, upon seven hun
ared OF the slain, upon seventy
thousands of the slain. Wool Wool Woei
My only consolation on this subject is that
foreign capitalists are buying UP the
American breweries. The present owners
see that the doom of that business is coming
as surely as that God is not dead They are
unloading upon foreign capitalists, and
when we can get these breweries into the
hands of people living on the other side of
the sea, our political parties will cease to be
afraid of the liquor traffic, and at their con-
venuons nominating presidential candidates
VIII put IN their platform a plank as big as
the biggest plank of the biggest ocean
steamer, saying: Resolved, unanimously.
That we always have been, and always will
be opposed to alcoholism.''
but must spur on our Arab steed, and
here we come in sight of Beeroth, said to be
the place where Joseph and Mary missed
the boy Jesus on the way from Jerusalem
TO Nazareth, going home now from a great
national festival. where is my child,
Jesus!n says Mary, Where ia my child,
Jesus!" says Joseph. Among the thousands
That are returning from Jerusalem, they
thought that certainly he was walking on
in the crowd. They described him, saving:
HE is IL years old, and of light complexion
and blue eyes. A lost child" Great excite
ment In all the crowd. Nothing so stirs
tolks as the news that child
Is lost. l shall not forget the
scene when, In a great outdoor meeting, [
was preaching and some one stepped on the
platform and said a child was lost. We
went on with the religious service, but all
our minds we're on the lost child. After a
whlie man brought on the platform a
beautiful little tot that looked like a pieco
OF heaven dropped down and said, Here is
that child And l forgot all that was
about, and lifted the child to my
shoulder and said: Here is the lost child.
and the mother will come and get her right
away, or | will take her home and add her
to my own BROOD" And some cried and
some shouted, and among all that crowd
Instantly detected the mother Everybody
had to get out of her way or be walked
over. Hats were nothing and shoulders
were nothing and heads were nothing in her
pathway. and | realized something OF what
must have been Mary's anxiety when she
lost Jesus, and what her gladness when she
found her boy in the temple of Jerusalem
talking with those old ministers of religion
Shammai, Hillel and Betirah.
L bear down on you to-day with mighty
comfort Mary and Joseph said: "Where
Is our JesusW and you say: where is
Johnf or where is Harryf or where is
George| Well, should not wonder if YOU
found him after awhile. Where9 in the
same place where Joseph and Mary found
their boy-ln the temple What do | mean
by thatg mean: you do your duty toward
God and toward your child, and you will
md him after awhile in the kingdom of
Christ Will you say: 81 do not have any
way OF influencing my child" l answer
you have the most tremendous line
OF influence open right before
you. AS you write a letter, and there
are Two or three routes by which it may 60.
but you want it to go the quickest route,
and you put on it via Southampton, or
via San Francisco, or "via Marseiiles,"
put on your wishes about your child, "via
the throne Of God" How long will such a
gooo wish take to get to its destination!
Not quite as long as the millionth part of
second. will prove it. The promise is
Before they call will answers That
means at your first motion toward such
prayerfui exercise the blessing will come,
and If the pra yer is made at ten o'clock at
night it will be answered five minutes be-
Tore ten. Before the call | will answer"
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