The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-20

night, aud to get up in the morning,
| and to do business all day feeling tnaf all Is
{ rigat tetweel my heart and Cod No ac-
cident, no sickness, no persecution, no peril,
no sword can do me any permanent dam
age. j am a forgiven child OF tod, and he
is bound 70 see me through. He has sworn
he will see me through. The mountains may
depart, the earth may burn, the light of the
stars may be blown out by the blast of the
judgment hurricane: but life and death,
things present and things to come, are
miBe. Yea, farther than that-it means a
peaceful death.
Mrs Hemans. Mrs. Sigourney, Dr.. Young
and almost all the poets have said handsome
things about death. There is nothing beau
tiful about it, When we stand By the white
and rigid features of those whom we love,
and they give no answering pressure OF the
hand, and no returning kiss of the lip, we do
not want anybody pOetizlug around about
US. Death is loaUhsOmeness, and midnight,
and the wringing of the heart until the
tendrils snap ana curl i'll the torture unless
Christ be with US l confess t. YOU an
infinite fear, a consuming horror, of
death unless Christ shall be with me. i
would rather go down into a cave of wild
teasts or jungle of reptiles than into the
grave, unless Christ goes with me. VIII
you tell me that l am to be carried Odt from
my bright home and put away in the dark
ness. l cannot bear darkness. At the first
coming Of the evening | must have the gas
lit, and the further on IN life get the more
! like to have NV friends around about me.
And am ! TO ne put off for thousands of
years in Il dark place, with no one to speak
to: When the holidays come, and the gifts
are distributed, shall / add no JOY to the
Merry Christmas or the Happy New
YearW All, do not point down to the hole
III the ground, the grave, and call it a beau
tiful place; unless there be some supernat-
ural illumination, l shudler back from it.
My whole nature revoltS at 1t. But now
this glorious lamp is lifted above the grave,
aud all the darkness is gone, aud the way is
clear. | look into 1t now without IA
single shudder. Now my anxiety Is
not about death; my anxiety is that |
may live Alright, for | know that if
my life is consistent when / come to the
last hour, and this voice is silent, and these
eyes are cl sed, and these hands with which
| beg for your eternal salvation to-day are
folded over the still heart, that then | shall
only begin to live. What power is there in
anything to chill me in the last hour if
Christ wraps around me the skirt of his own
garment What darkness can fall upon
my eyelids then, amid the heavenly day
breaki o, death, / will not fear thee then
Back to thy cavern of darkness, thou rob-
Der of all the earth. Fly, thou despoiler of
families. With this battle ak hew thee
in twain from helmet to sandal, the voice
of Christ sounding all over the earth and
through the heavens: 80, death, | will be
thy plague. o. grave, L will be thy de-
structon."
To be saved is 10 wake up in the presence
Of Christ. You know waen Jesus was upon
earth how happy he made every house he
went into and when he brings us up to his
house how great our glee. His voice has
more music i'll it than is to be heard in all
the oratorios of eternity. Talk not about
banks dashed with efiiorescence. Jesus is
the chief bloom of heaven. We shall sec
the very face that beamed sympathy in
Bethany, and take the very hand that
dropped its blood from the short beam of the
cross. o, | want to stand in eternity with
him. Toward that harbor | steer. Toward
that goal | run. | shall be satisfied when |
awake in his likeness. o, broken hearted
men and women, how sweet it will be in
that good land 20 pour all your hardships,
aud bereavements, and losses into the
loving ear of Christ, and then have him
explain why ic was best for you TO be sick,
and why it was best for you to be widowed,
and why 1T was best for you to be per-
secuted, and why it was best for you to be
tried. and have him point to an elevation
proportionate to your disquietude here,
saying: You suffered wit me on earth
comesup now and be glorified with me in
heaven
Some one went into house where there
had been good deal OF trouble and said to
the woman there: on seem TO be lonely
"Yes," she said, 81 am lonely" "How
many in the familyg' "Only myself
Have you had any children?" 81 had
seven children" Where are theym
"Gone.n "All gonegn "Al" "Alldeadn
All" Then she breathed long sigh into
the loneliness, and said: 80, sir, | have
been good mother to the grave And SO
| there are hearts here that are utterly
broken down by the bereavements of life.
l point you to-day to the eternal balm
of heaven. Are there any here that am
missing this mornings o, you poor waiting
maid! your hearts sorrow poured in no
human ear, lonely and sad! how glad YOU
| will be when Christ shall disband all your
sorrows and crown you queen unto God
and the Lamb forever! O., aged men and
| women, fed by his love and warmed by his
| grace for three score years and tenl will
not your decrepitude change for the leap of
a hart when you come to look face to face
upon him whom, having not seen, you
| loves o, that will be the Good Shepherd.
not oct in the night and watching to keep
| off the wolves, but with the lambs reclining
| on the sun-lit hill. That will be the cap
tain of our salvation, not amid the roar,
and crash, and boom of battle but amid his
disbanded troops keeping victorious fes,
| tiyity. That will be the bridegroom of the
church coming from afar, the bride leaning
upon his arm while he looks down into hel
face and says: behold, thou art fair, my
love! Behold, thou art fair.