The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-14

will say, ''Come out Of it, my son-we viii
just throw ourselves on him W no hath prom
Used TO be the God of the widow and the
fatherless; he will take care # IS Aud tell
y IA no young man ever permanently suffered
by such a course OF conduct In Pniladel-
Dhia, 10 drug shoD, young man said TO
his empl yer: II va t 20 please yOu, really,
and am willing to sell medicines on sun
day. cut can't sell the pa ent shoe black
ing on Sunday Well said the hes
man, ''you will have to do it, or else you
Will have To % away" The young man
said: II can't do it; l am willing to sell
medicines. bus not shoe blackiog." "Well,
then, goi Go nOwI' The young man wen.
away. he Lord looked after him. The
hundreds of thousands Of dollars he won in
this World were the smallest part of bis
fortune. God honored him. BY the course
be took be saved his soul as well as hls
fortunes In the future. A man said to his
employer: 81 can't wash the wagon on Sum
day morning; | am willing to wash it on
Saturday afternoon; but, sir, you will please
excuse me, can't wash the wagon on Sun
day morning. HIS employer said: "You
must wash 1t; my carriage comes in every
Saturday night, and you have got to wash
it on Sunday morning" 81 can't do 1t, )" the
man said. They parted. TIE Lord looked
after aim, gra IDLY looked after him. he is
worth -day a hundred -told more than
his emplo, er ever was or ever will be. and
he saved his soul. Young men, it is safe -
do right. There are young men in this
house to-day ~ no under this storm Of temp
tation are striking deeper and deeoer their
roots aud spreading out broader tnsir
branches. Tney are Daniels in Babylon,
they are Iosephs in the Egyptian curt,
they are Paus amid the wild beasts OF
Ephe US. preach to encourage then. Lay
hold of God a Oe faithful.
There lie q mistake We make about young
men. We put them in two GLASSES; the one
class is moral, the other is dissolute. The
moral are safe. The diss lutte cannot be re-
claimed. | deny both propositions The
moral are not safe unless they have laid
hold Of God, and the dissolute may be re-
claimed. suppose there are self-righteous
men in this house who feel no need OF God
and will not seek after him, and they will
90 out in the world and they will be
tempted, and they will be flung down by
misfortune, and they will go down. down,
down, until some night you will see them
going home hooting, raving, shouting
blasphemy-going home to their mother
going home TO their sister, going home to
the young companion to whom, only a little
while ago, in the prese zee Of a brilIia { as
senblage, flashing lights aud orange bios
SONS, aid censers swinging in the air, thev
promised fidelity and purity, aud kindness
perpetual AS that man reaches the door
she will open it, not with an out-cry, but
she will staEgsr back from the door a. he
@ mes in. aud in her lock there Will be the
prophecy Of woes that are coming: want
that will shiver IN need of fire. hu 1ger that
will cry in vain for bread, cruelties that
will not leave the heart when they have
crushed it, but pinch 1t again, aid stab it
again, until some night she will open
tue door Of the place where her companion
was ruined, and sue will fling out her arm
nia hsa~ shA 81 ,zf. = II
most omnipItent eloquence. Give me ba TX
my husbandl Give me back my protector
Give me back my ALL Him Of the kind
heart and gentle words, and the manly
brow-Eive him tack 10 mel" And en- the
wretches, obese and filthy, will push back
their matted locks and they will say, put
her outl Put her outw o! self>riohteous
man, without God you are in peril. Seek
after him to-day. Amid the ten thousand
temptations If life there is no safety for q
man without God.
But / may be addressing some who have
gone astrRy, and so l assault that other
proposition that the dissoluts cannot be re-
claimed. Perhans you have only gone a
little astray. While 1 speak are you
trouble6l Is there voice within you say
Ing: "What did you do that fort Why did
you go therel What did you mean by
tnatT Is there a memory in your soul
that makes You tremble? God only knows
| all our hearts Yea, If you have gone so
far as TO commit iniquities, and have gone
through the whole catalogue, invite you
back this hour. The Lords waits for you.
Rejoice 0, young mat, in thy youth,
and let thy heart cheer thee in the days
Of thy youth; but know thou that for all
these things God will bring thee into iudg-
nent." Come home, young man, to your
fathers God. Come home, young man, 30
your mothers God. o, / wish that all the
batteries Of the gospel could to-day be un-
limbered against ali those influences which
are taking down 30 many of our young
men. sould like to blow a trumpet of
warning. and recruit until this whole au-
dlence would march out on a crusade
against the evils of society But let none of
Us be disheartened, Of Christian WORKERS.
my heart is high with hope. The dark
horizon is blooming into the morning of
which prophets spoke, and of whica poets
have dreamed, and of which painters have
sketched. The worlds tribal hour ad
vances. The mountain ms will kiss the morn-
ing radiant and effulgent, and all the waves
OF the sea will become the crystal KEYS of a
great organ, on which the fingers of ever
lasting joy shall play the grand march of q
world redeemed. Instead of the thorn
there shall come up the FIR tree, and instead
OF the brlar there shall come up the myrtle
tree, and the mountains and the hills shall
break forth into singing. and all the trees of
the wood shall clap their hands!