The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-15

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way there they will do all the good they
caDs They will at the very start Of the
Journey get so much of the spirit OF Christ,
which Is a spirit Of kindness and self-sacri-
fee and generosity and burden-bearing
and helpfulness, that every step
they take will resound with good deeds.
o, get your religion off of stills Get
it down out of the high towersl Get
it on level with the wants and woes OF our
poor human racei Get it out of the dusty
theological books that few people read and
put it in their hearts and lives Good
thing is it to profess religion when you
join the church, but every day somehow we
ought to profess religion.
A peculiar patchwork quilt was, during
the civil war, made by lady and sent to
the hospitals at the front She had a boy
in the army. and was naturally interested
in the welfare of soldiers. But what
patchwork quilt she sentl On every block
of the quilt was passage of scripture or a
verse of hymn. The months and years of
the war went by. On that quilt many a
wounded man had lain and suffered and
died. But one morning the hospital nurse
saw a patient under the blanket
kissing the figure of leaf
in the quilt, and the nurse supposed
he was only wandering In his mind. But
no, he was the son of the mother who had
made the quilt and he recognized that fg
ure of leaf as part of gown his mother
used TO wear, and il reminded him OF home.
"Do you know where this quilt came fromm
he asked. The nurse answered, 81 can find
| out, for there was a card pinned fast to it,
| and / will find that Sure enough it oon-
| f1rmed what he thought. Then the nurse
pointed to a passage Of Scripture in the
| block of the quilt, the passage which says:
| when he was yet a great way of his
father saw him and ran and fell on his neck
and kissed him." EYES," said the dying
soldier, II was great way off, but
God has met me and had compass
your mother and tell her that the lost one is
found and the dead is alive againw He an
swered, 81 wish you would, IL IL would not
be too much trouble" Do you suppose that
woman who made that quilt and filed it
with scripture passages had any trouble
about who Melchizedek was or how the
doctrine of Gods sovereignty oan be her-
monized with mans free agency, or who
| wrote the Pentateuch, or the inconsistencies
of the Nicene oreed9 No, no; go to work for
God and suffering humanity and all your
doubts and fears and mysteries and unbe-
liefs put together will not be heavy enough
to stir the chemists scales. which is 40
customed to weighing one-fftieth part of q
grain of chamomile flowers. Why stop
a moment to understand the
mysteries when there are 80
many certitudesa Why spend our time ex-
ploring the dark garrets and coal-holes of a
great palace which has above ground one
hundred rooms flooded with suushine2 1t
takes all my time to absorb what has been
revealed so that l have no time to upturn
and root out and drag forth whit has not
| been revealed. The most of the effort to
solve mysteries and explore the inexplicable
and harmonic things, is an attempt to help
the Lord out Of theological difficulties.
| Good enough intention, my brother, no
doubt; but the Lord is not anxious to have
you help him. He will keep his throne
without your assistance. Don't be afraid
that the Bible will fall apart from incon-
sistencies. 1t hung together many centuries
before you were born, and your funeral
sermon will be preached from a text taken
from its undisturbed authenticity.
Do you know that think that if all min
| listers in all denominations would stop this
nonsense of ecclesiastical strife and take
hold the Word of God, the only question
| with each of US being how many souls we
can bring to Christ and in how short time,
the Lord would soon appear for the saliva
| ton of all nationsi When the young queen
of England visited Scotland many years
ago. great preparations were made for her
reception. The vessel in which she sailed
was far out at sea. but every hill in Scot
land was illuminated with bonfires and
torches. Toe night was set on fire with
artificial illumination. The queen, stand
ing on ships deck, knew from that
that Scotland was full of heartiest
welcome, and the thunder of the great
guns at Glasgow and Edinburgh Castle
woke up all the echoes. Boom they sounded
out over the sea. Booml they sounded up
among the hills. Do you know that think
that our King would land if we were only
ready to receive hims Why not call to him
from all our churches, from all our hospi-
tails, from all ourIhomesl Why not all at once
light all the torches of Gospel invitation
Why not ring all the bells of welcomed
Why not light up the long night of the
worlds sin and Suffering with bonfires of
victory9 Why not unlimber all the Gospel
batteries, and let them boom across the
earth. and boom into the parting hesvensl
The king is ready to land If we are ready to
| receive him. Why cannot we who are now
living see his descent? Must it all
be postponed to later agesi Has not
our poor world Rroaned long enough
in mortal egonies? Have there
not been martyrs enough, and have not the
lakes OF tears and the rivers of blood been
deep enough9 Why cannot the final glory
roll in nows Why cannot this dying GEN.
fury feel the incoming tides Of the oceans oil
heavenly mercyg Must our eyes close in
death, and our ears take on the deafness OF
the tomb, and these hearts beat their last
throb before the day comes ins o, Christ
Why tarriest thou? Wilt thou not, before
we go the way Of all the earth, let us see
thy SCARED feet under some monday cloud
coming this ways Before we die let us be-
hold thy hands that were spiked spread out
in benediction for a lost race. And why
, not let us, with our mortal ears, hear thai
voice, which spoke peace as thou didst &C
up, speak pardon and emancipation and love
and holiness and Joy to all nations as thor
: CONTEST down9
, But the skies do not part. hear no rum
} bling of chariot wheels coming down ovel
} the sapphire. There is no swoop of wings
r l see no flash of angelic appearances. AL
} is still. l hear nothing but the tramp o.
J my own heart as pause between these ut
terances. The King does not land becausl
] the world is not ready. aud the church il
| not ready. To clear the way for the Lord.
: coming let us devote all our energies O
9 body, mind and soul. A Russian genera
/ riding over the battlefield, his horse tread
n ing amid the dying and dead, a wounded
e soldier asked him for water, but the office
r did not understand his language an(
+ knew not what the poor fellow
n wanted. Then the soldier cried out
o "Chrisros," and that word meant sym
Q patty and help, and the Russian officer dis
Il mounted and put to the lips of the suffere
& a cooling draught- Be that the charme,
word with which we 60 forth to do on
4 whole duty. In many languages it ha
Al