The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-02

/ IL out of the trunk and lay il down on the
bottom Of the chair, then kneel down be-
side it. and read and pray, and pray and
read, until all your disturbance Is gone,
/ aud you feel that peace which neither earth
nor he'll can rob you Of. Thy fathers God,
thy mothers God, waits for the. y young
man. Escape for your hfep Escape
nowl zone thing thou lackestT
But apply this subject 70 the aged-not
many here-not many in any assemblage.
People do not live to get old. That IS the
general rule. Here and there an aged man
II the house. l tell you the truth You
have lived long enough in this world to
know that it cannot satisfy an immortal
nature. / must talk TO you more reveren-
| TALLY than do to these other people, while
at the same time / speak with great plain
| ness o. father of the weary step, ..
mother, bent down under the ailments of
life, has thy God ever torsaken thee!
Through ali these years who has been
your best friend! Seventy years
OF mercies Seventy years Of
food and clotningl o, how many bright
morningsl How many glorious evening
hours you have seen. o, father, mother,
God has been very good TO You. DO you
feel 1T Some Of you have children and
grandchildren; the former cheered your
| young life, the latter Irvine your gray locks
10 their tiny fingers. Has all the goodness
that God has been making pass before you
produced no change in your feelings and
must it be said OF you, notwithstanding all
this: "One thing thou lackestW
O, if you could only feel the hand OF
Christ smoothing the cares out Of wrinkled
faces. o, if you could only feel the warm
arm Of Christ steadying your tottering
steps. / lift my voice loud enough TO break
through the deafness OF the ear while cry
out: "One thing thou lackest." 1t was an
importunaJe appeal young man made in
pra yer meeting when he arose up and said:
do pray for my old father. He is 20 years
of age and he don't love Christ" That
father passed a few more steps on In life
and then he went down. He never gave
any intimation that he had chosen Jesus
1t is q very hard thing for an old man to
bscome a caristian. l know it Is. It is o
hard thing that it cannot be done by any
human work; but God Almighty can do 1t
by his omnlpotent grace; he can bring you
at the eleventh hour-at half-past eleven
at one minute Of twelve he can bring you
to the peace and the joys Of the glorious
gospel
must make application of this subject,
also, TO those who are prospered. Have
you, my friends, found that dollars and
cents are no permanent consolation to the
soull You have large worldly resources,
but have you no treasures In heaveni Is an
| embroidered pillow all that you want to put
your dying head on3 You have heard peo-
| pie all last week talk about earthly values
/ Hear plain man talk about the heavenly.
Do you not know 1t will be worse for you,
| o. prospered man, II you reject Christ, aad
| reject hun finally-that it will bs worse for
| you than those who had it hard in this
| world, because the contrast will make the
discontinue SO much more appalling9 As
| the hart bounds for the water brooks, as
| the roe speeds down the hillside, speed thou
10 hnto 90 f1r NhwrI Ia,Ir q
| behind thee neither stay thou in all the
plain; escape Co the mountain lest thou be
| consumed"
must make my application to another
| class Of persons-the poor. When you can
| not pay your rent when 1t is due, have you
| nobody but the landlord to talk too When
the -four has gone out of the barrel, and you
have not ten cents with which to go to the
| bakery, and your children are tugging at
your dress for something to eat, have you
nothing but the worlds charities to appeal
| too When wfnter comes, and there are no
| Goals, and the ash barrels have no more
| cinders, who takes care of youl Have YOU
nobody but the overseer of the poori But
preach to you poor mans Christ II
you do not have in the winter blankets
| enough to cover you in the night
| want to tell you of him who had
nowhere to lay his head. II you lie on
the bare floor, / want to tell yoR of him
who had for a pillow a hard cross, and
| whose foot-bath was the streaming blood
| of his own heart o, you poor mani O,
| you poor womanl Jesus understands your
case altogether. Talk it right out to him
tonight. Get down on your floor and say 1:
Lord Jesus Christ, thou vast poor and
am poor. Help mo- Thou art rich now,
and bring me up to thy richest" Do you
think God would cast you off! viii he9
You might as well think that a moLher
would take tho child that feeds on her
breast and dash its life out, as TO think that
| God would put aside roughly those who
have fled to him for pity and COMMISSION.
| Yea, the prophet says: "a woman may
! forget her sucking child that she should not
have compassion on the son Of her womb,
but will not forget thee"
If you have ever been on the sea, YOU
have been surprised in the first voyage to
find there are 80 few sails In sight. Some
times you 60 along two. three, four, five,
six and seven days. and you do not see
| sight, the sea glasses are lifted TO the eye,
the vessel is watched, and if 1t come very
near. then the captain, through the trumpet
cries loudly across the water: "Wither
boundr So you and / meet on this sea OF
| life. We come and we 60. Some of us
have never met before. Some Of us will
never meet again. But | bail you across
Un6 sea, ana WIN reference TO the last great
| day, and with reference to the two great
worlds, cry across the water: s"Whither
bounda Whittier boundG" / know
| what service that craft was made for, but
| hast thou thrown overheard the compass
| Is there no helm to guide itl Is the ship at
the mercy of the tempssts Is there no gun
of distress booming through the storm2
| With priceless treasures-with treasures
| aboard worth more than all the Indies
hnt ~ ha
of that seal o, Lord God, lay hold of that
man! Son of God, if thou vert ever
needed anywhere, thou art needed here
| There are so many sins to be pardon ed
| There are so many wounds to be heal ed
There are so many souls to be saved. Help,
jesus Help, Holy Ghostl Help, min
| istering angels from the throne |
Help, all sweet memories of the
pastl Help all prayers for our future
deliverancel o, that now, in this the
accepted time and the day of salvation,
you would hear the voice of mercy and
live Taste and see that the Lord is gra-
| cious In this closing moment of the serv-
ice, when everything i'll the house is so
| favorable, when everything is SO still,
when God is SO loving, and heaven is so
| near, drop your sins. and take Jesus. Do
| not cheat yourself out of heaven. Do not
do that God forbid that at the last,
when it is too late to correct the mistake
n voice should rise from the pillow, or drop
from the throne, uttering just four words
four sad annihilating words: Zone thing
| thou lackast