The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-09

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sDcs and pauperisn, and o1s-sovy- l4e
sir.r OF the church q God Is ths - y ater
,Dark Of the worlds happiness nc IRIS
tisn religion triumphant all other interests
s'3-,,,nhsnt The [ hristisn religion low
g. ali other interests low down. 20
sS,,,,ht as ON the evening OF that Gay ne
s.S~Isj from tine filthy streets Of Larnaca,
Cvnrus onto the boat that TOOK us oacA 10 tue
stsamer Minerva, which had already begun
a. nav the waves ike a couFsef lulPaSiehe
- he gone, and then we moved on anu w
anong the Islands Of this gospel arehlpel-
ego. ~ o,d San and
&hs vovave becams to be ne more ana
more suggestive and s'lenn. II you are
,,s.i,- n alone a ships deck in the dark
- ana at sea IS a weird place, and an
active imagination may conJlTe up almost
s7y shaps he will and II shall walk tns SEQ
o. confront him BY the sDoSestack, or
r,,aa- him under the captains bridge. But
Iers was alone on ships deck in the
gospel archipelago and do you wonder
thst The sea was populous with the
mast and that down the ratlines
bible memories desrendedl Our lends
had all gone TO their bsrths. Captain"
said. when will we arrive at the island OF
Rhodesr' Looking out from under bis
glaTed cap, he responded IN sepulchral
voice: About midn ght." Though It
would be keeping unreasonable hours,
concluded to stay on deck, for must see
Rhodes. one Of tae islands associated with
the name Of the greatest missionary the
world ever saw or ever Will see. Paui
landed there and that was enough 20 make
st famous while the world stands and IA
tnous in heaven when the world has become
o charred wreck.
This island has had wonderful history.
With six thousand Knights OF st. John it at
one time stood out against two hundred
thousand warriors under "Solyman the
Magnificent" The city had three thousand
statues and a statue to Apollo called Colos-
Sus which has always since been considered
enc OF the seven wonders OF the world. 1t
was twelve wears in building aud was sew
enty cuhits high, and had winding stairs
to the top. 1t stood fiftv-siX years and then
was Frustrated by an cart quake. After
living in ruins for nine hunIred years it
was purchased to be converted to other
purposes, and the metal, weighing seven
hundred and twenty thousand pound, was
put on nine hundred ca nel3 and carried
away. We were not permitted to go
ashore, but the Ii hts all up aud down the
hills show where the city stands, ana nine
Boats come out 20 taks freight and to bring
three D s;engers. Yet all the thousands OF
years OF its history are echpsed by the few
hours or DAYS that Paul stopped
there. As l stood there on the deck
of the Minerva, looking out upon
the lice where the Colossus once stood,
j bethought myself of the fact that the
world must have God of some kind. 1t is
70 me an infinite pethos-this Colossus not
only of Rhodes, but the coloSsi in many
parts OF the earth. This is not only the
worlds blind reaching up and feeling after
God. Foundered human nature must have
q supernatural arm to help IL ashore. All
the statues and images of heathendom arG
attempts to bring celestial forces down intt
human affairs. Blessed be our ears that W,
have heard of an ever present God, auC
that through Jesus Christ he comes into oul
hearts and our homes, and with more thar
fatherly and motherly interest and affee
ton he is with US in all our struggles and
bereavements and vioissitudss. Rhodes
needs something higher than the Colossus
and the day will come when the Christ
whom Paul was serving when he sailed intC
this harbor OF Rhodes, shall take possession
of that island.
y,
pelago, l am reminded of what an impor
tant part the islands have taken in the his
tory of the world. They are necessary t
the balancing Of the planet. The two hem
spheres must have them. As you pu
down upon a scale the heavy pound weight
and then the small ounces, and no on
thinks of despising the small weights, 8
che continents are the pounds and th
Islands are the ounces. A continent is onl
a larger island, and an island only smalle
continent. Something of what part ii
islands have taken in the worlds histor
you will see when remind you that th
island of Salamis produced Scion, and tbs
the island of Clos produced Homer, al
The island of Samos produced Pythagors
and the island OF Coos produced Hippo
crates
But there is one island that / ionged {
see more than any other. ] can afford
miss the princes among the islands. but
must see the king Of the archipelago. II
one longed to see is not 30 many rsiles
circumference as Cyprus or Crete or Par
br Naxos or Scio or Mitylene, but hl
rather, in this sail through the Grecls
Archipelago, see that than all the other
for more of the glories OF heaven laudt
bhere than on all che islands and continen
since the world stood As we come iowa
1t feel my pulses quicken. II, John, W
In the island that is called Patmos" 1t is
pile of rocks twenty-eight miles in CT
pumference. A few Expresses and inferi
olives pump living out of the cart
and one palm tree spreads its foliage. B
the barrenness and gloom and loneliness
The island made 1t prison for the Danish
evangelist. Domitian could not stand
ministry and one day, under armed guar
that minister of the gospel stepped from
tossing boat to these dismal rocks, a
walked up to the dismal cavern which "
20 be his home, and the place where shot
pass before him all the conflicts of comi
time and oil the raptures of a conn
eternity. Is it not remarkable that neal
all the great revelations of music and poe
and religion have been made to mon in b
ishments-Homer aud Milton banished il
blindness; Beethoven banishsd into de
ness, Dante writing his ''Divinia Conn
dia" during the nineteen years Of oanil
Inent from his native land; Victor H,
writing his Lies Miserables" exiled fl
home and country on the island of Cue
sew and the brightest visions Of the fut
have been given to those who by sickness
sorrow were exiled from the outer VIC
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