The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-04


through all the ages of eternity in heaven,
get over the dishonor and ne outrage
of going into glory, and having
helped none up 10 the same plScs.
It will be found that many
a Sabbath school teacher hAs taken into
heaven her whole class; that Daniel Baker,
the evangelist, took thousands into heaven
thai DOddridge has taken il hundreds Of
thousa nds; that Paul took L. "a hundred
million How many will you tsK- int II
you get into heaven, and find none there
that you sent, and that there ere none to
come through your fundamentally l beg
Of you to crawl under some seat in the
back corner, and never come out, lest the
redeemed get their eyes on you. and some
one cry out, That Is the man who never
lifted hand or voice for the redemption Of
his fellows Look at him, all heavenW
Better be blsy. Better put the plow IN
deep. Better say what you have 20 say
quickly. Better cry the alarm. Better
fall ON your knees. Better lay hold with
both hands. What you now leave untone
for Christ will forever be undone. This
wear thou shalt diel"
In view of the probabilities mentioned, /
advise all the men AID women not ready for
eternity 10 get ready. II the text lie true,
YOU have 10 time to talk about nOn-esseu-
ti4ls, asking why God let sin come into the
world; or whether the book OF Jonah is in
spired; or who Melchizedec was, OF what
about tho eternSI DEGREES. IL you are as
near eternity as come Of you seem to be,
there is no time for anything but the ques-
aion, what must l do to be savedp Phe
drowning man, when plank Is thrown him,
stops not to ask what saw-miil made II, or
~Ehether it Is oak or cedar, or who threw
IT. The moment 1t is thrown, he clutches
It II this year YOU are 70 die, there is
no time for anything but Immediately
laying hold of God. 1t is high time to
get out Of your sins. You say, 81 have
committed no great transgressions." But
are you not aware that your life has been
SINFUL The snow comes down on the Alps
S1ake by flake, and it is so light that you
snay hold it on the tip of your finger with
Sout feeling any weight; but the flakes
aEather; they compact, until some day
1ravelers foot starts the slide, and IL goes
down in an avalanche, crushing to death
the villagers SO the sins Of your youth
and the sins Of your manhood, and the sins
of your womRnhood may have seemed only
Hlight inaccuracies or trihlng divergences
from the Hght-so slight that they are
hardly worth mentioning, but they have
been piling up and piling up, packing to-
sgether and packing together. until they
mako a mountain Of SIN, and one more step
of your foot in the wrong direction may
lsltie down upon you an avalanche OK ruin
and condemnation.
A man crossing a 'desolate and lonely
plateau, a hungry wolf took after him. He
brought his gun to bis shoulder and took
aim, and the wolf howled with pain, and
the cry woke up pack OF wolves, and they
came raveniug out OF the woods from all
sides, ard horribly murdered him. Thou
part the man. Some one sin of your life
salmmoning on all the rest, they surround
khy soul and make the night of thy sin ter
kible with the assault of their bloody
snuzzles. o, the unpardoued, clamorlng,
Tavening, all-devouring sins Of thy lifetime
A maniac was found pacing along the
<oad with torch In one hand and a pail
of water In the other and some one asked
him what be meant to do with them. He
answered: with this torch l mean to burn
down heaven, and with this water l mean to
put out the Ores Of heiln He was a maniac
he could do the one thing just as we'll as he
could do the other. No time TO lose if you
want to escape your sins, for this year thou
shalt die.n
Let me announce that Christ. the Lord
stands ready to save any man who wants TO
be saved He waited for you all last year,
aud all the year before, and all your life.
,He has waited for you with blood on his
brow. and tears in his eye, and TWO out
stretched, mangied hands OF love.
You come home some night and find the
mark of muddy feet on your front steps.
You hasten in, and find an excited group
around your child. He fell into pond, aud
had it not been for a brave lad, who
plunged In and pulled him out, and carried
him homo to be resuscitated, You would
have been childless. You feel that you can
not do enough for the resouer. You throw
your arms around him. You offer him any
compensation. You say to him, ANY
ehlnR that you want shall be yours, | will
never cease to be grateful" But my Lord
Jesus sees your soul sinking, and attempts
TO bring it ashore, and you not only refuse
him thanks. but stand on the beach and
say, Drop that soul II want it saved,
! will save it myself.
wish you might know what job Jesus
undertook when he carried your case to
Calvary. They crowded him to the wall
They struck him. They spat on him. They
kicked him They cufRed him. They Bcoifed
at him. They scourged him. Thev muir
dered him. Blood! blood! AS he stoous
down to lift you up, the crimson drops upon
you from his brow from his side, from his
hands Do you not feel the warm current
on your facet Oh, for thee the hunger, the
thirst, the thorn-sting, the sutfocRtion, the
darkness, the groan the sweat, the strug-
gle, the DEATH
great plague came ia Marseines The
doctors held a consultation and decided that
a corpse must be disseoted, or they would
never know how 70 stop the plague. A DIR.
Guyon said: Tomorrow morning will
u
prepared for death; went into the hospital
dissected body; wrote out the results of
che dissection, and died IN twelve hours,
beautiful self-sRorihee, you say. Our Lord
Jesos looked out from heaven and saw a
Plngue stricken race. Sin must be dssected.
He made bis will, giving everything to his
people. He comes down into the reeking hos
patsl of earth. He lays his hand to the work
Under our plague, he dies-the healthy for
the sick, the pure for the polluted, the limo
cent for the guilty. Behold the loves Be-
hold the sacrificed Behold the rescued
Decide. on this first Sabbath Of the year
whether Oh not You will have Jesus. He
will not stand forever begging for youl
4ove. With some here his plea ends right
speedily. This year thou shalt die"
This great salvation of the gospel l nov
offer to every man, woman ana child YoI
cannot buy it. You cannot earn it. a
Scotch writer says that poor woman. one
cold winters day, looked through the win
dow OF kings conservatory, and saw {
bunch Of grapes hanging against the glass
She said: 20, if l only had that bunch Of
grapes for sick child at homer AT hel
spinning wheel she earned few shiuinps
and went TO buy the grapes. The king
gardener thrust her out very roughly
and said he had no grapes 20 SELL Sh
went of and sold a blanket, and got som,
more sbillings, and came back and tried t,
buy the grapes. But the gardener roughl,
assaulted her, and told her to be Off. Tn
kings daughter was walking in the garden
at the time. and she heard the excitement
and, seeing the poor woman, said to her
tsf11u father ia nor a merchant -,