The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-17

far from being an argument to keep you
I away from God, ought to be an argument
20 drive you 70 him. The best place for
I skilful doctor Is in a neighborhood where
they are ali poor Doctors the best place for
{ an enterprisiug merchant to open bis store
/ is in place where the bRrgainmakers do
/ not understand their business, and the best
place for you who want to become the
illustrious and complete Christian-the best
| place for you is to come right down among
us who are go incompetent and so incon-
sistent sometimes.
Otter persons apologize for not becoming
! Christians because they lack time. As
though religion muddled the brain Of the
/ accountant or tripped the pen Of the au-
/ thor. or thickened the tongue of the orator,
| or weakened the arm Of the mechanic, or
/ scattered the briefs of the lawyer, or inter-
rupted the GALES Of the merchant They
/ bolt their store doors against it, and fight it
/ back with troWels and with yardsticks, and
/ cry, AWAY with your religion from our
! store, our office, our factOrym
They do not understand that religion in
| this workaday world will help you TO 90
anything you ought to do. 1t can lay
/ keel, it can sail ship, it can buy cargo,
/ it can work pulley, II can pave a strest, it
! can fit wristbaud, it can write a cOnstitu-
/ ton, it can marshal host. 1t is as apprO-
/ pirate to the astronomer as his telescope; to
/ the chemist as his laboratory; to the mason
!
1 plane; TO the child as his marbles; to the
4 grandfather as his staff.
/ No time TO be religious herel You have
! no time not to be religious. GU might as
! well have no clerks in your store, no books
| in your library, no compass on your ship,
no rifle in the battle, no hat for your head,
no coat for your back, no shoes for your
| feet. Better travel on toward eternity
baTeheaded ana barefoOted and hOuseless
and homeless and friendless, than to go
| through life without religion.
Did religion make Raleigh any less of a
| statesman, or HavelOck any less Of q soldier,
| or Grinnell any less OF a merchant or West
any less Of paintara Religion is the best
security in every bargain, II is the sweetest
| note in every song, It is the brightest gem
| in every coronet. No time to be religious
| Why, you will have TO take time to be
| sick, to be troubled, TO die. Our world is
| only the wharf from which we are to en-
bark for heaven. No time to secure the
| friendship of Christ No time TO buy a
| lamp and trim 1t for that walk through the
darkness which otherwise will be lllumined
only by the whiteness of the tombstones
20 time to educate the eye for heavenly
splendors, or the hand for choral harps, or
the ear for everlasting songs. or the soul
for honor, glory and Immortality. One
would think we bad time for nothing else.
Other persons apologies for not entering
the Christian life because it is time enough
yet. That is very like those persons VINO
| send their regrets and say, 81 will come in
perhaps at eleven or twelve o'clock | will
not De there at the opening of the banquet,
but | will be there at the Close Not yet
Not yeti
Now, do not give any doleful view Of
this life; there is nothing in my nature,
nothing in the grace of God, that tends
| toward a doleful view of human life. l
have not much sympathy with Addison's
a. . ~, y
he represents human life as being bridge
Of hundred arches, and both ends Of the
bridge covered with clouds, and the race
coming on, the most or them falling down
through the first span. and ali of them fall
ing down through the last span. 1t is
very dismal picture. l have not much
sympathy with the Spanish proverb which
says, "Ihe sky Is good and the earth is good
that which is bad is between the earth
and the sky
But while we as Christian people are
bound to take a cheerful view OF life. we
must also confess that life is a great uncer-
tainty, and that man who saws, 81 can't be-
come christian because there is time enough
yet" Ia running risk infaite. You do not
perhaps realize the fact that this descending
grade OF sin gets sleeper and sleeper, and
that you are gathering up rush and veloc-
Itv which after awhile may not answer to
the brakes. . my friends, be not among
those who give their whole life to the world
and then give their corpse TO God. It does
not seem fair while our pulses are in full
play of health, that We serve ourselves aud
serve the world, and then make God at last
the present OF a coffin. 1t does not seem
right that we run our ship from coast to
coast carrying cargoes for ourselves, and
then when the ship Is crushed on the rocks
give to God the shivered timbers. 1t is a
| great thing for a man on his dying pillow
| to repent-better that than never at all;
| but how much better, how much more gen
erOus, 1t would have been il he had repented
| fifty years beforel My friends, you will
never get over these REPRESENTATIONS
Here is a delusion. People think ~ can
! go on IN sin ana worldhness but after awhile
/ will repsnt and then it will be as though /
| had come at the very start" That is de-
| fusion. No one ever gets fully over pros
crastination. If you give your soul to God
| some other time than this you will enter
heaven with only half the capacity for en-
joyment and knowledge you might have
had. There will be nights of blessedness
| you might have attained, you will never
reach; thrones of glory on which you might
| have been seated, but which you will never
| climb. We will never get over procrastina-
| Cion, neither in time nor in eternity. We
| have started on a march from which there
| is no retreat The shadows of eternity
| gather on our pathway. How insignificant
is time compared with the vast eternity /
was thinking of this while coming down
over the Allegheny mountains at noon by
that wonderful place which you have all
! heard described as the horseshoe-a depres-
sion in the side OF the mountain where the
train almost turns back again upon itself,
and you see how appropriate is the descrip-
too of the horseshoe" and thinking on
this very theme, and preparing this very
| sermon, it seemed to me as il the great
oourser OF eternity speeding along had Just
struck the mountain with one hoof and gone
on into lllimitable space. So short is time,
so Insignificant is earth compared with the
vast eternity mEss
This morning voices roll down the sky,
and all the worlds of light are ready to re-
joice at your disenthralment Rush not
into the presence of the king ragged with
sin, when you may have this robe of righte-
BUSINESS. Dash not your foot to pieces
| against the throne of a crucifed Christ.
Throw not your crown of life off the bat
Elements. ALI the scribes Of God are this
! moment ready with volumes of living light
to record the news of your soul emanoipa-
ted.
CHICAGO WANTS A MUSEUM.