The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-30

man, but the advice Of man who can see
this world in all its brightness: and consid-
ering myself competent IN judging what is
good cheer, / tell the multitudes Of young
men 10 this house this morning that there is
nothing in worldly association so grand and
90 beautiful and SO oxhilarsnt as in Chris
tan society.
know there is q great deal OF talk about
the self-denials of the Christian. l have to
tell you that where the Christian has one
self-denisl the man Of the world has a
thousand self-denials- The Christian Is not
commanded 20 surrender anything that is
worth keeping. But what does man deny
himself who denies himself the religion Of
Christ He denies himself pardon for sin;
he denies himself peace OF conscience. he
denies himself the JOY Of the Holy Ghost ;
he denies himself a comfortable death pill
low; be denies himself the glories Of heaven.
Do not talk 70 me about the self-denials Of
the Christian life. Where there Is one In
the Christian life there are a thousand IN
the life OF the world. "Her ways are ways
OF pleaSantness."
Again, find q great deal Of religious
sunshine in Christian and divine eIplana-
ton. To great many people Iiie Is an III
ezplicab bic tAnge. Things turn out diiTer-
entity from what was supposed. There Is
a useless woman 10 perfect health. There Is
an industrious and cOnsecrated woman
complies invalid. Explain that. There is
O pad man with thirty thousand dollars OF
income. There Is a good man with eight
hundred dollars OF income. Why Is thati
There is foe Of society who lives on. doing
all the damage he can, 70 seventy-tive
years of age, and here is Christian
father, faithful in every department
of life, at ihirty-fve years Of
age taken away by death. his family left
helpless. Explain that o! there Is no
Ak.k ms
than this: II cannot understand it. |
cannot understand it."
Well, now religion comes in just at that
point with its illumination and its explana-
tion. There is a business man who has lost
his entire fortune. The week before he
lost his fortune there we're twenty carriages
that stopped at the door OF his mansion
The week after he lost his fortune all
the carriages you could count on one finger.
The week before financial trouble began
people all took off their hats TO him as be
passed down the street. The week his
financial prospects were under discussion
people Just touched their hats without any
wise bending the rim. The week that he
was pronounced insolvent people Just jolted
their heads as they passed, not tipping their
hats at all; and the week the sheriff sold
him out all his friends were looking in the
store windows as they went down past him.
Now, while the world goes away from a
man when he is in financial distress, the re-
Ggion of Christ comes to him and says,
''You are sick, au1 your sickness is to be
moral publication; you are bereaved; God
wanted in some way to take your family to-
heaven, and he must begin somewhere, and
% be took the one that was most beautiful
and was most ready to 60" ! do not say
that religion explains everything in this
life. but l do say it lays down certain prin-
ciples which are grandly consolatory
hrRr off fol
ciphers. The merchant in San Francisco
telegraphs TO the merchant in New York
certain information in ciphers which no
other man in that line of business can under
stand, but the merchant in San Francisco
has the key to the cipher, and the merchant
in New York has the key to the cipher, and
on that information transmitted there are
enterprises involving hundreds Of Thousands
OF dollars. Now the providences Of life
sometimes seem to be a senseless rigmarOle,
q mysterious cipher; but God has key to
that cipher, and the Christian q key to
that cipher and though he may hardly be
able TO spell out the meaning, he gets
enough of the meaning to understand that
II is for the best. Now, is there not sun
shine in thatl Is there not pleasure in that's
Far beyond laughter, It Is nearer the fount-
ain or tears than boisterous demonstration.
Have you never cried for joyl There are
tears which are eternal rapture in distilla-
ton.
There are hundreds Of people in this
house who are walking day by day in the
sublime satisfaction that all is for the best.
all things working together for good for
their soul. How q man can get along through
this life without the explanation is TO me
mystery. What! Is that child gone for
everl Are you never to get IL backs Is
your property gone forever! Is your soul
co be bruised aud TO be tried forever. Have
you no explanation, no Christian explana-
tion. and yet not a maniacl But when you
have the religion OF Jesus Christ in your
soul, IL explains everything SO far as it Is
best for you 60 understand. You look off
In life, and your soul Is full OF Thanksgiving
60 God that you are SO much better of than
you might be. man passed down the
street without any shoes, and said: II
have no shoes; isn't it hardship that
have no shoesl Other people have shoes
No shoes; no Shoes" until he saw a man
who had no feet. Then he learned les
son. You ought to thank God for what he
does, instead OF grumbling for what he does
not. God arranges ali the weather in this
world-the spiritual weather, the moral
weather as well as the natural weather.
"What kind OF weather will it be to-day1
said some one to farmer. The farmer re-
piled: at will be such weather as like
"What do you mean by thatp asked the
other. "Wen." said the farmer. "it will
De cuCu hedtueT as plehs5o Tue lOrO ana
what pleases the Lord pleases me-"
o. the sunshine! the sunshine of Christian
explain alton. Here is some one bending
over the grave of the dead. What Is going
60 be the consolationl The flowers you
strew upon the tomb o. mol The serv-
ices read at the grave o, mol The chief
consolation on that grave is what falls from
the throne Of God. Sunshine, glorious sum
shine. Resurrection sunshine.
Again: l find a great deal of the sun
shine of this Bible and of our religion in the
climacteric joys that are TO come. A man
who gets up and goes out from a concert
right after the opening voluntary has been
played, and before the prima donna sings,
or before the orchestra begins has a better
idea of that concert than the man has who
supposes that the chief joys of religion are in
this world. We here have only the first note
of the eternal orchestra. We shall In that
world have the joy OF discovery. We will
In five minutes catch up with the astrono-
mers, the biologists, the scientists, the
philosophers of all ages who so far sur
passed US in this world We can afford
70 adjourn astronomy and geology and
many of the sciences to the next world be-
cause we shall there have better apparatus
and better opportunity. l must study these
sciences SO far as TO help me in my work;
but beyond that must give myself to saw
ing my own soul and saving the souls OF
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