The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-12


say. 'thero is uo need tlkEr that way
10 mel don't like to bo choatci and out
RACED Neither does the corn like the
corn thrcsher, bat after Do has been
thrcshod and wiuuowed 10 haas % great
deal better opinion Of wiunowln1 mills
and corn threshers.
"Wen." YOU saw. If could choose my
troubles would Doe willing 10 Zoe troubled. .
An. my brother. then IL would NOT be
trouble You would choose something
that would not hurt. and unless 10 hurts
81 does not get sauCtItrd. Your lfldl, per
haps. may be Cnildlcssucss. You are iona
OF children You say. why does COD
send children to that other household,
where they are uuwclcome. and are beaten
and banged about when / would have
taken them in the arms of my affections
You say: ANY other trial but this
Your trial perhaps may be a dlshgured
couutenance, or face that Is easily carl
catured. and you say: 30. could endure
anything if only ] was good-looking. ~ And
your trial. perhaps, is a Violent temper,
and vOuhave to drive il like six unbroken
horses amid the gunpowder explosions Of
a great holiday, and ever and anon it runs
away with you. Your trial is the asthma.
You say; 30, if 1t were the rheumatism
or neuralgia, or erySipelaS, but II is this
asthma, and it is such an exhausting
thing to breatheH Your husband, short,
sharp. snappy, and cross about the house,
and raising a small riot because a button
is off? Your trial is a wife ever in con
test with the servants, and Shei slOven
Though she was very careful about her
appearance in your presence once, now
she is careless because she. said her fort
uneis made Your trial is a hard school
lesson you cannot learn, and you have
bitten your finger nails until they are
sight to behold Everybody has some
vexation or annoyance, or trial, and he or
she thinks it is the one least adapted.
sAnythiug but this" all say. ANY
thing but this"
o, my nearer, are you not ashamed to
be complaining all this time against God2
Who manages the affairs of this world,
anyhowl Is it an infinite ModOc2 or
Sitting Bull savagel or an omnipotent
Mana Sahib7 No; it is the most merciful
and glorious and wise being in all the
universe You cannot teach Omnipotence
anything. You have fretted and worried
almost enough Do you not think sol
Some of you are making yourselves ridicu-
lous in the sight of the angels. Here is
naval architect, and he draws out the
plan of ship of many thousand tons.
Many workmen are engaged on it for a
long while. The ship is done; and some
day, with the flags up and the air gor-
geous with bunting, that vessel is
launched for Southampton. At that time
a lad of 6 years of age comes running
down the dock with toy boat which he
has made with his own iack-knife, and he
says: "Here, my boat is better than yours.
Just look at this jib-boom and these
weather cross jack-braces, y and he drops
his little boat beside the great ship and
there is a roar of laughter on the docks.
Ali, my friends, that great ship is your
life as God planned it-vast, million
tOnned, ocean-destined, eternity bound.
That little boat is your life as you are try
ing to hew it out, and fashion it,, and
launch it. All, do not try to be a rival of
the great Jehovah. God is always right,
and in nine cases out of ten you are wrong.
He sends just the hardships, just the
bankruptcies, just the cross that it is
best for you to have. He knows what
kind of gram you are, and he sends the
right kind of threshing machine. 1t will
be a rod, or staff, or iron wheel, Just &C
cording as you are fitches, or cummin, or
corn
Again: My subject teaches us that
God keeps trial on us until we let go. The
farmer shouts ''whOal' to his horses as
soon as the grain has dropped from the
stalk The farmer comes with his fork
and losses up the straw, and he sees that
the straw has let go the grain, and the
grain is thoroughly threshed So God.
Shifting rod and turning wheel, both cease
as soon as we let go. We hold onto this
world with its pleasures, and riches, and
emoluments, and our knuckles are so
firmly set that it seems as if we could
hold on forever. God comes along with
some thrashing trouble and beats us loose.
We started under the delusiOn that this
was a great world We learned out of our
geography that it. was so many thousand
miles in diameter, and so many thousand
miles IN circumference, and we said: 80
my, what a worldp' Troubles ceme in
after-life, and this trouble sliced off one
part of the world, and that trouble sliced
off another part of the world, and it has
got to be smaller world, and, in some of
your eStimaUOnS, a very insignificant
world; and it is depreciating all the time
as spiritual property Ten per cent off,
fifty per cent off, and there are those here
who would not give ten cents for this
wOrld-for the entire world-as q soul
possession.
We thought that friendship was
grand thing. In school we used TO write
compositions about friendship; and per-
haps we made our graduating speech on
commencement day on friendship. O! it
was charmed thing; but does it mean
as much to you as it used to2 You have
gone on in life, and one friend has be-
Itrayed you, and another friend has mis-
interpreted you, and another friend has
neglected you, and friendship comes now
sometimes to mean to you merely another
ak to grind
So with money. We thought if a man
had competency he was safe for all the
future; but we have learned that mort
gage may be defeated by an unknown pre-
Vious incumbrance; that signing your
name on the back of note may be your
business death warrant; that new tariff
may change the current of trade; that
man may be rich to-day and poor to-mor-
row. And God, by all these msfortunes
As trying to loosen our grip; but still we
hold on. God smites US with a staff; but
we hold on. And he strikes us with a
rod but we hold on. And he sends over
us the iron wheel of misfortune; but we
hold on.
There are men who keep their grip on
this world until the last moment, who
suggest to me the condition and conduct
OF the poor Indian in the boat in the
Niagara rapids, coming on toward the fall
Seeing that he could not escape, a mo
ment or two before he got to the verge of
the plunge he lifted a wine bottle and
drank it off, and then tossed the bottle
into the air So there are men who clutch
the world, and they go down through the
rapids of temptation and sin, and they
hold on TO the very last moment of life,
drinking to their eternal damnation as
they go over and go down.
20, let go Let go! The best fortunes
are IN heaven There are no abScOndinur