The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-04


left a pulverized material. white, and
looking like frost. but 1t was mamma, and
of that they ate. So now. this morning,
mixed with the frozen dew of my text,
there is mamma on which we may break
fast our souls. You say the frost kills.
Yes, II kills some things but we have
already seen that 1t gives health and life
TO others This gospel is the sIyor Of life
unto life or of death unto death. As the
. frost is mighty, The Gospel is mighty. As
the frost dcScends from heaven,
the Gospel desceuds from heaven.
BY the breath Of God frost Is
. given. BY the breath Of God the
. Gospel is given As the frost puritics, so
T the grace of God pUrhes. As the frost
I bestars the earth, so grace beewels the
/ soul As the frost prepares for food
many things that otherwise would be in
/ edible, so the frost of triaI ripens and
] prepares food for the soul. In the tight
/ grip of the frost the hard shells of wal
nut and chestnut and hickory open and
I the luXurics of the woods come into our
/ laps or upon our tables: so the frost OF
trial takes many a hard and pr!ckly she'll
/ and brushes il until that which stung the
/ soul now feeds it. There are passages Of
/ Scripture that once were eniFmaS, puz-
/ zles, riddles. and impossible for you to
1 understand. but the frOStS Of trouble after
/ a while exposed the full meaning to your
( soul. You said. Il do not see why David
| keeps rolling over in his Psalms
/ the story of how he was pur-
/ sued and prosecuted. " He describes him
| self as surrounded by bees. lie says
They compassed me about like bees Yea
/ they compassed me about ike bees
| You think what an cXaggerating thing
| for him TO eXClaim, 'Out of the depths Of
| hell have cried unto thee, Q, Lord. go And
| there is so much of that style of lamenta-
/ JlOn in his writings you think he over
IL "a OF a "
| upon You in the shape of persecution, aud
| you are stuck with this cCnsure and stuck
/ with that defamation and stuck with
some falsehood, and lies in swarms are
/ buzzing, buzzIng about your ears, and at
| last you understand what David meant
| when he said: They Compassed me about
! like bees yea, they cOmpassed me about
| like bees and you go down under
! nervous prostratiOn, and feel that you are
| as far down as David when he cried,
| "Out of the depths of hell" What opened
| all those chapters that hitherto had
no appropriateness Frost! For a long
! while the Bible seemed lOp sided and
| disproportionate amount of it given up to
! the corsolatory. Why page after page
| and chapter after chapter and book after
book in the Bible taken up with allcvia-
! tOns, with PUBLICATIONS, with condo
! lences The book seems like an apOthe-
! cary store with One-half of the shelves
| occupied with balsams, Why such "a
| superiority of Oalsams But after awhile
| the membraneous Group carries off your
| child, or your health gives way under
! the grippe, or Your property Is swept of
| by bad investment, or perhaps all three
troubles come at once-bankruptcy, sick
| ness and bereavement. Now tAC COnsOla-
| tory parts of the Bible do not seem to be
| disproportiouate. You want something
| off almost all the shelves Of that
| sacred dispensary. What has uncovered
| and exposed to you the usefulness Of so
much of the Bible that was before hid
| dem The frOsts have been fulfilling
! their mission.
Put down all the promises of the Bible
| on table for study, and put on one side
the table a man who has never had any
! trouble, or very little of it. but pile upon
! the table beside him all encyclopedias and
! all dictionaries and all archaeologes and
| all commentaries, and on the other side
| of the table put a man who has had trial
| upon trial, disaster upon disaster. and let
! him begin the study of the promises with
| out lexicon, without commentary, with
! out any book to explain or help, and this
| latter man will understand far more of
! the hight and depth and length and
| breadth Of those promises than the
! learned eXegete opposite almost sub
! merged in sacred literature. The one has
| the advantage over the other, because he
! has felt the mission of the froSts. O., take
| the consolation of this theme, ye to
whom life is a struggle and dsappoint-
ment and a gauntlet and pang. That is
a beautiful provcrb among the Hebrews
| which says when the tale of bricks is
doubled, then Moses comes"
Mild doses of medicine will do for mild
| sickness, but violent pains need strong
! doses, and so | stand over you and count
out some drops that will alleviate your
worst troubles if you will only take the
medicine and here it is 'In the world
! We shall have tuibulatiOn but be of good
cheer; / have overcome the world. ~
| weeping may endure for a night, but
! Joy cOmeth in the morning" Thank God
| for frosts What helped make Milton the
| greatest of pOats1 The frost of blindness.
What helped make Washington the great
est of generals, The frost of Valley
! Forge. What made it appropriate for one
passing John Bunyan's grave to eXclaim,
"Sleep on, thou prince of dreamers' ' The
| frOstS of imprisonment The greatest
! college from which we can graduate is the
college of frosts. Especial trial fits for
especial work. just now watch, and you
! will see that trouble is preparative
and educational That is the grindstoua
on which battle-aXes are sharpened |
have always noticed in my own case that
| when the Lord had some especial work
for me TO do, it was preceded by especial
| attack upon me- This is so proger0ial in
| my own house that if for something say
or do | get poured upon me a Volley of
| censure and anathema, my wife always
asks, / wonder what new opportunity Of
usefulness is about to open! Something
good and grand is surely coming"
! What is true in my case, is true on
larger or smaller scale in the history of
every man and woman who wants to
serve the Lord. Without complaint take
the hard knocks You will see after
awhile, though You may not appreciate It
now, that by the breath of a good and
loving Goi frost is given. Let the cor
ners of your mouth so long drawn down
in complaint be drawn up in smiles of
content.
For many years poets and essayists
have celebrated the grace and swiftness
of the Ara ian horses The most won
derful exhibition of Craftsmanship that !
ever witnessed was ius5 outside of the,city
of JerUsalem-an Arab steed mounted
by an Arab. DO YOU know where these
Ara horses get their fieetness and poetry
of notion Long centuries ago, Moham-
med, with thirty thousand cavalry on the
march, could find for them not a drop of
water for three days. Coming to the tor
Of hill u river was in sight. With a
wild dash the thirty thousand horses
started for the stream \ minute after
b. An armed host was soon l,rapsiDfr n ~ 4