The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-25

] as LuOuEu ne ldQ no El4ub 70 comet II
any one in all the universe has a right TO
/ then our Master has, and he viii take II,
and he VIII wear II over his heart. or he
/ Will set il in the vase of the palace eter-
/ nal. 1.-The Lord gave, and the Lord hath
! taken away; blessed be the name Of the
/ Lord. - Peace. troubled soul, put the
| balm on your wounded heart tonight.
| The morning star, the morning star OF
/ the Redeemer.
Again. Christ heralds the dawn Of mil
! lennial glory. II is night in China, night
I in India, night in Siberia, night for the
vast majority Of the worlds population.
| But it seems 10 me there are some lntlma-
! tions of the morning. All Spain is to be
brought under the influence of the gospel.
What is that light l see breaking over
the top of the Pyrenees2 The morning
Yea, all Italy shall receive the gospel.
She shall have her schools. and her col
4 leges. and her churches; her vast pOpula-
tiOn shall surrender themselves to Christ.
What is that light I see breaking over the
top of the Alps The morning. All India
shall come TO God. Her idols shall be
cast down. Her JuggernautS shall be
broken. Her temples of iniquity shall be
demolished. What is that light l see
breaking over the top of the Himalayas,
The morning The empurpled clouds
shall gild the path Of the cOnquering day.
The HottentOt will come out Of his mud
howell 10 look at the dawn: the Cinnamon
will come up on the granite cliffs, the
Norwegian will get up on the rocks,
and all the beach of heaven will
be crowded with celestial inhabi-
tants come out sto see the sun rise over
the ocean of the worlds agony. They
shall come from the east. and from the
west, from the north. and from the south,
and sit down in the kingdom of God.
These sweltered under the tropical suns.
These shivered under the Icelandic tenn
perature. These plucked the vineyards
in Italy. These packed the tea boxes in
China. These were aborigines lifting up
their dusky faces in the dawn. And the
wind shall watt it, and every mountain
shall become a TRANSPORTATION, and the
sea will become the walking place of him
who trOd the wave cliffs OF stormy Tibe-
rias, and the song of Joy shall rise toward
heaven, and the great sky shall become
sounding board which will strike back
the shout of salvation to the earth until
il rebounds again to the throne of the
Almighty, and the morning star Of Chris
tian hope will become the full sunburst
of millenial glory.
Again, Christ heralds the dawn of
heaven upon every Christians dying pill
low. l suppose you have noticed that the
characteristics Of people in their healthy
lays dLG very d Db W NC bntlI CudEdClbIlS-
tics in their dying days. The dying words
of ambitious Napoleon were: Head of
the army" The dying words of poetic
Lord Byron were: 81 must sleep now"
The dying words Of affectionate Lord Mel
son were: "Kiss me, Hardy" The dy-
ing words of Voltaire were, as he saw one
whom he supposed 10 be Jesus in the
room: Crush that wretch" But have
noticed that the dying words of Chris
tfang a lvyaUc (Napotsa11sr h.
pain is all gone, and there is great quietude
through the room. As one of these
brothers told me of his mother in the last
moment: She looked up and said, point
ing to some supernatural being that
seemed to be the room, Look at that
bright form. Why, they have come for
me now"
The lattice is turned so that the light is
very pleasant. 1t is peace all around.
You ask yourself: why, can this be a
dying rooml IL is so different from any
thing l ever expected" And YOU walk
the floor, and you look out of the window,
and you come back and look at your
watch, and you look at the face of the
patient again, and there is no change, ex-
cept that the face is becoming more ra-
diant, more illuminated. The wave of
death seems coming up higher and higher,
until it has touched the ankle, then it
comes on up until it touches the knee,
then 1t comes on up until il reaches the
girdle, then it comes on up until it reaches
the lip, and the soul is about to be fioated
away into glory, and you roll back the
patients sleeve, and you put your finger
on the pulse, and it is getting weaker and
weaker, and the pulse stops, and you
hardly know whether the life has gone or
not. Indeed, you cannot tell when she
goes away, she goes away so calmly.
Perhaps it is 4 o'clock in the morning,
and you have the bed wheeled around to
the window, and the dying one looks out
into the night sky, and she sees some
thing that attracts her attention, and you
wonder what it is.
Why, it is a star. 1t is a star that out
| of its silver rim is pouring a supernatural
| light into that dying experience. And
| you say: What is it that you are looking
att" She says: ut is a star" You say:
! What star is it that seems so well to
| please youN' "Oh," she says, that is
the morning star-Jesusl" / would like
| to have my deathbed under that evange-
| listic start would like to have nv eve
on that star, so l could be assured of the
morning. Then the dash of the surf of
the sea of death would only be the billow-
ing up of the promise, ''When thou pass
est through the waters, l will be with
thee, and the rivers, they shall not over
flow thee" All other lights will fail
the ught that tallS from the scroll of
fame, the light that flashes from
the gem in the beautiful apparel,
the light that flames from the burn
ing lamps of banquet-but this
light burns on and burns on. Paul kept
his eye on that morning star until he
could say, 81 am now ready to be offered
and the time OF my departure is at hand.
have fought the good fight, I have fin
ished my course. / have kept the faith -
Edward Payson kept his eye on that star
until he could say, The breezes of heaven
fan me-" DIR. Goodwin kept his eye on
that evangelical star until he could say,
Il am swallowed up in God" John Ten
ant kept his eye on that evangelistic star
until he could'Say, Welcome sweet Lord
Jesus-welcome eternity" No other star
ever pointed a mariner into so safe har.
! Dor. No other star ever sunk its silvered
anchor into the waters. No other star
ever pierced such accumulated cloud, OF
beckoned with such holy lustre.
With lanterns and torches, and guide,
we went down in the Mammoth Cave OF
! Kentucky. You may walk fourteen miles
and see no sunlight. 1t is a stupendous
| place Some places the roof of the cave a
! hundred feet high The grottoes filled
with weird echoes, cascades falling from
invisible hight Townsville depth Stalag
mites rising up from the floor of the cave
-stalactites descending from the roof OF
the cave, joining each other, and making
pillars of the Almightys sculpturing