The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-24

thing like "a Cluktr sin. like g monster
wild beast Of the forest, sometimes ticks
alI over its victim boz order that the vic
tim may bee more easily swallowed but
generally sin rasps, and gals, and tears,
and upbraids. and files. is 10 not so,
Heron is 10 not SO, Hildebrand
IS 70 nos so Rnhcspierre2 Aye ayel it,
is SO. 10 is so. The way Of the wicked
he turueth upside down History tells
us that when Rome was founded. on that
dav there were twelve yultures flying
through the air. but when a trausgressor
dies the sky is black with whole fiocks
of them Nultures When / see sin rob
bling so many people, and ] see them going
down day by day, and week by week, /
must give plain warning. ! dare not
keep 10 back lest ] risk the salvation Of
my own soul Rover the pirate pulled
down The warning bell on lnchcape Rock,
thinking that he would have chance 10
despoil vessels that were crushed on the
rocks but one night his own ship crashed
down on this very rock, and he went
down with all his cargo. God declares:
when ! say to the wicked, thou shalt
surely die, and thou givest him not warn
ing. that same man shall die in his iniqui-
ty; but his blood will require at thy
hands"
] learn from this subject what sad
thing it is when the church Of God loses
its metal These Philistines saw that if
they could only get all the metallic
weapons out of the hands of the Israe-
lites, all would be well, and, therefore,
they took the swords and the spears.
They did not want them TO have single
metallic weapon. When the metal Of the
Israelites was gone their strength was
gone This is the trouble with the church
of God to-day. 1t is surrendering it cOur-
age 1t has not got enough metal. How
seldom is il that YOU see man taking his
position in pew, or in pulpit, or in a relig-
iOus society and holding that position
against all oppression, and all trial, and
all persecution, and all criticism. The
church of God to-day wants more back
bone, more defiance, more consecrated
bravery, more metal. How often you see
a man start out in some good enter
prise, and at the first blast of news
paperdom he has collapsed, and all
his courage gone, fOrgetful OF the fact
that if a man be right, all the newspa-
pers of the earth, with all their columns
pounding away at him, cannot do him any
permanent damage 1t is only when
man is wrong that he can he damaged.
Why, God is going to vindicate his truth,
and he is going to stand by you, my
friends. in every effort you make for
Christ's cause and the salvation of men.
! sometimes say to my wife: ''Ihere is
something wrong; the newspapers have
not assaulted me for three months! 1
have not done my duty against public in
iquities and | will stir them up next Sun
day. Then / stir them up, and all the
following week the devil bowls, and
bowls, showing that have hit him very
hard. Go forth in the service of Christ
and do your whole duty. You have one
sphere | have another sphere. The
Lord of Hosts is with us, and the
God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. -
We want more OF the determi-
nation of Jonathan. l do not
suppose he was very wonderful man !;
but he got on his knees and clambered up
the rock, and with the help of his armor-
bearer he hewed down the Philistines (;
and man of very ordinary intellectual
attainments on his knees, can storm any
thing for God and for the truth. We want
something of the determination of the
general who went into the war, and as he
entered his first battle, his knees knocked
together, his physical courage not quite
up to his moral courage; and he looked
down at his knees, and said: "Ah, if you
knew where | was going to take you, you
would shake worse than that' There is
only one question for you to ask and for
me to ask What does God want me to
dor Where is the tieldl Where
is the work. Where is the anvil?
Where is the prayer-meetingl Where
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what God wants us to do, go ahead and
do it-all the energies of our body, mind
and soul enlisted in the undertaking.
Oh, my brethren, we have but little time
in which to fight for God. You will be
dead soon. Put in the Christian cause
every energy that God gives you. what
thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy
might for there is neither wisdom nor
device in the grave whittier we are all
fastening" Oh, is it not high time that
we wake out of sleep2 Church of God, lift
up your head at the coming victory The
Philistines will go down and the Israeltes
will 20 up. We are on the winning side.
Hear that-on the winning side.
think Just now the Kings horses are
being hooked up to the chariot, and when
he does ride down the sky there will be
such hOsanna among his friends, and
such wailing among his enemies, as will
make the earth tremble and the heavens
sing | see now the plumes of the Lord S
cavalrymen tossing in the air. The arch
angel before the throne has already burn
ished his trumpet, and then he will put
its golden lips to his own, and he will
blow the long, loud blast that will make
all nations free. Clap your hands, all W
| people! Hank hear the falling thrones
| and the dashing down of demolished mi
| quities.
NoAHs FLOOD NOT UNIVERSAL
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