The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-10
TALNACE on THE EVENING.
Night Often Full Of ChtrIul1eSS and
pridhfnagC
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often out on Night Parade It Shall
be Light in the Evening Of our sor-
rows-No Darkness in the Last
Hours of the Christian on Earth.
Atlanta. GA. July Rev Dr Talmago
has chosen as his subject to-day the text.
"At evening time 10 shall be light
Zech. l4.1.
While might" in all languages, is
the symbol for gloom and suffering, it is
often really cheerful bright and suppress
i've I speak not of such nights as come
down with no star pouring light from
above. or silvcred wave tossing up light
from beneath-mwky, hurting porten-
tous. but such as YOU often see when the
pomp and maCuifcence of heaven
turn out on night parade and it
seems as though the song
which the morning stars began so long
ago were Ginning vet among the con
stellati0ns. and the sons of God We're
shouting for Joy. Such nights the sailor
blesses from the forecastlo. and the trap
per on the vast prairie, and the belatcd
traveller by the roadside, and the soldier
from the tent earthly hosts gazing upon
heavenly, and shepherds guarding their
fiocks afeld while angel hands above
them set the silver bells a-ringing: "GlO-
ry to God in the highest, and on earth
peace goodwill toward men
What solemn and glorious thing is
night in the wilderness! Night mOng the
mountains Night on the ocean! Fra
grant night among tropical groves Flash
ing night amid arctic seventies! Calm
night on Roman Campagna. Glorious
night mid sea after a tempest. Thank
God for the night The moon and the
stars which rule it are lighthouses on the
coast, toward which I hope we are all
sailing, and blind mariners are we if,
with so many beamiug, burning, flaming
gl0r1eS to guide US, we cannot find our
way into the harbor My text may well
suggest that. as the natural evening is
often luminous, so it shall be light in the
evening of our sOrrOws-of old age-Of the
worlds history-of the Christian life
cat eventime it shall be light"
This prophecy win he fulfilled in the
evening of Christian sorrow For a long
time it is broad daylight The sun rides
high. lnnumerable activities go ahead
with a thousand feet, and work with a
Thousand arms, and the pickax struck a
mine, and the battery made a discovery
and the investment made its twenty per
cent, and the book came to its twentieth
edition. and the farm Quadrupled in value
and sudden fortune hosted to high posi-
tion, and children were praised, and
friends without number swarmed into the
family hive, and prosperity sang in the
music, and stepped in the dance, and
glowed in the wine, and ate at the ban
quet, and all the gods of music, and ease
and qualification gathered around this
Jupiter holding in his hands so
many thunderbolts of power But
every sun must set, and the brightest day
must have its twilight. Suddenly the
sky was overcast. The fountain dried up.
The song hushed. The wolf broke into
the family fold and carried off the best
lamb. A deep howl Of woe came crash
ing down through the Joyous symphonies
AT one rough twang of the hand of dis
aster the harp-strings all broke Down
went the strong business tirml Away
went long-established credit! Up few
flock of calumnies The new book would
not sell. A patent could not be secured
for the invention. Stocks sank like
lead. The insurance company ex-
pl0ded How much says the sheriff
twill you bid for this piano,' How
much for this library3' How much for
this family pictureEn VIII the grace of
God hold one up in such circumstances
What have become of the great multi
tude of Gods children who have been
pounded of the fail and crushed under
the wheel, and trampled under the hoOfl
Did they lie down in the dust weeping,
wailing and crashing their teethl When
the rod of fatherly chastisement struck
them, did they strike back Because they
found one bitter cup on the table of
Gods supply, did they upset the whole
table, Did they kneel down at their
empty money vault and say: "All my
treasures are gOne4' Did they stand by
the grave of their dead, saying, There
never will be a resurrection
DID they bemOan their thwarted plans
and say: 1.-The stocks are dOwn-would
TO God Iwere dead2" Did the night of
their disaster come upon them moonless,
starless, dark and bowling, smothering
and choking their life out} No! No! No!
AT eventime it was light. The swift
promises overlook them. The eternal
considerations, from their circuit about
Gods throne, poured down an infinite
luster. Under their shining the pillows
OF trouble took on crests, and plumes of
gold, and Jasper, and amethyst.
and fame All the trees of life
rustled in the midsummer air of Gods
love. The night-blooming assurances
OF Christ's sympathy filed all the at
mosphere with heaven. The soul at
every step seemed TO start up from its feet
bright-winged joys, warbling heaven
ward 1T is good that I have been
afflicted cries David. The Lord gave.
and the Lord hath taken away" ex-
claims Job. 'SOrrowful but always re-
Joicing, says St. Paul. And God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes. " ex-
CLAIMS John in apocalyptic vision At
even time it was light. Light from the
cross! Light from the promises! Light
from the throne! Streaming. joyous. out
gushing. everlasting light!
The text shall also find fulfilment in the
time Of old age. 1t is a grand thing to be
young-tO have the sight clear and the
hearing acute, and the step elastic and
all our pulses marching on 20 the drum
ming ota stout heart. Mid-life and old
age will be denied many of us. but youth
we all know what that is Those wrin-
kles were not always on your brow That
snow was not always on your head That
brawny muscle did not always bunch
your arm. You have not always worn
spectacles. Grave and dignified as YOU
are now, YOU once went cOasting down the
hillside, or threw off your hat for the
race, or sent the ball flying sky-high.
But youth will not always last 1t STAYS
only long enough to give us eXu-
bernnt spirits, and broad shoulders for
burden-carryiDg, and an arm with when
to battle our way through difficulties.
Life's path, if you follow it long enough.
Will come under frOwning crag and across
trembling causeWay. Blessed old age. if
you let 1t come naturally. You cannot
hide IL. You may try TO cover the vrink-
les but you cannot cover the failure If
the time has come for you to be old, he
not ashamed to be old The grandest
things in al the universe are old Old