The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-19

( of my Ieprosy." Go into the Sabbath
I school any Sunday and you will fine
/ hundreds of little fingers pointing i'm the
/ same direction toward Jesus Christ and
/ toward heaven.
Years ago the astronomers calculated
+ that there must be a world hanging at d
. certain point in the heavens, and "a large
. prize was offered Tor some one who could
. discover that world The telescopes from
? the great ObserVatories were pointed iu
vain; but girl at Nantucket. Mass fash
. toned telescope, and looking through
. IT discovered that star, and won the prize,
and the admiration of all the astronomical
world. that stood amazed at her genius.
/ And so it is often the case that grown
T people cannot see the light. while some
little child behoIds the star
I of pardon, the star Of hope,
. the star Of consolation, the star of Beth
+ lehem, the morning star OF Jesus. Mot
many mighty men. not many wise men
are called; but God has chosen the weak
things of the world TO confound the
mighty; and base things, and things
that are not, to bring to naught things
that are O, do not despise the prattle
Of little children when they are speaking
about God, and Christ and heaven You
see the way your child is pointing will
you take that pointing, or wait until. in
the wrench Of some awful bereavemenL
God shall lift that child to another world.
and then it will beckon you upward?
VIII You take the pointing, or viii you
wait for the beckonng2 Blessed be God
that the little Hebrew captive pointed in
the right direction. Blessed be God for
the saving ministry of Christian children.
No wonder the advice of this little He
brew captive threw all Naaman's man
SION and Ben-hadad's palace into excite
ment Good-by, Naamau! With face
scarified, and rigid, and inhamed by pes
thence, and aided by those who supported
him on either side, he staggers out to the
chariot. Hold fast the fiery Coursers
of the royal stable, while the poor sick
man lifts his swollen feet and pain-struck
limbs into the vehicle Bolster him up
with the pillows, and let him take a linz
gering look at his bright apartment, for
perhaps the Hebrew captive may be mis-
taken, and the next time Naaman comes
to that place he may be a dead weight
on the shoulders of those who carry him
an expired chieftain seeking sepulture,
amid the lamentations of an admiring
nation Good-by, Naaman! Let the chart
oteer drive gently over the hills of Her
mon, lest he jolt the invalid. Here goes
the bravest man of all his day cap
tive of horrible disease. As the amhu-
lance winds through the streets of Damas-
Gus, the tears and prayers Of all the peo-
pie go out after the wOTld-renowned in
valid.
Perhaps you have had an invalid 80
out from your house on a health-eXcur-
sion You know how the neighbors stood
around and said "Ah, he will never
come back again alive" oh. it was a
solemn moment, 1 tell you, when the in
valid had departed. and you went into
the room to make the bed, and to remove
the medicine hials from the shelf, and to
throw open the shutters, so that the fresh
air might rush into the long-closed room.
Good-by, Naaman! There is only one
cheerful face lOOtyipp a him guH tbat
is the face of the little Hebrew captive.
who Is sure he viii get cured, and who is
50 glad she helped him. As the chariot
winds out, and the escort of mounted
courtiers, and the mules, laden with sacks
of gold, and silver, and embroidered suits
of apparel, went through the gates of
Damascus, and out on the long way. the
hills of Naptali and Ephraim look down
on the procession, and the retinue goes
right past the battle-felds where Naaman,
in the days of his health, used to rally
his troops for fearful onset, and then the
procession stops and reclines a while in
the groves of olive and oleander; and
Gen. Naaman so sick-so very, very sick!
How the countrymen gaped as the pro-
Cession passed They had seen Naaman go
past Ike the whirlwind in days gone by
and had stood aghast at the clank of his
war equipments but now they commits
crate him. They say: Poor man, he will
AINCl SCI llOlilG eAlNtt pun man.
Gen. Naaman wakes up from a restless
sleep in the chariot, and he says to the
charioteer: How long before we shall
reach the Prophet Elisha?" The chario-
teer says to a waysider; How far is it
to Elsha's house" He says: 1.-TWO miles"
1.-TWO miles? ?" Then they whip up the
lathered and fagged-out horses. The
whole procession brightens up at the pros
pect of speedy arrival. They drive up to
the door of the prophet. The characters
shout: Whoa to the horses, and tramp
ing hoofs and grinding wheels cease shak-
ing the earth. Come out, Elisha! come
( out! you have company; the grandest
company that ever came to your house
has come to it now. No stir inside Eli
sha's house. The fact was, the Lord had
informed Elisha that the sick captain was
coming and just how to treat him. In
deed, when you are sick, and the Lord
wants you to get well, he always tells
| the doctor how to treat you; and the rea-
son we have so many bungling doctors
is because they depend upon their own
strength and instructions, and not on the
/ Lord God, and that always makes NAL
4 practice. Come out Elisha and attend to
your business Gen. Naaman and his
/ retinue waited and waited, and waited
The fact was, Naaman had two diseases
I pride and leprosy; the one was as hard tc
/ get rid of as the other. Elisha sits qui.
/ city in his house and does not go out
1 After awhile, when he thinks he has hum.
/ bled this proud man, he says to a servant
Go out and tell Gen. Naaman to battle
seven times in the river Jordan, out yon-
der five miles, and he will get entirely
WELL The message comes out. what
says the commander-in-chief of the Syr
ian forces. his eye kindling with an ami
. nation which IL had not shown for weeks
and his swollen foot stamping on the
/ bottom of the chariot, regardless of pain
/ wv hat! Isn't he coming out tC
see me? Why, ] thought Ger
| tainly he would come and utter some capa.
| listic words over me, or make some enig
/ NAUTICAL passes over my wounds. Why,
| don't think he knows who I am ISM
he coming out? Why when the Shunam
I itc woman came to him. he rushed out aut
! cried. Is it well with thee lis il wei
/ with thy husband is il well with THY
child? and will he treat a poor unknown
woman like that, and let me, a titled per
sonage, sit here in my chariot and wait
and wait? l won't endure it any LONGER
Charioteer, drive on, Wash in the Jor
dan! Hal ha, The Shiny Jordan-th,
/ muddy Jordan-the monOtonou8 Jordan
l wouldn be seen washing in such a river
as that Why, we watered our horses in q
better river than that on our way here
D B.. & FIJI, a.