The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-11

son, / will call for thee.N Oh Felix. why
he bothered about the affairs of this
world so much more than about the af-
fairs of eternity! Do you not know that
when death comes you will have to stop
business, though it be in the most exact
ing period of iu-between the payment Of
the money and the taking of the receipts
The moment he comes you will have TO 60
Death waits for no man, however
high, however low. VIII you put your
office, will you put your shop in compari-
son with the affairs of an eternal world
Affairs that involve thrones, palaces,
dOmIniOns eternal! Will you put two hun
dred acres of ground against immensity2
VIII you put forty or fifty years of your
life against millions of ages. Oh Felix,
you might better postpone everything
else. for do you not know that the up
holstering of Tyrian purple in your palace
viii fade, and the marble blocks Of
Cesarea will crumble, and the breakwater
at the beach, made of great blocks of
stone sixty feet long, must give way be-
fore the perpetual wash of the sea but
the redemption that Paul offers you will
be forever, And yet, and yet, and yet
you wave him back 10 the guard-rOOm,
saying, go Thy way for this time:
when l have a convenient season, l will
call for thee"
Again, Felix adjourned this subject of
IGl4RGUA anu pun Ul dul > argument Lt-
cause he could not give up the honOrs of
the world. He was afraid somehow he
would be compromised himself in this
matter. Remarks he made afterward
showed him to be intensely ambitious.
Oh, how he Rugged the favor of men.
1 never saw the hOnOrs OF this world in
their hollowness and hypocrisy so much
as in the life and death of that wonder
full man, Charles Sumner. AS he went
pd the alaPn of burial linda
pendence hall, in Philadelphia, asked
that his remains stop there on their way
to Boston. The flags were at half-mast
and the minute guns on Boston Common
throbbed after his heart had ceased TO
beat Was it always so! While he lived
how censured of legislative resolutions,
how caricatured of the pictorials: how
charged with every motive mean and
ridiculous; how all the urns Of scorn and
hatred and billingsgate emptied upon his
head how, when struck down in the Sen
ate chamber, there were hundreds of
thousands of people who said: Good
for him; served him right" How
he had to put the ocean between
him and his maligners, that he
might have little peace, and how, when
he went of sick, they said he was broken
hearted because he could not get TO be
president or secretary of state. Oh
commonwealth of Massachusetts! who is
that man that sleeps in your public hall,
covered with garlands and wrapped in
the stars and stripes Is that the man
who, only few months before. you de-
nounced as the foe of republican and
democratic institutions2 Is that the
same mani Ye American people, We
could not, by one week of funeral eulo-
GUM and newspaper leaders, which the
dead senator could neither read nor hear,
atone for twenty-five years of maltreat-
ment and caricature. When l see a man
like that, pursued by all the hounds of
the political kennel so long as he lives,
and then buried under a great pile of
garlaads, and amidst the lamenta-
tlOns Of whole nation, | say to
myself: What an unutterably hypocritical
thingis all human applause and all human
favor! You took twenty-five years in
trying to pull down his fame, and then
take twenty-five years in trying to build
his monument. My friend, was there ever
better commentaries the hollowness of
all earthly favof} If there are young
men who read this who are postponing re
ligion in order that they may have the
favOrs of this world, let me persuade
them of their complete folly. If you are
looking forward to the gubernatorial
senatorial or presidential chair, let me
show you your great mistake. Can it be
that there is now any young man saying,
Let me have political Office, let me have
some of the high positions of trust and
power, and then | will attend to religion !;
but not now. Go thy way for this time /;
when I have convenient season l will
call for theen
And now my subject takes a deeper
tone, and il shows what a dangerous
thing is this deferring of religion When
Pauls chain ratified down the marble
stairs of Felix that was Felix's last
chance for heaven. Judging from his
character afterward, he was reprobate
and abandoned. And so was Drusilla.
One day in Southern Italy there was a
trembling of the earth, and the air got
black with smoke intershot with LIQUID
rocks, and Vesuvius rained upon Drusilla
and upon her son a horrible tempest of
ashes and fire. They did not reject relg-
ion they only put it off. They did not
understand that that day, that that hour
when Paul stood before them, was the
pivotal hour upon which everything was
poised, and that it tipped the wrong way
Their convenient season came when Paul
and his guardsman entered the palace it
went away when Paul and his guardsman
left. Have you never seen
men waiting for convenient
season2 There is such great
fascination about it, that though you
may have great respect to the truth of
CnrlSb, yet somehow there is In your
soul the thought, mot quite yet 1t is
not time for me to become a Christian. "
I say to boy, Seek Christ" He says.
NO; wait until | get to be a young man. ~
l say to the young man, Seek Christ"
He says, WYATT until | come to mid
life" l meet the same person in mid-life
and say Seek Christ" He says,
"Wait until / get old" l meet the
same person in old age, and say to him,
Seek Christ" He says, "Wait until |
am on my dying bed" l am called TO his
| dying couch. His last moments have
/ come. l bend over the couch and listen
| for his last words ] have partially to
| guess what they are by the motion of his
! lips, he is 50 feeble; but rallying himself
/ he whispers until l can hear him say, ~
| -am-waitiug- fora more convenient
! -season"-and he is gone
1 can tell you when your convenient
! season will come. | can tell you the year
it will be 1894. | can tell YOU what
kind of a day it will belt will be the
/ Sabbath day. l can tell you what hour
! it will bet will be between and 10
O'Clock. In other words, it is now. Do
/ you ask me how l know this is your con
/ venient seasoD} L know it because you
are here, and because the Holy Spirit is
/ here, and because the elect sons and
/ daughters of GOD are praying for your
/ redemption. All, | know it is your con
/ venient season because some of you, like
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