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

mauls him, ne viii die of his awful sick
4 ness. And unless you do as Christ com
/ mauds YOU. YOU viii be seized upon by an
+ everlasting wasting away. Obey and live
-disobey and die. Thrilling, oVer-archlng,
1 under lfrdiug stuVendouS alternatives
Well General Naaman could not stand
the test The chari0teer gives "a jerk to
. the right limo until the bit snaps in the
. horses mouth. and the whirr OF the
wheels and the flying of the dust shows
the Indignation of the great commander.
. HE turned and went away in a rage.
So people now often get mad at religion.
They yituuerate against ministers. against
churches, against Christian people. one
woJld think from their irate behavior
that God had been studying how to an
uOy, and eNasperate. and demOlish them.
What has ne been doing2 Only trying to
cure their death-dealing leprosy That is
all Yet they whip up their horses, they
dig in the spurs, and they 90 away in
rage
So. after all. it seems that this health ex-
cursiou Of General Naaman is to be a
dead failure That little Hebrew captive
might as wei have not told him of the
Prophet, and this long journey might as
wen not have been taken. Poor, sick
dying Neaman, Are you going away in
high dudgeon, and worse than when you
camct AS his chariot halts a moment, his
servants Chamber up in it and coax him
TO do as Elisha said. They say. It's easy.
If the Prophet had told you to
walk for mile on sharp
spikes in order to get rid of
TINS awful disease, you would have done
II. It is easy. Come my Lord, just you
get down and wash in the Jordan. You
take a bath every day anyhow, and i'm
this climate it is so hot that it will do
you good. Do it on our account and for
the sake of the army you command, and
Tor inc sake Of the nation that admires
you Come. my lord, just try this Jor-
daiic BATH "Well,' he says. Ito please
you l will do as you say The retinue
drive to the brink of the Jordan. The
horses paw and neigh to get into the
stream themselves and cool their hot
TANKS. General Naaman assisted by his
ATTENDANTS, gets down out of his
chariot and painfully comes to
the brink of the river. and stems in
uhll the water comes to the ankle, and
goes on deeper until the water comes on
the Elrdle, and now standing so far down
IN the stream, just little inclination of
the mead viii thoroughly immerse him. He
bows once into the flood, and comes up
and shakes the water out OF nostriI and
eye; and his attendants look at him and
say: w by, general how much better
you DO look And he bows n second time
lhlo the Hood and comes up, and the wild
stare is %one out Of his eye He bows the
thlrd time into the flood and comes llp. and
III ''Atl FNllCb ItNSll mas &Ot smooth again
lie BOWS the fourth time in the flood and
comes up, ana the hair Kat had fallen ont
IS restored in thick locks again all over
the brow. He bows the fifth time into the
MOOD and comes up. and the hoarseness
has gone out OF his throat He bows the
sixth time and comes up, and all the sore
ness and anguish have gone ont of tba
hmbs. Why" he says, Il am almost
wei, but I viii make u complete cure "
ana ne BOWS the seventh time into the food
ana he comes up, and not so much as a
leSter' or a scale, or an eruption as big
as the head of pin is to be seen on him
lie steps out on the bank and says: rs it
possible r. And the attendants look and
say is 1t possible" And as, with the
heaIth of an athlete. he bounds back into
me chdIlot and drives on, there goes IN
from all his attendants a wild "Huzzat
du1za! or course they go back to nav
aIla thank the man of God for his counsel
50 IIausht with wisdom. When they left
lhe prophets house they went off mad
they have come back glad. Peop1e aIvJavs
lIink better of minister after they are
converted than they do before conversion
now we are to them an intoIerable nuis-
ahce' because We tell them to DO things
lhal 80 against the grain; but some of us
nave q great many letters from those who
ten us that once they We're angry at what
we preached, but afterward gladly re-
celFeu the Gospel at our hands Thev once
Cdleu US fanatics, or terrOrists or enc
mics; now they call us friends. Yonder is
man who said he would never come into
lHe church again. He said that two wears
ago. he said: My family shall never
come mere again if such doctrines as that
are preached" But he came again. and
ms FAMILY came again. He is Christian
his wife Christian, all his children chris
tans, the whole household Christians ana
you ShaIl owen with them in the house of
the l.ofd forever. Our undying coadiutors
are those who once heard the GospeI and
went away in rage"
NOW, my hearers, you know that this
General Naaman did two things i'm order
TO get well. The first was-he got ont Of
his chariot. He might have STAYED there
with his swollen feet on the stuffed otto
man, seated on that embroidered cushion
until his last gasp, he would never have
got any relief He had to get down
out of his chariot. And you have got to get
down out of the chariot of your pride if
you ever become a. Christian You can
not drive up to the Cross with a coach
and-fOur, and be saved among all the
spangles. You seem to think that the
Lord is going to be complimented by your
coming. O, no, you poor, miserable, scaly
leprouS sinner, get down out of that We
all come in the same naughty way. We
expect to ride into the kingdom of God
Never, until we get down on our knees
VIII we find mercy The Lord has nm
horsed us, uncharioted us. Get down ont
of your pride. Get down out of your self
righteousness and your hypercriticism
/ We have all got to do that That is the
/ journey we have to make on our knees
/ 1t is our Internal pride that keens us
/ from getting rid of the leprosy of sin
/ Dear Lord, what have we to be proud Of
/ Proud Of our scales2 Proud of orr nm
/ cleanness? Proud of this killing infec-
/ ton? Bring us down at thy feet, weep-