The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-09


| OF the river took up the strain, and
when the tune was done the confeder-
ates and the federals all together uni !,
/ as the tears rolled down their cheeks,
in one great huzza huzzal Well, my
/ friends, heaven comes very near to-day.
/ 1t is only stream that divides us the
/ narrow stream of death-and the voices
| there and the voices here seem to com
( mingle, and we jOin trumpets, and no.
sannahs. and hallelUjahs. and the chorus
of the united song of earth aud heaven is,
| Home, Sweet Home" Home of bright
domestic circle on earth. Home of for
giveness in the great heart of God. Home
OF eternal rest in heaven. Home! Home!
Home
But suppose you are standing on a crag
of the mountain. and on the edge of a
precipice, and all unguarded, and some
one either in Joke or hate shall run up be-
hind you and push you of 1t is easy
enough TO push you off But who would
do so dastardly a deed? Why, that is done
every hour of every day and every hour
of every night Men come to the verge of
city life and say, Now we will just look
off. Come, young man, do not be afraid.
Come near, let US look off, He comes to
the edge and looks, and looks until, after
awhile, Satan sneaks up behind him, and
puts hand on each of his shoulders, and
pushes him Off Society says it is evil
lLOCiLNAly Ull blt Jdib VI blldb young uldl
Oh, no! He was simply an explorer and
sacrificed his life in discovery A young
man comes in from the country Dragging
that nothing can do him any harm. He
knows about all the tricks of city life.
''Why," he says, did not l receive a
circular in the country telling me that
somehow they found out l was a
sharp business man, and if | would only
send a certain amount of money by mail
or express, charges prepaid, they would
send a package in which | could make
fortune in two months; but did not be-
lieve 1t. My neighbors did, but did not.
Why no man could take my money. l
carry it in a pocket inside my vest. No
man could take it. No man could cheat
me at the faro table Don't l know all
about the 'cue-box,' and the Dealers box,
and the cards stuck together as though
they were one, and when to hand in my
Check5f oh they can't cheat me. /
know what ! am about" While
at the same time, that very moment,
such men are succumbing to the worst
Satanic influences, in the simple
fact that they are going to OBJ
serve. Now, if a man or woman shall go
down into haunt of iniquity for he pur-
pose of reforming men and women, or for
the sake of being able intelligentlv to
warn people against such perils if as did
John Howard or Elizabeth Fry or Thomas
Chalmers, they go down among the aban-
doned for the sake of saving them, then
such explorers shall be God protected,
and they will come out better than when
they went in. But if you go on this work
of exploration merely for the purpose of
satisfying morbid curiosity, l Will take
twenty per cent. off your moral char
acter
Sabbath morning comes You wake up
in the hotel. You have had a longer
sleep than usual. You say: Where am
L thousand miles from home2 l have
no family to take to church to-day. My
pastor will not expect my presence. l
think / shall look over my accounts and
study my memorandum book. Then l
will write a few business letters, and
talk TO that merchant who came in on
the same train with me-" Stopl you
cannot afford to do it.
But you say, Il am worth five hun
dred thousand dollars" You cannot af-
ford to do 1t. You say: II am worth a
million dollars" You cannot afford to
do it, All you gain by breaking the Sab
bath you will lose. You will lose one of
three things: Your intellect, your morals
or your property, and you cannot point
in the whole earth to a single exception
to this rule, God gives US six days and
keeps one for himself. Now, if we try to
get the seventh, he will upset the work
of all the other six.
/ remember going up Mount Washing
ton, before the railroad had been built, to
the Tip-Top house, and the guide would
come around to our horses and stop us
when we were crossing a very steep and
dangerous place, and he would tighten
the girth of the horse, and straighten the
saddle. And | have to tell you that this
road of life is so steep and fun of peril
we must, at least one day in seven, stop
| and have the harness of life readiusted,
and our souls re-equipped. The seven
days of the week are like seven business
partners, and you must give to each one
his share, or the business will be broken
up. God is so generous with us; he has
given you six days to his one. Now. here
is father who has seven apples, and he
| gives six to his greedy boy, proposing to
keep one for himself. The greedy boy
grabs for the other one and loses all the
six.
How few men there are who know how
| to keep the Lords day away from home
A great many who are consistent on the
banks of the St. Lawrence, or the Ala
bama, or the Mississippi, are not consis-
! tent when they get so far off as the East
river. l repeat-though it is putting it on
a low ground-you cannot financially af-
! ford to break the Lords day. 1T is only
another way of tearing up your govern
ment securities, and putting down the
! price OF goods, and blowing up your store.
] have friends who are all the time slicing
of pieces of the Sabbath. They cut a
little of the Sabbath off that end, and a
little of the Sabbath off this end. They
do not keep the twenty-four hours The
Bible says: Remember the Sabbath day,
to keep it holy" l have good
| friends who are quite accustomed
to leaving Albany by the midnight
train on Saturday night, and get
ting home before church Now, there may
be occasions when it is right, but gener-
ally it is wrong How. if the train should
run off the track into the North river? I
! hope your friends will not send to me to
preach your funeral sermon. 1t would be
an awkward thing for me to stand up by
your side and preach-you Christian
man. KILLED on rail-train travelling on a
Sunday morning. "Remember the
Sabbath day, to keep it holy" What
does that mean? II means twenty-four
hours A man owes you a dollar You
don't want him to pay YOU ninety cents ;
YOU want the dollar If God demands of
US twentyfour hours out OF the week, he
! means twentyfOur hours and not nine
teen. oh, we want to keep vigilantly in
this country the American Sabbath, and
not have transplanted here the European
/ Sabbath, which for the most part is
no Sabbath at all. If any
( of you have been in Paris
you know that on Sabbath morning