The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-14

know where got it from; third verse In
the sixth chapter Of Second Corinthians"
Compare St Paul and Mr.. Predestina-
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| Hyperion To a satyr.
| I'VE are especially told that what has
! been given to US is "tne ministryof recon
| Citation" How often do we hear that
| preached} How often are we taught from
! the pulpit to lead better livesl How often
does the preacher, by his own life, make
| young men long TO be like hiill And how
| is all going to end Christmas day
| went TO little church way down near
| South Fifth avenue, where l heard a
preacher talk about
THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE OF CHRIST
and the desirability of every human be-
| ing trying to live so well that he come
near to Him. And the little girl who was
with me-she was only ~ years old
| said, when we came out, II could under
| stand every word Of that Sermon but
then that preacher is not notorious; he is
| simply good and earnest.
| For fifty years the chimes have been
ringing every New Years eve in the
| church which saw you made bride, and
! this year, because the preacher didn't
choose they should ring, they were
! stopped And why2 Not because 1t
would disturb him for he lives uptown,
and not because it would disturb any
body else in particular for down near
/ old Trinity there are few dwelling
| houses. No; his sense of the artistic OBJ
| iected TO few boys enjoying themselves
! by blowing trumpets, and so an old Gus
tom that delighted many people was put
| down al the command of one preacher.
And we call this an independent country
| In London, at st. Paul's, the chimes rang
| in the New Year, and TO hear them there
| was an enormous crowd, crowd much
Inclined fr HerI Nd inn
than is an American crowd; and yet, 1t
was said the police only made two ar
rests, because they knew IL was holiday
time, and everybody was inclined to be
jolly. But the preacher here in New
York gave nobody the privilege of enjoy
ment but himself. Well, | suppose that
is his method of expressing Christianity
and loving his neighbor. And he elects
that his neighbor shall be one who
doesn't blow trumpet and who does not
live on the east side among the other peo-
Pile"
Two or three people had dropped in
and Hilary hadn't noticed them. She
was too much interested in her subject.
| She next said, preachers l know
poor chap who couldn't resist glass of
something TO drink; he tried, oh, so hard,
and once he went to a well-known preach
err, and told him how hard he was trying,
and asked him to say prayer for him;
and the preacher knelt down and made
one of those beautiful addresses to the
Almighty, which are called prayers, but
which are really very clever rhetorical
specimens, and the poor sinner went away
feeling that he had taken one step in the
right direction, although he hadn't got
the encouragement that he expected.
That afternoon the preacher
PUT ON HIS FINEST FRoCK-coAT.
and his best gloves, and his most immac-
ulate hat, and paid visits And every
place he went, he told the story of this
poor soul, and told his name as an evil
dence OF the truth, and in course of time
this became known to the family of the
sinner, and with one accord they agreed
that as long as such men voiced Chris
tianity they would turn Pagans, Well
the sinner died, and l am quite certain
that he would forgive much because of
weakness, put out kinder hand, and
gave greater love to him than did his
| representative on earth. know that to
be true, and it has made me think ever
| since that certainly man must be gen
| :leman before he can be a Christian
and it has convinced me. that there are
more Christians out of than in the pull,
pit -
Nov, Hilary" said l, "let us think of
| the men who are good, who do good, and
who understand human nature so well
that they can make it comprehend divin-
ity.h
| LOVING TEACHERS, THEY.
| SO it was agreed that we would each
write down the name of the man that we
| believe to be great and good The colonel
| put the name of an unknown Methodist
preacher who lived way down south, who
had to ride eighteen miles to church,
| whose salary was $3.50 a year, and who
had four children, but who found life
| good, and who seemed to have taken for
his motto, Watch thou in all things. en-
| dure Affections, do the work of an eVange-
! list, make full proof of thy ministry"
| The other man wrote the name of q
shoemaker, who worked all the week at
his trade, and on Sunday expounded to
| his little congregation what he thought
to be the living truths of the Bible, taking
for this neither money nor gifts, but serv-
| ing God in all honor and honesty
The third man wrote the name of a
man who belong, to an Episcopal brother
hood, who had renounced all worldly
! pleasures, and who had given his fortune
to the poor and worked day and night
among them, feeding first the body and
then the soul.
Hilary wrote the name of a poor Jew
ish Rabbi, who, while he lived up to the
| law, never forgot the charity that COW
ereth a multitude of sins, and which
makes man brother to whatever man
may be suffering.
On the other paper was written the
name Of man whom nothing has ever
been said that was not good: whose life
is an example to every human being anC
yet who is so sweet and tender that tn,
smallest boy in the street gets a smile
| from him as ne passes, and he doesn't
think it beneath his dignity to toss tn,
ball back if it has come over to his side
Of the street.
THE GOOD CARDINAL
And this name was that of James, Car
dinal Gibbons
And Hilary said: II know who wrote
that; it is the only Quaker among us
She remembers when, as she went Il
meeting with her grandfather, Father
Gibbons, who lived next door, used to pat
her on the head and give her posy from
his garden. She remembers, when in
Richmond in sorrow and tribulation
knowing not to whom she should turr
for advice, she, of Quaker birth, went
and got it from Bishop Gibbons, and she
joys in the thought that Christmas day
few years ago, she knelt and had the
blessing of Cardinal Glib ons"
Yes l answered, "you know who ha.
written III; her name is BAB.
ONE OF THE FAMOUS 600.