The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-16

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idol Perhaps God is going to make me
better Christian by putting me through
I the furnace of tribulatiOn. Besides that,
/ why should l fret anyhow? He who
owneth the cattle on a thousand hills,
and out of whose hand all the fowls OF
/ heaven peck their food is my father. be
clotheth the lilies of the field; he will
cothe me. If he takes care of the raven
aud the hawk and the vulture, most GER
/ tainly he will take care Of me, his child.
| Sorer troubles come-sickness and
/ death. Loved ones sleep the last sleep.
/ A child buried out of sight. You say,
Alas for this bitter day. God has
/ dealt very severely with me. can never
/ look up o, God, l cannot bear it,"
/ Christ comes in and he says, Hush o,
troubled soul it is well with the child.
l will strengthen thee in all thy troubles.
| My grace is sufficient. When thou pass
/ est through the waters, | will be with
thee. -
When through the deep waters I call thee
TO go,
For 1 will be with thee thy troubles to bless,
And sanctify TO thee thy deepest distress.
But there are hun dreds of families rep
resented here this morning where reli-
giOn has been a great comfort. There
are in your homes the pictures of your de-
parted, and things that have no wonder
y
them previously and carefully because
hands now still once touched them. A
father has gone out of this household,
mother has gone out of this, a daughter
just after her graduation day, son just
as he was entering on the duties of life.
And TO other homes trouble will come. l
say it not that you may be foreboding not
that you may DO the unwise thing of TAX
ing trouble by the fOrelock, but that you
may be ready. We must go one by one.
There will be partings in all our house
holds. We must say farewell. We must
die. And yet there are triumphant strains
that drown these tremulous accents,
there are anthems that whelm the dirge.
Heaven is full of the shout of delivered
captives, and to the great wide field of
human sorrow there come now the reaper
angels with keen sickles to harvest the
sheaves of heaven.
Saints will to the end endure;
Safely will the shepherd keep
Those he purchased for his sheep.
Go home this day and ask the blessing
on your monday meal. Tonight set up
the family altar Do not wait until you
become a Christian yourself. This day
unite Christ to your household, for the
Bible distinctly says that God will pour
out his fury upon the families that call
not upon his name. Open the Bible and
read a chapter: that will make you
strong. Kneel down and offer the first
prayer in your household. 1t may be a
broken petition, it may be only God be
merciful to me, sinner;' but God will
stoop, and spirits will listen. and angels
will chant, Behold he prays."
Do not retire from this house this morn
ing until you have resolved upon this
matter. You will be gone. l will be
gone, many years will pass, and perhaps
your Younger children may forget almost
| everything about you; but forty years
from now, in some Sabbath twilight,
| your daughter will be sitting with the
| family Bible on her lap reading to her
children, when she will stop, and peculiar
| soemnty will come to her face, and a
tear will start, and the children will say,
Mother, what makes you cry2" and she
| will say, Nothing, only | was thinking
that this is the very Bible out of which
my father and mother used to read at
morning and evening prayer"
All other things about you they may
| forget; but train them up for God and
heaven; they will not forget that
When a queen died, her three sons
brought an offering to the grave. One
| son brought gold, another brought silver,
| but the third son came and stood over the
! grave and opened one of his veins and let
the blood drop upon his mothers tomb,
and all who saw it said it was the great
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friends, what is the grandest gift we can
bring to the sepulchres of a Christian an
cestryl 1t is a life all consecrated to the
God who made us and the Christ who re-
deemed us. l cannot but believe that
there are hundreds of parents in this
house who have resolved to do their
whole duty, and that at this moment
they are passing into better life; and
having seen the grace of the gospel in
this place to-day, you are now fully
ready to return to your own house. and
show what great things God has done
untOyou.
Though parents may in covenant be,
| And have their Heaven in view;
They are are not happy till they see
| Their children happy too,
May the Lord God of Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers
be our God and the God of our children
| forever.