The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-03

sleep at night, and 70 get up in the morn
ing, and 70 do business all day feeling
that all Is right between my heart and
God. No accident, no sickness, no perse-
cution, no peril, no sword can do me any
permanent damage. l am forgiven
child OF God, ana he is bound TO see me
through. He has sworn he Will see me
through. The mountains may depart,
the earth may burn, the light OF the
stars may be blown out by the blast
OF the judgment hurricane; but lie and
death, things present and things 10 come.
are mine. Yea, further than that-it
means a peaceful death Mrs. HemanS,
Mrs Slgourney, DIR. Young. and almost all
the poets have said handsome things
about death. There is nothing beautiful
about 1t. When we stand by the white
and rigid features OF those whom we love,
ana they give no answering pressure of
the hand, and no returning kiss OF the
lip, we do not want anybody poetizlng
around about US. Death is lOathsOmenesS,
and midnight and the wrlnging Of the
heart until the tendrlls snap and
curl IN the torture, unless Christ shall be
with US. l confess 10 you an infinite fear.
consuming horror of death, unless
Christ snail be with me. l would rather
60 down into cave of wild beasts or a
Jungle OF reptiles than into the grave, IN
less Christ goes with me. Win you tell
me that l am TO be carried out from my
bright home and put away in the dark
ness cannot bear darkness At the
first coming OF the evening l must have
the gas lighted, and the farther on in life
get the more | like to have my friends
round about me.
And am l to be put off for thousands of
years in dark place, with no one to
speak to- When the holidays come, and
the gifts are distributed, shall l add no
Joy 10 the Merry Christmas or the
Happy New Year," An, do not point
down TO the hole in the ground, the
grave, and call il a beautiful place; un-
less there be some supernatural ilumina-
ton l shudder back from it. My whole
nature revolts at it. But now this glor-
ious lamp Is lifted above the grave, and
all the darkness is gone, and the way is
clear. | look into it now without single
shudder. Now my anxiety is not about
death; my anxiety is that | may live
Alright, for know that if my life is con-
sistent when l come to the last hour and
this voice IS silent, and these eyes are
closed, and these hands with which | beg
for your eternal salvation to-day are
folded over the still heart, that then l
shall only begin to live.
What power is there in anything to
chill me in the last hour if Christ wraps
around me the skirt of his own garment2
What darkness can fall upon my eyelids
then, amid the heavenly daybreak. O
Death, | will not fear thee then. Back
to Thy cavern of darkness, thou robber of
all the earth. FLY, thou despoiler of
families. With this battle-ax l hew thee
in twain from helmet to sandal, the voice
of Christ sounding all over the earth and
through the heavens: 20 Death, l will
be thy plague. o Grave, l will be thy de-
struCtion"
To be saved is to wake up in the pres
ence of Christ. You know wnen Jesus
was upon the earth how happy he made
every house he went into, and when he
brings us up to his house in heaven how
great shall be our glee. His voice has
more music in it than is to be heard in all
the orators of eternity. Talk not about
banks dashed with ett1orescence. Jesus
is the chief bloom of heaven. We shall
see the very face that beamed sympathy
in Bethany, and take the very hand that
dropped its blood from the short beam of
the cross. Oh, l want to stand in eternity
with him. Toward that harbor l steer.
Toward that goal | run. / shall be salts
fed when l awake in his likeness.
Oh, broken-hearted men and women,
how sweet it will be in that good land to
pour all of your hardships and bereaVe-
ments and losses into the loving ear of
Christ, and then have him explain why it
was best for you to be sick, and why it
was pest Tor you TO be widowed, and why it
was best for you to be prosecuted, and
why it was best for you to be tried, and
have him point to an elevation proper
Tomato 10 your disquietude here, saying
You suffered with me on earth, come up
now and be glorifed with me in heaven. s"
Some one went into house where
there had been a good deal of trouble,
and said to the woman there, You seem
to be lonely" Yes" she said, Il am
lonely" How many in the family2"
only myself" Have you had any
children" Il had seven children"
Where are they2" Gone" "All gomez"
All" IAN deadl" "Al." Then she
breathed long sigh into the loneliness,
and said, "Oh, sir, l have been a good
mother to the grave''
And so there are hearts here that are
utterly broken down by the bereave-
ments of life. l point you to-day TO the
eternal balm of heaven. Oh. aged men
and women who have grown in grace to
three score years and ten! will not your
decreDitude change for the leap of a
hart when yOu come to look face
to face upon him whom having
not seen you love- Oh, that will be
the Good Shepherd, not out in the
night and watching to keep off the
wolves, but with the lamb reclining on
the sunllt hill. That will be the captain
OF our salvation not amid the roar and
crash and boom of battle, but amid his
disbanded troops keeping victorious fes-
t:vity. That will be the bridegroom of
the Church coming from afar, the bride
leaning upon his arm while he looks down
into her face and says, Behold, thou art
"a my low oh, f,S