The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-10

Of the Bible. they finish up with a wave of
condesccusiOn, as if they believed that the
angels in heaven were overwhelmed with
their elO9 ueuce.
Then the sermons.
NEVER WROTE A SERMON,
But q sermon suggests to me tho taking
Of verse OF scripture its application 10
daily life being shown, and an cSplana-
/ ton made Of how one is 70 do TO succeed
in the right, and the efforts one must
make % seep from the wrong. But, no.
| the preacher gets up before q cCngre ga
ton that ought to hear of the sins of
gossip, lying, stealing, profanity, bias
| phemy, murder ara all in the decalogue,
with their minor attachments, and he
! selects line from the Old Testament:
then he proves the relationship Of the
man who IS mentioned in ii 70 some other
man. Then he goes on to show what
| would have happened if these two men
| hadn't been related. and he finishes up by
long attack on heresy. smiles affably 1T
/ the congregation and trusts that they viii
I all feel the good effects of the words he
! has spoken. Half of them haven't heard
what he said, aud the other half are not
| interested. He has talked for seventy
minutes and the children in the church
/ who are not asleep are behaving like de-
I
minutes is long enough for any. sermon.
and in that time all can be said that is
necessary for one day.
One mas TO hold on TO ones belief very
closely nowadays because | don't think
the clergy are very much help. l don't
think l should care to go with heart to
the Rev. Mr.. Pink, who is in all the foot
| ball games, likes to see q good race and is
a most delightful gossip ~ an afternoon
tea. / don't think | should care to take
sick soul TO Father Satin, who break
fasts at II o'clock az a fashionable res
taurant has bottle OF champagne with
his breakfast, apd while he is dis
Cussing it, reads the most off-color
paper IN town. don't think l should
care TO take somebody who was doubling
to the Rev Mr.. France, who believes
that he viii save the world by personally
witnessing all the wickedness in it. No,
the clergy. generalizing, are not an incen-
tive to belief. butt will tell you what is,
my friend. If you will 90 Off quietly to
your own room, close the door, kneel
down and take your troubles to God him
self, help will come to you.
LIVING IN THE SUNSHINE.
II may be that none of these things that
the preachers do are wrong in themselves
but every human being in this world has
to regard the appearance of things. and
certainly among the fashionable clergy
the giving of scandal is a great sin. Men
are only too ready nowadays to rise up
and blame the belief because of its So
called followers. 10 they ever stop to
think that when Christ himself was here
there was a Judas among the twelve?
How many of the race of Judas have there
been since3 How many claiming to
follow in the right path have
been hypocrites, whose living
lives were laid bare, and who brought
shame, If such thing can be, upon the
faith The best thing for us all 10 do is
10 forget these people. to live lives as
we can, and always to remem Der that no
matter what is here on earth
GOD HIMSELF Is OVER ALL.
tell you, living good lives and sunny
lives creates belief. No man can believe
that the good woman he loves, that the
woman who makes his life happy, will be
lost to him forever. And so, uncon-
sCiously she draws MIN to the belief that
he once had; that which the world al
most killed, but which has come back to
him. But all this wasn't what l started
to say; that was, that | wanted peo-
pie TO make Sunday a happier day, to
make it the happiest day, to fill it so full
of JOY that not only the children, but the
father, Will look forward to it with eager
ness, and that each night will be ioyfully
Sunday. Make your little children love
the day make them think of it as day
or pleasure. The day in which they will
be told again, in the way they like best,
the story OF the little child who came
to earth so many hundred years ago. 1t
is the day when they should hear not only
about the beauties and glories of heaven,
but be made to see more than ever before
how beautiful this earth is.
THE sTRANGER'8 WELCOME DAY.
It is the day when they can get closest
to their father, and surely he can learn
from no one else the beauty of faith, as
well as he can from the little child who
depends on him. Make it a day when
there is a welcome for the
stranger in your midst. Have the Sun
day guest and the Sunday hospitality.
always feel sorry Tor those women who
remember that, as children, Sunday was
dreadful day for them. To me it
was the gladuCst day in the week It
meant that we were all together. 1t
meant that the visitors came from the
city, and the cousins, from two or three
or ten miles away drove over. 1t meant
q pleasant walk to a little country church
TO which the day before we had carried
the flowers. III meant the showingOf our
IaVorlte books, of our greatest pets, and
having the greatest anxiety TO give the
people VINO came from the city the best
of the flowers and the fruit to take back
10 town, II meant gIadness all through.
Make your Sunday that, and il will
then picture here a glorious day here
after, when ell those who love each other
Will be together. An eternity of Sundays!
What does that bring to your mind or to
the mind Of your little child} Make it
mean 50 much that every effort will be
made to gain it, because IL will represent
eternal happiness. This is advice that
comes from The heart as well as from the
pen OF Ban.
a Cass OF Twins.
From the Wheeling lntelligencer