The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-11


I tell us that il a man have deiirum
I tremens twice. he cannot be reclaimed;
that after a woman has sacrificed her IN
I tegrity. she cannot be restored The BIZ
BILE has distinctly minated that the
I Lord Almighty Is ready to pardon four
T hundred and ninety times; that is, seven
/ " times seven. There are men before the
I throne OF God who have WallGwed IN
every kind of sin; but, saved by the grace
I Of Jesus. and washed In his blood, they
stand there radiant now There are tnose
who plunged into the very lowest OF All
the heIls in New York who have for the
tenth time been lifted UP, and hnaily' by
the. grace of God, they stand IN heaven
I gloriously rescued by the Grace PROMISED
10 the chief Of sinners. want TO tell
you that God loves 10 take hold OF very
bad case. When the church casts you OF,
and when the Club-rOOm casts you on
and when society casts you on, ana Wheu
business associates cast YOU OF, and
when father casts you on, ana Wheh
mother casts you Off and when every
body casts YOU off. your first cry Tor help
VIII bend the Eternal God clear down
into the ditch Of your suffering and
/ shame.
The Good Templars cannot save you, al
though they are a grand Institution. The
Sons Of Temperance cannot save you,
although they are mighty for good Sign
ing the temperance pledge cannot save
you, although believe in It. Nothing but
the grace Of the Eternal God
can save you, and that VIII
If you will throw yourself on It.
There is a man in this house who said to
me: Unless God helps me ] cannot be de-
lvered. ! have tried everything, sir; but
now I have got in the habit Of prayer, and
when ] come TO a drinking saloon pray
that God win take ne safe past. and l
pray until am past. He does help me-
For every man given to strong drink there
D. h.
out on business tomorrow, he Will be IN
infinite peril, and no one but the every
where present God can sec that man
through. o. they talk about the cata-
combs Of Naples, and the catacombs OF
Rome, and the catacOmbs OF Egypt-the
burial places under the city where the dust
of a great multitude lies; but / tell you
New York has its catacombs, and Boston
its catacombs, and Philadelphia its cata-
combs. They are the underground res
taurants full of dead mems bones and all
uncleanness. Young man, you know It.
God help you. There is no need Of going
into the art gallery to see in the skilful
sculpture, that wonderful representation
of "A man and his sons wound around with
serpents. There are families represented
in this house that are wrapped in the mar
tNrdom Of fang and scale and venom-a
living LAGOON OF ghastliness and horror.
What are you to do? I am not speaking
men who must be saved oy
Christs gospel or never saved at all.
What are you going to do?
DO not put your trust i'm bromide or DO
tassium, or in Jamaica ginger, or anything
that apothecaries can mix. Put your
trust only in the Eternal God, and he will
see you through. Some of you do not
have temptations every day. 1t is
periodic temptation that comes every six
weeks, or every three months, when 1t
seems as If the powers of darkness kindle
around about your tongue the fires OF the
pit 1t is well enough, at such time,
as some of you do, to seek medical coun-
sci: but your first and most importunate
cry must be to God. If the fiends viii drag
you to the slaughter make them do 1t on
your knees. Q Godi now that the par
oxysm of thirst is coming again upon that
man, help him Fling back into the pit of
hell the fiend that assaults his soul this
moment. OH my heart aches to see men
go on in this fearful struggle without
Christ.
There are in this house those whose
hands 30 tremble from dissipation that
they can hardly hold a book; and yet
have to tell you that they will yet preach
the Gospel. and on communion days carry
around consecrated bread, acceptable to
everybody, because of their holy life, and
their consecrated behavior. The Lord is
going to save you. Your home has got
got to be restored. Your worldly business
has got to be reconstructed. The church
! of God is going to rejoice over your dis
/ cipleship. "Other sheep l have which are
not of this fold
While l have hope for all prodigals,
/ there are some people in this house whom
! / give up. l mean those who have been
church-goers all their life, who have main
| tanned outward morality, but who, not
/ withstanding twenty, thirty, forty years
/ Of Christian advantages, have never
| yielded their heart to Christ. They are
/ Gospel hardened. ] could call their names
/ now and if they would rise up they would
rise up in scores Gospel hardened. A ser
| mon has no more effect upon them than
/ the shining moon on the city payment. AS
| Christ says: ''The publicans and harlots
| will go into the Kingdom Of God before
| them" They have resisted all the i'm
/ portunity of Divine mercy, and have gone,
| during these thirty years, through most
| powerful earthquakes of religious feeling,
and they are farther away from God than
ever. After awhile they will lie down
sick, and some day it will be told that they
! are dead. No hope!
| But l turn to outsiders with a hope that
! thrills through my body and soul. "Other
| sheep have which are not of this fold"
! You are not Gospel hardened. You have
not heard or read many sermons during
/ the last few years. As you came in to-
/ day everything was novel, ana all the ser
| vices are suggestive of your early days
! How sweet the opening hymn sounded in
4 your ears, and how blessed is this hour
! Everything suggestive of heaven. You do
/ not weep, but the shower is not far off
/ You sigh, and you have noticed that there
/ is always a sigh in the wind before the
rain falls There are those here who
would give anything if they could find
! relief i'll tears They say "Oh, my vast
/ ed life! Oh! the bitter past Oh the
/ graves over which 1 have stumbled
! Whittier shall fly? Alas for the future
Eevrything is dark-so dark, so dark
God help me! God pity me-" Thank the
Lord for that last utterance. You have
| begun TO pray, and when man begins to
/ petition, that sets all heaven flying this
/ way, and God steps in and beats back the
/ hounds of temptation to their kennel and
around about the poor wounded soul put
! the covert of his pardoning mercy. Hank
! hear something fall. What was that?
/ 1t is the bars of the fence around the
sheep-fold. The shepherd lets them down
and the hunted sheep of the mountain
! hound in. some of them their fleece torn