The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-21

table article above referred to.
ated heart rectify the life. ENe-
cute the law. most certainly; but preach
the gospel. by all means-in churches, in
theaters. i'm homes. in prisons, ON the land
ana on the sea. The gospel is the only
power that can revolutionize society and
save the world. All else is half and half
work. and viii not last. In New York
IL has allowed men who got by police
bribery their thousands and tens of thou~
sands, and perhaps hundreds of thou
sands Of dollars, to go scott free While
some who were merely the cats paw
and agents of bribery are struck with
the lightning OF the law. 1t reminds me
of a scene in Philadelphia when 1 was
living there. A poor woman had been ar
rested and tried and imprisoned for selling
molasses candy on Sunday. Other law
breakers had been allowed to go undis~
turbed, and the grog-shops were open
on the Lords day, and the law with its
hands behind its back walked up and down
the streets. declining to modest many of
the Offenders but we all rose mp In our
righteosus indignation, and calling upon
an powers, visible and invisible, to help
US. we declared that though the heavens
fen no woman should be allowed to sell
molasses candy on Sunday
A few weeks ago, after i had preached
in one of the churches in this city man
staggered up on the pulpit stairs maudlin
drunk saying: 81 am one of the reformers
that was elected to high Office at the last
election" / got rid of that great re-
former" as soon as / could, but / did not
get rid of the impression that "a man like
that would cure the denominations of New
York about as soon as smallpox would
cure typhoid fever or a buZz-saw would
render Iaydns Creation" Politics in all
our cities has become so corrupt that the
only difference between the republican and
democratic parties is that each is worse
than the other. But what nothing else in
the universe can do, the Gospel can and
viii accomplish. "They shall come from
the west" and for that purpose the evan
eelistic batteries are planted all along the
Pacific coast, as they are planted all along
the Atlantic coast All the prairies; all the
mountains all the valleys; all the cities
are under more or less Gospel influence,
and when we get enough faith and conse-
Grafton for the work this whole Ameri-
can continent viii cry out for God. "They
shall come from the west"
The work is not so difficult as many
suppose. You say: "There are the foreign
populations" Yes; but many Of them are
Hollanders, and they were brought up to
love and worship God and it will take
but little to persuade the Hollanders to
adopt the religion of their forefathers.
Then there are among these foreigners so
many of the Scotch. They or their ances-
tors heard Thomas Chalmers thunder,
and Robert McCheyne pray. The breath
of God so often swept through the heather
of the Highlands, and the voice Of God has
so often sounded through the Tros-
saths and they an know how to sing Dun
dee; so that they viii not have often to be
invited to accept the God Of John Knox
and Boutwell, Bridge.
Then there are among these foreigners
so many of the English They inherit the
same language as we inherlt-the English
in which Shakespeare dramatized and
Milton chimed his cantos, and Henry Mel
Vile gospelized, and Oliver Cromwell pro-
rOgued parliament, and Wellington com
manded his eager hosts Among these for
eigners are the Swiss, and they were rock
ed N a cradle under. the shadow of the
Alps, that cathedral of the Almighty in
which all the elements, snow, and hail.
and tempest and hurricane worship
Among these foreigners are a vast host
OF Germans, and they feel centuries after
ward the power Of that unparalleled spirit
who shook the earth when he trOd il, and
the heavens when he prayed-Martin Lu-
therl From all nations our foreign pop
ulatiOns have come, and they are home
sick, far away from the place Of their
childhood, and the graves of their ances-
tors, and our glorious religion presented
to them Alright viii meet their needs, and
fill their souls, and kindle their enthus-
ldSIl. Iuey Sndn come from amid the
wheat sheaves Of Dakota, and from the
ore beds Of Wyoming, and from the silver
mines of Nevada, and from the golden
gulches Of Colorado, and from the banks
Of the Platte, and the Oregon, and the
Sacramento. and the Columbia. "They
shall come from the west"
But what viii they do after they come?
Here is something gloriously consoIatory
that you have never noticed: "They shall
come from the east, and the west, and the
north, and the south, and shall sit down"
Oh this is a tired world The most of
people are kept on the run all their life
time. Business keeps them on the run.
Trouble keeps them on the run. Rival
ries of fife keep them on the run. They
are running from disaster. They are
running for reward. And those who run
the fastest and run the longest seem best
to succeed. But my text suggests rest
full posture for all Gods children, for all
those who for a lifetime have been on the
run. They shall sit down. Why run
any longer. When man gets heaven,
what more can he get? They shall sit
down" Not alone, but in picked com
panionship of the universe. Not embar-
raised though a seraph should sit down on
one side Of you, and an archangel on the
other.
There IS that mother who through all
the years of infancy and childhood was
kept running amid sick trundle-beds, now
to shake up the pillow for that faxen-
head, and now TO give drink to those
parched lips, and now to hush the fright
ened dream of a little one; and when there
was one less of the children because the
great Lover Of children had lifted one
out Of the group into the easy breathing
Of celestial atmosphere, the mother put
ting all the more anxious care on those
who were left; so weary Of arm, and foot
and back and head, so often crying out,
II am so tired 1 am so tiredr Her work
done. she shall sit down. And that BUSH
ness man for thirty, forty. fifty years has
kept on the run, not urged by selhshness,
but for the purpose of achieving a liveli-
hood for the household. On the run from
store TO store. or from factory to factory;
meeting this loss, and discovering that
inaccuracy and suffering betrayal or dis
appointment; nevermore 10 be cheated, or
perplexed. or exasperated, he shall sit
down Not IN great armchair Of heaven,
for the rockers Of such a chair would i'm