The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-22

NnnrE lINtEt@ IN CONDUCT 10 You EEIEEIu-
Der all those opprobrious words and
thoughts and actions2 Don't remember
them. ehR I'll make you remember them.
AMI then he takes all the past and em-
pties 30 on that death-bed as the mail
bags are emptied on the pOstofiice floor.
The man Is sick. He cannot get away
from them.
have deceived me. You told me that all
would be well You said there would be
nc trouble al the last. You told me IL did
so and so. you would do so and so. Now
you corner me. and hedge me up, and sub
merge me in everything evil" .'Ha. har'
SAYS satan, II was was only foOlng you.
II IS mirth for me 10 see YOU suffer. ]
get you just where you are. IL is hari
Tor you nOW-it will be worse for you
after awhile. IL pleases me. Lie still. sir.
Don't finch or shudder Come now, 1
Will tear on from you the last rag of eX-
pectation, l Will rend away from your
soul the last hope. ] will leave you bare
business TO strip the slain"
While men are in robust health. and
their digestion is good. and their nerves
are strong, they think their physical
strength will get them safely through the
last eNigency. They say IL is only cow
ardly women who are afraid at the last.
and cry out for God. ''Wait tin l come TO
die ! Will show you. You won't hear me
pray nor call Tor a minister. nor want
chapter read me from the Bible" But after
the man has been three weeks in a sick
room his nerves are not SO steady. and
his worldly companions are not anywhere
near 70 cheer him up, and he is per
suaded that ne must Quit life; his physi-
cal courage is all gone
He jumps at the fan Of teaspoon in
saucer He shivers at the idea OF going
my iniidelity is going to take me through
For Gods sake don't bring up the chill
dren TO do as ] have done. II you feel
ike II. / wish you would read a verse
or two out of Fannie's Sabbath school
hymn-bOOk or New Testament" But
satan breaks In and says, You have
always thought religion trash ana a lie;
don't give up at the last Besides that.
you cannot, in the hour you have to
live, get of on that track Die as you
lived. With my great black wings ! shut
out that light Die in darkness. 4 rend
away from you that last Vcstge Of hope.
1t is my business to strip the slain.
\ man who had rejected Christianity
and thought IL all trash, came to die.
He was In the sweat of a great AMY,
and his wife said: we mad better nave
some prayer Mary, not a breath Of
that" he said. '"rhe slightest word of
prayer would roll back on me like rocks
on drowning man. / have come to the
hour of test. 1 had a chance, but | for
feited II. / believed In a liar, and he has
left me in the lurch Mary. bring me
rom Paine, that book that ! swOre BY
and lived by, and pitch it into the fire.
and LEI 1t burn and burn as | myself
shall soon burn. And then, with the
foam on his lip and his hands tossing
wildly in the air, he cried out: Black
ness Of darkness! oh, my God, too late!'
And the spirits of darkness whistled up
from the depth, ana wheeled around and
around MIN. stripping he slain.
Sin Is luxury now; II is eXhilaration
now; 1t is victory now. Bur after awhile
IL Is collision Il is defeat; II is eNtermina-
ton; II Is jackalism II is robbing the dead
II is stripping the slain. Give ii up to-day
give 1t up! Oh, how you have been
cheated on. my brother, from one thing to
another, All these years you have been
under an evil mastery that you under
stood not What have Mons
done for you? What have they done for
your health? Nearly ruined 1t by ca
fortune. Almost scattered II by spend
thrift behavior. What have they done
for your reputation? Almost ruined It
with good men. What have they done for
your immortal soul? Almost insured its
overthrow.
You are Fastening on toward the con-
summation of all that is sad. To-day you
stop and think. hut II Is only for a mo-
ment. and then you will tramp on, and at
the close of this service you will go out.
and the question will be: How did you
II liked it very we'll" and another man
will say: Il didn't like II at all;" but
neither of the answers viii touch the
tremendous fact that IL impenitcnt you
are going at thirty knots an hour toward
shipwreck! Yea. you are IN "A battle
where YOU will fall: and while your sur
viving relatives will take your remaining
estate. and the cemetery will take your
body, the messengers of darkness will take
your soul. and come and so about you
Many are crying out: Il admit ! am
slain, | admit it, On what battlefield.
my brothers? BY what weapon? Polluted
lmagin ltion." says one man; Intoxicating
liquor" saws another man. MY own hard
heart" SAYS another man. Do you realize
this Then | come to tell you that the
omnipotent Christ is ready to walk across
this battlefield, and revive, and resusci-
tate. and resurrect your dead soul Let
him take your hand and rub away the
numbness; your head. and battle off the
aching; your heart and stop its wild
throb. He brought Lazarus to life; he
brought Jairus daughter TO life; he
brought the young man of Main to life,
and these are three proofs anyhow that
he can bring you to life.
When the Philistines came down on the
field. they stepped between the corpses,
and they rolled over the dead, ana they
took away everything that was valuable
and so It was with the people that tol-
lowed after the armies at Characteristic,
and at Pittsburg Landing, and at Stone
river. and at Atlanta, stripping the SIAM
but the northern and southern women
God bless theml-came on the field with
basins, and pads, and towels and lint, and
cordials and Christian encouragement:
and the poor fellows that lay there lifted
up their arms and said: "Oh, how good
that does feel since you dressed IT! and
others looked up and said: "Oh, how you
make me think of my motherr' and others
said: Tell the folks at home died think
ing about them" and another looked UP
and SAID. MISS, won I YOU SitS me
verse of Home, Sweet Home before |
die?" And then the tattoo was sounded,
and the hats were of, and the service was
read: Il am the resurrection and the life;
and in honor of the departed the muskets
were loaded and the command given,
''Present-firew And there was a
single set UP at the head
of the grave, With the epitaph of Lieu
tenant - in the Fourteenth Massachu-
setts Regulars" or Captain - In the
Fifteenth Regiment of South Carolina
Volunteers" And so now, across this
great field of moral and spiritual
battle. the angels of God come walking
among the slain, and there are voices OF
comfort, and voices of hope, and voices
of resurrection, and voices of heaven.
One night ] saw a tragedy on the corner
Of broadway and Houston street. A young
man. evidently doubling as TO which d.
rertion he had better take. his hat lifted
high enough so that you could see he had
an intelligent forehead stout chest; he
had a robust development Splendid young
man Cultured young man. Honored
Young man. Why did he stop there while
SO many were going up and down? The
fact Is that every man has good angel
ana a bad angel contending for the mas
tery of his spirit and there was q good
angel and a bad angel struggling with that
Young mans soul at the corner of Broad
way and Houston street. Come with
me" said the good angel; Il will take you
home / will spread my wings over your
pillow; l will lovingly escort you all
through life under supernatu protec-