The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-23

not an angel not a world, but wept and
thrilled and shouted. Oh, yes, our world
has plenty of sympathizers Our world
is only a silver rung of great ladder
at the top of which is our Fathers house.
No more stellar solitariness for our world,
no other friendless planets spun out into
space to freeze, but a world in the bosom
of divine maternity. star harnessed to
a manger.
that village barn was the offenders hope.
Some sermonzers may say / ought to
have projected this Thought at the begin
ming of the sermon. Oh, no! l wanted
you to rise toward it. l wanted you to
examine the comedians and the jaspers
and the crystals before l showed you the
Kohinoor--the crown jewel of the ages.
Oh, that jewel had a very poor setting!
The cub of bear is born amid the grand
old pillars of the forest, the whelp of lion
takes its first step from the jungle of
luxuriant leaf and wild flower the kid
of goat is born in cavern chandeliered
with stalactite and pillared with stalag-
mite. Christ was born in bare barn.
Yet that nativity was the offenders hope.
over the door of heaven are written these
words: None but the sinless may enter
here; 0h ho No g1H say that shuts
world in one door, and he departed through
another door. He came through the door
of the manager, and he departed through
the door of the sepulchre, and his one
business was so to wash away our sin
that after we are dead there will be no
more sin about US than about the eternal
God. know that is putting it strongly,
but that is what / understand by full re-
mission. All erased, all washed away. all
secured out, all gone That undergrad
ling and overarching and irradating and
imparadising possibility for you, and for
me, and for the whole race, that was
given that Christmas night.
Do you wonder we bring flowers TODAY
to celebrate such an eVent2 Do you won
der that we take organ and youthful voice
and queenly soloist to celebrate it? Do
you wonder that Raphael and Rubens
and Titan and Giotto and Ghirlandaio.
and all the old Italian and German paint
ers gave the mightiest stroke of their ge-
MUS to sketch the Madonna, Mary and
her boy?
OH now / see what the Manager was
Not so high the gilded and jewelled and
embroidered cradle of the Henrys of Eng
land, or the Louis or France, or the Fred
ericks OF Prussia. Now l find out that
that Bethlehem crib fed not so much the
oxen of the stall as the white horses OF
Apocalypuc vision. Now / find the swad-
ding clothes enlarging and emblazoning
into an Imperial robe for a conqueror Now
! ind that the star OF that Christmas
night was only the diamonded sandal OF
him who hath the moon under his feet
OF that night was not a completed song
Dut only the BtrtnginS Of the Instruments
tor great chorus OF two worlds. the
bass 20 be carried by earthly nations saw
90, and the soprano by kingdoms OF glory
won
on. heaven. heaven. heavenl I shall
meet you there. After an our lgnperfec-
tons are gone, / shall meet YOU there.
look out to-day. through the mIsts 81
years. through fhe fog that rises from ne
felq Jofaahi through the wide open door
~ SOLD pearl % that reunion. j expect
% see you there as certainly ~ / So yoil
mere. what 2 lime We shah have in hirh
ANhfftet' lhlhihR over sins pafdOued, and
sii"NH ''miafifa ana battles triumph.
Some - your children have already gone
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