The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-08

trudge like camels. sweating. from AleppO
10 Damascus. They make their life a cru
cihxiOn. Standing behind desks and count
ers. banished from the fresh air. weighed
down by carking cares, they are so many
suicides. OH wish could to-day, rub out
some OF these lines OF care; that I could
lift some OF the burdens from the heart;
that could give relaxation
10 some Of these worn mus
Giles. Ii is time for YOU 10 begin TO take IL
a little easier. DO your best, and then
trust God for the rest. Do not fret. Col
manages all the affairs Of your life, and
he manages them for the best. Consider
the lines-they always have robes. Behold
the fowls Of the air-thcy always have
nests. Take a long breath. Bethink. be-
times. that God did not make you for
pack horse. Dig yourselves out from
among the hogsheads and the shelves and
in the light Of the holy Sabbath day re-
solve that you will give TO the winds your
fears. and your fretfulness, and your lis
tresses. You brought nothing into the
world, and II Is very certain you can car
! ~ nothing out. Having food and raiment,
be herewith content. The merchant came
home from the store. There had been
great disaster there. He opened the front
door, and said, in the midst Of his family
circle: Il am ruined. Everything Is gone.
! am all ruined" His wife said: Il am
! left" and the little child threw up its
hands and said: Papa. I am here" The
aged grandmother. seated in the room,
said: Then you have all the promises
Of God beside John" And he burst into
tears, and said: God forgive me, that
have been so ungrateful. / find | have
a great many thing left. God forgive
me-"
Again I remark. that many OF our bust
ness men are tempted 10 neglect their
home duties. How often II is that the
store and the home seem to clash. but
there ought not to be any collision. 1t is
often the ease that the father Is the
mere treasurer of the family, a sort Of
agent to see that they have dry goods
and groceries. The work Of family govern
ment he does not touch. Once or twice "a
year he calls the children up on a Sab
bath afternoon, when he had a half
hour he does not exactly know what TO
do with. and in that half-hour he dis
ciplines the children. and chides them and
corrects their faults, and gives them a
great deal of good advice. and then won
ders all the rest Of the year that his chill
dren do not do better, when they have
the wonderful advantage OF that semi
annual castigation
The family table. which ought to be the
place for pleasant discussion and cheerful
ness, often becomes the place OF perlous
expedition. II there be any blessing asked
at all, it is cut off at both ends, and with
the hand on the carving knife He counts
on his fingers, making estimates in the in
terstices of the repast. The work done,
the hat goes to the head, and he starts
down the street, and before the family
have arisen from the table. he has bound
up another bundle Of goods. and says 10
the customer: Anything more l can do
for you to-day, sir?" A man has more
responsibilities than those which are dis
charged by putting competent instructors
over his children, and giving them a draw
ing-master and music-teacher. The ply
steal culture Of the child will not be at
tended TO unless the father looks to it, He
must sometimes lose his dignity He must
unlimber his Joints. He must sometimes
lead them out to their sports and games
Inc parent who cannot forget the severe
duties Of life sometimes, to fly the kite. and
trundle the hoop, and chase the ball, and
jump the rope with his children, ought
never to have been tempted out Of a crusty
and unredeemable solitariness If you
want TO keep your children away from
places OF sin, you can only do II by making
your home attractive. You may preach
sermons, and advocate reforms. and de-
nounce wickedness, and yet Your children
Will be captvated by the glittering saloon
OF sin, unless you can make your home
a brighter place than any other place on
earth 70 them. Oh! gather all charms in
TO your house. If you can afford H. bring
books, and pictures, and cheerful enter
tainments to the household. But, above
all, teach those children, not by half an
hour twice year on the Sabbath dav. but
day after day: and every day teach them
that religion is great gladness, that it
throws chains OF gold about the neck. that
1t takes no spring from the foot. no blithe-
ness from the heart. no sparkle from the
eye, no ring from the laughter; but that
her ways are ways of pieasantness. and
all her paths are peace" ! sympathize
with the work being done in many of our
cities, by which beautiful rooms are set
apart by our Young Mems Christian AS
sociations, and pray God to prosper them
in all things. But tell you there is some
thing back of that and before that: We
need more happy, consecrated, cheerful
Christian homes everywhere.
Again I remark, that a great many of
our business men are tempted to put the at
tainment of money above the value of the
soul. 1t is grand thing to have plenty of
money, The more you get of it, the bet
ter, II 1t comes honestly and go usefully
For the lack of 1t, sickness dies without
medicine, and hunger finds its coffin in the
empty bread tray and nakedness shivers
for lack of clothes and fire. When hear
man in canting TRADE against money-a
Christian man-as though It had no pos
sible use on EARTH and he had no interest
IN II at all, come almost to think that the
heaven that would be appropriate for him
would be an everlasting poor house While
my friends, we do admit there is such
thing as the lawful use of money-a profit
able use of money-let us recognize also
the fact that money cannot satisfy a mans
soul that Ii cannot glitter in the dark val
ley, that it cannot pay our fare across the
Jordan of death, that it cannot unlock the
gate of heaven. There are men in all oc-
equations who seem to act as though they
thought that a pack of bonds and mort
cages could be traded off for a title to
heaven, and as though gold would be a
lawful tender in that place where it is so
common that they make pavements out of
it, Salvation by Christ is the only saliva
ton. Treasures in heaven are the only in
corruptible treasures.
Have you ever ciphered out in the rule
of Loss and Gain the sum: what shall
1t profit man if he gain the whole world
|, and lose his own soul?" However, fine
your apparel, the winds of death will fiut-
ter 1t like rags. Homespun and a thread
bare coat have sometimes been the shadow
Of coming robes made white in the blood of
the Lamb The pearl of great price is
worth more than any gem you can bring
from the ocean. than Australian or Brazil
ian mines strung in one carcanet Seek
after God; find his righteousness, and all
shall be well here; all shall be well here