The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-05

I It is a wonder from such a starting you
have come to respectability. Then don I
call upon the Cod OF either OF your pa
I rents. beg Of you.
But you have children. You know Cod
kindled those bright eyes and rounded
those healthy limbs. and set beating with
IN their breast an Immortality Perhaps
IN the belief that somehow II would be
for the best, you have taught them 10 say
an evening prayer, and when they kneel
beside you. and fold their little hands,
ana look up. their faces all innocence and
love, you know that there is a God some
where about in the room.
l think / am on the right track at last
Awake! Oh. sleeper, and call upon the
God Of thy children. May he set these lit
tie ones 10 pulling at thy heart until they
charm thee 10 the same God 10 whom to-
night they viii say their little prayers.
But. alas alas. some Of these men and
women are unmOved by the fact that their
father had a God, that there mother had
a God. and their children have a God.
but they have no God All pious example
TO them for nothing. All the divine good
ness for nothing. All warning for nothing.
They are sound asleep in the side OF the
ship. though the sea and sky are in
mad wrestle.
Many years ago, man leaving his fam
lily in Massachusetts, sailed from Boston
10 China, 10 trade there. on the coast of
China. IN the midst of a night of storm,
he made ship-wreck. The adventurer was
washed up on the beach senseless-all his
money gone. He had TO beg in the streets
Of Canton to keep from starving. For
two years there was no communication
between himself and family. They sup
posed him dead. He knew not but that
his family were dead. He had gone out as
a captain. He was too proud TO come
back as a private sailor. But after awhile
he choked down his pride and sailed for
Boston. Arriving there he took an even
ing train for the center Of the state.
where he had left his family. Taking the
stage from the depot. and riding a score
of miles, he got home. He says that,
going up in front of the cottage in the
bright moonlight the place look
cd to him like heaven. He
raped the window, and
the anrighted servant let him in. He
went TO the room where his wife and
child We're sleeping. He did not dare TO
wake them for fear OF the shock. Bend
ing over to kiss his child's cheek. a tear
fell upon his wife's face and she awak-
ened, and he said Mary and she knew
his voice. and there was an indescribable
scene of welcome, and JOY, and thanks
giving to God.
To-day l know that many of you are
seatossed. and driven by sin in a worse
storm than that which came down on the
coast Of China, and yet l pray God that
you may. like the sailor, live to get home.
In the house of many mansions your
friends are waiting to meet you. They
are wondering why you do not come. Es-
capped from the shipwrecks of earth, may
you at last 60 in, 1t will be a bright
night-a very bright night as you put
your thumb on the latch of that door.
once in, you will find the old family faces
sweeter than when you last saw them.
and there II will be found that he who
was your fathers God. and your mothers
God, and your children's God, is your
own most blessed Redeemer. to whom be
glory and dominion throughout all ages,
world without end. Amen