The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-28


affinity and affection. They may have &C
casiOnal differences. and here and there a
season Of pout. but the vast majority Of
those in the conjugal relation, chose the
Z most appropriate companiOnship and are
I happy In that relation. ron hear nothing
Of the quletude and happiness of such
| homes. though nothing but death Will
them part. But one sound of marital dis
cord makes the ears Of a continent. and
/ perhaps of "A hemisphere. alert. The one
| letter that ought never TO have been writ
| ten, printed in "a newspaper, makes more
| talk than the millions Of letters that crowd
| the postoffices. and weigh down the mail
/ carriers. with expressions Of honest love
| TOlstoi. the great Russian author is wrong
! when he prints q book for the depreciation
1 Of marriage. II your observation has put
| you in an attitude OF deportation for the
/ marriage state. one or two things D. true in
I regard 10 you: you have either been unfor-
I tunate in your acQuaiutanceship. or you
/ yourself are morally rotten. The world.
/ not as rapid as We would like. but still
with long strides. is on The way To the
! scenes Of beatitude and felicity which the
/ Bible depicts The man who cannot see
| this IS wrong. either Ia his heart or liver
or spleen.
| Look at the great Bible picture gallery
! where Isaac has set up the pictures Of
/ abOrescence, girdliug the world with
l cedar. and fir. and pine. and lockwood.
ana Allr llUiA leu UN Il flA4tAr anu 81 ah-AAA q
! pictures Of waters and trees. and White
| horse cavalry. ana tears wiped away.
/ and trumpets blown. and harps struck.
and nations redeemed. While their are
| ten thousand things / do not like, I
/ have not seen any disbursement for the
/ cause Of God for twenty-five years.
! The kingdom Is coming. The earth is
I preparing To put on bridal array. We
need to be getting our anthems and grand
marches ready. In our hymnOlOgy We
! shall have more use for Antioch than Tor
! Windham; for Ariel than for Naomi.
| Let "Hark from the Tombs Doleful
! Cry" be submerged with Joy 10 the
World, the Lord is Gomez Really, IL
thought the human race were as deter
mined to be bad. and getting worse, as
the pessimists represent l would think
IL was hardly worth saving. If after hun
dreds of years Of gospelization no i'm
provement has been made. let us give
II up and go at something else beside
praying and preaching. My opinion is
that if We had enough faith in quick
results. ana could 90 forth rightly
equipped with the gospel call. the battle
for God and righteousness would end with
this nineteenth century and the twentieth
century. only i've or six years Off,
would begin the millennium, and Christ
would reign. either in person on some
throne set up between the Alleghauies
and the Rockies, or In the Institutions of
mercy and grandeur set up by his ran
somed people Discouraged work viii
meet with defeat. Expectant and buoy
ant work VIII gain the victory. Start out
with the idea that all men are liars
ana scoundrels and that everybody is
as bad as he can be- and that society and
the church, and the world are on the way
TO demolition. and the only use you VIII
ever be to the world will be to Increase
the value Of lots in a cemetery. We need
a more cheerful front in all our relig-
iOus work. People have enough trouble
already. and do not want to ship am
other cargo of trouble In the shape Of
religiosity. II religion has been to you a
peace, "a defense, an inspiration, and
joy, say so. Say IL by word of mouth;
by pen In your right hand; by face IL
lumined with divine satisfaction. III
this world Is ever TO be taken for God,
II VIII not be by groans, hut by hallelu-
1ahs. II we could present the Christian
religion as 1t really Is. in its true attract
iVeness, all the people would accept IT,
and accept IL right away. The cities. the
nations would cry out; "Give US that
Give 1t to us in all its holy magnetism
and gracious power! Put that salVe on
our wounds Throw back the shutters
for that morning light Knock of these
chains with that silver hammer! Give
us Christ-his pardon, his peace. his COM
fort his heayenl Give us Christ in song;
Christ IN sermon; Christ in book; Christ
In living example"
As system of didatics. religion has
never gained one inch OF progress AS a
technlcality, It befogs more than 1t trad
iates. As u dogmatism, it is an awful
failure. But fact, as n reinforce
ment, as a TRANSPORTATION, II is the
mghtiest thing that ever descended from
the heavens or touched the earth. EX-
emplify it in the life Of a good man Or
a good woman, and no one can help but
like IT. A city missionary visited a. house
in London and found a sick and dying
boy. There was an orange lying on his
bed and the missionary said, Where
did you get that Granger" He said, a
man brought il TO me. He comes here
often and reads the Bible 10 me. and
prays with me, and brings me nice things
to eat" What is his nameY said the
city missionary. Il forget his name"
said the sick boy, but he makes great
speeches over in that great building"
pointing to the Parliament House of Lon
don The missionary asked, WAS his
name Mr.. Gladstone?" "On, yes" said
the boy. that is his name; Mr.. Glad
stone" DO you tell me a man can see
religion like that and not like it?
There is an old-fashioned mother In a
farm house Perhaps she is somewhere in
the seventies; perhaps seventy-five or sew
enty-siX. 1t is the early evening hour.
Through spectacles No. she is reading a
newspaper until towards bedtime. when
she takes up a well-worn book. called the
Bible l know from the Illumination in
her face she Is reading one of the thanks
giving Psalms or in Revelation the story
of the twelve pearly gates. After awhile
she closes the book and folds her hands.
and thinks over the past, and seems whls-
pering 6he names of her children. some of
them on earth and some of them in heaven.
Now smile is on her face and now tear,
and sometimes the smile catches the tear.
The scenes of "a long life come back TO
her one minute she sees all the children
smiling around her, with their toys. and
sports, and strange questionings. Then
she remembers several of them down sick
with infantile disorders. Then she sees
short grave, but over it cut in marble;
Suffer them to come to Me" Then there
is the wedding hour, and the neighbors
in, and the promise of Il will" and the
departure from the old homestead. Then
scene of hard times. and scant bread, and
struggle. The she thinks of a few years
with gush of sunshine, and fittings of dark
shadows, and vicissitudes. Then she
kneels down slowly for many years have
stiffened the joints, and the illnesses of u
lifetime have made her less supple. Her