The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-21

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| tier Is going to run us down, or that the
! axle of the world is going to break; but l
mean something great for the world 5
| blessing and not for the worlds damage is
| going 10 happen. l think the world has
! had 1t hard enough. Enough the famines
| and plaques. Enough, the Asiatic choleras.
/ Enough, the wars. Enough, the ship
! wrecks. Enough, the CONGREGATIONS. /
! think our world could stand right well
| procession Of properties and triumphs.
| Better be on the lookout Better have
your observatories open toward the heav-
ems. and the lenses OF your most powerful
| telescopes well polished. Better have all
| your Leyden Jars ready for some new pull
sation Of mighty influence. Better have
| new fonts OF type in your printing offices
| to set up some astounding good news. Bet
| ter have some new banner that has never
! been carried, ready for sudden process
sons. Better have the bells in your church
! towers well hung, and rope within reach,
that you may ring out the marriage of
| the Kings Son. Cleanse all your court
| houses, for the judge of all the earth may
| appear. Let all your legislative halls be
| gilded, for the great lawgiver may be about
! to come. Drive off the thrones of despot-
| ism all the occupants, for the King of hea-
! ven and earth may be about to reign. The
! darkness Of the night is blooming and
| whitening into the lilies of the morning
| cloud, and the lilies reddening into the
roses of stronger day-,it garlands, wheth-
er white or red, for him on whose head
are many crowns. THE day is at hand
One more ray of the dawn I see in facts
chronological and mathematical Come
| now, do not let us do another stroke OF
work until we have settled one matter.
! What is going to be the final issue of this
| great contest between sin and righteous
ness? Which is going to prove himself
| the stronger, God or Diabolus? Is this
| rnr11 To ho oil don
Now, let us have that matter settled. If
we believe Isaiah and Ezekiel, and Hosea,
| and Micah, and Malachi, and John, and
| Peter and Paul, and the Lord himself, we
believe that it is going to be all garden.
! But let US have it settled. Let us know
whether we are working on toward a sue
cess or toward a dead failure. If there is
child in your house sick, and you are sure
! he is going to get well, you sympathize
| with present pains, but all the forebodinS
| is gone. If you are in a cyclone off the
! Florida coast, and the captain assures you
| the vessel Is staunch and the winds are
changing for a better quarter and he Is
| sure he will bring you safe into the har-
| Dor you patiently submit to present dis
| tress with the thought of the safe arrival.
| Now l want to know whether we are
! coming on toward dismay darkness and
defeat, or on toward light and blessed
| ness. You and 1 believe the latter, and If
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tracted from the worlds woe, and every
event that passes, whether bright or
| dark, brings us one event nearer a happy
consummation, and by all that is inexora-
BILE in chronology and mathematics 1
| commend you to good cheer and courage
If there is anything In arithmetic, If you
| subtract two from five and leave three
| then by every rolling sun we are coming
on toward a magnificent terminus. Then
every winter passed is one severity less
for our poor world. Then every summer
gone by brings us pearer unfading ar
borescence. Put your algebra down on
the top of your Bible and rejoice.
If it is nearer morning at 8 o'clock than
1t is at 2, If 1t is nearer morning at 4
| o'clock than 1t is a 3, then we are nearer
the dawn of the worlds deliverance
Gods clock seems to go very slowly but
the pendulum swings, and the hands
move, and 1t will yet strike noon. The
sun and the moon stood still once; they
will never stand still again until they
stop for ever. If you believe arithmetic
as well as your Bible, you must believe
we are nearer the dawn. 1.-THE day Is at
hand"
There is a class of phenomena which
makes me think that the spiritual and
heavenly world may, after awhile. make
a demonstration in this world which will
bring all moral and spiritual things to a
climax. Now, am no spiritualist; but
every intelligent man has noticed that
there are strange and mysterious things
which indicate to him that perhaps the
spiritual world is not so far off as some
times we conjecture and that after
awhile, from the spiritual and heavenly
world there may be a demonstration upon
our world for its betterment We call 1t
magnetism, or we call II mesmerism, or
we call 1t electricity, because we want
some term to cover up our Ignorance. 1
DO not know what IT il. never heard an
audible voice from the other world I
am persuaded Of this, however: That the
veil between this world and the next is
getting thinner and thinner, and that per
haps after awhile, at the call of God
not at the call Of the Davenport Brothers.
or Andrew Jackson Davls-some OF the
old Scrptural warriors, some OF the
spirits Of other days mighty for Cod
Joshua, or Caleb, or a David, or
a Paul-may come down and help us in
the battle against unrishteousness Oh.
how l would like to have them here-him
Of the Red Sea, him of the valley Of Ala
lon, him of Mars Hill! English history
says that Robert Clayton of the English
cavalry, at the close of the war bought
up all the old cavalry horses lest they
should be turned out to drudgery and hard
work, and bought a piece of ground at
Knavesmire Heath and turned out these
old warehouses; into the thickest and rich
tsl pasture TO Sptuu tne rest or their days
as compensation for what they had done
In other days. one day a thunderstorm
came up and these warehouses mlstook
the thunder OF the skies for the thunder
OF battle-and they wheeled into line-no
riders on their backs-they wheeled into
line ready for the fray And l doubt me
whether. when the last thunder Of this
battle for God and truth goes BOOMING
through the heavens tho old Scripturai
warriors can keep their places on their
thrones. Methinks they will spring into
the fight and exchange crown for helmet.
and palm-branch for weapon, and come
down out Of the Kings galleries into the
arena, crying: Make room! l must fight
in this great Armageddon." The old war
horses mingllng in the night.
Beloved people, l preach this sermon be-
cause l want you to toll with the sunlight
In your faces. want Won
old men to understand before
you die that all the work Won
did for God while yet your ear was alert
and your foot fleet is going to he counted
up IN the final victories I want nil
these younger people to understand. that
when they toll for God they always win