The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-24
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empty cradles. and all these desolated
homesteads and all these broken hearts,
and persuade us il is well.
The world cannot offer you any heip at
and offers you money. You would rather
live on crust in cellar and have your
departed loved ones with you, than live
in palattal surroundings and they away
Suppose the world offers you its honOrs
to console you. What is the presidency
to Abraham Lincoln when little Willie
lies dead in the white house? Perhaps
the world comes and says: Time VIII
cure 1t an" All, there are griefs that
have ragged on for thirty, years and are
raging yet And yet hundreds have been
comfOrted. thousands have been com
forted, millions have been cOmfOrted. and
Christ had done the work. Oh, what you
want is sympathy. The worlds heart of
sympathy beats very irreguarly. Plen-
~ of sympathy when we do not want II,
and often when We are in appalling need
of it, no sympathy. There are multttudes
of people dying for sympathy-sympathy
in their work, sympathy in their fatigues,
sympathy in their bereaVements, sympa-
thy in their financial losses, sympathy in
their physical ailments sympathy in their
spiritual anXieties, sympathy in the time
Of declining years-wide, deep, high, ever
lasting, almighty sympathy. We must
have 1t, and Christ gives it. That is the
cord with which he is going to draw
all nations to him.
At the story of punishment a mans
eye flashes and his teeth set and his fist
clenches, and he prepares to do battle
even though it be against the heavensi
vet what heart so hard but il will sue
cumb to the story of compassion! Even
a mans sympathy is pleasant and help
full. When we have been in some hour
of weakness, to have a braWny man stand
beside us and promise to see us through,
what courage 1t gives to our heart and
what strength it gives to our armi Still
mightier is a woman's sympathy. Let him
tell the story who, when all his fortunes
We're gone and all the world was against
him. came home and found in that home
Il rv-4N. e
the empty nour-barrel 1.-THE Lord will
provide;" or write on the door of the
empty wardrobe, Consider the lilies of
the field; If God so clothed the grass of
the field will he not clothe us and ours?"
Or let that young man tell the story who
has gone the whole round of dissipation.
The shadow OF the penitentiary is upon
him. and even his father says. BE off!
never come home again!" The young
man still finds his mothers arm
outstretched for him, and how she will
stand at the wicket of the prison to whis-
per consolation, or get down on her knees
before the governor, begging FOR pardon,
hoping on for her maynard boy after all
others are hopeless. Or let her tell the
story, who, under Villainous aHurement
and impatient of parental restraint, has
wandered off from a home of which she
was the idol in to the murky and thunder
Gus midnight of abandonment, away from
God, and further, away, until some time
she is tossed on the beach of that early
home a mere splinter of wreck. Who
win pity her now? Who will gather these
dishonored locks into her lap? Who will
wash off the blood from the gashed fore
head? Who will tell her of that Christ
who came to save the lost? Who will put
that weary head upon the clean white pill
low and watch by day and watch by night
until the hoarse voice of the sufferer be-
comes the whisper, and the whisper be-
comes only faint motion of the lips and
the faint motion of the lips is exchanged
for silent look, and the cut feet are still,
and the weary eyes are still, and the fren-
zied heart is still, and all is still?Who will
have COMPASSION on her when no others
oh There is something beautiful in SYM
pathy-in manly sympathy, wifely sympa-
thy; motherly sympathy; yea, and neigh
borly sympathy. Why was it that a city
was aroused with excitement when a lit
tie child was kidnapped from one of the
streets? Why We're whole columns of the
newspapers filled with the story of a lit
tie child? 1t was because we are all one in
sympathy, and every parent said: How
if it had been my Lizzie? how if it had been
my Mary? how if it had been my Maud?
how 1t if had been my child? how If there
had been one unoccupied pillow in our
trundle-bed tonight? how if my little one
bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh
were tonight carried captive into some
den of Vagabonds never to come back to
me? how if it had been my sorrow look
ing out of the window, watching and wait
ing-that sorrow worse than death?" Then
when they found her why did we declare
the news all through the households, and
everybody that knew how to pray said,
THANK Godr' Because we are all one
bound by one great golden chain of sympa-
thy. Oh! yes. but l have to tell you that
if you viii aggregate all neighborly, man
~ wifely motherly sympathy il will be
found only a poor starving thing, COM
pared with the sympathy of our great Shi-
on, who has held in his lap the SORROWS of
the ages, and who is ready TO nurse on his
holy heart the woes of all who will come
TO him. oh, vehat a God, what a Saviour
we have?
But in larger vision see the nations in
some kind of trouble ever since the world
was derailed and hurled down the en-
bankments. The demon of sin came to
this world, but other demons have gone
through other worlds. The demon of con-
Migration the demon of volcanic disturb
ance, the demon Of destruction.
La Place says he saw one world in the
northern hemisphere sixteen months burn
ing. Tycho Brahe said he saw another
world burning. A French astronomer says
that in three hundred years fifteen hun
bred worlds have disappeared l do not
see why infidelS find it so hard to believe
that two worlds stopped in Joshuas time,
when the astronomers tell us that fifteen
hundred worlds have stopped. Even the
moon is a world in ruins. Stellar. lu-
mar solar cataStrophes innumerable But
it seems as if the most sorrows have been
reserved for our world. BY one toss of the
world at Ticuboro, of 1900 inhabitants only
twenty-six people escaped. By one shake
of the world at Lisbon in five minutes
10000 persisted, and 200, 600 before the earth
stopped rocking. mountain falls in Swift
zeriand burying the village of Goldan A
mountain falls in Italy in the night, when
1000 people are asleep, and they never
arouse BY a CONFUSION of the earth ia
pan broke off from China. BY a convlll-
sion of the earth the Caribbean islands
broke off from America. Three islands
near the mouth of the Ganges, with 100000
inhabitants-a great surge of the sea
breaks over them and 2l4000 perish that
day. Alas, alas, for our poor world II
has been recently discovered that a whole
continent has sunk, continent
that connected Europe and Amer
ica-part of the inhabitants of that CONT
nent going to Europe, part coming to
America over the table lands of Mexico,