The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-07

| is still In your soul After Washington
Irving was dead, they found little box
that contained a braid Of hair and min
iature and tho name of Matilda Hoffman
and a memorandum of her death, and
/ remark something like this:
The world after that was blank to me.
| I went into the country, but found no
peace in solitude. tried to get into So
ciety. but / found no peace In society.
| There has been a horror hanging over
me by night and by day, and l am afraid
to be alone
How many unuttered troubles among
you No human ear has ever heard that
sorrow. o. troubled soul, want TO tell you
that there is one salve that can cure the
wounds of the heart and that is the salve
| made out OF the tears Of a sympathetic
Jesus. And yet some of you will not take
this solace; and you try chloral, and you
try morphine, and you try strong drink,
and you try change of scene, and you try
new business associations, and anything
and everything rather than TO take the
divine companionship and sympathy sus-
gested by the words of my text when II
says, You shall not see my face again
unless your brother be with you" o, that
that this audience to-day might under
stand something of the hight and depth
and length and breadth and immensely
and infinity of Gods eternal consultations.
l go further and find in my subject a
hint as to why so many people fail OF
heaven. We are told that heaven has
twelve gates, and some people infer from
that fact that all the people will go in
without reference to their past life; but
what is the use of having gate that Is
not sometimes to be shut?> The swinging
of a gate implies that our entrance into
heaven IS conditional 1t is not a none
tary condition If we come to the door of
an exquisite concert we are not surprised
that we must pay fee, for we know that
fine earthly music is expensive; but all the
oratoTios of heaven cost nothing. Heaven
pays nothing for its music. 1t is all free.
There is nothing TO be paid at that door
for entrance; but the condition of getting
into heaven is our bringing our divine
Benjamin along with us. DO you notice
how often dying people call upon Jesus?
1t is the usual prayer offered-the prayer
offered more than all the other prayers
put together-"Lord Jesus, receive my
spirit" One of our congregation, when
asked in the closing moments of his life,
do you know us?" said, 20, yes, 1 know
you. God bless you. Good-by, Lord
Jesus, receive my spirit and he was
gone. o, yes, in the closing moments of
our life we must have a Christ to call
upon. If Jacobs sons had gone up to-
ward Egypt, and had gone with the very
finest equipage, and had not taken Benja-
min along with them, and to the question
they should have been obliged to answer
not let him go; we didn't want to be both
cred with him." voice from within would
have said, GO away from us. You shall
not have any of this supply. You shall
not see my face because your brother is
not with you" And If we come up to-
ward the door of heaven at last, though
We come from all luxurlance and brillian-
cy of surroundings, and knock for admit
lance and 1t is found that Christ is not
with US, the police of heaven will beat us
back from the bread-house, saying, DE
part never knew you"
If Jacobs sons coming toward Egypt,
had lost everything on the way; If they
had expended their last shekel; If they
had come up utterly exhausted to the
corn-cribs of Egypt, and it had been found
that Benjamin was with them, all the
store houses would have swung open be-
fore them. And so, though by fatal
casualty we may be ushered into the eter-
nal world; though we may be weak and
exhausted by protracted sickness-if, in
that last moment, we can only just stag
ger and faint and fall into the gate of
heaven--it seems that all the corn-cribs of
heaven will open for our need and all the
palaces will open for our reception; and
the Lord of that place, seated at his table,
and all the angels of God seated at their
table and the martyrs seated at their ia
BILE, and all our glorihed kindred seated
at our table the King shall pass a por-
tion from his table to ours, and then, while
we think of the fact that it was Jesus
who started us on the road, and Jesus who
kept us on the way. and Jesus who at
last gained admittance for our soul, we
shall be glad If he has seen of the travail
of his soul and been satisfied and not be
at all Jealous If it be found that our di-
vine Benjamin's mess is FIVE times larger
than all the rest. Hail! anointed of the
Lord. Thou art worthy.
My friends, you see 1t is either Christ
! or famine. If there were two banquets
spread, and to one of them, only, you
might GO you might stand and think for
a good while as to which invitation you
had better accept; but here 1t is feasting
or starvation. If there were two man.
sions offered, and you might have only
one, you might think for a long while,
saying, Perhaps 1 had better accept this
| gift, and perhaps l had better accept that
| gift;" but here 1t is a choice between pal
aces of light and novels of despair. If it
were a choice between oratorios, yon
might say, II prefer the Creation or
II prefer the 'Messiah!'" But here 1t is
a choice between eternal harmony and
everlasting discord. o, will you live or
die? VIII you sail into the harbor or drive
| on the rocks? VIII you start for the
| Egyptian corn-crlb, or will you perish
amid the empty barns Of the Canaanitish
! famine?
DEMOCRATS, WITH A PREFIX.