The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-05

crs had lived forty-eight hours2 All he
was worn out before he got there, and
you wonder, oh, child Of God that, look
ing into the volumes of heaven for your
/ name, you find IL was written with a
| trembling penmanship,-trem with
! every letter of your name, II ii be your
earthly name, or trembling with every let
! ter of your heavenly name, If that be diff
! ferent and more euphonious. That will
not be the first time you saw the mark of
| a quivering pen, for did you not. oh, man,
| years ago see your name so written on
| the back of a letter, and you opened II,
| saying why, here is a letter from moth
| er," or here is letter from father"
| and after you opened it you found all the
words because of old age were traced ir-
! regularly and uncertain so that you could
! hardly read 1t at all. But after much
study you made it out,-a letter from
| home, telling you how much they missed
| you, and how much they prayed for you,
! and how much they wanted to see you,
| and If it might not be on earth that so
| 1t might be in the world where there are
no partings. Yes, your name is written
in heaven, If written at all, with tremb-
ling chiroRraphy.
Again, in examination of your name in
the heavenly archives, If you find it there
at all, you will find it written with a
bold hand. You have seen many a sig
nature that because of Sickness or old
age had tremor in it, yet it was as bold
as the man who wrote 1t. Many an order
written on the battlefield and amid the
thunder of the cannonade has had evil
dence of excitement in every word and
every letter. and in the speed with which
II was folded and handed to the officer
as ne put his foot in the swift stirrIps,
and yet that commander, Notwithstanding
his trembling hand gives a holiness of
order that shows itself in every word
written. You do not need to be told that
trembling hand does not always mean
cowardly hand 1t was with a very
trembling hand Charles Carroll of Car
rollton signed his name to the
declaration of American independ-
ence' but no signer had more
courage, and when some one said:
There are many Charles CAROLS and
II will not be known which one it is"
he resumed the pen and wrote Charles
Carroll of CarrOliton. Trembling hand
no sign of timidity The daring and de-
hance seen in the way your name is writ
ten in heaven is a challenge to all earth
and hell TO come on If they can to defeat
Your ranSOmed soul The way your name
is written there is as much as to say:
Il have redeemed him; / died for him.
| am going to crown and enthrone him
Nothing shall ever happen, down in that
world where he now lives, to defeat my
determination to keep him. to shelter
him to save him. By my Almighty
grace l am going to fetch him here. He
may slip and slide, but he has got to
come here. BY my omnipotent sword
by the combined strength of all heavens
prtncipalities and powers and dominions
by the twenty thousand chariots of the
Lord Almighty, l am going to see him
through Bold handwriting 1t is the
boldest thing ever written to write my
name there and your name there He
knows our weaknesses and bad propensi-
ties better than we know them ourselves
He knows all the apollyonic hosts that are
sworn to down us If they can. He knows
all the temptations that will assail US
between now and the moment OF our last
pulsation of the heart, and yet he dares
to write our name there. Boldness!
Nothing at Saragcssa, or Chalons, or
Marathon, or Thermopylae to equal it!
Nothing in the sack of gun-powder which
one English soldier carried under the
blazing artillery of the Mohammedans
and blew up the gate of Delhi! Can YOU
not see the boldness in the penmanship
that has already written our names
thereY Apostle Peter, what do you think
of it? And he answers, Kept by the
power of God through faith unto com
plete salvation" Oh, blessed Christ,
what dost thou mean by it? And he an
swers, They shall never perish, neither
shall any man pluck them out of my
hand" Your names are written in hea-
ven"
Again, If according TO the promise of the
text you are permitted to look into the
volumes of eternity and shall see your
name there, you will find it written in
lines, in words, in letters unmistakable
Some people have come to consider indis-
tinct and almost unreliable penmanship
a mark of genius, and so they affect Il.
Because every paragraph that Thomas
Chalmers and Dean Stanley, and Lord
Byron, and Rufus Choate, and other po-
tent men wrote was a puzzle imitators
ander Dumas says that plain penmanship
is the brevet of incapacity. Then there
are some who, through too much demand
upon their energies and through lack or
time lost the capacity of making the pen
ineligible, and much of the writing of
this world is indecipherable. We have seen
piles of ineXplicable chrography, and we
ourselves have helped augment the mag
nitude. We have not been sure of the
name signed, or the sentiment expressed.
or whether the reply was affirmative or
negative. Through indistinct penmanshlp
last wills and testaments have been dc,
feated, widows and orphans robbed or
their Inheritance, railroad trains brought
into collision through the dim words OF
telegram put into the hand of a con-
ductor, and regiments, in this wise, mis-
taking their instructions, have been sacri-
feed in battle. I asked Bishop Cowie. in
Auckland, New Zealand, the bishop hav,
ing been in many of the wars wha.
Tennyson, in his immortal poem, THE
/ Charge of the Light brigade" meant by
the words, Some one had Numbered, ("
and the bishop said that the awful car
mage at Balalxlava was the result of an in
/ distinctly-written and wrongly-read mill
| tary order. Some one had blundered ..
! But your name once written in the
Lambs Book of Life, will be so unmistak-
! able that all heaven can read it at the first
4 glance. 1t will not be taken for the name
/ OF some other, so that in regard to II
| there shall come to be disputation Not
one of the millions and billions and qua
! drillions of the family saved, will doubt
! that II means YOU and only you. Oh. the
! glorious, the rapturous gertrude of that
| entrance on the heavenly roll. Not saved
! in promiscuous way Not put into a
! glorifled mob. No, no! Though you came
| up the worst sinner that was ever saved.
| and somebody, who knew you in this
/ world at one time as absolutely abandon
/ ed and dissolute. should say, 81 never
heard OF your conversion and do not be-
! lieve you have a right to be here" you
! could Just laugh a laugh Of triumph and
! turning over the leaves containing Inc
names Of the redeemed. say Read It for