The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-13

apt TO forget the fault of those who are
rhe subjects of attack while attemptlhs
TO drive back the slanderers.e Persecution
is elevation. Helen Stirk, the Scotch
martyr. standing with her husband at tne
place Of execution said: Husband, iet
us rejoice to-day; we have lived together
many happy years; this is the happlest
time Of all our life; you see we are 10
be happy together forever. Be brave,
now, be brave Will not say, Good
night to you, for we shall soon be in
the kingdom of our father together.
Persecution shows the heroes ana nero
ines l go into another department ana
/ find that those great denominations or
Christians which have been most abused
have spread the most rapidly. No good
man was ever more violently maltreated
than John Wesley-belied and caricatured
and slandered until one day he
stood in a pulpit in London, and man
arose in the audience and said: You
were drunk last night" and John Wes-
ley said: Thank God, the whole cata-
logue is now complete. | have been charg-
ed with everything but that!' His tOl-
lowers were hooted at and maligned and
called by every detestable name that in
fernal ingenuity could invent but the
hotter the persecution the more rapidly
they spread until you know what great
host they have become and what a ire
mendous force for God and the truth they
are welding all the world over! 1t was
persecution that gave Scotland to Pres
byterianism 1t was persecution that gave
our land first TO civil liberty and after
WdIu 10 religious lIEtQpll leu L AlAbiAN
go further back and say it was perse-
cution that gave the world the great sal
walton of the Gospel. The ribald mock
cry, the hungering and thirsting,
death, when all the force Of hells fury
was hurled against the Cross, was the in
PRODUCTION of that religion which is yet
to be the earth's deliverance and our
eternal salvation. The state sometimes
said to the church: Come, take my hand,
and / will help you" What was the re-
The church went hack and II lost
it's estate of holiness, and 1t became in
effective. At other times the state said
has been the result? After the storms
have spent their fury the church, so far
from having lost any of its force has
increased and is worth infinitely more af-
ter the assault than before. Read all his
tory and you will find that true. The
church is far more indebted to the oppo-
sition Of civil government than to its APP
prevail The fires of the stake have only
been the torches which Christ held in his
hand, by the light of which the church
has marched to her present glorious po-
sition. In the sound of racks and imple-
ments of torture l hear the rumbling of
the Gospel chariot. The scaffolds of mar
tyrdom have been the stairs by which the
Learn also from our subject that sin viii
come to exposure. Long, long ago had
those brothers sold Joseph into Egypt.
They had made the old father believe that
his favorite child was dead. They had
suppressed the crime, and ii was a pro-
found secret we'll kept by the brothers.
But suddenly the secret is out. The old
father hears that his son is in Egypt, hav-
ing been sold there by the malice of his
own brothers. How their cheeks must
have burned and their hearts sunk at the
flaming out of this long suppressed crime.
The smallest iniquity has a thousand
tongues, and they will blab out exposure.
Saul was sent TO destroy the Canaanites,
their sheep and their oxen; but when he
got down there among the pastures, he
saw some fine sheep and oxen too fat TO
1T hn Verb tn uHA nI = 10
Nobody would know II. He drove these
stolen sheep and oxen toward home, but
stopped to report to the prophet how he
had executed his mission, when in the dis
lance the sheep began to blate and the OK
en- to below. The secret was out and
Samuel said to the blushing and confused
Saul: What meaneth the beating of the
sheep that hear, and the believing of the
cattle?" All! my nearer, you cannot keen
an niquity still At just the wrong time
the sheep Will Dleat and the oxen will bel
low. Achan cannot steal the Babylonish
garment without being stoned to death
nor Arnold betray his country without
having his neck stretched. Look over the
police arrests. These thieves, these burg
lars, these counterfeiters, these highway
men, these assassins, they all thought they
could bury thelf lniQu1ty so deep down, it
would never come to resurrection; but
there was some shoe that answered to
the print In the soil, some false keys found
in their possession. some bloody knife that
whispered of the death, and tie public in
dignatiOn and the anathema of outra ged
law hurled them into the dungeon or hoist
ed them on the galloWS. Francis l., King
of France, stood counSeling with his Of
ficers how he could take his army into
Italy. when Ameril. the fool of the court,
leaped out from corner of the room and
said You had better be consulting how
you Will get your army back" and it was
found that Francis l., and not Ameril
was the fool. Instead of consulting as to
the best way of getting into sin, you had
better consult as to whether you will be
able to get out of IT, If the world does not
will va11
is an awful power in an aroused con-
science. A highwayman plunged out upon
Whitefield as he rode along on horseback.
a sack of money on the horse-money that
he had raised for orphan asylums and the
hig'hwaymen put his hand on the gold and
Whitetield turned to him and said: Touch
that if you dare-that belongs to the Lord
Jesus Christ" And the ruftian skunk into
the forest. COnSciencei Conscience! The
ruffian had a pistol but WHITEHEAD shook
al him the finger of doom. Do not think
you can hide any great and protracted sin
in your heart. my brother In an unguard-
ed moment 1t Will slip off the lip, or some
slight action may for the moment set ajar
this door thar you wanted to keen closed
But suppose that in this life you hide it,
and you get along with this transgression
burning in your heart, as ship on fire
within for days hinders the flames from
bursting out by keeping down the matches
yet AT last in the judgment that iniquity
VIII blaze out before God and the uni
verse.
Learn also from this subject that there
is an inseparable connection between all
events, however remote. The universe is
only one thought of God. Those things
which seemed fragmentary and isolated
are only different parts of that great
thought. How far apart seemed these two
events-Joseph sold to the Arabian mer-
chants and his rulership of Egypt vet YOU
see in what a mysterious way God con-
nected the two into one plan. SO the
events are linked together. You who are
aged men look back and group together
a thousand things IN your life that once
seemed isolated. one undivided chain Of
events reaches from the garden of Eden
to the cross OF Calvary, and thus up to