The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-27

father; not many more aches for thee;
will never leave thee; take courage a little
longer and i VIII steady thy tOttering
steps. and l will soothe thy troubles and
give thee rest. Courage, old man." Then
Christ goes up another garden path, and
he comes to a soul in trouble and says,
Peace! ali is we'll I have seen thy tears;
/ have heard thy prayer. The sun shall
not smite thee by day nor the moon by
night. The Lord shall preserve thee from
all evil; he will preserve thy soul. Cour-
age. o troubled spirit"
Then l see Jesus going up another gar
den path, and l see great excitement
among the leaves, and hasten up that
garden path to see what Jesus is doing
there, and 10! He is breaking off flowers,
sharp and clean from the stem. and L
say. stop, Jesus, don't kill those beau
tiful flowers" He turns to me and says;
II have come into my garden to gather
lilies, and l mean to take these up TO a
higher terrace, for the garden around my
palace, and there will plant them; and in
better soil and in better air they shall put
forth brighter leaves and sweeter redo
lence, and no frost shall touch them for
ever" And / looked up into his face and
said, well, it is his garden, and he has
a right to do what he will with II. Thy
viii be done!" the hardest prayer ever
man made.
the best; from many of your households
the best one is gone. You know that she
was too good for this world; she was the
gentlest in her ways, the deepest In her
came, you had no faith in medicines. You
knew that the hour of parting had come,
and when, through the rich grace OF the
Lord Jesus Christ, you surrendered that
treasure, you said Lord Jesus, take It
1T is the best we have; take it. Thou arr
worthy The others in the household
may have been of groSSer mold. She was
of the finest.
The heaven of your little ones will not
be fairly begun until you get there. All
the kindnesses shown them by immortaIs
will make them forget Thprn
they are. the radiant thrOngs that went
out from your homes. / throw a kiss TO
the sweet darlings. They are all well now
in the palace. The crippled child has a
sound foot now. A little lame child says:
Ma, will l be lame in heaven2" mo,
my darling, you won't be lame in heav-
be sick in heaven?" mo, my dear, you
won't be sick in heaven" A little blind
child says: Ma, will be blind in heav-
en?" mo, my dear you won't be blind in
heaven. They are all well there"
l notice that the fine gardens sometimes
have high fences around them and you
cannot get in. 1t is so with a kings gar
den. The only glimpse you ever get of
such a garden is when the king rides out
in his splendid carriage. il is not so with
this garden, this Kings garden. 1 throw
come in. No monopoly in religion. Who
soever will, may. Choose now between a
desert and garden. Many of you have
tried the garden of this worlds delight.
You have found it has been a chagrin. So
1t was with Theodore Hook. He made all
the world laugh. He makes us laugh now
when we read his poems; but he could
not make his own heart laugh. While in
the midst of his festivities he confronted a
looking glass and he saw himself and
said: There, that is true. l look Just as
l am; done up in body, mind and purse :"
So 1t was of Shenstone, of whose garden l
told you at the beginning of my sermon.
He sat down amid those bowers and said:
Il have lost my road to happiness. I am
angry and envious and frantic. and de-
spise everything around me just as it be-
comes a mailman to do"
we weary soulsl come into Christ's
| garden to-day and pluck little hearts
| ease. Christ is the only rest and the only
! pardon for a perturbed spirit. Do you not
| think your chance has almost come? You
men and women who have been waiting
| ~ in which to accept Christ. but have
| postponed it, five, ten, twenty, thirty
! years-do you not feel as if now your hour
/ of celiVerance and pardon and salvation
/ had come? o, man, what grudge hast thou
against thy poor soul that thou wilt not
| let it be saved? feel as if salvation must
| come to-day in some of your hearts.
Some years ago a vessel struck on the
rocks. They had only one life-boat In
/ that life-boat the passengers and crew
/ were getting ashore. The vessel had foun-
| dered, and was sinking deeper and deeper.
/ and that one boat could not take the pas
! sengers very swiftly A little girl stood
| on the deck waiting for her turn to get
| into the boat. The boat came and went,
| came and went, but her turn did not
| seem to come. After a while she could
| wait no longer. and she leaped on the taft
| rail and then sprang into the sea, cry
! ing to the boatmen: Save me next! Save
me neXtv' Oh, how many have gone ashore
! into Gods mercy, and yet you are cling
! ing to the wreck of sin! Others have ac-
| cepted the pardon of Christ, but you are
in peril. Why not, this moment make a
rush for you immortal rescue, crying un-
| til Jesus shall hear you, and heaven and
earth ring with the cry: Save me next
/ Save me next! Now is the day Of saliva
ton, Nowi Now
This Sabbath is the last for some of you.
4 1t is about to sail away for ever. Her
bell tolls. The planks thunder back i'm
/ the gangway. She shoves off. She floats
out toward the great ocean of eternity.
! Wave farewell to your last chance for
! heaven "Oh. Jerusalem. Jerusalem. how
often would l have gathered thee as a
| hen gathereth her brood under her wings
and we would mott Behold your house is
/ left unto you desolate." Invited to reveI
| in garden, you die in desert, Nav
/ God Almighty before it is too late, break
| that infatuatiOn.
LAKE CITY's HONORED GRA.Es.