The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-29

II Authridates liked hunting so well that
for seven years he nevRr went indoors,
what enthusiasm ought we TO nave VINO
are hunting for immortal sOulsi If Do
mtianus practised archery until he could
stand a boy down I'm the Roman amphi-
theater, with hand out the fingers like
that, and then the king could shoot an
arrow between the fingers without wound
ing them, 10 what drill and what prac-
tice ought not We to subject ourselves in
order 10 become spiritual archers ana
mighty hunters before the LOrdt' BEt
let me say, you VIII never Work any bet
ter than you pray. The old archers took
the bow, put one end of IL down beside
the FOOT elevated the other end, and II
was the rule that the bow should be just
the size OF the archer; If it were just
his size, then he would go into the bat
tie with confidence. Let me say that
your power TO project good in the world
will correspond exactly to your own spir-
itual stature. In other words, the first
thing in preparation for Christian work
Is personal conservation.
OH for a closer walk with God,
A calm and heavenly frame,
A light 10 shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb.
I am sure that there are some here who
at some time have been hit by the gospel
arrow. You felt the wound Of that con-
viction, and you plunged into the world
deeper, just as the stag, when the hounds
are after 1t, plunges into ScrOOn lake, eX-
pecLlhg IN LNdl way 10 escape. Jesus
Christ is on your track to-day, impenitent
man! not in wrath, but in mercy. O We
chased and painting soulsi here is the
stream of Gods mercy and salvation
where you may cool your thirst Stop
that chase of sin to-day. BY the red foun-
tain that leaped from the heart of my
Lord, bid you stop. Is there in all this
house any one who can refuse the offer
that comes from the heart of the dying
Son Of God? Why, do you know that there
are, in the banished world souls that, for
that offer you get to-day would fling the
possessed it? But they went out on the
mountains, the storm took them, and they
died.
There is in a forest in Germany a place
they call the "deer-leap'-two crags
about eighteen feet apart between them
a fearful chasm. This is called the deer
leap because once a hunter was on the
track of a deer; It came to one of these
crags; there was no escape for il from the
pursuit of the hunter, and in utter de-
spair it gathered itself up, and in the
death agony attempted to jump across.
OF course, il fell and was dashed on the
rocks far beneath. Here is a path to
heaven. 1t is plain, it is safe. Jesus
marks it out for every man to walk on.
But here is q man who says, Il won't walk
in that path; l will take my own way"
He comes on until he cOnfrOnts the chasm
That divides his soul from heaven. Now
his last hour has come, and resolves that
he viii leap that chasm, from the nights
of earth to. the nights of heaven Stand
back, now, and give him full swing, for
no soul ever did that successfully Let
him try. Jump! Jumpl He misses the
mark, and he goes down, depth below
depth destroyed without remedy" Men!
angels! devils! what shall we call that
place of awful catastrophe? Let It be
known forever as the sinners death
leap.