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

the kingdom of heaven. There is a rela-
ton between the smallest insect that
nuns in the summer air and the arch
angel on his throne. God can trace "a di-
rect ancestral line from the blue-jay that
this spring will build It's nest in the tree
behind the house to some one OF the hOck
Of birds which, when Noah hoisted the
arks window, with a Whirr and dash or
bright wings went out to sing over Mount
Ararat. The tulips that bloom in the gar
den this spring were nursed by the snow
flakes. The furthest star on one side of
the universe could not look toward the
furthest star on the other side of the uni
verse and say: You are no relation to
me-" for from that bright orb a voice
of light would ring across the heavens
responding, Yes, yes, we are sisters"
Nothing in Gods universe swings at loose
ends. Accidents are only Gods way of
turning a leaf in the book of his eternal
DEGREES. From our cradle to our grave
there is a path all marked out Each
other event in our life. our losses may
be the most direct road to our gain. Our
defeat and our victory are twin brothers.
The whole direction of your life was
changed by something which at the time
seemed to you trtiing, while some occur
renee which seemed tremendous affected
magnificent beyond all comprehension. He
molds US, and turns and directs us, and
to him as the flight of a shuttle. The
most terrific occurrence does not make
God tremble. The most triumphant
achievement does not lift him into rap
ture. That one great thought of God goes
out Through the centuries, and nations
rise and fall and eras pass and the world
changes, but God still keeps the undivided
mastery. linking event to event and CEN
tury to century. To God they are all one
event, one history, one plan, one devel-
opment, one system. Great and marvellous
are thy works, Lord God Almighty! l was
years ago in New Orleans at the expo
sltion rooms. when a telegram was sent
at Washington, and we waited some hf-
teen or twenty minutes and then the Pres
idents answer came back, and then the
presiding officer waved his handkerchief
and the signal was sent to Washington
that we were ready to have the machinery
of the exposition started, and the Presf-
dent put his finger on the electric but
ton and instantly the great Corliss wheel
began to mOVe-rumbling, rumbling, roll
5000 people clapped and shouted. Just
one finger at Washington started that vast
machinery, hundreds and hundreds of
miles away, and / thought then as I
think now. that men sometimes touch in
fuences that respond in the far distance,
forty years from now, fifty years from
now, a thousand years from nova mill
ion years from noW-one touch sounding
through the ages
We also learn from this story the pro-
priety of laying up for the future. During
the seven years OF plenty, Joseph prepared
for the famine and when it came he'had a
crowded storehouse, The life of most men
of plenty and famine. 1t is seldom that
any man passes through life without at
least seven years of plenty. During those
seven years, your business bears a rich
harvest You scarcely know where all
the money comes from, 1t. comes so fast
Every bargain you make seems to turn
into gold. You contract few bad debts
You are astonished with large dividends
You invest more and more capital You
wonder now men can be content with a
small business, gathering in only few
hundred dollars while you reap your thou
sands. Those are the seven years of
plenty. Now Joseph has time to prepare
for the threatened famine, for to almost
very man there do come seven wears of
famine. You will be sick, you will be un-
fortunate you will be defrauded, there will
be hard times, you will be disappointed,
and If you have no storehouse upon which
TO tan back, you may be famine struck
we nave no admiration for this DENYING
ones self all personal comfort and luxury
for the mere pleasure of boarding up this
grasping. grasping for the mere pleasure
OF seeing how large pile you can get, this
always being poor because as soon as a
dollar comes in it is sent out to see if ii can
ma another dollar, SO that ii can carry it
nome on It's back We have a contempt
for all those things, but there is an intel
iigent and undetermined forecast which we
love to see in men who have families ana
kindred depending upon them for tbe
blessings of education and home. God
sends US to the insects for a lesson, which
While they do not stint themselves in the
present, do not forget their duty 10 fore
cast the future. "Go to the ant tbon
sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
which having no guide, overseer or ruler;
proVldetn her meat in the summer and
gathereth her food in the harvest"
NOW there are two ways of laying up
money One of these is to put it in sfocil
and deposit it in bank. and invest II
on bond and mortgage. The other wav to
Jay up money is giving it away. He is the
safest who makes both of these invest
ments There are in this house men who if
tney lose every dollar they have in the
world would be millionaires for eternity
They made the spiritual investment; bnt
the man who devotes none of his gains
70 the cause OF Christ and looks only for
care not how the money is invested
He acts as the Rose if it shod saw; II
Will hold my breath, and none shall have
a snatch of fragrance from me until nexf
week; then l will set all the garden afioat
with my aroma" OF course the Rose
refusing to breathe, died But above all,