The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-18

has been blazing Tor hundreds or years,
and Will keep on blazing until, until,-but
/ / dare not hazard a prophecy. Can il be
/ that its fires will ever be put out? Can 1t
/ be that its roar VIII ever be silenced? Can
/ it be that before our Zerubbabel that blaZ-
/ ing mountain will ever become plain?
The mightiest, grandest movement for
I driving brutal war out of the earth dates
| from Jan. Il, 1891 The men who on either
/ side of the sea did most TO effect that pan
/ of arbitration have made themselves i'm
mortal
/ The eve Of the present administration of
! the United States government has been
! honOred with the gladdest event of eigh-
| teen centuries. All civilized nations Will
/ copy the sublime example ] implore the
| illustrous Senate of the United States to
allow nothing to interfere with vote OF
| ratification, that the bells of church
| Christendom may ring out Peace on earth,
| good viii toward men"
| Senators. many of you my personal
| friends, let me say that this il the oppor-
! tunity Of your lives. BY emphatic and
! enthusiastic vote rise to the splendor of
! the occasion and win the favor OF all the
| good Of earth and all the mighty in heay-
/ en-. Let the aye. aye, Of our American
| Senate resound through all the capitals
/ OF Europe and make all the arsena.s and
| armories of the round world hear that
| there shall be no more murder among ma
/ lions.
There is also the long range of noun
| tains, longer than Appalachian range.
! longer than Caucasian range longer than
/ Sierra Nevada range-the piled-up oppo-
! siton Of bad literature, bad homes, bad
| institutions. bad amusements, bad CEN
! turtles, bad religions: Paganism. Hndoo-
! ism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, and
! buttressed and enthroned Godlessness, de-
| voted TO ambition and lust and hydra
! headed, argus-eyed abomination, as it
! stands with lifted fist and mocking lips
! challenging Jehovah upon the throne of
| the universe to strike If he dare. Oh, 1t
| ls a great mountain, as my text declares.
| There Is no use in denying it. The most
| authentic statistics declare it, The signs
| oil the times prove it. All Christian work
| ers realize 1t. 1t is a mountain. "The
| mountain can never be brought down"
| says worldly speculation. THE mountain
can never be made a plain" says small
! falth in the churches. Well, let us see
Let us look about for the implements
| we can lay our hands on Let us count
/ the number on our side who are willing to
| dig with a shovel, or bore a tunnel or
! blast rock. Let us see if there is any
foreign help that will come in to reinforce
! US. l do not want to make myself absurd
| by attempting an impossiblity If it is
| only one spade at the foot of Mount
| Blanc; II 1t is only one arm, capable of
| htting but a few pounds, against a noun
| tam that weighs a hundred million tons
lt| W lult before we make ourselves the
| traVeSty and caricature of the universe If
we are to undertake this job, first of all
| we must have a competent engineer one
| VINO knows all about excavations about
embankments, about tunnels, about noun
| tains. know engineers who have carved
| up mountains, cut down mountains, re-
| moved mountains. | will do nothing an
less l Know who is to be our Engineer.
| Herubbabel led at the rebuilding of the
| ancient Temple, and Matthew Henry,
the greatest of commentators, declares
| that our Zerubbabel is the Lord Jesus
Christ. The Zerubbabel of my text was
| only a type of the glorious and omnipo-
tent Jesus, and as l look up into the face
OF this Divine Engineer and see it glow
| with all the splendors of the Godhead,
and see that in his arm is the almighti-
ness that flung out all the worlds that
| glitter in the midnight heavens, and that
to lift the Himalayas would cost him no
more effort than for me to lift an ounce,
my courage begins to rally, and my faith
begins to mount, and my enthusiasm is
all afame, and the words or my text this
moment just fit my lips and express the
triumph of my soul, and cry out, "Who
art thou, O great mountain? before Zerub-
babel thou shalt become plain"
My experiences with the shovel are that
you cannot do much by one push of that
implement, and that after you have been
digging with it an hour what you have
accomplished seems very little; but just
go along by the place where they are build
ing a railroad through a mountain and see
what great work a thousand shoVels can
do and know that while there are a thou
sand shovels at work on this SIDE of the
mountain there are a thousand shovels
busy on the other side, and all 1 have Ia
do is to manage my own particular shovel
1t cheers me to think that against this old
Mountain of Sin there are hundreds OF
thousands and rnfl1inne Of G IL
ment busy and we are all at work under
the one Engineer who came down from
his throne in heaven to oversee and helI
the removal of that mountain, and who
has contracted to have it done. l have
seen the contract, and He is well paid fol-
it. The compensation promised by the
throne of heaven is, Il will give thee the
heather for thine inheritance and the ut
termost parts of the earth for thy pos
session" The reason so many of us are
idle is that we want bigger shovel OF
we would like to manage some great by
draulic engine No, brother Stick tc
your shovel. Dig away in your Sabbath
classes. Dig away in your missions. Die
away in your homes. Dig away i'm your
pulpits. DO the work next to you Dc
not spend too much time look
, ing at the great size of the mountains
or at the way others use their shovels
All that you can accomplish toward the
removing of that mountain will be with
your own particular shovel Remember
little David, with Saul's helmet on him
dropping clear down over his ears, even
unto his shoulders. But when he got in his
hand the boys sling. how we'll he used III
II you do not understand Greek, do not
attempt to tell the people what the text is
in the original. If you do not understand
, Latin, attempt no drafts upon Latinty
You who want to help i'm the removal OF
the mountain, hold on to your shovel
} Much time has been lost by the fact that
many of the sharpest shovels, instead OF
being used for the removal Of the noun
tain. have been used in fighting each
other. The great Presbyterian church
was nightly hindered by the fight
that for years went on between
Old School shovels and New
School shovels. and it was not
until the meeting of the general
assembly at Pittsburg, thirty or forty
years ago that many good men made up
their minds that shovels are not made to
fight with but TO dig with. Many of the
old theologians went around with band
aged foreheads which had not been struck
/ nv tho swords I'm the hattie for God blt