The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-27

are ZoOphyte builders, and there viii j.,
small layer on top of small layer. anC
fossilized grief on the top of fosslizet
grief. Grace does not go up rapidly in
your soul, but. blessed be God. 1t goes up
Ten thousand million ages will not finish
you. You will never be finished. on for
ever! Up forever Out of the sea OF
earthly dsquietude viii gradually rise the
reefs, the islands, the continents, the hem
ispheres OF grandeur and glory. Men talk
as though in this life we only had time
to build; but what we build in this life. as
compared with what we shall build in the
next life. is as a striped shell TO Australia.
You go into an architects study and there
YOU see the sketch of temple the cor
ner stone of which has not yet been laid.
O, that 1 could have an architectural
sketch of what you viii be after eternity
has wrought upon you What pillars of
strength, What affairs Of supernal wOr-
ship What pinnacles thrusting their gilt
tering spikes into the sun that never sets
You do not sCold the corallines because
they cannot build an island in a day Why
should you scold yourself because you
cannot complete a temple of holiness for
the heart in this short life time? You tell
me VIC do not amount TO much now, but
try us after a thousand million ages of
halelujah. Let US hear the angels chant
Tor million centuries. Give us an eter-
nlty with God, and then see If we do not
amount to something. More slowly and
marvelousy accumulative is the grace in
the soul than any thing 1 can think Of.
NO mention shall be made of coral"
Lord, help us to learn that which most
OF us are deficient iu-patience If thou
canst take, through the sea-anemones.
millions Of years to build one bank of
coral, ought we not to be willing to do
work through ten years or fifty years
without complaint without restlessness,
ri flnTa oh,
the erring; patience that we cannot have
the millennium in a few weeks: patience
with assault of antagonists; patience at
what seems slow fulfillment of Bible prom
ises; patience with physical ailments; pa
thence under delays of Providence. Grand.
glorious, all-euduring. al-cOnquering pa
tience! Patience like that which my lately
assembled friend, DR.. Abel Stevens, de-
scribes when writing of one of Wesley's
preachers, John Nelson, who, when man
had him put in prison by false charges,
and being left for a long time tOrmented
by his enemy, said: THE Lord lifted up a
standard when the anger was coming on
like a flood, else l should have wrung his
neck to the ground and set my foot upon
it, Patience like that of Pericles, the
Athenian statesman, who, when a man
him to his own door, hurting at
him epithets. and arriving there when it
had become dark sent his servant with a
torch to light his enemy back to his home.
Patience like that eulogized by the Span
ish proverb when it says: Il have lost the
rings, but here are the fingers still" Pa
tiencel The sweetest sugar for the sour
est cup; the balance-wheel for all mental
and moral machinery; the foot that treads
into placidity stormiest lake; the bride
for otherwise rash tongues; the sublime
silence that conquers the boisterous and
blatant. Patience like that of the most
illustrious example of all the ages-Jesus
Christ; patient under betrayal; patient
under the treatment of Pilates Oyer and
Terminer; patient under the expectora-
ton of his assailants; patient under fiagel-
laton; patient under the charging spears
Of the Roman cavalry; patient unto death
Under all exasperations employ it. What
ever comes, stand il; hold on, wait bear
up.
Take my hand again, and we will go
little further into this garden of the sea,
and we shall find that in proportion as the
climate Is hot the coral is wealthy. Draw
two isothermal lines as 60 degrees north
and south of the equator, and you tind
the favorite home of the coral. Go to the
hottest part of the Pacific seas and you
ind the finest specimens of coral. Coral
IS a child of the fire. But more Won
lerfully do the heats and fires of trouble
bring out the Jewels of the Christian soul
asleep on the shaded lawn, but those who
are pounding amid the furnaces. l do not
know of any other way of getting q thor
1ugh Christian character l will show you
4 picture Here as a father and a moth
ar 80 or S5 years of age, their family
around them. 1t is Sabbath morning.
They have prayers. They hear the chill
lrens catechsm. They have prayers
every day of the week They are in hum
bic circumstances. But, after awhile the
wheel of fortune turns up, and the man
gets his $4,000 Now he has prayers on
Sabbath and every day of the week, but
he has dropped the catechism. The wheel
Of fortune turns up again, and he gets mis-
5s0, 900. Now he has prayers on Sabbath
alone. The wheel of fortune
keeps turning up, and he has $780, and
row he has prayers on Sabbath mornins
when he feels like IL and there is no COM
pany. The wheel of fortune keeps on
turning up, and he has his $500, 600 and no
prayers al all. Four-leaf clover in a pas
ture field Is not so rare as family pray
ers in the houses of people who have more
than $4,000 But now the wheel of for
tune turns down, and the man loses $780,
coo out of the 100000. Now on Sabbath
morning he is on a step-ladder looking for
a Bible under the old newspapers on the
bookcase. He is gonig to have prayers.
His affairs are more and more COM
pllcated ana AFTER dWhlle, crash goes
his last dollar Now ne has
prayers every morning, and he hears his
grandchildren the catechism. Prosperity
took him away from God; adversely drove
him back to God. Hot climate to make
the coral; hot and scaldng trouble to
make the jewels of grace in the soul. We
all hate trouble. and yet it does a great
deal for us You have heard perhaps, of
that painter who wished to get an express
sion of great distress for his canvas, and
who had his servant lash man fast and
put him 10 great torture, and then the ar
fist caught the look on the victims face
and Immediately transferred it TO the can
vas. Then he SAID to the servant. More
torture" and under more torture there
was a more thorough expression OF pain,
and the artist said: stop there; wait
till 1 catch that expression. There Now
! have il upon the canvas. LET loose the
victim. / have work that will last for
ever" o. you say. "he was an inhu-
man painter" No doubt about it, Trouble
Is eruel and inhuman; but he is a great
painter, and out OF our tears and blood on
his palette, he makes colors that never die.
o, that it might be a picture of Christian
fortitude, OF shining hope.
on the day l was licensed to preach the
gospel an old Christian man took my
hand and said: MY son, when YOU get
In tight corner on Saturday night with
out any sermon, send for me- and 1 will