The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-23

ging away, but they can never be deliv-
cred unless now they will hoist some signal
of distress. However weak and feeble it
may be, Christ viii see il, and bear down
upon the helpless craft, and take them on
board; and it will be known on earth and
| in heaven how narrowly they escaped "es-
caped as with the skin of their teeth"
! There are Others who in attempting TO
come to God, must run between a great
| many business perplexites. If a man go
| over to business at 10 o'clock in the morn
| ing, and come away at 3 o'clock in the
| afternoon, he has some time for religion;
! but how shall you find time for religious
! contemplation when you are driven from
! sunrise TO sunset, and have been for five
years going behind in business and are
/ frequently dunned by creditors whom YOU
| cannot pay, and when from Monday morn
| ing until Saturday night, you are lodging
| bills that you cannot meet? You walk
| day by day i'm uncertainties that have
! kept your brain on fire for the past three
years. Some with less business troubles
| than you have gone crazy. The clerk
! has heard a noise in the back counting
| room and gone in, and found the chief
man Of the firm a raVing maniac; or the
| wife has heard the bang of a pistol in the
| back parlor, and gone in, stumbling over
the dead body of her husband-a suicide.
| There are men pursued, harrassed, trod-
den down, and scalped of business per-
do not know Now God will not be hard
on you. He knows what obstacles are in
| the way of your being a Christian, and
your first effort in the right direction he
| viii crown with success. DO not let satan,
| with cotton bales. and kegs, and hogs
! heads, and counters, and stocks of I'M
/ saleable goods, block up your way to
! heaven. Gather up all your energies
! Tighten the girde about your loins. Take
| an agoniZing look into the face of God,
| and then say, Here goes one grand eff
! fort for life eternal" and then bound
away for heaven, escaping "as with the
| skin of your teeth"
In the last day it will be found that
! Hugh Latimer, and John Knox, and Huss
| and Ridley were not the grea test martyrs,
| but Christian men who went up incorrupt
| from the communications and perplexities
| of Pennsylvania avenue. Broad street.
| state street and Third street on earth
| they were called brokers' or stock jobbers,
| or retailers, or importers; but in heaven,
| Christian heroes. No faggots were heaped
| about their feet; no inquisition demanded
| from them recantation no soldier aimed
pike a their heart; but they had mental
| tortures, compared with which all physi-
| cal consuming is as the breath of a spring
| morning.
I find in the community a large class of
| men who have been 50 cheated, 50 lied
| about, so outrageously wronged that they
| world where everything seems so topsy-
| turvey, they do not see how there can be
| any God. They are COMPOUNDED and fren-
! zied, and misanthropic. Elaborate argu-
! ments TO prove to them the truth of Chris
| tianity or the truth of anything else touch
| them nowhere. Hear me, all such men. /
| preach to you no rounded periods, no orn-
| amental discourse; but put my hand on
| your shoulder, and invite you into the
| peace Of the gospel. Here is a rock on
! which you may stand firm, though the
| waves dash against il harder than the At
! lantic. pitching its surf clear above Eddy
stone light house Do not charge upon
! God all these troubles of the world. AS
| long as the world stuck to God God stuck
| to the world; but the earth seeded from
| his government, and hence all these out
| RACES and all these woes. God is good.
! For many hundreds of years he has been
| coaxing the world to come back to him.
| but the more he has coaXed, the more
| violent have men been in their resistance
! and they have stepped back, and stepped
| back until they have dropped into ruin.
Try this God ye who have had the
bloodhounds after you, and who have
thought that God had forgotten you. Try
| him. and see If he will not help. Try
| him, and see if he will not pardon. Try
! him, and see if he will not save. The
! flowers of spring have no bloom so sweet
as the Towering of ChriStS affections,
| The sun hath no warmth compared with
| the glow of his heart The waters have
no refreshment like the fountain that will
| slake the thirst of thy soul. At the mo-
| ment the reindeer stands with his lip
| and nostrl thrust in the cool mountain
| torrent, the hunter may be coming
| through the thicket Without cracking a
stick under his foot, he comes close by
! the stag, aims his gun, draws the trig-
ger, and the poor thing rears in its death
agony and falls backwards, its antlers
! crashing on the rocks; but the painting
| hart that drinks from the water brooks
of Gods promise shall never be fatally
| wounded. and shall never die.
This world is poor portion for your
soul, oh. business mani An eastern king
| had craven on his tomb two fingers rep
| resented as sounding on each other with
| a snap. and under them the motto: "AU
is not worth that Apicius Coelius hang
ed himself because his steward Informed
| him that he had only eighty thousand
! pounds sterling left All of this worlds
| riches make but a small inheritance for
a soul. Robesperre attempted to win the
| applause of the world; but when he was
! dying woman came rushing through the
/ crowd. crying to him: Murderer of my
! kindred. descend to hell, covered with
! the curses of every mother in France
| Many who have expected the plaudits of
! the world have died under its Anathema
| Maranatha.
on. lind your peace in God. Make one
| strong pull for heaven. No halfway work
| will do It, There sometimes comes a time
/ on shipboard when everything must be
/ sacrificed to save the passengers. The car
/ so is nothing the rigging nothing The
captain puts the trumpet to his lip and
/ shouts, "Cut away the mast" Some of
you have been tossed and driven, and you
| have. in your effort to keep the world
| well nigh lost your soul. Untill you have
4 decided this matter, let every thing else 60
| overheard with all those other anXeties
! and burdens You will have to drop the
! sails of your pride, and cut away the mast
! with one earnest cry for help. put your
cause into the hand of him who helped
! Paul out of the breakers OF Melita, and
/ who, above the shrill blast Of the wrath
! lest tempest that ever blackened the sky
/ or shook the ocean, can hear the faintest
! implication for mercy.
! I shall close this sermon feeling that
some OF you, who have considered your
case as hopeless. will take heart again,
| and that with a hood-red earnestness,
/ such as Won have mover 0NporipupCd before