The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-31

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/ your soul and so much of heaven in your
everyday life that you viii be mighter
| for good than any who went through the
| curriculum of Harvard, or Yale. or OK
/ ford vet never graduated in the school
| of Christ When you get up to the gate
| OF heaven no one will ask you whether
! YOU can parse the first chapter of Genesis.
| but whether YOU have learned the fear of
! the Lord, which is the beginning of wis
! dom; nor whether YOU know how to square
| the circle. hut whether you have lived a
| is higher than Mount Parnassus
But what other multitudes there are I'M
| der other disadvantages Here is a Chris
| tian woman whose husband thinks religion
"a sham. and while the wife prays the chill
/ dren one way the husband sWears them an
! other. or here is Christian man who
| is trying to do his best for God and the
church. and his wife holds him back and
| SAYS on the way home from prayer meet
| ing. where he gave testimony for Christ:
What a fool YOU made Of yourself! I
| hope hereafter YOU viii keep still" And
when he would be benevolent and give fifty
dollars. she Criticises him for not giving
fifty cents. must do justice, and publicly
thank God that l never proposed at home
to give anything for any cause of human
ity or religion but the other partner in the
domestic firm approved it. And when it
seemed beyond my ability and faith in
God was necessary, she had three-fourths
| they contribute to charitable objects are
afraid that the wife shall find it out What
whitening curse such a woman must be
to a good man!
Then there are others under the great
disadvantage of poverty. Who ought to
get things cheapest? You say those who
have little means. But they pay more
You buy coal by the ton, they buy it by
the bucket. You buy flour by the barrel
they buy it by the pound. You get apparel
cheap, because you pay cash. They pay
dear because they have to get trusted
And the Bible was right when it said:
the destruction of the poor is their pow
erty."
Then there are those who made mis-
take in early life, and that overshadows
all their days. do you not know that
that man was once in prison." is wills
pered. or DO you know that that man
once attempted suicide? or, do you
know that that man once absconded?"
Or, do you know that that man was
once discharged for dishonesty" Per
haps there was only one wrong deed in
the mans life and that one act haunts
the subsequent half century of his exist
ence.
Others have unfortunate predominance
of some mental faculty, and their rash
ness throws them into wild enterprises
or their trepdation makes them decline
great opportunity, or there is a vein of
melancholy in their disposition that de-
feats them, or they have an endowment
of over-mirth that causes the impression
of insincerity.
Others have a mighty obstacle in their
personal appearance, for which they are
not responsible. They forget that God
fashioned their features. and their COM
plexon, and their stature, the size of their
nose, and mouth. and hands, and feet
and gave them their gait and their gem
eral appearance; and they forget that
much of the worlds best work and the
churchs best work has been done by
homely people; and that Paul the Apostle
is said to have been hump-backed, and his
cye-sight weakened by ophthalmia, while
many of the finest in appearance have
passed their time before 1attering look
Eyeglasses, or in studying killing atti-
tudes and in displaying the richness of
wardrobes-noL one ribbon. or vest, or
sack, or glove, or button, or shoe-string of
which they have had brains to earn Tor
themselves.
others had wrong proclivities from the
start. They were born wrong, and that
sticks to one even after he is born again
They have a natural crankiness that IS
two hundred and seVenty-tiVe years old. 1t
came over with their great-grandfathers
from Scotland, or Wales or France. 1t
was born on the banks of the Thames or
the clyde, or the Tiber, or the Rhine, and
has survived all the plaques and epidemics
of many generations. and is living to-day
on the banks of the Potomac, or the Hud-
son, or the Androscoggin, or the Savan-
nah or the La Plata. And when a man
tries to stop this evil ancestral proclivity
he is like man on a rock in the rapids of
Niagara holding on with a grip from
which the swift currents are trying to
sweep him into the abyss beyond.
Oh, this world is an overburdened world,
an overworked world! 1t is an awfully
Il ae f111 Fort n a To
world. Scientists are trying to find out
the cause of these earthquakes in all lands,
cis-Atlantic and transatlantic. Some say
this and some say that. l have taken the
diagnosis of what is the matter with the
earth. IL has so many burdens on it and
so many fires within It, 1t has a fit. 1t cam
not stand such a circumference and such
a diameter. Some new CotOpaXi or Strom-
boil or Nesuvius will open, and then all
will be at peace for the natural world.
But what about the moral woes OF the
world that have raclxed all nations, and
for six thousand years science proposes
nothing but knowledge, and many people
who know the most are the most uncom-
forted?
In the way of practical relief for all dis
| advantages and all woes the only voice
that is worth listening to on this subject
Is the voice OF Christianity, which is the
voice of Almighty God. Whether / have
mentioned the particular disadvantage I'M
der which YOU labor or not, l distinctly
declare, in the name of my God, that there
is a way out and way up for all of you.
You cannot be any worse off than that
Christian young woman who was in the
Pemberton mills when they fell some years
ago, and from under the fallen timbers
she was heard singing: IL am going home
TO die no more"
Take good courage from that Bible. all
| of whose promises are for those in bad
| predicament. There are better days for
you. either on earth or in heaven. | put
my hand under your chin, and lift your
! face into the light of the coming dawn.
! Have God on your side, and then YOU
have for reserve troops all the armies Of
| heaven, the smallest company of which is
| twenty thousand chariots. and the small
est brigade one hundred and forty-four
thousand. the lightnings of heaven their
| drawn sword.
An ancient warrior saw an overpower-
ing host come down upon his small. COM
pany OF armed men, and mounting his
| horse he threw a handful OF sand In the
| air crying, Let their faces be covered with
! af.l Ca ont Ftl