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


tation, when the poor man leaped from
the table and hobbled to the door, and
said: Gentlemen I am sorry to disap-
point you. but by the help Of God. / viii
die with my leE on" What a terrific loss
is the loss of our physical faculties,
The way the battle of Crecy was decided
against the French was by the Welshmen
killing the French horses, ana that brought
their riders 20 the ground. And when you
cripple this body, which is merely the an
imal on which the soul rides, you may
sometimes defeat the soul
Yet how many suffer from this physical
taking off! Good cheer my brother. God
viii make it up to you somehow. The
grace, the sympathy of God. viii be more
10 You than anything you have lost. #
God allows part of your resources to be
cut off in one place. he will add il on
somewhere else. As Augustus, the empe-
por took off a day from February. making
it the shortest month in the year and
added it TO August, the month named after
himself, so advantages taken from one
part of your nature will be added on to
another But il is amazing how much of
the worlds work has been done by men of
subtracted physical organization. S. S.
Preston, the great orator Of the south
west, went limpng all his life but there
was no foot put down upon any platform
OF his day that resOunded so far as his
club foot. Beethoven was so deaf that
he could not hear the crash of the or
chestra rendering his oratorios. Thomas
Carlyle, the dyspeptic martyr was given
the commission 60 drive cant out OF the
worlds literature. The Rev Thomas
Stockton of Philadelphia, with one lung
raised his audience nearer heaven than
most ministers can raise them with two
lungs. In the banks, the insurance com
panies the commercial establishments. the
reformatory associations, the churches,
there are tens of thousands of men and
women to-day doubled up with rheuma-
tism, or subject to the neuralgias, or with
only fragments OF limbs, the rest of which
they left at Chattanooga, or South Noun
tain, or the Wilderness, and they are worth
more to the world. and more to the
church, and more to God than those of
us who have never so much as had a fin
ger joint stiffened by a felon
Put to fun use all the faculties that re-
MAN, and charge on all opposing circum-
stances with the determination of John of
Bohemia, who was totally blind, and yet
at a battle cried out, Il pray and be-
seech you to lead me so far into the fight
that may strike one good blow with this
sword OF mine" Do not think so much
Of what faculties you have lost as of what
faculties remain. You have enough left
to make yourself felt in three worlds
while you help the earth, and balk he'll.
and win heaven. Arise from your dis
couragements. men and women of de-
peted or crippled physical faculties, and
see what by the special help of God, you
can accomplish!
The skilled horsemen stood around Blu
cephalus, unable TO mount or manage him,
so wild was the steed. But Alexander no
ticed that the sight of his own shadow
seemed to disturb the horse. SO AleXan-
der ciutched him by the bride, and turn
ed his head away from the shadow, and
toward the sun and the horses agitation
was gone, and Alexander mounted him
and rode Off to the establishment of all
who stood by. And what you people need
is to have your sight turned away from
the shadows of your earthly lot over which
you have so long pondered and your head
turned toward the sun-the glorious sun
of Gospel consolation, and Christian hope,
and spiritual triumph.
And then remember that all physical dis
advantages will after awhile vanish. Let
those who have been rheumatismed out of
a foot, or cataracted out of an eye, or by
the perpetual roar of our cities Numbered
out of an ear, look forward to the day
when this old tenement house of flesh win
come down and a better one shall be build
ed. The resurrection morning will provide
you with a better outfit. Either the I'M
strung, wornout, hunted, and crippled
organs win be so reconstructed that YOU
viii not know them, or an entire new set
of eyes. and ears, and feet will be given
you. Just what il means by corruption
putting on interruption we do not know,
save that 1t will be glory ineffable; no
lmping in heaven, no straining of the eye
sight to see things little way off; no put
ting of the hand behind the ear to double
the capacity of the tympanum; but facul-
ties perfect, all the keys of the instrument
attuned for the sweep of the fingers of
ectasy. But until that day of resumption
comes, let us bear each others burdens,
and so fulfil the law OF Christ.
Another form of disadvantage under
which many labor is lack of early educa-
ton. There will be no excuse for ignor-
ance In the next generation. Free schools
and illimitable opportunity of education
viii make ignorance a crime. ! believe in
compulsory education, and those parents
who neglect to put their children under
educational advantages have but one
right left. and that Is the penitentiary.
But there are multitudes of men and wo-
men In mid-llfe who have had no oppor-
tunity Free schools had not yet been
established, and vast multitudcs had lit
tie or no school al all They feel It when
as Christian men they come to speak or
pray i'm religious assemblies or public oc-
casiOns patriotic, or political, or educa-
tlonal. They are silent because they do
not feel competent. They owe nothing to
English grammar, or geography, or bellies
lettres. They would not know "A participlc
from a pronoun If they met 1t many times
a day. Many of the most successful mer-
chants OF America and men in high po-
hucal places cannot write an accurate
letter on any theme. They are complete
~ dependent upon clerks. and deputies
and stcnographers 10 make things right
/ knew a literary man who IN other years
IN this city made his fortune 10y writing
speeches for congressman, or fixing them
up for the Congressional Record after
they were delivered. The millionaire illit-
eracy OF this country is beyond measure
mcnt.
Now. suppose a man finds himself In
mid-lfe without education. what Is he 90
do2 DO the best he can. The most ef-
fective layman In former pastoral
charge that I ever heard speak on relg-
ious themes could within five minutes OF
exhortatlon. break all the laws OF English
grammar. and " he left any law unfrac-
turod he would complete the work OF lin
gual devastation IN the prayer with which
he followed a.. But ! would rather have
him pray for me II I were sick or In trou-
bile. than any Christian man I know Of.
aud len that church all the people preferred
him in cXhortaton and prayer 60 all 9TH
grs. MhNf Because he WAS so thorour al 4