The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-14

to pluck fruit from branches beyond their
! reach, or have come out on limbs of the
tree from which they have tumbled into
| ruin without remedy. thousand trees
| of religious knowledge from which we
! may cat and get advantage; but from
! certain trees Of mystery how many have
| plucked their ruinl Election, free ageh-
| cy trinity, resurrection-in the discussion
! OF these subjects hundreds and thousands
| OF people ruin the soul. There are men
| who actually have been kept out of the
| kingdom Of heaven because they could
| not understand who Melehsedec was not
| Oh, how many have been destroyed by
| an unhealthful inquisitiVenessi 1t is seen
| in all directions. There are those who
| stand with the eye-stare and mouth-gape
| of curiosity. They are the first to hear a
! falsehood, build it another story high,
| and two wings to it. About other peoples
| apparel, about other peoples business,
| about other peoples financial condition,
| about other peoples affairs they are
| over-anxious. Every nice piece of gossip
stops at their door, and they fatten and
! iuXuriate i'm the endless round of the
great world Of tittle-tattle They invite
and sumptuously entertain at their house
Col Twaddle and Esquire Chitchat and
Gov. Smalltalk. Whoever hath an innuen-
do, whoever hath a scandal, whoever
hath a valuable secret, let him come and
sacrifice 1t to this Goddess of Splitter
| Thousands of Adams and Ewes do nothing
but eat fruit that does not belong to
them Men quite well known as mathema-
ticians failing in this computation of mo-
raj algebra good sense plus good breed
ing, minus curiosity equals minding
your own affairs!
Then, how many young men, through
curiosity so through the whole realm of
French novels, to see whether they are
really as bad as moralists have pronOunc-
ed them! They come near the verge Of the
precpice just TO look off. They want to
see how far 1t really is down, but they
lose their balance while they look, and
fall into remediless ruin; or, catching
themselves, Chamber up, bleeding and
CHASTITY, on the rock, gibbering with
curses or groanng, Intellectual prayer. BY
all means encourage healthful inquistive-
ness, by all means discourage illy-regu-
lated curiosity.
This subject also impresses me with the
fact that fruits that are sweet to the
taste may afterward produce great agony
Forbidden fruit for Eve was so pleasant
she invited her husband also to take of
it; but her Punishment from Paradise and
six thousand years of sorrow, and wretch
edness, and war. and woe paid for that
luxury. Sin may be very sweet at the
start. and 1t may induce great wretched-
ness afterward. The cup of sin is spark
ing at the top, but there is death at the
bottom. Intoxication has great exhilara-
ton for awhile. and it fllips the blood,
and 1t makes man see five stars where
others can see only one star and IL makes
the poor man rich and turns cheeks which
are white red as roses: but what about the
dCeams that come after when he seems
falling from great nights, OF is Frustrated
by other fancied disasters, and the per-
sp1ration stands on the forehead-the
night dew of everlasting darkuess-and he
ground
Nightmares shreking with lips that
crackle with all-cQnsuminR torture? RE
Jolce, o young man, in thy youth and
let thy heart cheer thee in the DAYS of
thy youth; but know thou that for all
these things God will bring thee into
judgment! Sweet at the start, horrible
at the last. Go into that hall of revelrv
where ungodly mirth staggers and bias
phemes. Listen to the senseless gable
see the last trace of intelligence dashed
out from faces made in Gods own image
"Ahal aha" says the registering inebriate.
TINS Is JOY for you; fill high your cups
my boys | drink to my wife's misery and
my children's rags and my Gods def
ahce" Ana he knows not that a hend
stirs the goblet in his hand and that adj
ders uncoil from the dregs and thrust
thelr forked tongues kissing through the
troth on the rim The Philistines ieered
and laughed and shouted at Samson
on they wanted him to make sport for
them, and he made sport for themi How
bright and gay was the scene for a little
While! After awhile the giant puts one
hand against this pillar, and the other
mana against that pillar, and bows him
selt, and three thousand merrv-n1al ers
are mashed like grapes in wine nress
last. ~ '''0
That one Edenic transgression did rot
seem 10 be much, but ii struck a blow
which TO this day makes the earth stag
ger. To find out the consequences of mat
one sin, you would have 10 compel the
world TO throw open all its prison doors
and display the crime. and throw omen
all its hospitals and display the disease
ana throw open all the Insane asvlunns
and show the Indebtedness. and omen All
the sepulchres and show the dead and
open all the doors of the lost world and
show the damned. That one Edenic trans
erosion stretched chords OF misery across
the heart of the world and struck them
with dolorous wailing and II has seated
the plaques upon the air and the shin
wrecks upon the tempest, and fastened
IKE leech, famine to the heart of the
SICK and dying nations. Beautiful at the
start horrible ar the last Oh, how many
| have experienced it,
Are there here those who are votaries
OF pleasure? Let me warn YOU nv
brother Your pleasure boat is far from
shore. and your summer day is ending
/ roughly, for the winds and the waves are
| loud-voiced, and the overcoming clouds
are all awrithe and agieam with terror.
| You are past the ''Narrows," and almost
| outside the Hook" and II the Atlantic
take thee, frail mortal, thou salt never
/ get 10 shore again. Put back, row swiftly
| swifter, swifterl Jesus from the shore
casteth rope. Clasp Il quickly. now or
| never. Oh, are there not some of Won
who are freishting all your loves and lows
| and hopes upon a vessel which shan never
| reach the port OF heaven2 Thou nearest
! the breakers one heave upon the rocks
/ on, what an awful crash was that An
/ other lunEe may crush thee beneath the
/ spars or grind thy bones to powder amid
the torn timbers. Overheard for your life
/ overheard! Trust not that loose plank
| nor attcmn the wave but quickly CLASH
! the feet OF Jesus walking on the waterv
/ pavement, shouting until he hear thee.
Lord, save me- or ! perish" Sin beauti-
/ tul az the start-oh, how sad. how distress
iul az the last! The pround over which
/ u leads you is hollow. The fruit IL offers
20 your taste Is poison. The promise n
makes TO you Is a lic over that unrodly
/ banquet the keen sword 90 EnHt- g,,t.