Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-06-10

houses, believe that onc-half of them
will go over. The ruin will begin at
one end of the street, and it will be
crash crashl crash! all the way down
to the docks, "What is the matter?
Has there been fall in gold?" "Oh,
no." Has there been new TARIFF
NO HAS there been failure in
crops?' NO" Has there been an I'M
accountable panic?' NO This is
the secret; The Lord God has set up
His throne of Judgment in the eX-
change. lie has summoned the right
eous and the wicked to come before
Him, What was 1897? A day of judg-
ment. What was 1857? A day of
Judgment! What was the extreme de-
preston of two years ago? A day of
Judgment! Do You think that God is
going to wait until lie has burned the
world up before lie rights these
wrongs? | tell you, nay! Every day
is day of Judgment,
The fraudulent man piles up his
gains, bond above bond, United States
security above United States security,
emolument above emolument, until his
property has become great pyramid;
and rs he stands looking at it, he
thinks it never can be destroyed, but
the Lord God comes and with his little
finger pushes it all over.
You build house, and You put
into it a rotten beam, A mechanic
standing by says: ut will never do to
put that beam in; it will ruin your
whole building But you put it in,
The house is completed, Soon it be-
gins to rock. You call in the me
chanic and ask; "What is the matter
with this door? What is the matter
with this wall? Everything seems to
be giving out Says the mechanic:
"Iou put rotten beam into that
structure, and the whole thing has got
to come down" Here is an estate that
seems to be all right now, II has been
building u great many years. But II
years ago there was dishonest trans
action in that commercial house. That
one dishonest transaction will keep on
working ruin in the whole structure,
until down the estate will come in
wreck and ruin about the possessor' S
ears-onc dishonest dollar in the cs-
tate demolishing all his possessions. |
have seen it again and again; and SO
have you.
Here is your money-safc. The manu-
facturer and yourself only know how
it can be opened. You have the key.
You touch the lock, and the ponderous
door swings back. But let me tell you
that, however firmly barred and bolted
your money-safe may be, You can not
keep God out. lie will come, some day
into your countlng-room, and He will
demand; where did that note OF
hand come from? How do you account
for this security? Where did you
get that mortSaged from? What does
this mean II it is all right, God will
say: well done, good and faithful
servant. BE prospcred in this world
BE happy in the world to come If il
is all wrong lie will say: Depart, yc
cursed BE miserable for your iniqui
ties in this life, and then go down and
spend your eternity with thieves, and
horse jockeys and piclSpockets.'
You have an old photograph of the
signs on your street. Why have those
signs nearly all changed within the
J last % years! Does the passing away
of generation account for it? Oh, no
Does the fact that there are hundred,
of honest men who go down every year
account for it? Oh, no. This is the
secret: The Lord God has been walk
ing through the commercial streets o
our great cities; and lie has been ad
justing things according to the prin
ciples of eternal rcctitue
The time will come when, through
the revolutionary power of this Gospel
a falschood, instead of being called cX
aggcration, equivocation, or evasion
will be branded lie! And stcalings
that now sometimes 90 under the heat
of percentages and commissions ant
bonuses, will be put into the catalogue
of state prison oflenses. Society vii
be turned inside out and upside down
and ransacked of Gods truth, unit
business dishonesties shall come to al
end, and all double dealing; and Coz
will overtnrn, and overturn, and over
turn; and commercial men in all citie'
throw up their hands, crying out
"These that have turned the world up
side down are come hither.
The religion OF Jesus Christ will pro
ddce revolution in our churches Tn
non-committal, do-nothing policy o
the Church of God will give way to
spirit of bravcst conquest Piety il
this day seems to me TO be sailed dow
just so as to keep. 1t seems as if tn
church were chiefly anxious to TAX
care Of itself, and if we hear of want
and squalor and hcathenism outside
we say: What pity and we pu
our hands in our pockets and we fee
around for two-cent piece, and wit
n great flourish we put it upon tn
plate and are amazed that the world /
not converted in six weeks. Suppos
there were great war, and there wer
800, 900 soldiers, but of all those 300, 90
soldiers, excepting ten men, were i
their tents, or securing their musllets
or cooking rationY You would say
, "Of course, defeat must come in tina
ease 1t is worse than that in tn
church. Millions of the professe
, soldiers of Jesus Christ are coolsin
rations, or asleep in their tents, Will
only one man here and there goes OF
to do battle for the Lord.
, But" says some one, 1--WE are estal
' fishing a great many missions, and
think they will save the masses" M
they will not. Five hundred thousan
of them will not do it. They are doin
/ magni ficent work; but every missio
chapel is a confession of the disease an
weakness of the church. 1t is sayin
to the rich and the well-conditloner
''If Won can nav yO IL new rent con