The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-25


proved. You may have lost a toy, but
you have won a palace.
How hardly shall they that have riches
enter into the kingdom of Godi 1T is
easier for a camel to go through a nee
dies eye than for a rich man 10 enter the
kingdom OF heaven" What does that
mean? 1t means that the grandest bless
ing God ever bestowed upon you was to
take your money away from you. Let me
here say, in passing, do not put much
stress on the treasures of this world. You
cannot take them along with you. At any
. rate, you cannot take them more than
two or three miles; you will have to leave
them at the cemetery. Attila had three
collins. So fondl was he of this life that
he decreed that first he should be buried
in a coffin of gold, and that then that
should be enclosed in a coffin of silver
and that should be enclosed in a coffin of
iron, and then a large amount of treas
ure should be thrown i'm over his body
And so he was buried, and the men who
buried him were slain, so that no one
might know where he was buried and no
one might there interfere with his treas
ures. oh, men of the world, who want
to take your money with you, better have
three collins.
Again, 1 remark, you ought TO make the
very best of your bereavements. The
whole tendency is to brood over these sep
dFdttOnS, ana. TO give Inucn time TO. Tie
handling of mementoes of the departed,
and to make long vsitatons to the cerne-
terry and TO say: "Oh, 1 can never lcok
up again; my hope is gone; my courage
is gone; my religion is gone; my faith in
God is gonel Oh. the wear and tear and
exhaustion of this lonelinessr' The most
frequent bereavement is the loss of chill
dren. If your departed child had lived as
long as you have lived, do you not sup
hat In, hol OH 10
same amount of trouble and trial that you
have had? IL you could make choice for
your child between forty years of annoy
ance loss, VeXation, evaporation and te-
reavements, and forty years in heaven,
would you take the responsibility of choos-
ing the former?. Would you snatch away
the cup of eternal bliss and put into that
child's hands the cup Of many bereaye-
ments? Instead of the complete safety
into which that child has been lifted, would
you like to hold ii down to the risks of
this mortal state2 Would you like to keep
it out on a sea in which there have been
more shipwrecks than safe voyages2 Us IL
not comfort to you to know that that
| child, instead of being besoiled and flung
into the mire of sin, is swung clear into
| the skies? Are not those children to be
congratulated that the point of celestial
| bliss which you expect to reach by a pill
| grimage of fifty or sixty or seventy years,
they reached at a hash2 If the last ten
| thousand children who had entered heaven
had gone through the average of human
life on earth, are you sure all those ten
| thousand children would have finally
reached the blissful terminus? Besides
| that my friends, you are to look at this
| matter as a self-denial on your part fer
! their benefit. If your children want to go
| off in May day party; IL your children
\ want to go on a fiowery and musical OK
| cursion. you consent. You might prefer
\ to have them with you, but their jubilant
absence satisfies you. Well, your DEPART
| ed children have only gone out in a May
| day party, amid flowery and musical en-
| tertainment, amid joys and hilarities for
ever. That ought to quell some of your
| grief, the thought of their glee.
So it ought to be that you could make
the best of all bereavements. The fact that
/ you have so many friends in heaven will
make your own departure very cheerful.
i When you are going on a voyage, every
| thing depends upon where your friends are
| If they are on the wharf that you leave,
J or on the wharf toward which you are go
ing to sail. In other words, the more
| friends you have in heaven the easier Il
! win be to get away from this world. The
| more friends here, the more bitter good
! bys; the more friends there the more glo-
| rious welcomes, Some of you have so many
go -, ,ar,51, Nv, ,Jo,
gu, ma uo ~ taro',,,, xvha,, ~ ,,es
arr SONS ~ - 80 - tro,,s,,,,
SCI caire lioiii
~ out .is'i ~,
eteu WIZ - ,,1t5,. ~,
me ,s,;tb W.
tieie was ~ yOy ,,'a,, ,o,
Joy wnion ~ ~ ,,1s,,i',
san UP .ne go. -, - ~,
,ion' ne mo- u. - ts.t w. e. lIaoth :,
easier your omn 'l 49, Nc ~ haa,,ar
,.i Ilo'i .' "iloso 49, ,:ne a. - NO,
why .HeIe - az ., NJ -, a,,i,
there y III iisi soins
the rolp anu s.ss -, - 80 w,
Anousn al a.o '.n,'. s- ~ aia,,Ss ~
not lne Oiisn. hs 20 -. s-1,.,ee =,
nsht 'ne hiauiS'eu iaoes - 'ONA
hlhuieu.
So also, my friends, would nave 20,
make the best OF your sicknesses. Whe'
you see one move on with elasuc stepsah
in fun physical vigor, sometimes you De
come impatient with your lame loot. W ne
man describes an object mile OH an
T you cannot see II az all. you become lmpa
I latient of your aim eye. Wnen you near Oh
! we'll man making great achievement yo
INN