The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-01


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tiers of harvest in autumn in letters of fire
on fallen leaves. How it would sweetcn up
and enrich and emblazon this world could
we see ChrSts Caligraphy all over It,
This world was not dung out into space
thousands of years ago, and then left TO
look out for Itself IL is SUN under the di-
vine care. Christ never tor half second
takes his hand off il or 30 would soon be a
shipWrcckcd world. "a defunCt world. and
obsolete world. ana abandoned world
dead world. Let there he lignt,' was said
al the beginning. And Christ stands under
the WiutIy skies and says, let there be
suowhal1os 10 enrich the earth; and under
the clouds of spring and says, come We
blossoms ana make rodoient the orchards;
and IN September dips the branches in the
vat of beautiful colors, and swings them
iuio the hazy air. No Whim of mine is
this Without him was not anything
made that was made" Christ writing on
the ground.
If you could see his hand in all the
passing seasons, how it would illumine
the world All Verdure and foliage would
be allesorie, and again we would hear
him say. as of Old, Consider the hhes Of
the field. how they grow" and we would
not hear in the whistle OF quail or The
cawing of a raven or the roundclay of a
brown thresher, without saying, Behold
the fowls of the air. they gather not in
barns yet your Heavenly Father fecdeth
Them and a Dominic hen of the barn.
ward couId NOT cluck for her brood. but
we would hear christ saving. as of old.
"HOW often would ! have gathered thy
children together even as a hen gather
9TH her chickens under her Wings" ana
through the rcdolent hedges we would
hear Christ saying, Il am the rose Of
Sharon" We could moi dip the seasoning
me divine suggestion we are the salt of
me earn but if tbn salt hath LOST lis sa-
vor If is M Tor nothing bl1t 10 be cast out
and tro.1dep ilnder foot of men
Let us wake from our stupidity and
take the whole world as a parable. Then.
if with gun and pack of hounds we start
off before dawn and see the morning
coming down Off the hiIs 10 meet us we
would cry out with the evangelist. The
davsnriDt from on high hath visited us.''
or caught i'm a SNOW storm while strllg-
cling home. evebro,ys and heard and an
Darel an covered with the whirlinp flakes.
we yyo,,Id or,- ONT With David 'o.yyasb me
and / shall be winter than snow" In a
picture gallery of Europe there is on the
ceiling an exolisile fresco but the r,eop!e
having To look straight M. il yeariad
and dizzied them ana ben+ their necJ1s
almost beyond endurance. 80 a great
Ioolzincg-gIass was put near the flour and
now visitors only need q look ca SilV down
into this mirror and they see the fraeco
81 their feet Ana so much of The high
heaven of Gods truth is reelected in This
world as IN a mirror and things mat are
above are coDied Inv things around rs
What rigbt have we ia throw away one
of Gods Blbles-ave. the first Bible he
ever rave the race7 We talk about tba
Old Testament and the New Testament
but the Oldest Testament contains the
lessons OF the natural world. some peo-
nile like the Now Testament So vveu tbev
discard the Old Testament. Shall We
ike the New Testament and the Old Tes-
lament so well as TO depreciate the Oldest;
namely. that which was written before
Moses was put afioat on the boat of leaves
which was calked with asphaltum; or re-
iect ths Genesis that was written centuries
before Adam lost a rib and gained a wife2
no, no! When Deity Stops down ard
writes on the ground, let us read it,
/ would have no less appreciation of
the Bible on paper than comes out of the
paper mill. but | would urge appreciation
of the Bible in the grass, the Bible in the
sand hill the Bible in the geranium, the
Bible in the asphodel the Bible in the
dust Some one asked an ancient king
whether he had seen the eclipse of the
sun. No" said he Il have so much 10
study on earth / have no time to look at
heaven" And if our faculties were all
awake III the hNulN or tTON We would not
have time to go much further than the
first grass blade have no fear that
natural religion will ever contradict wha 4
We call revealed religion. I have no sym
pathy with the followers of Aristotle,
Who after the telescope was invented
would not look through it, lest IT contra
dict some of the theories of their great
master. l shall be glad to put against
one ia Of the Bible the microscope and
against the other lid of the Bible the tele-
scope
But when Christ STONED down and
wrote on the ground what did no n,rit5f
The Pharisees did not stop to examine
The towards, whipped of their own con
sciences, fed pell NELL. Nothing viii 'hay
| a man like an aroused conscience DIR
! Stevens, in his History Of Methodism
/ says that when Rev. benjamin Abbott OF
olden times was preaching he exclaimed
| For aught / know there may be a muir.
derer IN this house" and a man rose from
| The assemhlage and started for the door
| and bawled aloud, confessing to a murder
! he had committed fifteen years before
/ And no wonder these Pharisees. reminded
/ - !, l. l,y,tr. Ill