The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-23

| IT NTOu brings any httlO OF CndSliatii'-tll
upon you. il is only to make you useful.
Do not sit down discouraged and say: Il
have no more reason for living. l wish L
were dead" on, there never was so mucn
reason for your living as now! BY this
ordeal you have been consecrated a priest
of the most high God. Go out and do
your whole work for the Master.
Again there is comfort in the thought
that all our troubles are a revelation.
Have you ever thought of it in that con-
nection? The man who has never been
through chastsement is ignorant about a
thousand things in his soul he ought to
know. For instance, here is man VINO
prides himself on his cheerfulness of
character He has no patience with any
body who is depressed in spirits. on! II
is easy for him to be cheerful. with his fine
house his filled wardrobe, and well strung
instruments Of music, and tapestried par
Tor, and plenty of money in the bank wait
ing for some permanent investment. 1t
is easy for him to be cheerful. But sup
pose his fortune goes to pieces, and his
house goes down under the sheriff. ham,
mer, and the banks will not have anything
TO do with his paper. Suppose those
people who We're once elegantly entertain
cd at his table get so short-sighted that
they cannot recognize him upon the street.
How then? Is 1t so easy to be cheerful?
1t is easy TO be cheerful in the home,
after the days work is done, and the gas
Is turned on, and the house is full of
rompng little ones But suppose the
piano is shut because the fingers that
played on it Will no more touch the keys,
and the childish voice that asked so many
questions will ask no more. Then is il
so easy? When a man wakes up and
finds that his resources are all gone, he
begins to rebel, and ne says: God is
hard; God is outrageous He had no
business to do this to me-" My friends,
those of us who have been through
trouble know what a sinful and rebelious
heart We have, and how much God has to
put up with, and how much we need
pardon II is only in the light of a
flaming furnace that we can learn our
own weakness and our own lack of moral
resource.
Il There is also a great deal of comfort in
the fact that there will be a family recon
strucdon in a better pace. From Scot
iahd or England, or Ireland a child
emigrates to America. 1t is very hard
parting, but he comes, after awhile writ
ing home as TO what a good land it is
Another brother comes, a sister comes
and another and after a while The mother
comes, and after a while the father comes,
and now they are all here, and they have
time of great congratulation and very
pleasant reunion. Well, il is just so
with our families; they are emigratng
toward a better land. Now, one goes
out. Oh. how hard it Is to part with
HIM Another goes. Oh, how hard it is
TO part with her! And another, and
another and we ourselves will, after
awhile 60 over, and then we will be
together Oh, what a reunion! Do you
believe that? Yes" you say. OH you
do not, You do not believe it as you be
lieve other things. If you do, and with
the same emphasis, why it would take
inine-tenths of your trouble off your heart.
The fact is, heaven TO many of us is a
iC off arrrba
filed with an uncertain and indefinite
population. That is the kind of heaven
that many of us dream about; but it is
the most tremendous fact in all this
unjverse-this heaven of the Gospel.
Our departed friends are not afloat The
residence in which you live is not so real
as the residence in which they stay. You
are afloat-you who do not know in the
morning what will happen before night.
They are housed and safe forever. Do
not, therefore, pity your departed friends
who have died in Christ. They do not
need any of your pity. You might as well
send a letter of coincidence to Queen Vic
toria on her obscurity, or to
the Rothschilds on their pow
erty, as TO pity those who have
won the palm Do not say of those who
are departed Poor childr' Poor ia
therr Poor motherr' They are not
poor. You are poor-you whose homes
have been shattered, not they. You do
not dwell much with your families in this
world. All day long you are off to bust
ness. Will ii not be pleasant when you can
be together all the while? If you have had
four children and one is gone, and any
body asks how many children you have,
do not be so intidel as to say three. Say
four-one in heaven DO not think that the
grave is unfriendly You go into your
room and dress for some grand entertain
ment, and you come forth beautifully APP
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where we 40 to dress for the glorious res
direction and we win come out radiant,
mortality having become Immortality. Oh
how much coincidence there is in this
thought. I expect to see my kindred in
heaVen-I expect to see them just as GER
tainly as I expect to go home to-day. Aye
] shall more certainly see them. Eight or
ten will come up from the graveyard back
of SomerVille and one will come from the
mountains back of Annoy, China. and an
other will come up from the sea off Cape
Hatteras, and thirty will come up from
Greenwood; and l shall know them bet
ter than 1 ever knew them here. And your
friends-they may be across the sea- but
the trumpet that sounds here will sound
there. You will come up on just the same
day. Some morning you have oversight
yourself, and you open your eyes and see
that the sun is high in the heavens, and
you say: Il have oversight and 1 must
be up and away" So you will open your
eyes on the morning of the resurrection. in
the full blaze of Gods light, and you will
! say: II must be up and away" Oh, yes
you will come up. and there will be a reun-
! ion, a reconstruction of your family! I
| like what Halliburton q think 1t was)-
! good old Mr. Habburton-said in his last
moments: II thank God that l ever lived
! and that 1 have father in heaven. and a
mother in heaven, and brothers in heaven,
! and sisters in heaven, and 1 am now go
! ing up TO see them"
! l remark once more; our troubles in
i this world are preparative for glory. What
/ a transition it was for Paul-from the
! slippery deck Of laundering ship to the
| calm presence of Jesus! What a transition
II was for Latimer-from the stake to
! throne! What a transition ii was for
/ Robert Hall-from insanity TO glory!
! What transition it was for Richard Bax-
/ ter-from the dropsy to the Saints Ever
! lasting Restr And what a transition 1t
win be for you-from a world of sorrow
! TO a world of joy! John Holland, when
| he was dying, said: What means this
brightness in the room? Have you lighted
! the candles?" mo" they replied I'VE
have not lighted any candles" Then said