The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-25
STORM CLOUDS FRIGHTENED
A SERMON TO TAKE THE GLOON
OUT OF MANY LIVES.


Young Mans Best inheritance
washington, April 24.-This sermon OF
pr. Talmage will have tendency 90 take
the gloom out of many lives, and Sur up
a shirt of healthfuI anticipation. Text.
Joh 1921; And now men see not the
lrisht light which is in the clouds"
Wind east. Barometer falling. Storm
signals out Ship reehng maintopsat'
Awnings taken in. Prophecies of foul
weather everywhere. The clouds congre-
gate around the sun, proposing to abolish
him. But after a while he assails the
TANKS of the clouds with flying artillery
of light, and here and there is sign of
clearing weather. Many do not observe
At. Many do not realize it, and now men
see not the bright light which is in the
clouds" In other words, there are hun
dred men looking for storm where there
is one man looking for sunshine. My OBJ
ject will be to get you and myself into the
delightful habit of making the best Of
everything.
You may have wondered at the statis-
tics that in India, in the year 1875, there
were over 1900 people slain by wild beasts,
and that in the year 1875 there We're in
India over 20, 900 people destroyed by wild
animals. But there is a monster in our
own land which is year by year destroy
ing more than that. 1t is the old bear
of melancholy, and with gospel weapons
j propose to chase it back to its midnight
caverns. 1 mean to do two sums-a sum
in subtraction and a sum in addition-a
satisfaction from your days of depression
and an addition to your days of joy. If
God will help me 1 will compel you TO
see the bright light that there is in the
clouds, and compel you to make the best
of everything.
In the first place, you ought to make the
very best of all your financial misfortunes.
During the panic a few years ago you
all lost money. Some of you lost 1t in most
unaccountable ways. For the question,
How many thousands of dollars shall 1
put aside this year?" your substituted the
question, How shall I pay my butcher,
and baker. and clothier, and landlord %
You had the sensa tion of rowing hard
with two oars. and yet all the time going
down stream
You did not say much about IL because
IL was not polite to speak much of finan-
cial embarrassment; but your wife knew.
Less variety of wardrobe, more economy
at the table, self-denial In art and tapestry.
Compression; retrenchment. Who did
not feel the necessity of it2 My friend.
did you make the best of this? Are You
aware of how narrow an escape you
made? Suppose you had reached the
fortune toward which you were rapidly
going? What then? You would have
been as proud as Lucffer
How few men have succeeded largely
in financial sense and vet maintained
their simplicity and religious consecra-
tom Not one man out of a hundred.
Ihere are glorious exceptions, but the
general rule is that in proportion as a
man gets well off for this world he gets
poorly off for the next He loses his
sense OF dependence on God. He gets a
dlstaste for prayer meetings. With plenty
OF pank stocks and plenty of government
securities, what does that man know of
the prayer, Give me this day NV daily
breadY' How few men largely success
ful in this world are bringing souls IN
chrlst' or showing seif-denial for Others.
or are eminent for piety? You can comm
them all upon your eight fingers and two
thumbs 800 ~
one of the old covetous souls. when he
was SICK, and sick unto death, used IL
nave a basin brought ina basin fIled
with gold, and his only amusement ana
the only relief he got for his infiamef
hands was running them down through
me gold and turning It up in the basin
oh' what nfatuaton and what destroyine
power money has for many man
Now, you We're sailing at thirty knots ~,
hour toward these worthless of worldlmes,
what a mercy it was, that honest de
ta<eation! The same divine hand tha
crushed your store-house, your bank, you
office, your insurance company. lifted va,
out OF destruction. The day You honesty
suspended in business made your FORUM
for eternity.
oh you say, II could get along YER
well myself, but am so disappointed tina
cannot leave a competence for INV chill
dren. My brother, the same financia
misfortune that is going to save your SOL
VIII save your children. With the antici
patton of large fortune, how much indus
try would your children have ?-withou
which habit of industry there is no safe
" The young man would say "Wel
there's no need of my working; NV fathe
wil soon step out, and then I'll have jus
what want" You cannot hide from hir
now much you are worth You think yo
are hiding it; he knows all about Il. II
can tell you almost to a dollar Perhar
he has been to the county office an
searched the records of deeds and NOR
cages, and he has added 1t all up an
he has made an estimate of how long yo
VIII probably stay in this world, and
not as much worried about your rheums
usm and shortness of breath as YOU ar
The only fortune worth any thing tn,
y you can give your child is the fortune ths
you put in his head and heart. OF a
the young men who started life with for,
thousand dollars capital, how many turl
ed out we'll? l do not know half doze
The best INHERITANCE a young man ca
nave is the feeling that he has to fight h
own battle, and that life is a struggle in
which he must throw body, mind al
soul, or be disgracefully worsted. Whe
are the burial places of the men wi
started life with a fortune? Some
them In the potter's field; some in Il
suicides grave. But few of these m,
reached thirty-five years of age TIL,
drank, they smoked, they gambled
them the beast destroyed the man. Son
OF them lived long enough to get the
fortunes. and went through them. II
vast majority of them did not live to <
their Inheritance. From the gin-ship
house of infamy they were brought hon
TO their fathers house, and In deliriu
began to Dick off loatheone rantf1ee fro