The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-07

what God means. He means to teach
me this 1 think he means to teach me
that. Perhaps it is to humble my pride.
| Perhaps it is to make me feel more de-
pendent Perhaps to teach me the I'M
certainty of life" But after ALL IL is on
~ a guess--a looking through the glass,
darkly. The Bible assures us there shall
be a satisfactory unfolding. What l do
thou kuowest not now; but thou. shalt
know hereafter" You will know why
God took to himself that only child. Next
door there was household of seven chill
dren. Why not take one from that group,
instead of your only one? Why single
out the dwelling in which there was only
one heart beating responsive TO yours?
Why did God give you a child at all, if. he
meant 10 take il away? Why fill the cup
Of your gladness trimming, If he meant to
dash il down? Why allow all the tendrils of
your heart 10 wind around that object
and then. when every fibre of your own
life seemed to be interlocked with the
child's life, with strong hand to tear you
apart, until you fall bleeding and crush
ed, your dwelling desolate, your hopes
blasted your heart brOken2 Do you sup
pose that God will explain that? Yea
He will make it palmer than any mathe-
NAUTICAL problem-as plain as that two and
two make four In the light Of
the throne you will see that it was right
all right Just and true are all thy ways
though King of Saintsw
Here is a man who cannot get on In the
world. He always seems TO buy at the
wrong time and 10 sell at the wofst disad-
vantage. He tries this enterprise, and
fails; that business. and is disappointed
The man next door to him has a lucra live
trade, but he lacks customers. A new
prospect opens. His income is increased.
But that year his family are sick; and the
profits are expended in trying to cure the
ailments. He gets a discouraged look Ee-
comes faithless as to success. Begins TO ex-
pect disasters Others wait for something
TO turn up he waits for it to turn down
Others, with only half as much education
and character, get on twice as we'll He
sometimes guesses as to what 1t all means
lie says: Perhaps riches would spoil me.
Perhaps poverty is necessary to keep ME
humble. Perhaps 1 might il things were
otherwise, be tempted into designations"
But there Is no complete solution of the
mystery. He sees through glass darlxly,
and must walt for a higher unfolding
WIN there be an explanation? Yes, God
viii take that man in the light of the
throne, and say: Child immortal, hear
the explanation! You remember the fail
ing of that great enterprise-your mis-
fortune in 1857 your disaster in 1861 This
is the explanation" And you will an
swer: 1T is all right"
L see, every day, profound mysteries Of
providence. There Is no question we ask
oftener than Why? There are hundreds
of graves in Oak Hill and Greenwood and
Laurel Hill that need to be explained. Hos
pitals for the blind and lame, asylums
for the idiotic and insane, aims houses for
the destitute, and world of pain and
misfortune that demand more than human
solution. All! God will clear it all up.
In the light that pours from the throne
no dark mystery can live. Things now
utterly inscrutable will be ilumined as
plainly as though the answer were writ
ten on the jasper wall, or sounded i'm the
temple anthem. Bartlmeus will thank
God that he was blind and Lazarus that
he was covered with sores; and Joseph
that he was cast into the pit; and Daniel
that he was denned with lions; and Paul
that he was humpbacl1ed; and David that
he was driven from Jerusalem; and that
sewlng-woman that she could get only a
few pence for making a garment; and that
invalid that for twenty years he could not
lift his head from the pillow; and that wild
ow that she had such hard work TO earn
bread for her children. You know that in
song different voices carry different
parts. The sweet and overwhelming part
of the hallelujah of heaven will not be
carried by those who rode In high places
and gave sumptuous entertainments; but
pauper children will sing II, beggars will
sing ii, redeemed bod carriers will sing il.
those who were once the off-scourging of
earth viii sing it, The hallelujah will be
all the grander for earth's weeping eyes,
and aching heads and exhausted hands,
AND scourged backs, aud martyred ago.
MES.
Again, the thought of the text is just
when applied to the enjoyments of the
righteous in heaven. I think we have but
little idea of the number of the righteous
in heaven. Infdels say, your heaven
will be very small place compared with
the world of the lost; for, according to
your teaching, the majority of men will be
destroyed" l deny the charge. 1 sup
pose that the multitude of the finally lost
as compared with the multitude of the
finally saved, will be a handful. [ suppose
that the few sick people in the hospital
to-day, as compared with the hundreds of
thousands of well people in the city. would
not be smaller than the number of those
who shall be cast out in suffering. COM
pared with those who shall have upon
them the health of heaven. For we are
| to remember that We are living in compar-
| atively the beginning of the Christian dis
| pensation, and that this world is to be
populated and redeemed and that ages of
| light and love are to flow on. If this
be so, the multitudes of the saved will be
in vast majority
Take all the congregations that have to-
| day assembled for worship. Put them to-
! gether and they would make but a small
audience compared with the thousands
| and tens of thousands and ten thousand
! times ten thousand, and the hundred and
| forty and four thousand that shall stand
around the throne. Those flashed up to
| heaven in martyr-firea; those tossed for
many years upon the invalld-couch; those
| fought in the armies of liberty, and rose as
! they fell; those tumbled from high scat
| foldings, or slipped from the mast. or We're
washed off into the sea. They came up
7 from Corinth. from Laodicea, from the
| Red Sea bank and Gennesarets wave from
! Egyptian brick-yards, and Gideon $
threshing-floor. Those. thousands of years
ago, slept the last sleep; and these are this
moment having their eyes closed, and their
limbs stretched out for the sepulchre
A general expecting am attack from the
| enemy stands on a hill and looks through
! a field-glass, and sees, in the great dis
| lance multitudes approaching, but has no
idea of their numbers. He says: Il can
not tell anything about them. / merely
! know that there are a great number" And
so John. without attempting to count.