The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-15

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The only Pills TO take with Hoods Sarsaparilla
sunlight of Gods favor and the noonGay
of his glorious promises.
1t Is a difficult thing for a man to feel
his dependence upon God when he mas
$1,000 in the bank, and $4,000 in govern
ment securities. and a block of stores and
three ships. well" the man says to
himself 1t IS silly for me to pray, GIVE
me this day my daily bread when my
pantry IS fun and the canals from the
West are crowded with breadsuffs des-
tined for my storehouses." Oh, my friends,
II the combined msfortuues and 'lisas-
ters OF life have made you climb up into
the arms of a sympathetic and compass
siOnate God, through all eternity yon Will
bless him that in this world there was
sharp rock on the one side, and sharp
rock on the other side"
Again, that man Is in the crisis of the
text who has home troubles and outside
prosecutions at the same time. The world
treats a man wen just bong as 1t pays
TO treat him well. AS long AZ 1t can manu-
facture success out of MS bone and brain
and muscle. Is favors him. The world
fatlens the horse IL wants 10 drive. But
let a man see it his duty to cross the track
of the world, then every bush is full OF
horns and tusks thrust at him. They will
belittle him. They win caricature him.
They viii call his generosity sef-aggrand-
izeuient and his piety sanctimoniousuess
The very worst prosecutions viii some
times come upon him from those who
profess to be Christians.
John Milton-ereat and good John Mil
ton-sO far forgot himself as TO pray, in
so many words, that his enemies might
be eternaliy thrown down into The dark
est and deepest gulf Of he'll, and be
the undermost and most detected, and the
lowest down Vassals of perdition! And
Martin Luther SO far forgot himself as to
say, in regard TO his theological oppo-
nenis: Put them in whatever sauce you
please, roasted, or fried, or baked, or
stewed or boiled, or hashed, they are
nothing but asses" An my friends if
John Milton or Martin Luther could come
down to such scurrility, what may you not
expect from less elevated opponents?
Now, sometimes the world takes after
them; the newspapers take after them,
public opinion takes after them and the
unfortunate man Is lied about until all the
dictionary of Billngsgate is exhausted on
him. You often see a man whom you
know to be good and pure and honest,
set upon by the world and mauled by
whole communities, while vicious men
take on a supercilious air in condemna-
ton of him; as though Lord Jeffreys
should write an essay on gentleness, or
Henry VIII talk about purity, or King
Herod take TO blessing little children
Now, a certain amount Of persecution
rOuses a mans defiance, stirs his blood
for magnificent battle, and makes him
fifty times more a man than he would
have been without the persecution So
u was with the great Reformer when he
said, Il will not be put down; I will be
heard" And It was with NIilard, the
preacher, in the time of Louis XII When
Louis XI sent word to him that unless
he. Oh Il
would throw him into the river he re-
piled, Tell the King that I will reach
heaven sooner by water than he will
reach 1t by fast horses" A certain
amount of persecution Is a tonic and in
SEPARATION, but too much of it, and too long
continued becomes the rock Bozez throw
ing dark shadow over a mans life
What is he TO do then? Go home YOU
say. Good advice, that. That is lust
the place for a man to go when the world
abuses him. Go home Blessed be God
for our quiet and sympathetic homes! But
there Is many man who has the repu-
tation of having a home when he has
none. Through unthinkingness or pre-
cipitation there are many matches made
that ought never to have been made. An
officiating priest cannot alone unite a
couple. The Lord Almighty must pro-
claim banns. There are many homes in
which there is no sympathy, and no hap
piness, and no good cheer The clam0r
of the battle may not have been heard
outside; but God knows notwithstanding
all the playing of the Wedding March /"
and all the odor OF the orange blossoms
and the benediction of the officiating pas
tor, there has been no marriage. So
sometimes men have awakened to find on
one side of them the rock of persecution
and on the other side of them the rock
OF domestic infelicty What shall such
one do? DO as Jonathan did
climb Get up the nights of Gods
consolation, from which you may look
down in triumph upon outside persecu-
ton and home trouble. While good and
great John Wesley was being silenced bv
the magistrates, and having his name
written on the board fences of London in
doggerel at that very time his wife was
making him as miserable as she could
acting as though she were possessed by
the devil, as l suppose she was; never do
ing him kindness until the day she ran
away, so that he wrote in his dairy these
words 81 did not forsake her; | have
not dismissed her! I will not recall her"
Planting one foot upon outside persecu-
ton, and the other foot on home trouble.
John Wesley climbed up into the nights
of Christian joy, and after preaching
forty thousand sermons, and travelling.
two hundred and seventy thousand miles.
reached the nights of heaven though in
TINS world he had 1t hard enough-"a
sharp rock on the one side and a sharp
rock on the other"
Again, that woman stands in the crisis
of the text who has bereavement and a
struggle for a livelihood at the same time.
Without mentioning names, / speak from
observation. All, il is a hard thing for a
woman 20 make an honest living. even
when her heart is not troubled. and she
has fair cheek, and the magnetism of
an exquisite presence. But now the hus-
band or the father. is dead. The ex-
peuses of the obsequies have absorbed all
that was left In the savings bank; and.
wan and wasted with weeping and watch
ing. she goes forth-a grave. a hearse. a
coffin behind her-to contends for her ex-
istence and the existence of her children.
| When l see such a battle as that open |
shudder at the ghasthness of the specta-
Gle. Men sit with embroidered slippers
and write heartless essays about .women's
wages but that question is made up of
| tears and blood, and there is more blood
! than tears Oh, give women free access
to all the realms where she can get live
lthood. from the telegraph office to the