Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-02-03

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again and again lacerated into an Acel
DANA, through improved weaponry Of
death and more rapidity of fire, Prus
sian breechoader, which in 1861
startled the nations with unprecedent'
ed havoc, eclipsed by contrivances thai
can sweep vaster numbers TO death by
one volley, and telegraphy adding ia
eunnery new facilities for slaughter by
instantly ordering armies TO where
they can do the most wholesale murder
Il say il all this woe has been wrought
how much worse would II have been II
the Christly revelation had not been
let down from Heaven on five-ruuge6
ladder of musical scale and there had
been no preaching OF good will all up
and down Christendom for 10 cen
turtles! The Bethlehem manger has
given the most potent suggestion OF
peace the world has ever received. The
cavalry horses cannot eat out of that
munger.
take another step forward in show
ing the narrow escape you and ] had
and the world had in the secretion OF
Christ's birthplace from the Herodic de-
tectives and the clubs with which they
would have dashed the Babes life out
when say that without the life that
began that night in Bethlehem the
world would have had no illumined
deathbeds. Before the time Of Christ
good people closed their earthly lives
in peace while depending upon the
Christ TO come, and there were ante
diluvian saints, and Assyrian saints,
and Egyptian saints and Greclan saints
and Jerusalem saints long before the
clouds above Bethlehem became bal
cony filed with the best singers OF n
world where they all sing, but cannot
read that there was anything more
than a quieting guess That came to
those before Christ deathbeds. Job
said something bordering on the conf
dent, but II was mixed up with story
of Skin worms" that would destroy his
body. Abraham and Jacob had little
light on the dying pillow, but, com
pared with the after Christ deathbeds,
il was like the dim tollow candle OF old
beside the modern cluster of lights
electric. know Elijah went up in
memorable manner, but il was terri
BILE way to goa whirlwind of fire that
must have been splendid to look at by
those who stood on the banks OF the
Jordan, but il was a style Of ascent that
required more nerve than you and
ever had, 10 be placid occupant OF
chariot drawn by such a wild team.
The triumphant deathbeds, as far as
know, were the after Christ deathbeds
What a procession of hosannns have
marched through the dying room Of the
saints Of the last 10 centuries! What
cavalcade of mounted halleluiahs has
galloped through the dying visions oil
he last 1000 years save 100! Peaceful
deathbeds in the yenrs b. C.! Trium'
plant deathbeds, for the most part, re-
served for the years 4. d. Behold the
deathbeds Of the Wesleys, of the Dodd
ridges. of the Leigh Richmonds, of the
Edward Paysons, of Vara, the convert
ed heather chieftain, crying in his last
moments: The canoe is in the sea
The sails are spread. She is ready for
the gnle. have good pilot TO guide
me. My outside man and my inside
man differ. Let the one rot till the
| trumpet shall sound, but let my SOU
wing her way TO the throne of Jesus.
OF dying John Fletcher, who entered
his pulpit TO preach, though his doc
tors forbade him, and then descended
TO the communion table, saying: 81
am going 10 throw myself under the
wings of the cherubim before the mercy
seat" thousands of people few days
after following him TO the grave, sing
ing:
with heavenly weapons he has fought
The battles Of the Lord,
Finished his course and kept the faith
| And gained the great reward.
OF Pastor Emile Cook, the grea
French evangelist, who sat In ny
church in Brooklyn one Sunday morn
ing. and in few days shipwrecked ant
dying after his wife had said to him
"God will help you, my dear; lie will
give you peace" replying: But | have
it-peace, have It'll" OF Prince Albert
quoting with his last breath; "Rocl
OF Ages cleft for me, let me hide my
self in theel" OF the dying soldier VIII
had been shot through the mouth ant
could not talk, and when the chaplain
approached him, motioned for pencil
and paper and wrote: 81 am a Chris
tian, prepared to die. Rally round tn
flag! Rally round the fagl" OF job,
Brown, of Haddington, who said: ="
desire to depart and be with Christ
aud, though | have lived 60 years YER
comfortably in this world, woul
turn my back upon you all to be wit
Christ. There is no one like Chris
no one like Christ. | have beer
looking at Him these many years, AM
never yet could find any fault in Hin
but was Of my own making, though b
has seen 10000 faults In me. Oh, wba
must lie be in Himself when it is II
that sweetens Heaven, sweetens ScriT
ture, sweetens ordinances, sweeten
earth, sweetens trial" OF John Jane
way, saying in his last moments: ="
have done with prayer and with a
ordinances. Before few hours ar
over shall be in eternity singing tn
song Of Moses and the Lamb. ] sha
presently stand on Mount Zion with a
innumerable company Of angels an
with spirits of just men made perfec
and with Jesus. the mediator of the ne'
covenant. Halieluiah!" Some on
ought to preach course of sermons o
triumphant Christian deathbeds, an
then let some one preach sermon o
triumphant infidel deathbeds-that il
IL he can hear or read Of one of this la'
ter kind. never heard OF one. Do te
lis of one. There never was one. An
had the Babe OF Bethlehem died tn
same week In which he was born ther
never would have been trumphar
Christian deathbed II is the wondeI
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