The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-11-08

harbor; reckless as TO where rney
come out, drifting further from God, further
from early religious influences, further from
| happiness; and whstIs the worst thing about
1t Is, they are taking their families along
with them, and the way one goes the proba-
olhty IS they will all 90. Yet no anxiety. As
unconscious Of danger as the passengers
aboard the Arctic one moment before the
| Nesta crashed into her. Wrapped I'D in the
| business Of the store, not remembering that
/ soon they must quit all their earthly pos
! sessions. Absorbed IN their social Do
sltlon, not knowing that very soon they will
have attended the last ievee, and whirled in
the last schottishe. They do not deliberately
choose TO beruined; neither did the French
! trlgate Medusa aim for the Arguin banks.
but there it went to pieces. I wish could
wake you up. The perils are so augmented,
you will die Just as certainly as YOU sit there
unless you beStir yourself. Are you willing
to become castaway7 You throw out no
oar. You take no surroundings. You watch
no compass. You are not calculating your
and yonder is a long line of foam
bounding ths horizon, and you viii
be pushed on toward it, and thou
sands have persisted there, and you are dIiv-
ing in the same direction. Ready about
Down helm Hard down Man the life boat
Pull my lads pull HE that being often
reproved hardeneth his neck. shall be sud
denly destroyed and that without remedy y
But some Of you are saying within your,
selves: What shall dor Do? Do2 Why
my brother, do what any ship does when
1t IS in trouble. Lift distress signal. On
the sea there is a flash and a boom
You listen and you look. A vessel is
In trouble. The distress gun is sounded,
or a rocket is sent up, or q blanket
Is lifted n brrnIfa If
thing to catch the eye Of the passing
craft. So if you want to be taken of
the wreck of your sin, you must lift dis
tress signal. The publican lifted the dis
tress signal when he cried: God be
merciful to me a sinnerp' Peter lifted the
distress signal when he said: Lord, save
me, l perishn The blind man lifted the
distress signal when he said: Lord thatmy
eyes may be opened" The jailer lifted the
distress signal when he said: What must
do to be SavedF' And help will never como
to your soul until you lift some signal. You
must make some demonstration, give some
sign, make some heayen-piercing outcry for
help, lifting the distress signal for the
churchs prayer, lifting the distress signal
voice of the Lord now sounds in your ears:
In Me is thy help Too proud to raise
such a signal, TOO proud TO be saved
There was an old sailor humping about in
a small boat IN a tempest The larger vessel
had gone down. He felt he must die. The
surf was breaking over the boat, and he said:
II took of my life belt that it might soon be
over, and thought somewhat indistinctly
about my friends on shore and then l bid
them good-by like, and ] was about sinking
back and giving it up, when | saw a bright
star. The clouds were breaking away, and
there that blessed star shone down on me-
and it seemed to take right hold on me; and
7 all
how, while l was trying to watch that star
it seemed to help me and seemed to lift me-"
0, sinking soul see you not the glimmer be-
tween the riffs of the storm cloud? That is
the star of hope.
Deathstruck, ceased the tide to stem,
When suddenly a star arose,
1t twas the star OF Bethlehem.
If there are any here who consider them
selves ccstaways, let me say God is doing
everything to save you. Did you ever hesr
of Lionel Luken? he was the inventor Of the
insubmergible life boat. All honor is due to
his memory by seafaring men, as well as by
landsmen. How many lives he saved by his
invention. In sitter days that invention was
improved and one day there WIS a perfect
life boat, the Northumberland, ready at
Ramsgate. The life boat being ready, to test
it the crew came out and leaped on the gun
whale on one side TO see il tho boat would
upset; it was impossible to upset
it. Then amid the huzzas of ex-
cited thousands, that boat was launched and
it has gone and come, picking up q great
many Of the shipwrecked. But l have to tell
you now of r grander launching, and from
the dry docks of heaven. Word came up
that world was beating on the rocks. In
the presence of the potentates Of heaven the
life boat Of the worlds redemption was
launched 1t showed off the golden sands
amid angelic hosannas. The surges Of dark |
ness beat against its bow, but it sailed on,
and it comes in sight of US this hour. It
comes for you, it comes for me. SOUL soul
get into it Make one leap for heaven. Let !
the boat go past and your opportunity Is
gone.
am expecting that there will be whole
families here who win get into that life boat.
In 1888, the Isabella came ashore OF Hast
ings, England. The air was filed with
eaar~es tTl.i77 pit t44e cgsssil Of 4
" axes, and the believing of the tornado. !
A9oat from the shore came under the stern /
Of the disabled vessel. There were women |
and children on board that vessel. Some Of I
the sailors jumped into the small boat and /
said; NOW give US the children A father /
who stood on deck took his first BON /
and threw him to the boat. The sailors
caught him safely, and the next and the 1
next, TO the last. Still the sen rocking the
storm bowling. Nov" said the sailors,
now the MOTHER and she leaped, and was
SdNeu- 1ltb DO5b went 10 the slOre. Dub De
fore it got to the shore the landsmen were so
impatient to help the suffering people that
they waded clear down into the surf with
blankets and garments, and promises of help
and succor. So there are whole families here
who are going to be saved, and saved alto
gether. Give us that child for Christ,
that other child, that other. Give us
the mother, give Us the father, the
whole family. They must all come in. All
heaven wades in to help you. I claim this
whole audience for God pick not out one
man here nor one man there; Iclaim YOU all.
There are some Of you who, thirty years ago,
were cOnsecrated to Christ by your parents
in baptism. Certainly l am not stepping
over the right bound when I claim you for
Jesus. Then there are many here who have
been seeking Sod for a good while, and am
not right in claiming you for Jesus? Then
there are some here who have been
further away, and You drink, and
you swear, and you bring up
your families without any God to take care
OF them when you are dead. And l claim
you, my brother; / claim all of you. You
VIII have to pray sometime; why not begin
now. while all the ripe and purple cluster of
iivine promise bend over into your cup,
rather than postpone your prayer until your
chance is past, and the night drops, and the
iea washes you cut, and the appalling fact
shall be announced that notwithstanding all
your magnificent opportunities, you have be-
come castaway.
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.