The Red Cloud chief., 1889-05-31

tain would look down with indiGuotiO0
and say: Get out Of the way, or ! will
run you down. And then I would back
oars. amidst the jeering Of tive or three
hundred people looking over the tafRrail.
but the Umbr1a and the City Of Paris
meet under different circumstances after
awhile. The City OF Paris il coming out
OF q cyclone; the ~lfeboats are smaxhed:-
the bulwarks gooe; the vessel rapidly CO.
ing down. The boAtswain gives his last
whistle Of despairing command. The
passengers run up and down the deck,
ana some pray. m all make Q great out
cry. The captain says: "YOu have about
ni'een minutes now to prepare for the
next world" mo hOpe!" sounds from
stem to stern and from tho ratlines dO1h
to the cabin. l see tho distress am let
down BY the side Of the Umbria. 1 push
on a. fast rs l can toward the sinking
City OF Paris. Before I como up the people
are leaping into the water in their anxiety
to get TO The boat and when / have swung
up under the side Of the City Of Paris, the
frenzisd passengers rush through the gang.
way until the officers, with axe and club
and pistols. try to keep back the crowd,
each wanting his turn to come next There
Is I ut one life boat and thew all want to
get into il. and the cry is: Me next! me
next" You see the application before 1
make it. As long as a man going ON in
his sins feels that all Is well. thai he is
coming cut at . beautiful port, and has
all sail set. he ants no Christ. he wants no
help. he wants no rescue; but il under the
fash Of Gods convicting spirit he shalt
see that by reason Of sin he is dismasted
and waterlOgged. and going down into
the trough Of the sea where he can not
live, how soon he puts the sea glass to his
eye and sweeps the hor ION. and at the
first sign Of help cries out: Il want to be
saved l want to be saved now. / want
to be saved forever" No sense Of danger,
no application for rescue.
O, that Gods eternal spirit would fash
upon US a sense Of our sinfulness! The
Bible tells the story in letters Of fire, hut
We get used to il. We joke about sin. We
make merry over it What is sin? Is ita
trifiing thing! Sin is a vampire that is
sucking out the life blood Of your i'm
mortal nature. Sin? 1t is a Bastils that
no earthly key ever unlocked. Sin? 1t is
repatriation from God and Heaven. SIM
1t Is grand larceny against the Almighty,
for the Bible asks the question: will
man rob God:" answering it in the affirm
alive. This gospel is a writ Of replevin to
recover property unlawfuliy detained
from God.
In the Shetland islands there is a man
with leprosy. The hollow of the foot has
swollen until it is n 1t on the ground. The
joints begin to fall away. The ankle
thickens until it looks like the foot Of q
wild beast. A stare unnatural comes to
the eve. The nOstril Is CONSTRUCTED. h
voice drops to IN almost ~inaudable hOarse-
ness. Tubercles blOtch the whole body,
and from them there comes an emulation
that is unbearable to the behO!der. That
is leprOsy, and we havs all got it unless
cleansed by the grace Of God See Levi
ticus. $50 Second Kings. See Mark. See
Luke. See fifty Bible illusions and cOn-
The Bible is not complimentary in its
language. 1t does not speak mincingly
about our sins 1t does not talk apologies
ically. There is no vermlliOn in its style.
1t does not cover up our trangressiOns
with blooming metaphor. IL does not
sing about them in weak falsetto; but it
thunders put: Tho imagination Of mans
is evil from his youth " Every
ono has gone back. He has altogether :
filthy. He is abOminabls and
filthy, and drinketh in iniQuity like
And then the Lord Jesus Christ
filings down at our feet this humiiiatin0
"Out Of the heart Of mon pro-
coed evil thoughts adu!teries, fornication,
murders, thefts. blasphemy." There isa
text for your ~rationalists to preach FROM
o, the dignity Of human nature! There 10
element Of your science Of man that
the a~nthropOlOgist never has had the
ecu age yet to touch. and the Bible, In all
tho ins and uts Of the most forceful STYLE
sets forth our natural pollution, and rep
resents iniquity as q frighiful thing. A. an
thing. as q loathsome thing.
1t is not q mere befouling Of the hands;
it is going down, head and ears under, in
y di. Oh, until our clothes abhor Us
Nv brethren. shall We stay down whore
sin thrusts us: I shall not il you do W.
can not afford to- I have to-day to tell
that there is something more pun9ent
than alkali, and that it 10 the blood Of Jesus
Christ that cleanseth from all sin. Ay,
the river Of salvation, bright. crystalline
and Heaven born, rushes through this
audience with billowey tide strong enough
10 wash YOUR sins completely and forever
away. o. Jesus, let the dam that old 10
back now break and the floods Of saliva
ton roll over Us.
Let the water and the blood.
From thy side . healing flood,
Be Of sin the double cure,
Save from wrath and make me pure.
Let US get down ON both knees anS
battle in that food of mercy. Ay. strike
put with both hands md try to swim to
the other shore Of this river Of Gods
grace. To you is the word Of this saliva
ton sent. Take this largest Of the divine
Though you have grown down
in the deepest ditch of libidinOus desire
and corrupt behavior, though You have
sworn all blasphemies until there Is not
one sinful word for you to speak. though
.ou have been submerged by the trans
zressions Of a lifetime, though you are
70 far down in your sin that NO earthly
help can touch yoar case-the Lord Jesus
Christ bends over you to-day and offers
His right han proposing to lift you
ID. first making you whittier than snow,
then raising you to gloriss that never
lie. "Billy," said q Christian bootblack
o another, "whsn we come up to Heaven
{ won't make any difference that we've
zen ~bootblacks here. for 70 shall get in.
somehow or other. but Billy. We shall
ss straight through the gateS o, IL you
knew how full and FREQ and tspder