The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-28

sounding line and by the light or the IAN.
tern they see it is twenty fathoms Speed.
ing along q little farther they drop
the lie again, and by the LIGHT
of the ldntern they see it is fifteen fathoms,
Two hundred and seyenty-six souls within a
few feet Of awful shipwreckl The managers
of the vessel, pretending they want to lool,
over the side of the ship and undergrad it get
INTO the small boat, expecting in it to escape;
but Paul sees through the sham, and he tells
them that if they go off in the boat it will be
the death of them. The vessel stril1esl The
planks spring. The timDers crack The
vessel parts in the laundering surgel Oh,
what wild struggling for life! Here they
leap from plank to plank. Here they 90
under as if they would never rise, but,
catching hold of timber come floating and
painting on it to the beach. Here, strong
swimmers spread their arms through the
waves until their chins plow the sand, and
they rise up and wiring out their wet locks
on the beach, When the roll of the ship is
called, two hundred and seventy-six people
answer to their names. 'And So" saws nv
text, ut came to pass that they escaped all
safe to land"
| learn from this subject:
First that those who get us into trouble
VIII not stay to help us out These shipmen
got Paul out of Fair Ravens into the storm:
but as soon as the tempest dropped upon
them, they wanted to go off in the small
boat, caring nothing for what became Of
raul and the passengers. All mel human
nature is the same in all ages. They who
get us into trouble never stop to help us out.
They who tempt that young man INTO life
OF dissipation will be the first to laugh at
his imbecility, and to drop him out of
decent society Gamblers always make
fun OF the losses Of gamblers. They who
tempt you into the contest with fists saying,
II will back YOU" will be the first to run.
Look over all the pi2dicaments Of your life,
and count the names of those who have got
you into those predicaments, and tell me the
name of one who ever helped you out.
They were glad enough to get you out from
FAIR Havens, but when, with damaged rig
ging, you tried to get into harbor, did they
hold for you plank or throw you rope?
Not one. Satan has got thousands of men
into trouble but he never got one out. He
led them into theft. but he would not hide
the goods or bail out the defendant The
spider shows the fly the way over the gossa
mer bridge into the cobweb but it never
shows the fly the way out of the cobweb over
the gossamer bridge. think that there
We're plenty of fast young men to help the
prodigal spend his money; but when he had
wasted his substance in riotous living, they
let him go to the swine pastures, while they
betook themselves to some other new conner
They who take Paul out of Fair Ravens will
be of no help TO him when he gets into the
breakers of Melita.
l remark again, as a lesson learned from
the text, that it is dangerous to refuse the
counsel of competent advisers. Paul told
them not to go out with that ship. They
thought he knew nothing about it. They
said: HE is only a ministerp They went,
and the ship was destroyed. There are a
nl1uV npnTlIp wi Of
They know nothing about tho world They
cannot talk to usf' Ah my friends, it is not
necessary to have the Asiatic cholera be-
fore you can give it medical treatment in
others. 1t is not necessary to have
your own arm broken before YOU can
know how to splinter fracture. And
we who stand in the pulpit, and in the office
certain styles of belief and certain kinds of
behavior that will lead to destruction as GER
tainly as Paul knew that if that ship went
out of Fair Ravens it would go to destruc-
ton. "Rejoice, 0 young man, in thy youth.
and let thy heart cheer thee in thy days of
thy youth; but know thou that for all these
things God will bring thee into Judgment"
we may not know much, but we know that
Young people refuse the advice of parents.
they say; Rather Is over-susplclous, ana
mother is getting old.a But those parents
where the storms Sleep and during their
voyage have seen thousand battered hulks
marking the place where beauty burned, and
intellect foundered, and morality sank They
are old sailors, having answered many q
signal OF distress, and endured great stress
OF weather, and gone scudding under
bare poles; and the old folks know
that MANN his cheek the glow of
Internal fires His eye flashes not as
once with thought, but with low passion.
His brain is a sewer through which impurity
floats, and his heart the trough in which lust
wallows and drinks. Men shudder as the
leper passes, and parents cry: 'Wolfi
wolfp Yet he once said the Lords Prayer
at his mothers knee. and against that iniquit-
GUS brow once pressed pure mothers lips.
But he refused her counsel. He went where
euroclydons have their lair. He foundered
on the sea, while all he'll echoed at the roar Of
the wreck: Lost Pacificsl Lost Pacifics!
Another lesson from the subject is that
Christians are always safe.
There did not seem to be much chance for
Paul getting out of that shipwreck, did thereS
They had not, in those DAYS, rockets with
which to throw ropes over laundering YES
sells. Their lifeboats were of but little
worth. And yet, notwithstanding all tho
danger, my text says that Paul escaped safe
children. They may be plunged into dark
ness and trouble, but by the throne of the
eternal God, assert it, they shall all es-
cape safe to land.n
Sometimes there comes storm OF COM
mercial disaster The cables break The
masts fall. The cargoes are scattered over
the sea. OH what struggling and leaping
on kegs and hogsheads and cornbins and store
shelvesl And yet, though they may have it
so very hard in commercial circles, the good,
trusting in God, all come safe to land.
Wreckers go out on the oceans beach and
find the shattered hulks of vessels; and on the
streets of our great cities there is many a
wreck. Mainsail slit with bankers pen.
Hulks abeamiS end on insurance counters.
Vast credits sinking, having suddenly sprung
leak. Yet all of them who are Gods chill
dren shall at last, through His goodness and
mercy, escape safe to land The Scandina-
Wan warriors used to drink wine out of the
skulls of the enemies they had slain. Even
so God will help us, out Of the conquered ills