Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-11-28

| to destruction. "He1olce, - young man, IN
thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in
the 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 pa
rents. They say: "Father is over sus-
picious and mother is getting old" But
those parents have been on the sea OF life
| They know where the storms sleep and
durng their voyage have seen thousand
battered hulks marking tho place where
beauty burned, and intellect foundered, and
morality sank. They are old sailors, having
answered many a signal OF distress, aud
/ endured great stress OF weather, and gone
scuddng under bare poles; and the old
folks know what they are talking about
Look at 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 walows and drinks. Men shudder rs
the leper passes, and parents cry, "Wofl
wolff" Yet he once said the Lords Prayer
at his mothers knee, and against that in
iquitous brow once pressed Tiure mothers
! lip. But he refused her counsel. lie went
where euroclydous have their lair. He
foundercd on the sea, while all hell echoed
at tho roar OF the wreck: Lost Pacihcs
! Lost PaciHc3l
Another lesson from the subject is that
Christians are always safe.
There did not seem TO DO much chance
| for Paul getting out of that shipwrecl, did
therel They had not, in those days,
rockets with which to throw ropes over
! laundering vessels. Their lifeboais were
| OF but little worth And yet, notwiGh-
standing all the danger, my text says that
Paul escaped safe TO land. And so IL Will
always DO with Gods children. They may
| be plunged into darkness and trouble, but
! by tho tarono OF the eternal God, l assert
it, "they shall all escape safe to land"
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 corn bins and
store shelves! And yet, though they may
have it so very hard in commercial circles,
the good trusting in God, all come safe to
and.
Nreclers go out on the oceans beach
and find the shattered hulks of vessels; and
on the streets OF our great cities there is
many wreck. Mainsail slit with bankers
pm. Hulks nbeam's end on insurance
counters. Vast credits sinking, having
suddenly sprung leak. Yet all of them
who are Gods. children shall at last,
through his goodness and mercy, escape
safe to land The Scandinavian warriors
used TO drink wine out Of the skulls OF the
enemies they h id slain. Even so God will
help us, out OF the conquered ills and
disasters of lie, TO drink sweetness and
strength for our souls
You have my friends, had illustrations, in
your own life, of how God delivers his poo
pie. have had illustrations in my own
life OF the same truth was once in what on
your Mediterranean YOU call Euroclydon,
but what on the Atlantic we call cyclone,
! but the same storm. The steamer Greece
of the National line, swung oIt into the riv-
err M.ersey at Liverpool, bound for New
York We had on board seven hundred
crew and !ssengers. We came together
trangers-Italians, Irishmen. Enelishmen,
Swedes, Norwegians, Americans. Two
flags floated from the masts british and
American ensigns. We had new vessel,
or one so thoroughly remodelel that the
voyage had around it all the uncertainties
OF trial trip. The great steamer
felt its way cautiously out into
the sea Tho pilot was discharged {;
and commit ng ourselves TO the care
OF him who holdeth the winds in his fist,
we were fairly started on oar voyage OF
three thousand miles. 1t was rough nearly
all the way the sea with strong bufetng
disputng our path. But one night, at elev-
en- o'clock, aft5r the Lights had been put
out, cyclole-a winl just made to tear
ships to pieces caught US in its clutches II
came down so suddenly that we had not
time 10 take in the sIils or TO faSten tho
matches. You may know that the bottom
of the Atlantic is strewn with the CHASTITY
work of cyclones oh they arc cruel
winds. They have hot breath, as though
they came up from Internal furna-
ces. Their merrment is the cry OF
affrighted passengers. Their play is
the laundering of steamers. And,
when o ship goes down, they laugh
until both cont nents hear them. They go
in circles or, as / describe them with my
hand-rolling on! rolling on! with finger Of
terror writing on the white sheet OF tho
wave this sentence of doom: "Let all that
come within this circle perish Brigan-
tines, go down! Clippers, go down! Steam
ships go down" AMI the vessel, hearing
the terrible voice. crouchcd in the surf, and
as tho waters gurgle through the matches
and port holes, il lowers away thousands
of feet down, farther and farther until ut
last it strikes thc bott IN; and all Is peace
for they have landed. Hemsman, dead at
a WHEEL Engineer, dead amidst the extin-
guishcd furnaces! Captain, dead in the
gangwayl Passengers dead in tho cabin
Buried in the cemetery of dead steamers,
beside the City OF Boston, the Lexington,
the President the mbria-waiting for
the archangers trumpet TO split up the
decks, and wrench open the cabin doors,
and unfasten the matches.
thought that had seen storms on tho
sea before; but all of them toget her might
have come under one wing of that cyclone
We were only eight or nine hundred miles
from home, and in high expectation of soon
seeing our friends, for there was no one on
board so poor as not to have friend. But
it seemed as IL we were to be disappointed.
The most OF US expected then and there to
die There were none who made light OF
the peril, save two. One was an English
man, and he was drunk, aud the other was
an American, and he was a fool! Oh! what
a time it was! A night TO mako ones hair
turn white. We came out OF the berths,
and stood in the gangway, AMI looked into
the steerage, and sat in the cabin. While
seated there, we heard overhead something
like minute guns. IL was the bursting OF
the sails. We held on with both hands TO
keen our nlaces Those who attamntad In