The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-11-27

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Young people refuse the advice OF par
ents They say: "Father is oversuspicious
and mother is getting old" But those
| parents have been on the sea of life. They
| know where the storms sleep, and during
| their voyage have seen thousand bat
| tered hulks marking the place where
beauty burned, and intellect ioundered
| and morality sank. They are old sailors.
| having answered many signal of distress,
| and endured great stress of weather, and
! gone scudding under bare poles; and the
| old folks know what they are talking
| about Look at that man-in his cheek
the glow of internal fires. His eye flashes
not as once with thought, but with low
I passion. His brain is sewer through
! which impuritv floats, and his heart the
trough in which lust wallows and drinks.
Men shudder- as the leper passes and
| parents cry: wolff wolfm Yet he once
said the Lords prayer at his mothers
knee and against that Ubiquitous brow
| once pressed pure mothers lip. But he
refused her counsel He went where
euroclydons have their lair. He foundered
on the sea, while all hell echoed at the
roar of the wreck; Lost Pacifics! Lost
Pacifcsl
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
there? They had not, in those days, rock
cts with which to throw ropes over found
ering vessels. Their lifeboats were OF but
little worth, And yet, Notwithstanding
all the danger, my text says that Paul es-
capped safe to land. And so it will always
be with Gods children. They may be
plunged into darkness and trouble, but by
the throne of the eternal God, assert it,
they shall all escape safe to land"
Sometimes there comes a 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-shelvesl And vet, 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. AIainsaii slit with bank
er's pens. Hulks abeam's ends on insur-
ance counters. Vast credits sinking, hav
ing suddenly sprung a leak. Yet all OF
them who are Gods children shall at last,
through His goodness and mercy, escape
cdiS 10 ldnu. lie CCdiltlildNldu NdiiiOIs
used to drink wine out of the skulls of the
enemies they had slain. Even so God viii
help Us out of the conquered ills and dis
asters OF life TO drink sweetness and
strength for our souls.
You have, my friends, had illustrations
in your own life OF how God delivers His
people. l 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 acyclone.
but the same storm. The steamer Greece
OF the National line swung out into the
river Nersey at Liverpool, bound for New
York. We had on board zoo, crew and
passengers. We came together strangers
Italians, Irishmen, Englishmen, Swedes,
Norwegians, Americans. Two flags floated
from the masts-British and American en-
signs. We had a new vessel, or one so
thoroughly remodeled that the voyage had
around it all the uncertainties of a trial
trip. The great steamer ielt It's way eau
tiously out into the sea. The pilot was
discharged; and, committing ourselves to
the care OF Him who holdeth the winds in
His fist we were fairly started on our vow
age of 5000 miles. 1t was rough nearly
all the way--the sea with strong
buffeting disputing our path. But one
night At / o'clock, after the lights had
been put out, acyclone-a wind just made
to tear ships to pieces-caught us in its
clutches. 1t came down so suddenly that
we had not time 10 take in the sails or
fasten the matches. You may know that
the bottom of the Atlantic is strewn with
the CHASTITY work ofcyclones. Oh! they are
cruel winds. They have hot breath, as
though they came up from internal fur
naces. Their merriment is the cry of
a1righted passengers. Their play is the
laundering of steamers. And when 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 the wave this sentence
doom: LET all that come within
this circle perish. Brigantines 90
down, clippers go down, steamers
90 down. And the vessel, hearing
the terrible voice, crouches in the SURF and,
as the waters gurole through the matches
and PORTFOLIOS. 1t lowers away thousands of
feet down, farther and farther, until NJ last
il strikes the bottom and all is peace, for
they have landed. Helmsman dead at the
wheel, engineer dead amidst the extin-
guisbed furnaces, passengers dead in the
Rangway, captain dead in the cabin.
steamers, beside the CITY OF Boston, the
Lexington. the President. the Cambria
waiting for the archanyel's trumpet To split
up the decks and wrench open the cabin
doors and unfasten the matches.
] thought that | had seen storms on the
sea before, but all of them together might
have come under one wing OF that cyclone.
We were only 500 or 900 miles from home
and in high expectation OF soon seeing
our friends, for there was no one on board
so poor as not 10 have a friend. But it
seemed a. ii we were 10 be disappointed.
The most OF us expected then and there 10
die. There were none who made light Of
the peril save two. One was an English
| man, and he was drunk, and the other
was an American and no was fool Oh!
| What time it was! A night 10 make
| ones hair turn white. We came out of
the berths, and stood in the gangway, and
looked into the steerage. and sat in the
cabin. While seated there we heard
overhead something like minute guns. 1t
was the bursting of the sails. We
| held on with both hands to keep our
| places. Those who attempted to cross
the floor came back bruised and gashed.
Cups and glasses were dashed 10 frag-
ments pieces of table, getting loose, swung
across the saloon. II seemed as il the hur.
ricane took that great ship OF thousands Of
! tons and stood it on end and said: "Shall
| ] sink il or let il 90 this once2 And then
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