The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-11-20

tnat there are certain styles OF belief
and certain kinds of behavior that will
lead to destruction as certainly as Paul
knew that II that ship went out Of Fair
Havens 1t would 60 to destruction. Re
loice, 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 par
ents. They say: u"Father is over-sus-
picious, and mother Is getting old" But
those parties have been on the sea of
life. They know where the storms sleep,
and during their voyage have seen
thousand battered hulks marking the
place, where beauty burned, and intel
lect foundered, 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 In
ternal fires. His eyes flashes not as once
with thought, but with low passion. His
brain is sewer through which impu-
rity floats, and his heart the trough in
which lust wallows and drinks. Men
shudder as the leper passes, and parents
cry, "Wolf! wolff Yet he once said the
Lords Prayer at his mothers knee, and
against that iniquitous brow once pressed
pure mothers lip. Buthe 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 Pacihcsl Lost Pacificsl
Another lesson from the subject Is that
Christians are always safe. tN NJ
There did not seem to be much chance
for Paul getting out Of that shipwreck,
did therea They had not in those days
rockets with which to throw ropes over
foundering vessels. Their lifeboats
were Of but little worth. And yet, not
withstanding all the danger, my text
says that Paul escaped safe to land. And
so IL will always be with Gods children.
They may be plunged into darkness and
trouble, but by the throne Of the eternal
God, ! assert Il, "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. Oil 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 COM
mercial 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 abeam's end
on insurance count-rs. 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 Scan
dinavian warriors used to drink wine out
Of the skulls of the enemies they had
slain. Even SC. God will help us. out OF
the conquered ills and disasters Of life,
TO drink sweetness and strength for our
souls.
You have, my friends, had illustra-
tions, in your own life, OF how God de-
livers his people. have had illustra-
tions In my own life Of the same truth.
| was once in what on your Mediterra-
mean you call Euroclydon, but what on
the Atlantic we cali O cyclone, but the
same storm. The steamer Greece, OF
the National Line, swung out into the
River Mersey at Liverpool, bound for
New York. We had on board seven
hundred, crew and passengers We
came together strangers Italians, Irish
men, Englishmen, Swedes, Norwegians,
Americans. Two flags foated from the
masts-British and American ensigns
| We had new vessel or one so thor
oughly remodeled that the voyage had
around 1t all the uncertainties Of trial
trip. The great steamer felt its way
cautiously out into the sea. The pilot
was discharged, and, committing our
selves TO the care Of Him who holdeth
the winds in His fist, we were fairly
started on our voyage Of three thousand
miles. 1t was rough nearly all the way
the sea with strong budetihg disput-
ing our path. But one night, At eleven
o'clock, after the lights had been put
out, cyclone-a wind just made tear
ships to pieces-oaught up In its
clutches. 1t came down so suddenly
that we had not time TO take in
the sails or TO fasten the matches. You
may know that the bottom OF the At
lantic is strewn with the ghastly work
Of cyclones. r0hl they are cruel winds.
They have hot breath, as though they
came up from internal furnaces. Their
merriment is the cry Of affrighted pas
sengers. Their play is the laundering
Of steamers. And, when a ship goes
down, they laugh until both continents
hear them. They 60 In circles, or as
describe them with my hand-rolling
Onl rolling onl with finger Of terror
writing on the white sheet Of the wave
this sentence OF doom: "Let all that
come within this circle perishl Brigan-
tines, go down. Clippers, 90 DOWN.
Steamships, go DOWN." And the vessel,
hearing the terrible voice, crouches in
the surf, and as the waters gurgle
through the matches and port holes, it
lowers away, thousands Of feet down,
farther and farther, until at last 1t
strikes the bottom; and all Is peace, for
they have landed. Helmsman, dead at
the wheell Engineer, dead amidst the.
extinguished furnacesl Captain, dead In
the gangwayl Passengers, dead in the
sabinl Buried in the great cemetery Of
lead steamers, beside the City OF Bos-
ton, the Lexington. the President, the
Cambria--waiting for the htchangels
trumpet to split up tho decks, and
wrench open the cabin doors, and un-
fasten the matches.
thought that had seen storms on
the sea before; bur all Of them together
might have come under one wing OF that
cyclone. We we're only eight or nine
hundred miles from home, and In high
expectation OF soon seeing our friends.
for there was no one on board 80 poor as
not TO have friend. But II seemed as
II we were TO be disappointed. The most
Of us expected then and there TO die.
There we're 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 he was fooll O.
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