Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-11-27

finn of the losses of pamhlers They uybf
temnt Won into the contest with fists. saving
II will back Won. will he the first TO RIM
Look over ali the predicaments of your life
and count the names of those who have goi
Won into those predicamsnts. and tell ms
the name of one who ever helped Won ont
They were glad enough to get YOU out OF
Fair Havens. but when, with damaged rig
ging. YOU tried to get into harbor. did they
ho d for YOU plank or throw YOU a 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 bids
the goods or bail out the defendant. The
spider shows the fly the way over the gosss
mer bridge into the cobH eb; but it never
shows the fly the way out of the cobweb
over the gossamer bridge. | think that
there were plenty of fast Young men to help
the prodieal spend his mone.: but when he
bad wasted his substance in riotous living
they let him 90 to the swine pastures, while
they batook themselves to some other new
conner. They who take Paul out of Fair
Havens will be of no help to him when be
gets into the breakers of Melita
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: ssHe is only ministerp, They vent,
and the ship was destroyed. There are
great many people who now say of minis
ters: seThey know nothing about the world.
They cannot talk to us!' Alb, nv friends.
it is not necessary to have the Asiatic
cholera before YOU can give it medical treat
ment in others. 1t is not necessary to have
your own arm broken before you can know
how to splinter fracture. And ws who
staud in the pulpit, and in the office of
| Christian teacher. know that there are car
tain sryles of belief and certain kinds of be-
bavior that will lead to destruction as Ger.
! tainlv as Paul knew that if that shin vent
ont of Fair Hayeps it would 90 to destruc-
tion. "Reioce. o younp man. iu thy youtn:
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 NAV not know much. bnt we know
| that.
Youne psonle refuse ths advice of mar.
ents. They saw ssFatber is yer.suspicious.
| apd mother is getting old'' But those par.
epts have been on the sea of life. They
knaw where the storms sleep. and during
their voyage have seen thousand battered
hulks marking the place whore beauty
burned. and intellect. fouudered and moral
ity sank. They are old sailors. having an
sTered many q signal of distress. and en-
dured preat stress of weather and gone
scudding under bare poles: and he old folks
know what hey are talking about. Look
at that man-in his cheek the glow of in
fernal fires. His eye flashes not as once
with thought. bus with low passion, His
brain is a sewer through which Inpurity
floats. and his heart the trough IN which
lust wallovs and drinks. Men shudder az
the leuer passes, and parents CRY. "Wnlf !!
wolf p' Yet he once said the Lords Pray-
or at his mothers knee. and against that
iDioiitous brow once pressed a pure moth
er's lin. But he refused her counsel. He
vent where eureclydops have their lair. He
foundered on the sea, while all hell echoed
Mt the rear of the wreck: Lost Pscifics!
lost pac,fiesI
| Another lesson from the subiecs is that
| Christians are alwavs safe.
There did not seem to be much chance
for Panl getting out of that shipwreok, did
therep They had not, in those days. rock
cts with which to throw ropes over found
erinp vessels. Their ljfeboats were of but
| lttle worth. And vet. notwithstanding
| all he danger. nv text saws that Paul es
eaned safe to lapd. And SO it will ALWAYS
ne with Gnd's children. Tbey NAV be
I DluuUpd inf0 darkness and trnnbla. Dnt nv
the throne of the eternal God. l assert it.
etbev shall all ESCAPE safe to land"
Sometimes there comes a storm of com.
mercial disaster. The cables break. The
masts fall. The careoes are scattered over
the sea. Oh, what struggling and leapipg
ON kegs and boosheads and cornbins and
sore shelvesl And vet. thongb thew NAV
| have IL so very hard in commercial circles.
tie good. trusting in God, all come safe to
land
Wrecker's 90 out on the ocesn's beach
and fiud the shattered hulks of vessels; and
on the streets of our great ci les there is
many wreck. Mainsail slit with bank
er's nen. Rulks abeam's end on insurance
oonnters Vast credits sinking have sud.
denly snruno aleak. YET all of them who
are q ,d,s childre, shall at last. throuob
His Goodness and mercy. esoape safe to
land The Scandinavian warriors used TO
dri,k zine ont of the slxnlls of the enemies
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