Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-11-22

the days OF thy youth; nut KNOW uhou, Jnat
for all these things God will bring thee into
Judgment We may not know much, but
we know that.
Noung people refuse the advice of parents.
They say: FEATHER is over suspicious and
mother is getting old" But these parents
have been on the sea of life. They know
where the storms sleep and during their voy-
age have seen thousand battered huts
marking the place where beauty burned and
intellect foundered and morality sank. They
are old sailors, having answered many sig
nal of distress, and endured great stress Of
weather. and gone scudding under bare poles,
and the old folks know what they are talking
about Lool, 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
wailows and drinks Men shudder as the
le,,.r passes, and parents cry wolf Wolfm
Yet he once said the Lords prayer at his
mothers knee, and against that ini1utous
brow once pressed pure mothers lip. But
he refused her counsel He Went where
curoclydons have their lair. He foundered
on the sea, while all he'll echoed at the roar
of The wreck. Lost Paciics Lost Pacihcsl
THE SAFETY or CHRISTIANS.
AnOtDeI lesson lIOtl tui SuDleCD Is UlaC
Christians are always safe.
There did not seem to be much chance for
Paul getting outot that shipwreck, did thcrei
They had not. in those days, rockets with
which to throw ropes over laundering yes
sells Their lifcbouts were Of but little worth
And vet. notwithstanding all the danger, my
text says that Paul escaI ell safe to land. And
50 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 CONNER
cial disaster. The cable, breuk The masts
fall. The cargoes are scattered over the sea.
Oll what struggling and leaping on kegs,
and hogshcpGs, and corn bins, and store
shelye3 And yet, though they may have it
so very hard in commercial circles, the good,
trusting in God, all come safe to land.
WraIkers 60 out on the oceans beach, and
find the shattered LulKa OF vessels; and on
the streets of our great cities there is many a
wreck Mainsai slit with bankers pen.
IUlks abo1m's end on insurance counters
Vast credits sinking, having suddenly sprung
a leak Yet all of them who are Gods chill
drcn shall at Lass, through His goodness and
mercy, escape safe t. land. TIC Scandlna-
Wan warriors used To drink wine out of the
skulls Of the enemies they had slain. Even
so win God help Us, out Of the conquered ills
and disasters Of life, 70 drink sweetness and
strength for our Souls.
You have NY friends, had Illustrations in
your own life of how God delivers MS peo-
pie have had illu, tratious in my own life
OF the sama truth. | was once in what on
YOUR Mediterranean YOU cali a Euro,lydon,
-t,ot b, \ ,.011
but the same storm. The steamer Greece Of
the National line swung ont Into the river
Merscy At Liverpool, bound for New York.
We had ON boald seven hundred. crow and
passengers We came together strangers
Italians, Englishnen, Irishmen, Swedes, Nor
wcgians Americans. Two flags floated
from the nasts-Dr;ish and American en-
signs. We had a 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 cau-
tiously ont into the sea. The pilot
was discharged, and, committing ourselves
to the care of him who hUldeth the winds in
his fist, We We're fairly started on our voyage
OF three thousand miles. It wasrough nearly
all tho way, the sen with strong bulIctirG
disputinS our path. But one night ut II
o'clock; after the lights had been put Out, a
cyClOnc-a wind just made to tear ships to
pieces-Causht US in its clutches. Ii came
, down SO suddenly that we had not time
to take i'll the sails or to fastcn the matches.
You may know that the bottom of the at
lautic is strcwn with the ghastly work OF
cyclones. Oh! they are cruel winds. They
have hot breath, rs though they came up
from internal furnaces Their luorriment is
the cry of al7righted passengers. Their play
c,,,, he,l
snip goes down they laugh until both CONT
nents hear them. They go in circles, OF, as
! describe them with my hand-rolling on
rolling on. with finger Of terror writing on
the white sheet Of the wave this sentence
of doom: LET all that come within this
circle perish! Brigentines, go down! Clip
pers, go down. Steamships, go down." And
the vessel, hearing the terrible voice, crouche,
in the surf, and US the waters gurgle through
the matches and portfolios it lowers away
thousands of feet down, farther and farther
until at last it strikes The bottom; and oil Ii
peace, for they have landed. Helmsman
dead at the Wheel Engineer, dead amidst
the extinGuishcd furnacesl Captain, dead il
! the gangWayl Passengers, dead iii the cabin
Buried in the great cemetery of dead steam
crs, beside the City of Boston, the Lexington
the President, the Calnbria--waitng for The
archangels trumpet to split up the decks ant
wrench open the cabin doors, and unfasteI
the matches.
pERu.s NOT TO BE MADE LIGHT OF.
l thought that l had seen storms on the seq
before; but all OF them together might have
come under one wing OF That cyclone W.
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 st
poor as not TO havc a friend But 1t seemed
as il we were 70 be disappointed, The mos
of us expected then and there to die. There
were none who made light Of the peril, save
two: one was an EnglisumGu, aud he wa
drunk, and the other was an American, anC
DO was a fuoll OH what Il time Il vast 4
night to make ones hair turn white. VI
came out Of the berths and stood IN the gang
way, and looked into the Storage, and sat il
the cabiL. While seated there ne learC
overhead something like minute guns.
was the bursting OF the sails. We held on b,
both hands 10 keep our places. Those VII,
attempted to cross the Aoor came back brlise,
and gashed. Caps ana glasses were dashec
to fragments; pieces OF tho table getrjn.
loose swung across the saloon 1t seemed a