The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-03-28

SstsiLy III lic illOuLu ol Tie common
whale large enough for man to live |
in. There have been sharks foand |
again and again with an entire human
body in them. Beside that, the Bible |
says nothing about whale II says,
The Lord prepared a great fish . and |
there are scientists who tell aus
that there were sea monsters in other !
days that make the modern Whale
seem very insignifcantR know IN
one place IN the New Testament it |
speaks Of the whale as appearing in.l
the occurrence have Just mentioned.
but the word may just as weH betrans-
lated sea monster any Find of !
sea monster. Procopius SAYS in the |
year 532, "a sea monster was slain
which had for fifty years DESTROYED
ships. suppose this seq monster thai
took care OF Jonah may have been one
OF the great sea monsters that could |
have easily taken down prUphet, and
he could have lived there three days
If he had kept in motion SO as to keep
the gastric juices from taking hold of
him and destroying him, aud at tho
end of three days the monster
would naturally be sick enough to
regurgitate Jonah. Beside that, my
friends, there is one word which ex-
plains the whole thing.e Itsays. The
Lord prepared a great fish, If ship
carpenter prepare vessel to carry
Texan beeves to Glasgow, l suppose it
can carry Texan beeves; if a ship car
penter prepare vessel to carry coal to
one OF the northern ports, | suppose it
can carry coal; if ship carpenter pre-
pare vessel to carry passengers to
Liverpool, suppose it can carry pas
sengers to Liverpool; !; and if the Lord
prepared fish to carry one passenger,
l suppose it could caryaa passenger
and the ventilation havebeen alfright
So all the strange things in the Bi-
BILE can be explained If you wish to
have them explained. And you can
build them into beautiful and health
full fire for your hearth, or you can
with them put your immortal interests
into conflagration. But you had bet
ter decide about the veracity of the
Bible very soon. Iwant this morning
to caution you against putting off
making up your mind about this book.
Ever since 1772 there has been great
discussion as to who was the author
of Junius' Letters, those letters SO full
of sarcasm and vituperation and
power. The whole English nation
stirred up with it. More than hun
dred volumes written to discuss that
question: "Who was Junius?" "Who
wrote the letters of Juniusf" Well, it is
an interesting question to discuss, but
still, after all, it makes but little .prac-
teal difference to you and to me who
Junius was, whether Sir Philip Fran
els, or Lord Chatham, or John Horne
Tooke, or Horace Walpole, or Henry
Grattan, or any one of the forty-four
men who were seriously charged with
the authorship. But it is an absorb
ing question, it is a practical question,
it is an overwhelming question to you
and to me, the authorship of this
Holy Bible-whether the Lord God of
heaven and earth or pack of dupes,
scoundrels or impostors. We cannot
afford to adjourn that question a week
or day or an hour, any more than
sea captain can afford to say: "Well,
this is a very dark night. 1 have
really lost my bearings; there is
it is lighthouse or q false light on
the shore, l don't know what it is; but
I'll just go to sleep and in the morn
ing I'll find out" In the morning the
vessel might be on the rocks and the
beach strewn with the white faces of
the dead crew. The time for that sea
captain to find out about the light
house is before he goes to sleep. Oh,
my friends, I want you to understand
that in our deliberations about this
Bible we are not at calm anchorage,
but we are rapidly coming toward the
coast, coming with all the furnaces
ablaze, coming at the rate of seventy
heart throbs a minute, and | must
know whether it is going to be harbor
or shipwreck.
| SOULS DRIFTING ON THE SEA OF INFI-
DELITY.
/ was so glad to read in the papers
of the fact that the steamship Edam
had come safely into harbor. A week
before the Persian Monarch, plow-
ing it's way toward the Narrows, a
hundred miles out, saw signals of dis
tress, bore down upon the vessel, and
! found it was the steamship Edam. She
had lost her propeller. She had two
hundred passengers on board. The
merciful captain of the Persian Mon
arch endeavored to bring her in, but
the tow line broke. He fastened it
again, but the sea was rough and the
tow line broke again Then the night
came on and the merciful captain of
the Persian Monarch 'lay to-" think
ing in the morning he could give res
cue to the passengers. The morning
came, but during the night the
steamship Edam had disappeared,
and the captain of the Persian
Monarch brought his vessel into
harbor saying how sad he felt
because he could not give complete
rescue to that lost ship. am glad
that afterward another vessel saw her
and brought her into safety. But
when l saw the story of that steam
ship Edam, drifting, drifting, drifting,
do not know where, but with nc
rudder, no lighthouse, no harbor, nc
help, said THAT is skeptic, that is
an infidel, drifting, drifting, drifting,
not knowing where lie drifts. And
then, when | thought of the Persian
Monarch anchored in harbor, said
THAT is Christian, that is a man
who does ell he can on the way, cross
ing the sea to help others, coming per
haps through very rough voyage into
the harbor, there safe and safe for
ever" Would God that there might
be some one today who would 60 fortl
and bring in these souls that are drift
ing. In this assemblage, how many {
score shall | say, or hundred, or 6
thousand?-not quite certain about the
truth of the Bible, not certain abou
anything. Drifting, drifting, drifting
Oh, how / would like to tow them in
| throw. you this cable Lay hold o
that cable of the Gospel. Lay hold o
it. invite you all in The harbor i
wide enough, large enough for all th,
shipping. Come IN, O you wanderer
on the deep. Drift no more, drift n,
more. Come into the harbor See TIN
! glorious lighthouse of the Gospel
peace on earth, good viii to men.
Come into the harbor. God grant tha
it may be said of all of you who ar
, now drifting in your unbelief as j
: might have been said of the passenger
of the steamshipEGam, and as it wa
: said centuries ago of the wrecked corr
ship of Alexandria, 1t came to pas
that they all escaped safe TO land.
As to Breathing.
!, The following heretofore unhearSi o
+ information in regard to breath an,
breathing was made public in Ken
lucky recently by school boy of L