Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-03-31

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 il is an absorb
ing question, il 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 a pack Of dupes,
scoundrels or impostors. We cannot
afford to adjourn that question a week
or a day or an hour, any more than a
sea captain can afford 10 say: "Well,
this is a very dark night. l have
really lost my. bearings; there is a
light out there. l don't know whether
tits a lighthouse or a false light on
the shore, / 4 don't know what il is; but
I'll Just 60 TO sleep and in the morn
ing Ill find out" In the morningt 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, / 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 i must
know whether it is going 10 be harbor
or shipwreck.
SOULS DRIFTING ON THE SEA OF NFI-
DEITY.
Twas so glad 10 read in the papers
of the fact that the steamship Edam
had come safely into harbor. A week
before the Persian Monarch, plow-
ing its way toward the Narrows, a
hundred miles out, saw signals of dis
tress, bore down upon the vessel, and
found il 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 10 bring her in, but
the tow line broke. He fastened il
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 int
harbor saying how sad he fell
because he could lpot give complete
rescue TO that los, snip. am GLAD
} that afterward another vessel saw hel
} and brought her into safety. Blu
when / saw the story of that steam
ship Edam, drifting, drifting, drifting
/ do not know where, but with NJ
rudder, no lighthouse, no harbor, M
help, / said: That lisa skeptic, that il
an infidel, drifting, drifting, drifting
not knowing where he drifts" Ant
then, when l thought of the Persian
Monarch anchored in harbor, ! said
} THAT is Christian, that is a maj
who does all he can on the way, cross
ing the sea 10 help others, coming per
haps througha very rough voyage int
the harbor, there safe and safe for
ever" Would God that there nigh
|, be some one today who would go fortl
/ and bring in these souls that are drift
J ing. In this assemblage, how many
score shall | say, or a hundred, or
thousandl-not quite certain aboutth
! truth OF the Bible, not certain abou
anything. Drifting, drifting, drifting
/ Oh, how / would like TO tow them in
i throw you this cable. Lay hold O
that cable of the Gospel. Lay hold o
, il. / invite you all in. The harbor i
|, wide enough, large enough for all tn
i shipping. Come m, o you wanderer
i on the deep. Drift no more, drift NJ
/ more. Come into the harbor. SeethI
|, glorious lighthouse of the Gospel
peace on earth, good will TO men.
, Come into the harbor. God grant tina
i 1t may be said of all of you who ar
} now drifting in your unbelief IS ]
might have been said of the passenger
of the steamshipEdam, 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"