Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-11-24

INTO tic rODWCb, Dul II never SHOWS
the fly the way out Of the coGwcb over
the goSSlmer bridge. | think that
there Were plenty of fast young men
TO help the prodisal spend mis- money:
but when be had wasted his substance
in riotous living, they let him 60 TO
the swine pastures, while they bctook
themselves To some other new conner.
They who took Puul out of Fair Ha.
vens will be of no help TO him when
he gets into the breakers of Melita.
| remark again. ms n lesson learned
from the text. tlat II Is dangerous to
refuse the counsel OF competent advi-
sers. Paul told them not 10 go out
with that ship, They thought he
knew nothing about il, They said:
He is only "A minister They went,
and the ship was destroyed. There
are a great many people who now say
Of ministers: They know nothing
about the world. They cannot talk to
us!' All, my friends, it is not ncces,
sary To have the Asiatic cholera before
you can give it medical treatment in
others. II is not necessary to have
your own arm broken before you can
know how To splinter a fracture. And
we who stand in the pulpit, and in the
Office of Christian teacher, know that
there are certain styles of belief and
certain kinds of behavior that will
lead To destruction as certainly as Paul
knew that if that ship went out of
Fair Ravens il would go TO destruc.
ton. Rejoice, . 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
parents. They say: Father 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 voyage
have seen "A thousand battered hulks
marking the place where beauty
burned, and intellect foundered. and
morality sank. They are old sailors,
having answered many a 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
internal fires. His eye flashes not as
once with thought, but with low pas.
sion. His brain is a sewer through
which impurity floats, and his heart
the trough IN which lust wallows and
drinks. Men shudder as the leper
passes, and parents cry, "Wolf! wolfv'
Yet he once said the Lords Prayer at
his mothers knee. and against that in.
iquitous brow one pressed a pure
mothers lip. But he refused her
counsel. He went where euroclydons
have their lair. lie foundered on the
sea, while all hell echoed at the roar
of the wreck: Lost Pacifics! Lost Pa.
cities!
CHRISTIANS ALWAYS SAFE.
Another lesson from the subject is
that Christians are always safe.
There did not seem 10 be much
chance for Paul getting out OF that
shipwreck, did therei They had not,
in those days, rockets with which to
throw ropes over laundering vessels.
Their lifcboats were Of but little worth.
And yet, Notwithstanding all the dan
ger, my text says that Paul escaped
safe 10 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 a storm
of commercial disaster. The cables
break. The masts fall. The cargoes
are scattered over the sea. OH what
struggling and leaping on kegs and
hogsheads and cornbins and store
shelves! And yet, though they may
have ii so very hard in commercial
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 wreck. Mainsail
slit with bankers pen. Hulks abeam's
end on insurance counters. Vast cred
its sinking, having suddenly sprung
a leak. Yet all of them who are Gods
children shall at last, through his good
ness and mercy, escape safe to land.
The Scandinavian warriors used TO
drink wine out Of the skulls Of the
enemies they had slain. Even so 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-
tons, in your own life, of how God
delivers his people. | have had illus.
trations in my own life Of the same
truth. | was once in what on your
Mediterranean you call a Euroclydon,
but what on the Atlantic we call a
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-ltalians, Irishmen, Eng
lishmen, Swedes, Norwegians. Ameri-
cans. Two flags hoated from the
maSts-British and American en-
signs. We had a new vessel, or one
so thoroughly remodeled that the voy.
age had around it all the uncertain.
ties Of a trial trip. The great steam.
err felt its way cautiously out into
the sea. The pilot was discharged
and, committing ourselves TO the care
Of him who holdeth the winds in his
fist, we were fairly started on u voy.
age Of three thousand miles. II was
rough nearly all the way-the sea with