Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-29

soul, see you not the glimmer between
the riffs OF the storm cloud? That is the
star of hone

soul, see you not the glimmer between
the riffs OF the storm cloud? That is the
star of hope.
Deathstruck, ceased the tide to stem,
When suddenly a star arose;
IL was the star of Bethlehem!
If there are any here who consider
themselves castaways, let me say God is
doing everything to save you. Did you
ever hear of Lionel Luken? He was the
inventor of the insubmergable lifeboat
All honor is due to his memory by sea-
faring men as well as by landsmen How
many lives he saved by his inventioni
In after days that invention was i'm
proved, and one day there. was a perfect
lifeboat, the Northumberland, ready at
Ramsgate. The lifeboat being ready,
to test it the crew came out and leaped on
the gunwale on one side to see if the
boat would upset; it was impossible to
upset it. Then, amid the huzzas of ex-
cited thousands, that boat was launched,
and it has gone and come, picking up a
great many of the shlpwrecked. But l
have to tell you now of grander launch
ing, and from the drydocks of heaven.
Word came up that a world was beating
on the rocks. In the presence of the
potentates of heaven the lifeboat of the
world redemption was launched. 1t
showed off the golden sands amid angelic
hosanna. The surges of darkness beat
against its bow, but it sailed on, and it
comes in sight of us this hour. 1t comes
for you, it comes for me. Soul, soul,
get into it. Make one leap for heaven.
Let that boat go past and your opportu-
nifty is gone.
SAVED SAVED!
l am expecting that there will be
whole families here who will get into
that lifeboat. In 1888 the Isabella came
ashore of Hastings, England. The air
was filed with sounds-the hoarse sea
trumpet, the crash of the axes and the
believing of the tornado. boat from
the shore came under the stern of the
disabled vessel. There were women and
children on board that vessel. Some of
the sailors jumped into the small boat
and said: ''Now give US the children. -
4 father who stood On deck took his
first born aud threw him to the boat.
The sailors caught him safely, and
the next, and the next, to the
last. Still the sea rocking, the storm
bowling. NOW, - said the sailors,
now the mother;'' and she leaDed and
was saved. The boat went to the shore,
but before it got to the shore, the lands
men were so impatient to help the suffer-
ing people that they waded clear down
into the surf with blankets and garments
and promises of help and succor. So
there are whole families here who are
going to be saved, and saved all togeth-
er. Give us that child for Christ, that
other child, that other. Give
us the mother, give us the
father, the whole family. They must all
come in. All heaven wades in to help
you. l claim this whole audience for
God. l pick not out one man here nor
one man there; I claim you all. There
are some of you who, thirty years ago,
were consecrated to Christ by your paI-
ents in baptism. Certainly L am not
over the right bound when I
claim you for Jesus. There are many
here who have been seeking God for a
good while, and am not right in claim
ing you for, esus? Then there are some |
here who have been further |
away, and you drink, and you
swear. and you are bringing up your
families without any God to take care of |
them when you are dead. And l claim |
you, my brother; claim all of you.
You will have to pray sometime; why not |
begin now, while all the ripe and pur-
pie clusters of divine promise bend over |
INTO your cup, rather than postpone your |
prayer until your chance is past, and /
he night drops, and the sea washes you |
)ut, and the appalling fact shall be an
lOunced that Notwithstanding all your
magnificent opportunities, you have |
become q castaway.