The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-25

and to me, the authorship of this
Holy Bible-whether the Lord God Of
heaven and earth or pack of
dupes, scoundrels OF impostors. We cannot
afford to adjourn that question week or
a day or an hour, any more than sea
captain can afford to say: "Well, this is a
very dark night. | have really lost my
bearings there is llg t out there. don't
know whether it is Lighthouse or a false
light on the Shore | 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 lighthouse is before he
goes to sleep. Oh, my friends, | want you
to understand that in our deliberation 4,
alb ut this Bible we are not at cable anchor
age but we are rapidly coming toward the
coast, coming with all the furnaces ablaz !,
, coming at the rate Of seventy heart throbs
a minute, and must know whether it is
going TO be harbor or shipwreck.
was so glad to read in the papers Of the
fact that the steamship E lam had come
safely into harbor. A week before the
Persian Monarch, blowing its way toward
the Narrows, a hundred miles out, saw sig
mails of distress, bore down upon the vessel,
and found it was the steamship Edam. She
had lost her propeller. Sbs had two hun
dred passengers on board. The merciful
captain of the Persian Monarch ende lvored
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 caDtain of
| the Persian Monarch ''iay TO-" thinking in
the morning he could give rescue to the
| passengers. The morning came, but during
the night the steamship Edam had disap-
| peared and the captain of the Persian
/ n IL l. -
| saying how sad he felt because he could not
| give compile rescue to that lost ship.
am glad that afterwar1 another vessel saw
| her and brought her into safety But
when | saw the story of that steam
! ship Edam, drifting, drifting, drifting,
l do not know where, but with no
rudder, no lighthouse, no harbor no heln,
| said: That is a skeptic; that is an inf
del, drifting, drifting, drifting, not know
thought of the Persian Monarch anchored
in harbor, | said THAT is christian; that
| is a man who does all he eau on the wav,
crossing the sea to help others, coming, per-
| maps, through a very rough vova 20 into
| the narbor-there safe and safe for
ever" Would God that there nigh
be some one to-day who would go forth
and bring in these souls that are drift
| Ing In this assemblage, how m4ny-a score
shall l say, or hundred, or thousand?-
not quite certain about the truth o; the
| Bible, not certain alb ut anything. D'ift
ing, drifting, drifting. Oh! how would
| like to tow them in. throw you this
cable. Lay hold of that cable of the gospel.
Lay hold of it, l invite you all in. The
harbor is wide enough, large enoug for all
the shipping. Come il, o you wanderers
on the deep Drift more O.. drift N )re
on. Come into the harbor. See thu
glorious lighthouse of the gospel Peace
on earth. good viii TO mea." Come Into
the harbor. God grant that it may be said
of all of you VINO are now drifting in your
unbelef as it might have been said of tn
passenger of the steamship Elan, and as
it was said centuries ago of the wrecked
corn ship of Alexandria, ut came to pass
| that they all escaped safe to land"