Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-09-07

proud to raise such o signal too proud
10 be saved.
There was an old sailor humping
about in q small boat in q tempest. The
larger vessel had gone down. He felt
he must die. The surf was breaking
over the boat, and he said: 81 took of
my life belt that 1t might o be over,
and ] thought somewhat indistinctly
about my friends on shore, and then ]
bid them goodby like, and / was about
sinking back and giving II up, when ]
saw q bright star. The clouds were
breaking away, and there that blessed
star shone down on me, and IL seemed
TO take right hold Of me; and somehow,
/ cannot teal how IL was, but somehow,
while i was trying TO watch that star, 1t
seemed 20 help me and seemed TO lift
me-" o, sinking 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
II there are any here who consider
themselves ~castaways, let me say God is
doing everything 10 save you. Did you
ever near OK LIOucl LuhtuG ne was Lu0
inventor of the insubmergible life boat
All honor Is due to his memory by sea-
faring men, as well as by landsmen.
How many lives he saved by his inven-
ton. In after days that invention was
improved, and M day there was a per-
feet life boat, the Northumberland,
ready at Ramsgate. The life boat being
ready, TO test It the crew came oct and
leaped on the gunwale on on side TO
see IL the boat would upset; It was i'm
possible TO upset 1t. Then, amid the
huzzas Of excited thousands, that boat
was launched, and IL has gone and come,
picking up q great many OF the ship
wrecked. But / have TO tell you of a
grander launching, and from the dry
docks Of heaven. Word anne up that a
world was beating on the rocks. In the
presence Of the pot~entates of heaven the
life boat Of the worlds redemption was
launched. 1t showed of the golden
sands amid angelic hosanna. The surges
of darkness beat against its bow, but IL
sailed u, and 1t in sight of US
this hour. 1t ONE for you, 1t comes
for me. Soul! sool! get into 1t. Make
one leap for heaven. Let that boat go
| past and your opportunity is gone.
am expecting that there viii be whole
families here who will get into that life
boat. 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. A boat from
the shore came under the stern Of the
disabled vessel. There were woman and
children on board that vessel. Some Of
the sailors jumped into the small boa'
and said: "Now give as the children
A father who stood on the deck took his
first born and 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 thu
mother" and she leaped, and wal
saved. The boat went to the shore; bu'
before 1t got 10 the shore, the landsmer
were so impatient 70 help the suffering
people that they waded clear down init
the surf with blankets and garments
and promises of help and succor. 81
there are whole families here who ar,
going TO be saved, and saved altogether
Give us the child for Christ, that othe,
child, that other. Give us the mother
give us the father, the Who'll,
family. They must all com,
in. All heaven wades in TO help you
I claim this whole audience for God.
pick not ont one man here nor one ma
there; ! claim you all. There are som
Of you who, thirty years ago, were con
secrated TO Christ by your parents II
baptism. Certainly / SIN not stepping
over the right bound when j claim yol
for Christ. Then there are many her
who have been seeking God for q goo'
while, and am / not right in claiming
you for Jesus? There are some her,
who have been further away, and yol
drink, and you swear, and you bring a
your families without any God to TAX
care of them when YOU are dead. AM
/ claim you, my brother; I claim all o
tyou. You will have to pray sometime
why not begin now, while all the rip'
and purple cluster OF divine promis'
bend over into your cup, rather thai
postpone your prayer until your chanc'
is past, and the night drops, and the sci
washes you out, and the appalling fac
shall be announced that notwithstand
ing all your magnificent opportunities
you have become a castaway.