The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-02-07

had been wrought IN MIN, AT scores hnu
scores have been brought 10 BOD through
his instrumentality:
A little while after his conversion he
was On ship OF Cape Hatteras in thick
and prolon ged fog, and they were az their
Wits ends and knew not what to do, the
ship drifting about hither and thither,
and they lost their bearings; and the con :
| verted sea captain went 10 his room and
asked God for the salvation Of his ship,
and God revealed 10 to him while he was
on his Knees that at certain hour, only
little way of, the fog would lift; and the
converted sea captain came out on the
deck and told how God heard his prayer.
He said: cit is all right, boys, very soon
now the fog will lift" mentioning the
hour. A man who stood there laughed
aloud in dcrisiou at the idea that God
would answer prayer; but just at the hour
when God had assured the captain the fog
would lift, there came a fash of lightning
through the fog, and the man who had
jeered and laughed was stunned and fell to
the deck. The fog lifted. Yonder was
Cape Hatteras lighthouse. The ship was
put on the right course, and sailed ON TO
the harbof o. safety,
When In seaport the captain spends
most OF his time in evangelical work. He
kneels down by one who has been help
less In the bed for many months, and the
next day he walks Forth in the streets we'll.
He kneels beside one who has long been
decrepit, and he resigns the crutches. He
kneels beside one who had not seen enough
10 be able to read for ten years, and she
reads the Bible that day. Consumptions
go away, and those who had diseases that
were appalling to behold come up to rapid
convalescence and to complete health.
am not telling you any thing second
handed. l have had the story from the
lips Of the patients in this very house,
those who wefs brought to health OF
body while at the same time brought to
God. No second hand story, this. have
heard the testimony from men and women
who have been cured. You may call 1t
faith-cure, or You may call il the power
Of God coming down in answer to prayer;
do not care what you call It, il Is fact.
The scofflng sea captain, his heart full OF
hatred for Christianity, now becomes
follower OF the meek and lOwly Jesus,
giving all the time to evangelical laborS,
or all the time he can spare from other
occupations. That is regeneration; that
is regeneration. Man all made over aGain.
"There is ycur absurd doctrine Of vi
cariUus SACRIFICE" say these men who
have chewed up the little books Of creeds
and have the consequent embittered
stomach. "Vicarious sacrifice! Let every
man suffer for himself. What do | want
Christ to suffer for mel I'll suffer for
myself, I'll carry my own burdens" They
scoff at the idea of vicarious sacrifice,
while they admire it everywhere else ex.
cept In Christ. People see It's beauty
when mother suffers for her child. Peo-
pie see Its beauty when 4 patriot suffers
for bis solintry, People see it's beatty
when a man denies himself for a friend.
They can see the beauty of vicarious sac
rifice in every one but Christ.
A young lady in one of the literary in
situations was teacher. She was very
reticent and retired iu her habits, and she
formed no companionship in the new
position she occupied, and her dress was
very plain-sometimes it was very shah
by. After awhile she was discharged
from the place for that reason, but no
reason was given. In answer to the let
ter discharging her from the position shs
said "Well, il have failed to please, 1
suppose 1t Is my own fault" She went
here and there for employment but found
none, and in desperation and dementia
she ended her life by suicide. Investiga-
ton was made and it was found that out
Of her small means she had supported her
father, eighty yeers Of age, and was paying
the Way for her brother in Yale College on
his way to the ministry. 1t was found that
she had no blanket on the bed that win
ter, and she had no Are on the very coolest
day OF all the season. People found II
ont, and there was large gathering al
the funeral. the largest ever at any flu
neral in that place; and the very people
who had scoffed came and looked upon
the pale face Of the martyr, and all honor
was done her; but it was too late. Vicari-
Gus sacrifice. All are thrilled with such
instances as that But many are not
moved by the fact that Christ paid His
poverty for orr riches, His self-abnesi-
ton for our enforcement AMI knelt on
the sharp edges Of humiliat, on that we
might climb over His lacerated shoulder
into peace and Heaven.
Be it ours to admire and adore these
doctrines at which others jeer: Oh, the
depths Of the riches, both Of the wisdom
and knowledge Of God! How nnsearcha-
bic 1, His wisdom, and His ways. are past
finding out! Oh, the height, the depth,
the length, the breadth, the infinity, the
mmensity, ths eternity of that love! Let
our earnest prayers go out in behalf Of ali
these who scott at these doctrines of
grace. When the London plague was
raging, in the year 1865 there was a hOte,
near the chief burial place that excited
much comment. England was in fright
and bereavement. The dead carts went
through the streets day and night, and
the cry: Bring ont tho dead!" was an
swerel by the bringing out Of the forms
of the loved ones, and they were put
twenty or thirty In cart, and the wagons
went on to the cemetery, and these dead
were not buried in graves, but in great
trenches, in great pits, in one pit eleven
hundred and fourteen bIrials. The carts
would come up with their great burden OF
twenty Or thirty to the m )uth of the pit,
and the front Of the cart was lifted and
the dead shot into the pit. All the churches
in London were open for prayer day and
night, and England was in a great an
guish. At that very time, at a hotel
at q wayside inn near the chief
burial place, there was a group OF hard
ened men, who sat day after day and night
after night disappearing God and i'm
itating the grief struck who went by to
the burial place. These men. sat there
day after day and night after night, and
they scOffed at men, and they scoffed al
God. But after awhile one of them was
struck with the plague, and in two weeks
all Of the group were down in the trench,
from the margin of which they had ut
tered their ribaldry. Ny friends, a
greater plague is abroad in the world.
Millions have died of it. Millions are