The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-09-05

how 1t was, but somehow, while was
trying to watch that star, 1t seemed to
help me and seemed to lift me-" O,
sinking soul. see you not the glimmer
between the riffs of the storm cloudi
That is the star of hope
Deathstruck, ceased the tide to stem,
When suddenly star arose,
IL was the star OF Bethleheml
Ii there are any here who consider
themselves castaways, let me say God
is doing everything to save you Did
you ever hear Of Lionel Lukens He
was the inventor of the insubmergible
life boat. All honor is due to his
memory by seafaring men, as well as
by landsmen. How many lives he
saved by his invention. In after days
that invention was improved, and one
day there was perfect life boat, the
Northumberland, ready at Ramsgate.
The life boat 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 up
set it. Then, amid the huzzas of ex-
cited thousands, that boat was launch
ed, and it has gone and come, picking
up great many of the shipwrecked.
But have to tell you now Of grand
er launching, and from the dry docks
of heaven. Word came up that a
world was beating OF the rocks. In
the presence of the potentates of heav-
en- the life boat of the worlds redemp-
ton was launched. It 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, 1t comes for me. Soul! soull
get into it. Make one leap for heaven.
Let that boat go past and your oppor-
tunity is gone.
GET INTO THE LIFE BOAT
am expecting that there will be
whole families here who will get into
that life boat In 1888, the Isabella
came ashore off Hastings, England.
The air was filled with sounds-the
hoarse sea trumpet. the crash of the
axes, and the believing of the lorna
do. A boat from the shore came un-
der 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
Nov give us the children" A father
who stood ON deck took his first born
and threw him to the boat. The sail
ors caught him safely, and the next,
and the next, to the last. Still the sea
rocking, the storm howling. ''Now," "
said the sailors, "now the mother}'
and she leaped, and was saved. The
boat went to the shore; but before II
got to the shore, the landsmen were
so impatient to help the suffering peo-
pie that they waded clear down into
and promises Of help and succor So
there are whole families here who are
going to be saved, and saved alto
gether. 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.
/ claim this whole audience for God.
pick not out cne man here nor one
man there; 1 claim you all. There
are some of you who, thirty years ago,
were consecrated to Christ by your
parents in baptism. Certainly am
not stepping over the right bound
when / claim you for Jesus. Then
there are many here who have been
seeking God for good while, and am
not right in claiming you for Jesusi
Then there are some here who have
been further away, and you drink,
and you swear, and you bring up
your families without any God to take
care of them when you are dead. And
/ claim you, my brother; I claim all
of YOU You will have to pray some
time; why not begin now, while all
the ripe and purple cluster of divine
promise bend over into your cup,
rather than postpone your prayer until
your chance is past, apd the night
drops, and the sea washes you out,
and the appalling fact shall be an
nounced that Notwithstanding all
your magnificent opportunities, you
| have become q castaway