The Russellville Democrat., 1889-06-06
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think they viii be safer and happier
there" The captain would look down
with Indignation aud say: "Get out Of
the way or will run you down" And
then | would back oars. amidst the jeer-
ing Of two hundred or three hundred peo-
pie looking over the taffrail. But the
Umbria and the City Of Paris meet under
different circumstances after awhile.
The City Of Paris is coming out OF ey-
clone; the life boats are smashed; the
bulwarks gone; the vessel rapidly going
down. The boatswain gives his last whis-
tie Of despairing command. The passen-
gers run up and down the deck, and some
pray, and all make a great outcry.
The captain says: "You have
about fifteen minutes now to pre-
pare for the next world" "No hopeW
sounds from stem to stern and from the
ratlines down to the cabin. l see the dis
tress. | am let down by the Umbria.
push off as fast as | can toward the sink
ing City of Paris. Before come up peo-
bic are leaping into the water in their
anxiety to get to the boat and when
swing up under the side of the City OF
Paris, the frenzied passengers rush
through the gangway, until the officers,
with axe, and clubs, and pistols, try to
keep back the crowd. each wanting bis
turn to come next. There is but one life
boat, and they all want to get into 1t,
and the cry is: "Me next! Me nextr
You see the application before make IL.
As long as a man going on in his sin feels
that all is well, and he is coming out at
beautiful port, and has all sail set, he
wants no Christ, he wants no help, he
wants no rescue; but If, under the fash OF
frit ha ha1
by reason OF sin he is dismasted and
waterlogged, and going down into the
trough of the sea where he can not live.
how soon he puts the ssa glass to his
eyes and sweeps the horizon, and at the
first sign of help cries out: II want to be
saved. want to be saved now. | want
to be saved forever" No sense of dan
ger, no application for rescue.
oh, that Gods eternal spirit would fash
upon US sense of our sinfulness! The
Bible tells the story in letters of fire, but
we get used to it. We joke about sin. We
make merry over IT. What is sinY Is IL
trifing thing' Sin is vampire that ia
sucking out the life blood of your immor-
tai nature. Sin? 1t is a Bastile that no
earthly key ever unlocked. Sin. Ii is
expatriation from God and Heaven.
Sin? 1t is grand larceny against the
Almighty, for the Bible asks the ques-
ton: Twill a man rob God?" answer
ing it in the affirmative. This Gospel
is a writ OF replevin to recover property
unlawfully detained from God. In tho
Shetland Islands there is man with lep-
rosy. The hollow of the foot has swollen
until it is fiat on the ground. The joints
begin to fall away. The ankle thickens
until it looks like the foot Of wild beast.
A stare unnatural comes to the eye. Tho
nostril is CONSTRUCTED. The voice drops to
an almost inaudible hoarseness. Tu-
bercles blotch the whole body, and From
item there comes an exudation that Is
to the beholder. That is lep
rosy, and we have all got it unless
cleansed by the grace of God. See
Leviticus. See ii. Kings. See Mark.
See Luke. See fifty Bible illusions and
The Bible is not complimentary in Its
language. 1t does not speak mincingly
about our sins. 1t does not talk apollo
getically. There is no vermilion in its
style. 1t does not cover up our trans
gressions with blooming metaphor. 1t
does not sing about them in weak fall
setto; but it thunders out: ''The ima4.
ination OF mans heart is evil from his
youth" Every one has gone back. He
has altogether become filthy. He Is
abominable and filthy, and drinketh In in
iquity like water" And then the Lord
Jesus Christ filings down at our feet this
catalogue; "0ut Of the heart
of men proceed evil thoughts, adultcrtes,
murders, thefts, blasphe
my" There Is a text for your rational
lists to preach from. Oh, the dignity OF
human nature! There is an element OF
your science of man that the anthropolo-
gist never has had the courage yet to
touch; and the Bible, in all the ins and
outs Of the most forceful style, sets forth
our natural pollution, and represents in
iquity as frightful thing, as an exhaust
ing thing, as loathsome thing. 1t is not
a mere bemiring OF the feet it is not a
mere befouling of the hands; it is going
down, head and ears under, in q ditch,
until our clothes abhor us.
My brethren, shall we stay down whore
sin thrusts usf / shall not if you do. We
can not afford to. have to-day to tell
you that there is something purer than
snow water, something more punsent
than alkali, and that is the blood of Jesus
Christ that cleanseth from all sin. Aye,
the river OF salvation, bright, crystalline
and Heaven born, rushes through this
audience with billowy tide strong
enough to wash your sins completely and
forever away. Oh, Jesus, let the dam
hat holds 1t back now break, and the
loods OF salvation roll over us.
Let the water and the blood
From Thy side a healing food,
Be OF sin the double cure,
Save from wrath aud make me pure.
Let us get down on both knees and bathe
N that food of mercy. Ay, strike out
With both hands and try to swim to the
,ther shore OF this river OF Gods grace.
TO you is the word Of this salvation sent.
Take this largess of the Divine bounty.
Though you have gone down in the deep-
,st ditch of libidinous desire and corrupt
Jehavior; though you have sworn all
until there Is not ono single
word left for you to speak; though you
nave been submerged by the transgres-
,ions of a lifetime; though you are so far
iown in your sin that no earthly help can
ouch your case, the Lord Jesus Christ
bends over you to-day and offers you
His right hand, proposing to lift
you up, first making you whiter
han snow, and then raising you to
ylories that never die. Billy" said
!, Christian bootblack to another, when
We come up to Heaven 1t won't make any
Inference that we've been bootblaoks
lere, for we shall get in, not somehow or
,ther, but Billy, we shall get straight
through the gate" Oh, II you only knew
low full and free and tender is the Offer
II Christ this day you would all take Him
without one single exception; and II alf
he doors OF this house were locked saws
,ne, and you were compelled TO mako
,gress by only one door, and | stood thers
md questioned you, and the Gospel OF
Christ had made the right impression
Ipon your heart to-day, you would answer
ne as you went out, one and all: Jesus
$ mine, and / am His 20 oh, that this
night be the hour when you would receive
Him.
1t is not a Gospel merely for tootpads
and vagrants and buccaneers; II Is for
he highly polished and the educated aud