The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-05-16

has ever seen? DO you know any book that
has as much in it? Do you not think, upon
the whole, that its influence has been ben-a.
cent? leone toyou with both llnndls ex tended
toward you. In one haud have the Bible,
and IN the other have nothing This Bible
In one hand will surrender tor ever lust "a
aoon ns in my other hand you can puta book
thatis better. To-day invite you back into
tho good oid-fashioned religion ofyour ia.
thefsIto tho God whom they worshiped. to
the BIBLE they read, to tho promises on which
they leaned to the cross on which they hung
tlieir eternal expectations. You have not
t'een hnppy day since you swung of; you
buck.
Again: There he some ofy who, in tn.
attempt intern Christian lie, will have to
run agnin. Powerful passions and appetites.
Perhaps it Is a disposition to anger that
you have to contend against and perhaps
while IN very SERIOUS mood. you heur OF
s"mething that makes you icci TINT you
must swear or die know Christian man
who was once so exaspcratr,l that lie said to
u menil ~ customer: II cannot swear ut you
myself, for am member Of the church; but
u you 20 downstairs my partner in business
will swear ut you." All your good resolu.
TONS heretofore have been torn tn otatters by
explosion of temper. Now there is uo harm
IN getting mud you only get raud at sin.
lou need to bri,llr ami saddle those hot
breatllrd passions. and with hein ride down
injustice and wrong. There are u thousand
things in tho world that We Ougl, to l,e mad
at There IL no harm il, get eing red hot IL yuu
only bring tothe orge TINT which needs ham
mcrInE. man who has no power oi right.
eons Indignation is an imbccilr. But be sure
it is n righteous Indignation. and not 4. petu.
lnncy that blurs and unravels and lepletes
the soul. Il
There is large class of persons in mid life
who have still in them nppctites that were
aroused in early manhood, at ntitne wien
they prided themselves on being little
fast high livcrs." ''ircc aud easy" hail
leliows well met They are now paying in
compound interest. for troubles they collect.
escape, and you wiil-yct very narrowly
'as with the skin OF your teeth" God and
your own soul only know wlint the struggle
49, omnipotent grace has pulled out many
soul that was deeper in the miro than
you nrc. They line the bench of l,caven--the
multi multitude whom God hns rescued from the
thrall oil suicidal hnbita Ii you this day
turn your buck ON the wrong aud ut nrt anew,
God Will help you. oh. tho weakness of hu-
man help! Men will symputl,ize ior q while.
aud then turn YOU off. Ifyon nsk for thci
pardon, they will give il, und say they vii
Try you again; but, falling away ngain under
Tue l'ower Of temptation. they Gust you of
seven; yea. seven hundred times; yen, though
this bc the tcn-tliousandth time, He ia more
earnest, more symputletic, more helpful this
last time than when you took your first mis-.
step.
IL, with all the influences favorable for a
right lie, men make SO many stakes, how
much harder 1t is when. Tor instance, some
appetite tlirusts it's iron grapple into the
roots of the tongue. md pulls q man down
with ilnnds of drstruction u, under surh
circumstances, he break away, there will lie
no sport IN tho undertaking. no holiday Ell.
loyment, but struggle in which the wrcst-
iers, move from side to side, and bend and
iwist' ~ and watch for an opportnnity to get
IN u heavier stroke. until, with one final
effort, in which tho muscles are dis.
tended. mud tho veins stand out.
nn'l tho blood starts, the swarthy habit :aIs
under the knee of the victor-cscuped ut last
Us with the skin of his teeth"
The ship Emma, bound from Gottenburg
to i!arwich, was sailing on, when the mai,
on the lookout snw something Tint he Dro.
nounced II vessel. bottom up There was
something on it that looked like n sea-gull,
but was nrtcrwurd found to bea wuyiny
handkerchief. In tho small boat the crew
pushed out to the wreck, and found that it
was carsizcd vessel, md that three men
bottom of the ship. When tho vessel cap.
sizcd they had no means OF escape. The cap.
tain took hispenkni;e md dug awuy through
the planks until his knife broke. Then an old
nail was found, with which they attempted
tn Scrape their way out of he darkness, earh
one working until his hand was well nigh
lnralyzed, md he SINK bncI faint and sick.
Alter long and tedious work. tho light broke
through the bottom Of the ship. Al,andker
chic; was h0isted. Help cnine. They we're
taken on board the ve.rrl md sevcJ, lid
ever men come so near watrry grave with
out droppng into il? How narrowly they
escaped escaped only "withtlc skin Of their
te,fh."
There are lnen who have been cupsizel of
evil passions. aud capsz-d md-ocenn, and
they are u 900 miles away from nny shore
Di help. They have for years been irving to
lie their way out They h,lve been digging
away. and digging away, but they Gun never
be delivered unless they will hoist some signnl
o. distrpss. However weak and feeble IL mnv
be. Clirlst will see it. nnl bear down upon tho
helpless crnt, and take them OH hoard; and
it will he known in earth and in heaven how
narrowly they csrn!cd-'escapel us With the
4kn oi their teeth"
There nrs Others who In Alternating to
Ione In Gn'l must run bet ween n great mnny
BUSINESS p"rplexitts. u man go over to
business ut 10 O'Clock in tho nj morning and
rolnrs away ut 3 O'Clock In the ternoon, he
has some time tor religion; hut how shall
You find time Tor religious contemplation
When you hrc driven from sunrise to sun.
se,, and iInve lren for five years going
behind in business and are frequently iunned
by creditors whom you cannot INV
and when, from Monday morning un.
III Saturday night, you are dodgins bill.
that you cannot meet? You walk div
by day in uncertainties tl,nt have kept your
i'rain OH fire for he past three years. Some
"iib less business troubles than YOU have
gone crazy. The clerk has heard noise In |
tho hack counting room and gone in, and |
;nund the chief man of tho firmn II ruvinv mn.
niar; or the vile has heard the bang OF u p;s.
tnl i'll th" buck parlor. and gone in stumb-
ling over the dead body ol her husband-n |
'aiice. There are in this house to. day 800 |
non pursued. hnrrnsse,i. trolden down. and |
stnlped, of business perplrxities. aud which
ray to turn next they do not know. Now
Tod will not l,e hurd ON yon. lie knows
hat obstacles are in the way of your being
{. christian, and your first effort in tho right
direction He will crown with success. Donot
fet satan, with cotton bales and kegs and
Plosslleads aud conhters md stocks of un.
kaInble goods block up your wny to henvon.
Eiatler up all yous energies. Tighten the
l,irdlc about your loins. Y. 4. an agon.
Fzing look into the iace OF Ga Z Id then say |!
/ Here goes one .granJ ss4* W ..<.spa1i1l