News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08

InGy were taken on DO3Itt inc NSSScl
and saved. Did ever men come SO
near a watery grave without dropping
into it2 How narrowly they escaped
escaped only with the skin Of their
teeth. "
There are men who have been cap
sized Of evil passions, and capsized
mid-ocean, and they are a thousand
miles away from any shore Of help.
They have for years been trying to
dig their way out. They have been
digging away and digging away, but
they can never be delivered unless
they will hoist some signal of distress.
However weak and feeble it may be,
Christ will see it, and bear down upon
the helpless craft and take them on
board; and it will be known in earth
and in heaven how narrowly they es-
capped" escaped as with the skin of
their teeth. "
BUSINESS PERPLEXITIES.
There are others who, in attempting
to come to God, must run between a
great many business perplexities. If
a man go over to business at 10 o'clock
in the morning, and comes away at 3
o'clock in the afternoon, he has some
time for religion; but how shall you
find time for religious contemplation
when you are driven from sunrise to
sunset, and have been for five years
going behind in business, and are fire.
quently dunned by creditors whom
you cannot pay, and when, from Mon
day morning until Saturday night,
you are lodging bills that you cannot
meet2 You walk day by day in un-
certainties that have kept your brain
on fire for the past three years. Some
with less business trouble than you
have gone crazy. The clerk has heard
a noise in the back counting room,
and gone in and found the chief man
of the firm q raving maniac; or the
wife has heard the bang of q pistol in
the back parlor, and gone in, STUN
bling over the dead body of her hus-
banda suicide.
There are in this house today three
hundred men pursued, hsrassed, trod-
den down and scalped of business per
plexities, and which way to turn next
they do not know. Now God will not
be hard on you. He knows what OBJ
stacles are in the way of your being a
Christian, and your first effort in the
right direction he will crown with sue
cess. Do not let Satan, with cotton
bales and kegs and hogsheads and
counters and stocks of unstable goods,
block up your way to heaven. Gather
up all your energies. Tighten the
girdle about your loins. Take an ago
nizing look into the face Of God, and
then say, Here goes one grand effort
for life eternalr and then bound away
for heaven, escaping as with the skin
of your teeth"
CHRISTIAN HEROES.
In the last day it will be found that
Hugh Latimer and John Knox and
Huss and Ridley were not the great
est martyrs, but Christian men who
went up incorrupt from the contami-
nations and perplexities of Wall
street, Water street, Pearl street,
Broad street, State street and Third
street. On earth they were called
brokers, or stock jobbers, or retailers,
or importers; but in heaven, Chris
tan heroes. No fagots were heaped
about their feet; no inquisition de-
manded from them recantation; no
soldier aimed a pike at their heart
but they had mental fortunes compar-
ed with which all physical consuming
is as the breath of spring morning.
find in the community large class
of men who have been SO cheated, so
lied about, so Outrageously wronged,
that they have lost their faith in every
thing. In a world where everything
seems so topsy-turvey they do not see
how there can be any God. They are
COMPOUNDED and fr"nzied and nissan |
thropic. Elaborate arguments to prove
to them the truth OF Christianity, or
the truth of anything else, touch them |
nowhere. Hear me- all such men. |
preach to you no rounded periods, no
ornamental discourse, but put my
hand on your shoulder and invite |
you into the peace of the gospel |
Here is rock on which you may |
stand firm, though the waves dash |
against it harder than the Atlantic, |
pitching its surf clear above Eddy |
stone lighthouse.
Do not charge upon God all these
troubles of the world As long as the
world stuck to God, God stuck to the
world; but the earth seeded from his |
government, and hence all these out |
RACES and all these woes. God is good. |
For many hundreds of years he has
been coaxing the world to come back |
to him; but the more he has coaXed |
the more violent have men been in
their resistance, and they have stepped |
back and stepped back until they have |
dropped into ruin.
Try this God, We who have had the
bloodhounds after you, and who have
thought that God had forgotten you |
Try him, and see if he will not help. |
Try him, and see if he will not pardon
Try him, and see if he will not save.
The flowers of spring have no bloom
so sweet as the Towering of Christ's |
affections The sun hath no warmth |
compared with the glow of his heart.
The waters have no refreshment like |
JLlc 1OuHLdln GiIdb Will oldAC Vic CIlIob
of thy soul At the moment the rein
deer stands with his lip and nostril
thrust in the cool mountain torrent |
the hunter may be coming through |
the thiclet Without cracking a stick
under his foot he comes close by the
stag, aims his gun, draws the trigger,
and the poor thing rears in its death
agony and falls backward, its antlers
crashing on the rocks; but the pant
ing hart that drinks from the water
brooks Of Gods promise shall never be
fatally wounded and shall never die
THE WORLD A POOR PORTION.
The world is a poor portion for your
soul, oh business man! An eastern
king had craven on his tomb two
fingers, represented as sounding upon
each other with a snap, and under
them the motto, "All is not worth
that Apicius Coelius hanged him
self because his steward informed him
that he had only eighty thousand
pounds sterling left All of this
worlds riches make but small in
heritance for a soul. RObcspierre at
tempted to win the applause of tho
world; but when lie was dying a wo.
man came rushing through the crowd,