Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13

combat By the highest throne in heaven,
and by the deepest chasm in hell, beg you
to look out Unless you allow Christ to
carry away your sins. they will carry you
away. Unless you allow Christ TO lift you
up, they will drag you down. There is only
one hope for you and that is the blood.
Christ, the sin-Offering, bearing your trans
gressions. Christ. the surety, paying your
debts. Christ, the divine Cyrus, loosening
your Babylonish captivity.
WOULD YOU NOT LIKE TO BE FREEl
Here is the price of your Gberation-not
money, but blood. l tremble from head to
foot, not because / fear your presence, but
chance for immortal rescue. This is the
alternative divinely put: 'He that believ-
eth on the Son shall have everlasting life !;
and he that beiieveth not on the Son shall
not see life. but the wrath of God abideth
on him. In the last day if you now reject
Christ, every drop of that sacrificial blood,
instead of pleading for your release as it
would have pleaded If you had repented,
will plead against you.
. Lord God of the Judgment day! avert
that calamity! Let US see the quick flash
of the scimeter that Stays the sin but saves
the sinner. Strike. omnipotent God, for
the souls deliverance! Beat, o eternal
sea with all thy waves again the barren
beach of that rocky soul, and make it trem-
plt I'll LLt ODDEcSSlktilcSS VI lLlt HOuE,
the minute, the second, on which the souls
destiny quivers, and this is that hour, that
minute, that second,
Some years ago there came down fierce
storm on the Sea-coaSt, and i vessel got in
the breakers and was going to pieces. They
threw up some signal OF distress, and the
people on shore saw them. They put out
in a lifeboat. They came on, and they saw
the poor sailors, almost exhausted, clinging
to a raft; and so afraid We're the boatmen
that the men would give up before they got
to them they gave them three rounds of
cheers, and cried: Hold on, there! hold
on. we'll save you.n After awhile the
boat came up. One man WAS saved by hay
ing the boat-hook put in the collar of his
coat; and some in one way and some in an
other,
But THEY ALL GOT INTO THE BOAT.
"Now," says the captain, 'for the shore.
Pull away now, pull,'' The people on the
land We're afraid the life-boat had gone
down. They said: How long the boat
stays. Why. it must have been swamped,
and they have all persisted together" And
there were men and women on the pier
heads and on the beach wringing their
hands: and while they waited and watched,
they saw something looming up through the
mist, and it turned out to be the life-boat.
AS soon as it came within speaking distance
the people on the shore cried out: did
you save any of them! Did you save any
of them" And as the boat swept through
the boiling surf and came to the pier-head
the captain waved his hand over the ex-
hausted sailors that lay fiat on the bottom
of the boat and cried: ''All saved Thank
Cod All saved.' So may it be to-day.
The waves of your sin run high, the storm
is on you, but | cheer you with the gospel
hope. God grant that within the next ten
minutes we may row with you into the har-
Dor of Gods mercy. And when these Chris
tian men gather around to see the result of
this service, and the gloritied gathering on
the pier-heads of heaven to watch and to
listen, may we be able to report all saved!
Young and old, good and bad. All saved!
Saved for time Saved for eternity. And
so it came to pass that they all escaped safe
to land.''