The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-12

and look after the passengers that got
ashore, wrapping fannels around them,
and kindling fires for them. and preparing
them foodl There was plenty Of work 70
be done on the shore for those who had
already escaped. All! that brave man
knew that there were others who would
take care of those, and so he said: MAN
the lfeboatl Pull away, my lads, pull
away Nonder is man; there IS a
woman freezing in the rigging. Pun
ewayn / see the oar blades bend IN the
strong pull of the oarsmen. Then they
come up 10 the wreck. The woman IS
frozen. She drops into the wave-alas /!
poor woman-and washes ont 20 sea- But
then Mr. Ancient says, There is man
vet hanging to the rigging. Pull away, my
lads, pull away" They come up, and he
SAYS Hold now there i've minutes and we
win save you. Steady! steady NoE give
me your hand. Leapl Thank God be Is
saved! Thank God he is savedp
So there are men now in the breakers.
They have made shipwreck Of life. While
we come out TO save them, some are swept
off-swept off before we can reach them
aud there are others still hanging on.
Steady there among the slippery places!
Steadyl Leap into this hfeboatl Now IS
your chance for heaven! This hour some of
Won are going TO be saved. Far away from
God, YOU are going TO be brought nigh.
''Other sheep have which are no5 OF this
fold.n
Christ says that ministers Of the gospel
are TO be fishers for men. Now when go
fishing / do not want to fish in anybody
else's pond. l do not want TO go along
Hohokus creek, where there are ten or
fifteen men fishing, and drop my line just
about where they are dropping their lines.
/ should like 10 get in Newfoundland
fishing smack and push out to sea hfty miles
beyond the breakers. do not think the
church of God gains a great deal when you
take sheep from one fold and put them In
another fold. Ii is the lost sheep on the
mountains you want TO bring back-the
lost sheep on the mountains. And they are
coming to-day.
You are now this hour in the tide of
christian influences. You are going TO be
swept in; your voice is going to be heard In
prayer; you are going TO be consecrated TO
God: you are going to live life of useful
ness, and your death-bed is going to be sur
rounded by christian sympathizers; and de-
vout men will carry you to your burial
when your work is done, and these words
will be chiseled for your epitaph: precious
in the sight of the Lord is the death of his
saints" And all that history Is going TO
begin to-day. "0ther sheep have which
are not Of this foldn
Again l remark, the Heavenly Shepherd
is going to find many of his shesp among
those who are now rejecters of christianity
do not know how came you to reject
christianity. / do not know whether it was
through hearing Theodore Parker preach,
or whether it was reading Remains Life of
Jesus, or whether it was through some skep-
tic 10 the store or.factory. Or it may be
probably is the case-that you were dis
gusted with religion and disguised with
christianity because some man who pro-
fessed TO be christian defrauded you, ana
he being member Of the church, and you
L. . h.
tian religion, you said, well, If that's re-
lglon, don't want any OF it"
l do not know how you came to reject
Christianity. but you frankly tell me you
do reject it; you do not think the Bible is
the word of God, although there are many
things in il you admire; you do not think
that Christ was a divine being, although
you think he was a very good man. You
say, "if the Bible be true-the most of the
Bible be true-I nevertheless think the
earlier part of the Bible is an aIlegory."
And there are fifty things that l
believe you do not believe. Never
theless they tell me in regard to
you that you are an accommo-
dating, you are an obliging person. II l
should come to you and ask of you a favor
you would grant it. if it were possible. 1t
would be joy for you to grant me favor.
If any Of your friends came to you and
wanted an accommodation, aud you could
accommodate them, how glad you would be-
Now / am going to ask you a favor, l
want you TO oblige me. The accommoda-
ton will cost you nothing, and will give me
great happiness. OF course you will not
deny me. | want you as an experiment to
try the Christian religion. If it does not
stand the test, discard it; if it does, re-
ceive il.
If you were very sick and you had been
given up of the doctors, and | came to you
and | took bottle of medicine from my
pocket and said. "here is medicine am sure
will help you; it has cured fifty people,"
you would say, 30, haven't any confidence
in it; they tell me all these medicines will
fail me.n well, | say. Twill you not, as
a matter of accommodation to myself, just
try itP' "Well," you say, "l have no OBJ
lection to trying it, if it Will be any salts
faction to you l will try it.n You take it.
Now you are sick in disquietude, sick in
sin. You are not happy. You laugh some
times when you are miserable. There come
surges of unhappiness over your soul that
almost swamp you. You are unhappy,
struck through with unrest. Now will you
not try this solace, this febrifuge
this anodyne, this gospel medicinel go"
you say, Il haven't any faith in it," AS a
matter of accommodation, let me introduce
you to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Great
Physician. why" you say, II haven't
any faith in him. Well, now, will you
not just let him come and try his power on
your soul! Just let me introduce him to
you. / do not ask you to take my word for
it. do not ask you to take the advice of
clergymen. Perhaps the clergymen may
be prejudiced; perhaps we may be speaking
professionally; perhaps we may give you
wrong advice; perhaps we are morbid on
that subject; so / do not ask you to
take the advice of clergymep. l ask
you to take the advice of very re-
spectacle laymen, such as William Shakes
peare, the dramatist; as William WILDER
force, the statesman; as Isaac Newton, the
astronomer; as Robert Boyle, the philos-
opher; as Locke, the metaphysician; as
Morse, the electrician. These men never
preached-they never pretended to preach
but they come out. and putting down, one
his telescope and another the electricians
wire, and another the parliamentary scroll
they come out and they commend Christ
as comfort to all the people, Christ that
the world needs Now do not ask YOU to
take the advice of clergymen. Take the
advice of these laymen. IL does not make
any difference to me at this
juncture what you have said against the
Bible; it does not make any difference to
me at this juncture how you may have
caricatured religion. Take the advice of
men who are prominent in secular affairs,
as these men whom l have mentioned, and
others who Immediately occur to your