Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16

them, and preparing them food. There
was plenty of work to be done on 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 lifeboat! Pull
away, my lads, pull away. Yondcr is a
man; there is woman freezing in the
rigging. Pull away!" l see the oar
blades bend in the strong pull of the
.oarSmen. Then they come up to the
wreck. The woman is frozen. She drops
into the wave-alas! poor woman-and
washes out to sea. But then Mr.. Ancient
says: ''rhcre is a man yet hanging to
the rigging. Pull away, my lads! pull
away!' They come up, and he says:
"Hold now there five minutes and we
will save you. Steady! steady! Now
give me your hand. Leap! Thank God,
he is saved! Thank God, he is savcd!'
So there are men now in the breakers.
They have made u shipwrecl of life.
While we come out to save them, some
are swept off-swept off before we can
reach them-and there are others still
hanging on. Steady there among the
slippery places! Steady! Leap into
this lifeboat! Now is your chance for
heaven! This hour some of you are 60
ing to be saved. Far away from God,
you are going to be brought nigh.
'Other sheep have l which are not of
this fold"
Christ says that ministers of the Cos
pei are to be fishers for men, Now,
when go fishing do not want to fish
in anybody else's pond. do not want
n on oil Hnh Al
are ten or fifteen men fishing, and drop
my line just about where they are drop
ping their lines. should like to get in
| Newfoundland fishing smack and push
out to sea fifty miles beyond the break
ers. do not think the Church of God
gains a great deal when you take sheep
from one fold and put them in another
fold. 1t is the lost sheep on the monnt-
aims 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 con-
secrated to God; you are going to live a
life of usefulness, and your death-bed is
going to be surrounded by Christian
sympathizers, and devout 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. ''Other sheep have which are not
of this fold.''
Again remark, the Heavenly Shep-
herd is going to find many of his sheep
among those who are now rejecters OF
Christianity. I do not know how you
came to reject Christianity. l do not
know whether it was through hearing
Theodore Parker preach, or whether il
was reading Remains "Life of Jesus" OF
whether it was through some skeptic in
the store or factory. Or it may be-
probably is the case-that you were dis
gusted with religion and disgusted witt
Christianity because some man who pro
fessed to be a Christian defrauded you
and he being member Of the church
and yon taking him as a Representative,
, Of the Christian religion, you said, ''Well
If that's religion, don't want any of it.
II / do.not know how you came to rejec
Christianity, but you frankly tel
me you do reject it; you do not think tn
! Bible is the word of God, although Their
; are many things in it you admire; 20,
\ do not think that Christ was divin
being, although you think he was yer
. good man. You say, eff the Bible b
Q true-the most of the Bible be true
s nevertheless think the earliest part of I'll
e Bible is an allegory." And there al
Q fifty things that believe you do not b,
1 lieve. Nevertheless they tell me in n
t gard you that you are an accommodate
t ing, you are an obligfng person. If
t should come to you and ask of you ia
Q vor you would grant it if it were poss
t bic. 1t would be Joy for you to gran
Y me a favor. If any of your friend
| came to you and wanted an accommoda
: ton and you could accommodate them
> how glad you would be!
Now | am going to ask of you a favor
, want you to oblige me. The accommo
t dation will cost you nothing, and yo,
, will give me great happiness. OF cours
you Twill not deny me. want you as al
experiment to try the Christian religion
; Ifit does not stand the test, discard it
if it does, receive it,
, If you were very sick, and you hat
been given up of the doctors, and CAM
to you, and took bottle of medicin,
from my pocket and said, 'Here is medi
cine am sure will help you; it has curet
| uAOy pCOplCs yOu WOulu says VII,
haven't any confidence in it; they tell m,
all these medicines will fail me-" s'Well,
; say, twill you not, as matter of &C
commodation to myself, just try it?'
''Well,' you say, 81 have no objection t,
trying it; if it will be any satisfaction tt
you l will try it, You take it. Nov
you are sick in disquietude, sick in sin
You are not happy. You laugh some
times when you are miserable. There
comes surges of unhappiness over you
soul that almost swamp you. You ar,
unhappy, struck through with unrest
Now, will you not try this solace, thi
febrifuge, this anodyne, this Gospe
medicine?
"Oh,' you say, 81 haven't any faitl
in it, AS a matter of accommodation
let me introduce you to the Lord Jesu
Christ, the Great Physician. "Why,
you say, 81 haven't any faith in Him.
Well, now, will you not just let Hin
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 o
clergymen. Perhaps the clergymen ma,
be prejudiced; perhaps we may be speak
ing professionally; perhaps we may giv'
you wrong advice; perhaps we are NOR