Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-01-12
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AAlnNG TIE nRFAkEHs

AMONG THE BREAREIS.
When the steamer Atlantic went to
pieces on Mars Rock, why did that
brave minister OF the Gospel, OF whom
we have all read, 90 ont in the lifeboat?
/ Why did he not stay and look after the
passengers that got ashore, wrapping
/ flannelS around them, and kindling fires
/ for them, and preparing them food?
/ There was plenty of work to be done
on the shore for those who had al
ready 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. Ionder is a
man; there is woman freezing in the
rigging Pull away" | see the oar
blades bend in the strong pull of the
OarSmeu. Then they come mp To the
wreck. The woman is frozen. She
drops into the wayeS-alaS. poor woman
and washes out To sea. But then Mr.,
Ancient says, There IS a man yet hang
ing 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. Loap. Thank God
he is saved. Thank God he Is saved.
So there are men now in the breakers.
They have made ShipwIeck of life.
When We come out to save them, some
are swept ofT-Swept of 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
going To be saved. Far away from God
you are going TO be brought nigh.
"Other sheep have | which are not OF
this fold"
Christ says that ministers Of the Cos
pei are TO be fishers for men. Now
when | 20 fishing l do not want to fish
in anybody elSe'S pond. | do not want
10 20 along lIohokuS creek, where there
are ten or fifteen men fishing, and drop
my line Just about where they are drop
ping their lines | should like to get in
a Newfoundland fishing smack and
push out To sea 80 miles beyond the
breakers. do not think the Church Of
God gains great deal when you take
sheep from one fold and put them in an
other fold. 1t 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
conSccrated 10 God; you are going to
live life of usefulness, and your death
bed is going To be surrounded by Chris
tian SympathizerS; aud devOut men will
carry you to your burial when your
work is done, aud these words will be
chiSelcd for your epitaph: Precious
ia the sight of the Lord is the death OF
his saints" And all that history is go
ine 20 begin to-day. "Other sheep
nave 1 which are not OF this fold.
a PENIrENr'> FRAZER.
Some OF YOU have not heard, perhaps,
five sermons i'm five years. This whole
subject has been 4 novelty to you for
some time You are not GoSpcl-hard-
cned: YOU know you are not Gospel
hardened. The whole subject comes
freshly 70 your mind. l hear some soul
SAYING. so my wasted life. O the bitter
past, q the graves | stumbled over.
Whittier shall fly? The future is so
dark, so dark, so very dark. God
help met
Oh. am SO glad FOR that last utter
ancc. That was prayer, aud as soon
rs you begin TO pray, that turns all
Heaven this way and God steps in and
lie beats back the hounds of temptation
10 their kennels, aud ne throws all
around the pursued soul the covert OF
Ills pardoang mercy, | heard some
thing fall What was il? Ii was the
bars around the Sheepfold, the bars of
the fence around the Shecpfo!d. The
Heavenly Shepherd let them fall, and
the hunted sheep of the mountain com"
bounding In, some with fleece torn OF
the hramblcS. and others with feet lame
from the dogs, but bounding il. Thank
God, "Other sheep have which are
not of this fold"
God forbid that any of you should
have the lamentation of the dying noble
man who had had every opportunity OF
salvation but rejected all, and who wrote
or dictated these words: Before you
receive this my final state will be deter
mined. | am throwing my last stake
/ for eternity, and tremble and shudder
for the important issue. Oh, my friend,
with what horror do recall the hours
/ of vanity we have wasted together; but
I have splendid passage to the grave.
/ | die in state, and languiSh under
/ gilded canopy. l am expiring on soft
and downy pillows. and am respectfully
attended by my servants and phySi-
clans. Ny DEFENDANTS sigh, my sisters
weep, my father bends beneath load
Of years and grief; out Oh, which OF
these will answer my summons at the
high tribunal? And which Of these
will bail me from the arrest of death?
While SONS aattcrng panegyric is pro-
nounced at my iutermeut, l may be
hearing my inst condemnation at y SUI
/ .~;Iv,,I Adfauf'