Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-12-08

flee. and who are urged forward by all the
voices of grace that sound from the Bible
and all tHc notes OF victory that speak
from The sky? Many years ago the l'orlal-
shire steamer started from Hull hound for
Dundee. After the vessel had been out n
little while the winds began to rave and
pillows rise until Il tempest was upon them
The vessel leaked, and the fires went out,
and though the sails were hoisLed fore and
Rft she went speeding toward the breakers.
Sine struck with her bows foremost on the
rock. The vessel parted. Amid the whrl-
wind and the darkness all were lost but
nine. These chung to the wreck on che
beach.
Sleeping that night in Iongstone light
house was girl Of gentle spirit and come
ly countenancc. As the morning dawns
see that girl standing amid the spray and
tumult of contcndiug elements looking
through n glass upon the wreck and the
nine wrctcred sufferers. She proposes to
her father to take boat and put out across
the wild sea to rescue them. The father
says: at cannot be done just look NJ the
tumbiug SURF But she persisted. and
with her father bounds into the boat.
Though never accustomed to plying the
oar, she takes one and her father the other.
Strady now pull away. Pull away!
The sea- tossed mp the boat as though it
We're a bubble. but amid the foam and he
wrath OF the sea the wreck was reached,
the exhausted people picked up and saved.
Humane societies rendered their thanks.
Wealth poured into the lap of the poor
girl. Visitors from all lands came 20 look
on her sweet face. and when soon after she
launched forth on dark sea, and Death
was the oarsman, dukes and duchcsses and
mighty men sat down in tears in Alnwick
castle to think they never again might see
the face of Grace Darling.
No such deeds Of daring will probably he
asked of you, but hear you not the howl OF
that awful storm of trouble and sin that
hath tossed ten thousand shivered hulks
into the breakers Know you not that the
whole earth is strewn with the ship
wrecked-that there are wounds to be
healed and broken hearts to be bound, and
drowning souls to be rescued? Some have
gone down, and YOU come too late, but 9TH
or, are clingiug to he wreck, are shivering
with the cold are stranRing in the wave,
are crying to you for deliverance. VIII You
not, oar in hand, put ont today from the
liEht house,
When the last sLip'S timber shall have
been rent, and the last Longstone beacon
shall have been thundtred down in the
hurricane. and the last tempest shall have
folded its wings, and the sea itself shall
have been licked up by the tongue of all
consuming fire. the crowns of eternal re
ward shall bc kindling into brighter glory
on the brow of the faithful. And Christ
pointing to the inebriate that you re-
formed, and the dying sinner whom you
taught to pray and the olltcast whom YOU
pointed to God Tor shelter, will say: You
did it to them, You did it to men'
ENDURANCE OF MATERNAL LOVE.
Again. the scene of the text impresses
upon US the strength of maternal attach
mcnt. Not many men would have had
courage or endurance for the awful mis-
sion of RiZpah. To dare the rage of wild
beasts, and sit from May to October I'M
sheltered, and to watch the corpses of I'M
buried children. was work that nothing
but the maternal heart could have accom-
plished. 1t needed more strength than 10
stand before opened batteries or 70 walk IN
carnness theGsck of a laundering steamer
There is no emotion so completely uIl-
selfish as maternal affection. Coujugal
love expects the return OF many kindnesscs
and attentions. Fiial love expects pa
rental care or is helped by the memory Of
past watchfuinesS. But the strength of II
mothers love is entirely independent Of the
past and the future, and is, of all emotions,
the pNrcst. The child mas done nothing in
the past to earn kindness, and in the future
II may grow up TO maltreat its parent: but
stu from tie mothers heart there goes
forth Understandable affection.
Abuse cannot offend it; neglect cannot
chill il; time cannot eiface it; death cannot
destroy it. For harsh words it has gentle
Gliding; for the blow it has benefcent
ministry: for neglect it has increasing
watchfulness. 1t weeps AZ the prison door
over the incarcerated prodigal, and pleads
for pardon at the governors feet and is
forced away bNC0mpa>, tomato friends from
Witnessing tae struggles Of the galowo.
Other lights 90 out, but this burns on
without eNtluGuiShment, as in gloom
struck night you may see single star
one OF God's pickct>-with cleaning bayo-
net Of light guarding the outposts Of
heaven.
The marchiones~ of Spadara, when the
earthquake AT MeNsira occurred, was car
ried out iuscusih, from the falling houses.
On coming to her senses she found that
her infant had not been rescued. She went
back and persisted in the ruins. Illustration
OF ten Thousand mothers who in as many
different ways have sacrificed themselves
for their ChilurclL
Oh, despise not q Mothers love! If here
totore you have been negligent Of such An
one and yOu still have opportunity for rep
aration, nuke haste. If YOU could only
just look III for Hu hours visit to her,
you would rouse mp ia the aged one whole
! world of n.iSSIul memories. What if size
does SIT without talking mach = She watched
You for many month" when you knew
nor how to talh al all. What if she has