Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-11-10
could with it heat 1000, 900 baths of moral

could with it heat 1905. 900 baths of moral
publication for the American people.
| I say we want O tonic-a mighty tonic, a
corrective. an all powerful correctiye-and
Moses in the text, with steady hand, notwlth-
standing the jarring mountains and the fulI
orchestra of the tempest and the blazing OF
| the air. pours out the ten drops-no more.
no less-which our people need to take Tor
their moral convalescence.
But shall not leave you under the dis
couragement of the Ten Commandments, be-
cause we have all offended. There 1s an
| other mountain in sight. and while one
mountain thunders the other answers in
thunder. and while Mount Sinai. with nght-
ming, writes doom, the other mountain, with
lightning, writes mercy. The only way you
will ever spike the guns of the Decalogue is
by the spikes of the cross. The only rock
that will ever stop the Sinatic upheavals Is
the Rock of Ages. Mount Calvary is higher
than Mount Sinai.
The English survey expedition, L know,
say that one Sinaitic peak is 1000 feet high,
and another 5000, and another 5000 feet hlgh,
and travellers tell US that Mount Cavalry Is
only bluff outside of the wall OF Jerusalem,
but Calvary, in moral significance, overtops
and overshadows all the mountains OF the
hemispheres, and Mount Washington and
Mont Blanc and the HImalayas are hillocks
compared with it. You know that some
times one fortress will silence another Tor
tress.
Moultrie silenced Sumter, and against the
of sM tna the sang 9up"n It sha 2
die" booms one until the earth jars under
the cannonade. ''Save them from going
down to the pit. [ have found ransom,
pleads the other until earth and heaven and
he'll tremble under the reverberation. And
Moses. who commands the one, surrenders
to Christ, who commands the other.
Once by the law hopes were slain,
But now in Christ we live again.
Aristotle says that Mount Etna erupted one
dav and poured torrents OF scoria upon the
villages at the base, but that the mountain
divided its flame and made lane of safety
for all those who came to rescue their aged
parents. And this volcanic Sinai divides its
fury for those whom Christ has come to res
cue from the red ruin on both sides. Stand
ing as / do to-day, halfway between the two
mountans-the mountain OF the Exodus ana
the mountain of the nineteenth or JOhn-au
my terror comes into supernatural calm, 1of
the uproar of the one mountain subsidies into
quiet and comes down into 50 deep silence
that / can hear the other mountain speak
aye. can hear it whisper, 1.-The blood, the
blood, the blood that cleanseth from all sim.
The survey expedition says that the Sinai
tic mountains have wadys or water courses
Alleyat and Ajelah-emptying into Feiran.
But those streams are not navigable. No boat
put into these rocky streams could sail. But
l have to tell You this day that the boat of
gospel rescue comes right up amid the wa
to take US off from under the shadows into
the calm sunlight of Gods pardon and into
the land of peace.
Oh. if you could see that boat of gospel res
cue coming this day you would feel as John
Gilmore in his book, ''The Storm Warriors"
says that ships crew felt Oil the kenttsh
Knock sands, off the coast Of England, when
they were being beaten TO pieces and they all
felt they must die! They had given up all
hope and every moment washed off another
plant from the wreck. and they said, "We
must die: we must diel' But after awhile
they saw a Ramsgate lifeboat coming through
the breakers ior them. and the man standing
highest up on the wreck said "Can it be?
1t is, it is. it is, it is Thank God 1t is the
Ramsgate lifeboat It is, it is. it is, it is ~
And the old Jack Tar, describing that life
boat to his comrades after he got ashore.
said ooh. my lads, what a beauty it did
seem. coming through the breakers that awful
day. May God, through the mercy in Jesus
Christ, take us all off the miserable wreck of
or sin into the beautiful lifeboat OF the
gospel!