Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
wrecked craft is the whole earth, and the

wrecked craft is the whole earth, and the lifeboat must be in proportion.
 You talk about your Campanias, and your Lucanias. and your Majestics, and your City of New Works, but all of them put together are smaller than an Indians canoe on Schroon lake com pared with this gospel lifeboat that is large enough to take in all nations. Room for one and room for all. Get inl "How? How?' you ask.
 Well, I know how you feel, for sum- mer before last on the sea of Finland had the same experience. The ship in which we sailed could not venture near CT than mile from shore, where stood the Russian palace of Peterhof, and we had to get into a small boat and be rowed ashore. The water was rough, and as we went down the ladder at the side of the ship we held firmly on to the railing, but in order to get into the boat we had at last to let go.
 How did I know that the boat was good and that the oarsmen were suffi- cient? How did know that the Finland sea would not swallow us with one open ing of it's crystal jaws2 We had to trust, and we did trust, and our trust was well rewarded. In the same way get into this gospel lifeboat. Let gol As long as you hold on to any other hope you are i'm periled, and you get no advantage from the lifeboat. Let goi Does some one here say, "I guess I will hold on little to my good works, or to a pious parent age, or to something I can do in the way of achieving my own salvation" No, no, let goi Trust the Captain, who would not put you into rickety or un- certain craft.
 AN ELOQUENT PERoRATIoN.
 For tho sake of your present and ev- erlasting welfare, with all the urgency of an immortal addressing immortals, I cry from tho depths of my soul and at the top of my voice, Let gol Last sum- mer the life saving crew at East Hamp- ton invited mo to come up to the life station and see the crew practice, for twice week they are drilled in the i'm portant work assigned them by the Unit ed States government, and they go through all the routine of saving the ,shipwrecked. But that would givo lit tie idea of what they would have to do if some midnight next winter, the wind driving backward, a vessel should get in the grasp of hurricane.
 See the lights Hare from the ship in the breakers. and then responding lights haring from the beach, and hear the rockets buzz as they rise, and the life boat rumbles out, and the gun booms, and the life line rises and falls across the splintered decks, and the hawser tight ems, and the life car goes to and fro, car rying the exhausted mariners, and the ocean, as if angered by the snatching of the human prey from the white teeth of its surf and the stroke of it's billowing paw, rises with increased fury to assail the land. So now am engaged in no light drill, practicing for what may come over some of your souls. It is with some of you wintry midnight, and your hopes for this world and the next are wrecked.
 But seei Seel The lights kindled on the beach! I throw out the life line. Haul in, hand over handi An, there is a lifeboat in the surf, which all the wrath of earth and hell cannot swamp, and its Captain with scared hand puts the trumpet to his lips as he cries, "Oh, Israel, thou hast destroyed myself, but in me is thy help" But what is the use of all this if you decline to get into it? You might as well hav,n cen a sailor on board that laundering snip of the Medi- terranean when the mariners cut the ropes of the boat and let her fall off