Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1893-10-28


sped ont of buathuu e. or huist.d sail
for Pace. But sho leaks. Trust your
soul III that. anil yvn will 20 10 to III.
bottom. She leaks. So initiate the
mariners of tho text. and with "a cutlass
strike the ropes Of the boat and let her
fall Off
Another lifcboat is Christian Incon-
sistencics. The planks Of this boat are
composed of the split planks of ship
wrecks. That Prov is made out Of hy-
pocrisy from the life of man who pro-
fessed one thing and really was another.
One oar of this lifcboat was the false
hood of church member. and the other
oar was the wickotlness of some minister
of the gospel whos, iniguitirs were not
for long while found out. Not one
plank from the oak of Gods eternal
truth in all that lif-boat. All the planks,
by universal admission. are decaycd and
crumbling and fallen apart aud rotten
and ready 10 sink.
well. well. you say, ''no ono will
want to get into that lifeboat." oh, my
friend. you are mistaken. That il the
most popular lifcboat ever constructed.
That is the most popular lifebuat ever
launched. Millions Of people want to
get into it. They jostlo each other To
get the best seat III the boat You could
not keep them back though you stood at
the gunwalcs with club. as ON our ship
Greece.in a hurricane. and the steerage
passengers were determined To come M
on deck. where they would have been
washed off. and the officers stood at the
top Of the stairs clubbing them back.
Even by such violence us that yon could
not keep people from jumping into the
most popular lifeboat. male of church
member Inconsistencies.
In times of revival when sinners flock
into the inquiry room the most of them
are kept from deciding Alright because
they know So many Christians who are
bad. The inquiry room becomes u
worlds fair for exhibition Of all tho
frailtics of church members. So that if
you believe all il there told y"u you
would be afraid To enter "a church lest
you get your pockets picked or get
knocked down.
This is the way they talk: II was
cheated ont Of $500 10y leader If
Bible class" "A Sunday school teacher
gossiped about me and did her hest 10
destroy my good name" II hal part
ner in business who swampcd our bust
ness concern by his trickery and then
rolled up his eyes in Friday night prayer
meeting. as though hc were locking for
Elijah's chariot to make second trip
and take up another passenger.
But what cracked aud WI logged
and gaping scanned lifcboat the incon-
sistencics of others! Put mo on shingle
mid-Atlantic and leave me there rather
than in such n yawl IF spiritual conf
dence. tio'i forbid that ! should get
aboard it. and lest some IF you make the
mistake of getting into it | do as the
mariners did on that Mediterranean ship
when the sailors were about Ia get into
the unsafe liicl",lt 1T the text and lrs,
their lives in that way. Then the sol-
dicrs cut oil the ropes of the boat and
let her fall nif.
SCf LEFT To CHANCE.
We'll, SAWS some one, this subject
Is very di@oIiraging. FOR we must have
u lifeboat If we ar" ever {" get ashore,
aud you have already condemned three.
ALI, il is because want {" persuade You
to take the only safe lifelpat will not
allow you to- lee deceived and get On to
the wild waves and then cais;z" or sink.
Thank God, there is n liichsat that will
take you asher. in safety. ny sur" as God
is God and heaven il heaven. Tho keel
4 IL. q r.
tree that WAS sat up on blaIf back of
Jerusalem IL guod many year; ago. Both
If In" oars are ma'i,' out of tn" same
tree Til. r"wln,ks ar" made out of the
same tree. The si'+rin:, gear is made
out Of the same tree. ! plauks of il
were hammered trgrtl"r by tho ham
mcrs of cxccutionrrS who Thought they
were only killing Il Christ. hut were
really pounding together an escape for
all imperilc,l souls If all ages.
II is an old boat. hut good as new.
though it has been carrying IaSsenscrs
from sinking ships 4" firm shore for ages
and has never lost passenger. These
old Christians begin to srnil. because il
il dawning upon them what mean
The fact is that in this WAY years ago
they got oft wreck themselves. and
do not wonder they smile. II is not
scnselcss giggle that means frivolity,
hut il il n smile like that on the face Of
Christians the moment they leave earth
for heaven like the smile of God
himself when he had completed the plan
for saving the world.
Right after that big tumble Of the At
lantic ocea six or seven weeks ago on
the beach at Fast Hampton met tho
captain of the life saving station and
said, Captain. do ynu think a lifcboat
could live i'm u sea like that" Although
tn. worst of il was over the captain re-
Piled, mo, do not think il could" But
this lifcboat Of which speak can live
i'm any sea and lefies all breakers. and
all cyclones. and all equin"xcs. AMI all
earth. and all hell. IN 90 years the life
saving apparatus along our Atlantic
coast saved the lives "f over 5000 of
the shipwrcckrd. hut this lifchat that I
commend has saved in - years hundreds
Of millions of the shipwr,ckcl. Like
those newly invented English lifcboats,
il is insubmergiblc. self righting and
self bailing.
All along our rocky American coass
things were left I" chance for centuries.
and the shipwrocls.'l crawlcd up "n tho
beach to die unless some one happened
to walk along ar some fishcrnan's hut
might be near. But after the ship AYR
shire was wrecked nj Sluan beach. and
the Powhattan left her aD dead strewn
along our coast. aud another vessel went
on the rocks. ton lives l"rishing. the
United States government woke up and
made an appropriation uf S,m.WW for
life savin. stations. and life lius from
fakin. box are shot over the will! surf.
and lawScrs are stretched fi"m wrrcl,
To shore. and what With l.,l"'s gur
and six cared surfloai. with cork
mt th. sides IL mak. il un>inkalic.
and pa,rnlmcn all night lun:. walking