The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-11-01
raj suriflcution for the American

moral suriflcation for the American
people.
/ say we want a tonic-a mighty
tonic-a corrective-an all-powerful
corrective-and Moses in the text,
with steady hand, notwithstanding
the jarring mountains, and the full or
chestra Of the tempest and the blazing
of the air, pours out the ten drops-no
more, no less--which our people need
to take for their moral convalescence.
But shall not leave you under the
encouragement OF the Ten Command.
ments, because we have all offended.
There is another mountain In sight,
and while one mountain thunders the
other answers in thunder; and while
Mount Sfnai, with lightning, writes
doom. the other mountain, with light
ming, writes mercy. The only way you
will ever spike the guns of the Deca.
logue is by the spikes of the cross. The
only rock that will ever stop the Siani.
tic upheavals is the Rock Of Ages.
Mount Calvary is higher than Mount
Sinai. The English survey expedition,
know, say that one Sinaitic peak
Is 1000 feet high and another 5000,
and another 5000 feet high, and trav.
elers tell us that Mount Calvary is
only bluff outside Of the wall OF
Jerusalem; but Calvary in moral sig
nificance overtops and overshadows all
the mountains Of the hemispheres, and
Mount Washington and Mont Blanc
and the Himalayas are hillocks com.
pared with 1t. You know that some.
times one fortress will silence another
fortress. Moultrie silenced Sumter; and
against the mountain Of the law put
the mountain Of the cross. The soul
that sinneth, 1t shall die" booms one,
until the earth jars under the cannon
ade. Save them from going down TO
the pit, have found a ransom" pleads
the other, until earth and heaven and
hell tremble under the reverberation.
And Moses, who commands the one,
surrenders to Christ, who commands the
other
Once by the law our hopes were slain,
But now In Christ we live again.
Aristotle says that Mount Etns
erupted one day and poured torrents
Of scoria upon the villages at the base,
but that the mountain divided It's fame
and made lane OF safety for all those
who came to rescue their aged parents.
And this volcanic Sinai divides It's fury
for all those whom Christ has come to
rescue from the red ruin on both sides.
Standing as do to-day, half way be.
tween the two mountains-the noun.
tain of the Exodus and the mountain
Of the 10th of John-al my terror
comes into supernatural calm, for the
uproar of the one mountain subsidies
into quiet, and comes down into so
deep a silence that can hear the other
mountains speak-ay, | can hear II
whisper: "The blood, the blood, the
blood that cleanseth from all SIM"
The survey expedition says that the
Sinaitic mountains have wadys, OF
watercourses-Alleyat and Ajelah-
emptying into Feiran. But those
streams are not navigable. No boat put
into those rocky streams could sail But
have to tell you this day that the boat
OF Gospel rescue comes right up amid
the watercourse of Sinaitic gloom and
threat, ready to take us off from under
the shadows into the calm sunlight OF
Gods pardon and into the land OF
peace. o, If you could see that boat OF
Gospel rescue coming this day, you
would feel as John Gilmore in hi,
book, 1.-THE Storm Warriors" SAYS that
a ships crew felt on the Kentish 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 mo
ment washed off another plank from
the wreck, and they said ave must
die, we must dier' But after awhile
they saw Ramsgate lifeboat coming
through the breakers for them, and the
man standing highest up on the wreck
said: "Can II be? Can 1t be? 1t is, it
is, it is, It isl Thank God! 1t is the
Ramsgate lifeboatl 1t is, 1t is, it is, Il
isl" Aud the old Jack tar, describing
that lifeboat to his comrades after he
got ashore said: 20, my lads, what q
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
our sin into the beautiful liieboat Of
the gospel"