Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-11-09

AhObheT 1iIeDOaI IS IlfiSlldn 1Hcol-
sistencies. The planlxs OF this boat are
composed of the split planks of ship
wrecks. That PROV is made out Of
hypocrisy from the life of man who
professed one thing and really was an
other. One oar of this lifeboat was the
falsehood of church member, and the
other oar was the wickedness of some
minister OF the gospel. whose iniqui-
ties were not for a long while found
out. Not one plank from the oak of
Gods eternal truth in all that lifeboat.
All the planks, by universal admission,
are decayed and crumbling and fallen
apart and rotten and ready so sink.
We'll, WELL" you say, mo one viii
want to get into that lifeboat." O.
my friend, You are mistaken. That IS
the most popular lifeboat ever con-
strrcted. That is the most popular life
boat ever launched. Millions of people
want to go into it. They jostle each
other to get the best seat in the boat,
You could not keep them back though
/ you stood at the gunwales with club,
/ as on our ship Greece in a hurricane,
and the Storage passengers We're de-
termined to come up 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 VI
/ olence as that you could not keep pee
/ pie from jumping into the most popn-
lar lifeboat, made 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 in-
quiry room becomes a world's fair for
exhibition of all the frailties of church |
members, so ii you believe all Is there |
told yon, 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 out Of /
$500 By leader of a Bible ass, "a !
Sunday-school teacher gossiped about /
me and did her best to DESTROY my /
good name. 7 Il had partner in bust /
ness who swamped our business con-
Germ by his trickery and then rolled
up his eyes in Friday night prayer
meeting, as though he were looking
for Elijah's chariot to make a second |
trip and take up another passenger
But what a cracked and water-logged
and gaping-seamed lifeboat the neon
sistencies of others. Put me on
shingle mid-Atlantie and leave me
there, rather than in such yawl Of
spiritual confidence. God forbid that
should get aboard it, and lest some
of you make the mistake of getting
into it, ] do as the mariners did on that
Mediterranean ship when the sailors
were about to get into the unsafe life
boat of the text and lose their lives in
that way. "Then the soldiers cut Off
the ropes of the boat, and let her fall
off.
We'll" says someone. ''this subject
is very discouraging. for we must have
a lifeboat, if we are ever to get ashore
aud you have already condemned
three. All, it is because | want to
persuade You to take the only safe life
boat. | will not allow you 10 be de-
ceived and get on to the wild waves
and then capsize or sink Thank God,
there is lifeboat that win take you
ashore in safety, as sure as God is God /
and Heaven is Heaven. The keel and
ribs of this boat are made out of tree !
that was set back of Jerusalem good
many years ago. Both of the oars are ,
made out of the same tree. The row !
locks are made out of the same tree. |
The steering gear is made out of the |
same tree. The planks of it were ham :
nered together by the hammer of exc i
who thought they were only !
Killing Christ, but were really pound G
ng together an escape for all imper- +
led souls of all ages. II is an old boat a
out good as new, though it has been v
carrying passengers from sinking ships i
20 firm shore for ages, and has never {
ost passenger. These old Christians :
begin to smile because it is dawning \
ipon them what mean. The fact is S
hat in this way years ago they got off S
wreck themselves, and l do not Won n
Ter they smile. 1t is not senseless /,
giggle that means frivolity, but it is r.
mile like that on the face of Chris Y
ians the moment they leave earth for {,
Ieaven, yea, like the smile of God f
himself when He had completed the I
'lan for saving the world. v
Right after that big tumble of the W
atlantic Ocean six or seven weeks ago, o
n the beach at East Hampton I met il
he captain of the life saving station al
nd said: Captain, do you think a a.
feboat could live in sea like that?'' 81
the worst of it was over, the Il
aptain replied: No. / do not think b.
could" But the lifeboat of which | di
peak can live in any sea and defes all Il
and all cyclones, and all di
quinoxes and all earth and all hell n,
a twenty years the life saving appa- CT
atus along our Atlantic coast saved di
ne lives of over 5000 of the ship W
rocked. but this lifeboat that com &,
lend has saved in twenty years hum W
reds of millions of the shipwreelxed. in
ike those newly invented English fir
feboats, it is insubmergable, self or
ghting and self-bailing. All along Iii
1r rocky American coast things were ma