Democratic messenger., 1893-11-04

ein,. nsitiIs ga moran t'urInCdtiuu IUI ti4o
American people.
say we want a tonic-l mighty tonic,
corrective, AN all powerful correct
ive-and Moses in the text. with steady
hand. Notwithstanding the jarring noun
tains and the full orchestra of the tenn
pest. and the blazing Of the air. pours ont
the 10 drops-no more, no less-which
our people need To take for their moral
convalescence.
TIE GOSPEL ~ POLITICS.
But i shall not leave you under the
encouragement Of the Ten Command
ments, because we have all offended.
There is another mountain i'll sight, and
while one mountain thundcrs the other
answers in thunder, and while Mount
Sinai, with lightning, writes doom the
other mountain. with lightning, writes
mercy. The only way you will ever
spike the guns of the Decalosue is by the
spikes of the cross. The only rock that
will ever stop the Sinai;ic 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 1900
feet high, and travellers tell us that
Mount Calvary is only u bluff outside of
the wall of Jerusalem. But Calvary i'll
moral significance overtops and ever
shadows all the mountains of the hemi-
spheres. and Mount Washington and
Mont Blanc and the Himalayas are hill
locks compared with it. You kno.c that
sometimes one fortress will silence an
other fortress.
Moultrie silenced Sumter. and against
the mountain of the law l put the
mountain of the cross. ''The soul that
sinneth, it shall die, booms one until tho
earth jars under the cannonade. Save
them from going down to the PIT. / have
found n ransom," pleads the other until
earth and heaven and hell tremble un-
der the reverberation. And Moses. who
commands the one, surrenlcrs 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 Etna erupt-
ed one day 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 all
those whom Christ has come 10 rescue
from the red ruin on both sides Stand
ing rs do today, half way between the
two mountains-the mountain of the
Exodus and the mountain of the nine
teenth of John-all my terror comes in
to supernatural calm, for the uproar of
the one mountain subsidies into quiet
and comes down into SO deep a silence
that i can hear the other mountain
speak-ay, | can hear it whisper, The
blood, the blood. the blood that cleanseth
from all sin."
The survey expedition says that the
Sinaitic mountains have wadys or water
courses-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 res
cue comes right up amid the water
courses of Sinaitic gloom and threat
ready To take us off from under the shad-
ows into the calm sunlight of Gods par
don and into the land of peace.
Oh, if You could see that boat of gos-
pei rescue coming this day, you would
feel as John Gilmore in his book. THE
Storm Warriors" says that 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 moment washed off another
plank from the wreck. and they said.
I'VE must die; we must die" But after
awhile they saw a RamsSate lifeboat
coming through the breakers for them,
and the man standing highest upon the
wreck said: ''Can il be? Can it he: 1t is,
it is, it is. it is. Thank God. 1t is the
Ramsgatc lifeboat! 1t is, it is. tits, it isl
And the old Jack Tar. describing that
lifeboat To his comrades after lie got
ashore. said. 'Oh, my lads, what beau
ty it did seem coming through the break
ers that awful dayr May God. through
the mercy in Jesus Christ, take us all
off the miserable wreck of our sin into
tine beautiful lifeboat of the gospel.