The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-02

- IzAA yOus DuE tnere Is one eX-
There have been caSea whore
/ aA E I'd trouble and the captain
Dt hssengers and crew into
Is1ne but there was not room
te b. he, through the sea-
| trtlm 1ented: shove off now
end pQl the beach. Good-by," ;"
ard tlleA captain with pathetic
| and su self fsacrilice went down
With tlA sll So the captain of ur
sllvAtId4 q E1st the Lord, launches
the gosn tsehoRt, and tells us all to
get IN bHk he pef1shes 1T behooved
Christ To Was it not so, We
who Wit aeSse4 his agonizing expira-
tion7 Ian df Cyrcne, was il not So?
Cav4iKY fFa@pak whose horses paved
the dust At q erueifixion, was 1t not
so? ~ ge who swooned away
with the sun Of HE midday heavens,
was it not So ~ his stripes we are
healed" Btzhis death we live. BY
his sinking in the deep sea of suffering
we get Off safe,in 3 lifeboat. Yes, we
must put into tRis ktory little OF our
own personalitAxSsAYeh had q ride in
that very life9pafa from foundered
craft to solid shore.
Once on the ragfuRSseasI rowed,
The storm was loud the night was dark.
The can yawned and fnAely blow'd
The wind that tossed my laundering
ozark.
f'nr Cnt into the gospel Iifeboat an..
L got ashore. NoF Fellglous speculation
Tor me. These higller cx itieism felIowt
do not bother me bit. You NAV ask
me fifty questions abOt1t the sea and
about the land and about the life boat
that | cannot answer but one thing /
know: / am ashore and am going to
stay ashore, if the Lord by his grace
will help me. feel under me some
thing so firm that | trv it with nv
right foot. and try it withny lett foot,
and then try it with botk feet, and
it is so solid that 1 think 1t must be
what the old folks used to ean the
Rock of Ages. And be my remafninP
days on earth many or few, Tam Reing
to spend my time in reeomknendinR
the lifeboat which fetched DO har-e
poor sinner saved by gr4Re, ano
in swinging the cutlasses to sever the
ropes of any unsafe lifeboat and let
her fall Off My hearer, withoRt sal1-
ing any questions, get into the gospel
lifeboat. Room! and yet there is
room! The biggest boat on earth is
the gospel lifeboat. You irust re-
member the proportion of things, and
that the snipwrecked craft sis tbs
whole earth. and the lifeboat must Be
in proportion. You talk about gonf-
Campanias, and your Lucanias, and
your Majestics, and your City of New
Yorks, but all of them put together
are smaller than an Indians canoe on
Schroon lake compared with this gos-
pei life toat that is large enough to
take in all nations. Room for one
and room for all. Get in How?
How" you ask. Well, 1 know
how you feel, for summer before
last. on the sea of Finland, l had
tho same experience 1nT I he ship in
which we sailed could not Ven .ure
nearer than mile from shore. where
stood the Russian palace of peterhof,
and we had to get into q small boat
and be removed ashor,. The water
was rough, and as we went down the
ladder at the side of the ship, we held
Fl miy on to the railing. but in order
to get into the boat we had at last tc
let 60 How did l know that the
Finland sea would not swallow us
with one opening of its crystal jaws?
We had 10 trust. and we did trust, aud
our trust was we'll rew;t rded. In the
same way get INTO this gospel lifeboat.
Let go! AS long as you hold on t
any other hope you are imperiled and
YOU get no advantage from the life
boat. Let go! Docs some one here
say: Il guess will hold on little to
nv good works, or to n pious parent
age, or TO some hing / can do in the
way of achieving NV own salvatio -
No, no. let go. Trust the capita II
who would not pat yo3 into ricAe y
or uncer ain craft.
Tor the sake of yoEr present ard
everlasting welfare, ;vith all the ur-
gencv of an immor nj addresSin-' i'm
mortals, cry from the depth OF m.
soul and at the Lop of my voice, Let
go! Last summer the life-saviDg crew
at East Hampton invited me to come
up to the life station and see the crew
pract ce, for twice a week they were
drilled in the important work assigned
them by the United States government,
and they 60 through all the routine of
saving the shipwrecked. Bat that
would give little idea of what they
would have t. Go if some midnight
next winter, the wind driving
LeachWard, a vessel should gc's
in the grasp OF q hurricane. See the
lights flare from the ship in the
breakers, and then responding lights
faring from the beach, and hear the
rockets buzz as they rise, and the life
boat rumbles cut and the gun booms.
and the lifeline rises and falls 2cross
| the splintered decks, and the hawser
tightens. and the life-car goes to and
| fro, carrying the exhausted mariners,
| and the ocean, as if angered by the
| snatching of the huma prey from the
white teeth of it's surf and the stroke
of its billowinr paw, rises with in
creased fury ito assail the land. SO
now / am engaged in no igat drill,
uracticing for what may come
over some of your souls 1t
| is with some of you win
| try midnight and your hopes
| for this world and the next arc
| wrecked. But see! See. The lights
! Gindled on the beach, throw out the
| life line. Haul in. hand over hand!
Alb, there lis 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