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

most popular IiTeboat ever launched.
Millions OF people want TO get into
it. They jostle each Other 70 get
the best sea. in the boat You;
could NJ t keep them back though
you stood - the gunwales with club,
as on oul ship Greece in a hurricane.
and the steerage passengers were de-
termincd to come up on deck. where
they would have been washed off, and
the osiicers stood at the top of the
stairs clubbisg them back. Even by
such violence as that you could not
keep people from jumping into the
most popu ar life boat, made of church,
member Inconsistencies. In times of
revival when sinners flock into the in
quiry room. the most of them are kept
from deciding Alright because they
know so many Christians are bad. The
inquiry room becomes " Norld's Fair
for exhibition OF all the frailties OF
church members, so that if You believe
all that is there told YOU, you would
be afraid to enter a church, lest YOU
knocked down. This is the way thew
talk: II was cheated out of 500 by q
leader of bible class" "A Sunday
school teacher gossiped about me and
did her best to destroy my good
name" 81 had a partner in business
who swamped our business concern
by his trickery, and then rolled up his
eyes ii Friday night prayer meeting,
as though ne We're lOOklng Tor ELI
jiah'S chariot to make sec nd trip
and take up another passenger But
what n cracked and water-logged and
gaping-seamed llfeboat the inconsist-
encies of others. Pvt me on a shingle
mid Atlantic and leave me there,
rather than in such yawl of spiritual
confidence. God forbid that l should
get aboard it, and lest some of you
make the mistake of getting into it, |
DO as the mariners did on that Medit-
erranean ship when the sailors were
about to get INTO the unsafe l1feboat,
of the text, and lose their lives n that
way. ''Then the soldiers cut off the
ropes of the boat and let her fall off. -
Well" says some oae, this sub
ject is very dlscouraging, for we must
have a lifeboat, if we are ever to get
ashore, and you have already CON
demned thi ee.' Ah, it is because !
want to persuade you to take the only
safe lifeboat l will not allow you to
be deceived and get on to the wild
waves and then capsiZe or sink
Thank God, there is a lifebeat that
will take you ashore in safety, Us sure
as God is God and heaven is heaven.
The keel and ribs of this boat are
made out of a tree that was set up on
a bluff back of Jeru~ alem a good
many years ago Both of the oars
are made out of the same tree The
rowlocks are mace out of the same
trte. The pl.nks of it We're
hammered together by the hammers
of executioners, who thought they
were My killing a Christ. but wtre
really pounding together an escape for
all imperiled souls of~all ages. 1tfy.
az Old uoat, but good as new, though
it has been carrying passengers from
sinking ships to firm shore for ages.
and has never lost passenger. These
old Christians begin to smile be"ause
it is dawning upon them what mean.
The fact is that in this way years ago
they got off w eek themselves, and
I do not wonder they smile. 1t is not
a serseless giggle that means frivol ty,
but it is smile like that on the face
of Christians the moment theg leave
earth for heaven, yea, like the smile
of God himself when he had completed
the plan for saving the world
Right after that big tumb bic OF the
Atlantic ocean six or seven weeks ago,
on the beach at East Hampton, met
the captain of the life-saving station
and said: Captain, do you think
Iifeboat could live in a sea like that
Although the worst of it was over, the
captain replied: No. L do not think
/ speak can live in any sea and dehes
all breakers and all cyclones and all
equinoxes and all earth and all hell
In twenty years the life-saving ap-
paratus along our Atlantic coast saved
the lives of over $1,000 of the ship
wrecked, but this li-eboat that COM
mend has saved in twenty years hum
dreds of millions of the shipwrecked
Like those newly-invented English
life boats, it is lnsubmergeab|e self
righting and self-bailing. All along
our rocky American coast things were
left to chance for centuries, and the
sh pwrecked crawled up on the
beach to die unless some
happened to walk along or
some fisherman's hut might be near.
But after the ship Ayrshire was
wrecked at Squan Beach. d the
Powhatan left her three hundred dead
strewn along our coast, and another
vessel went on the rocks, four hundred
lives pcrishing. the United States gov
ernment woke up AMI made an appro-
priation of $4,000 for life-saving
stations, and life-lines from taking
box are shot over the wild surf, and
hawsers are stretched from wreck 20
S ore, and what with Lyle's gun and
six-oared Surf-boat, with cork at the
sides to make it unsinlkable. aud pa
trolmen all night long walking the
beach until they meet each other and
exchange metal tickets, SO as to show
the eLtire beach has been traverset.
and the loston light flashes hope from
shore to sufferer, and surfmen, encased
in Merriman life-saving dress, and
life car rolling on the ropes, there are
many probabilities of rescue for
the unfortunates of the sea.
But the government of the united
heavens has made <better pro
vision for the rescue of our souls. SO
close by that this moment we can put
our hand on its top and swing into it,