Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-11-02

a kite flying in the air, and so these pigeons
lowered near the dovecote, but one day the
kite said: "Why are you so afraid2 Why
do you pass your life in terror? Make me
king, and I'll destroy all your enemies" SO
the pigeons made the kite king, and as soon
as he got the throne his regular diet was a
pigeon a day. And while one OF his victims
was waiting for its turn to come it said /:
''Seryed us right !" The malaria OF swamps
rises from the plain TO the height. but moral
malaria descends from the mountain TO the
plain. BE careful, therefore, how you ele-
yate into any style OF authority men who arc
in any wise antagonistic to the Ten Com
mandments
AS near as | can tell, the most important
thing now to be done is TO have about 40
600, 900 copies OF the Sinaitic Decalogue
printed and scattered throughout the land.
1t was terrible waste when the AlexandrIan
library was destroyed, and the books were
taken to heat 1000 baths for the citizens of
Alexandria. 1t was very expensive heat
But without any harm to the Decalogue you
could with it heat 100000 baths of moral
publication 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, notwith-
standing the jarring mountains and the full
orchestra 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
But shall not leave you under the dis
couragement of the Ten Commandments, be-
rcslIr we have all offended. There is an
P-fC mountain in sight and while one
fnc1ntaip thunders the other answers in
thunder, and while Mount Sinai, with light
ming, writes doom, the other mountain, with
lightning writes mercy The only way YOU
will ever spike the guns of the Decalogue is
by the spikes of the cross The only rocks
that will ever stop the Sinatic 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 travellers tell us that Mount Cavalry is
only bluff outside of the wall of Jerusalem,
but Calvary, in moral significance, overtops
and overshadows all the mountains of the
hemispheres, and Mount Washington and
Mont Blanc and the Himalayas are hillocks
compared with it. You know that some
times one fortress will silence another for
treSs.
Moultrie silenced Sumter, and against the
mountain of the law put the mountain of
the cross 'sThe soul that sinneth, it shall
die, booms one until the earth jars under
the cannonade. ''Save them from going
down to the pit. ] have found 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 Etna erupted 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 those whom Christ has come to res
cue from the red ruin on both sides. Stand
ing as do to-day, halfway between the two
mountains-the mountain of the Exodus and
the mountain of the nineteenth of John-all
my terror comes into supernatural calm, for
the uprOar of the one mountain subsidies into
quiet and comes down into SO deep silence
that can hear the other mountain speak
aye, l can hear it whisper, "The blood, the
blood, the blood that cleanseth from all sin"
The survey expedition says that the Sinai
tic mountains have wadys or water courses
Alleyat and Ajelah-emptying into Feiran.
But those streams are not navigable. No boat
put into these rocky streams could sail. But
[ have to tell you this day that the boat OF
gospel rescue comes right up amid the wa
tercourses of Sinaitic gloom and threat ready
to take US of from under the shadows into
the calm sunlight of Gods pardon and into
the land of peace.
Oh, fyou could see that boat of gospel res
cue 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 we're being beaten to pieces and they all
felt they must die They had given up all
hope and every moment washed off another
plant from the wreck, and they said, eve
must die; we must dier' But after awhile
they saw a Ramsgate lifeboat coming through
the breakers for them, and the man standing
highest up on the wreck said: lean it be?
1t is, it is, it is, it is Thank God 1t is the
Ramsgate lfeboat 1t is, it is, it is, it is y
And the old Jack Tar, describing that life
boat to his comrades after he got ashore.
said, "Oh, my lads, what 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 lifeboat of the
gospel