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ming, writes doom, the other mountain, with
lightning, writes mercy. The only way you
will ever spike the guns Of the DecaloSue 1s
by the spikes of the cross. The only rock
that will ever stop the Sinatic upheavels Is
the Rock OF Ages. Mount Calvary is higher
than Mount Sinai.
The English survey exredition, 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 Hlmalayas are hillocks
compared with it. You know that some
times one fortress will silence another for
tress.
Moultrie slenced Sumter, and against the
mountain of the law put the mountain OF
the cross. ssThe 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 Garth and heaven and
hell tremble under the reverberation. And
Moses. who commands tho one, surrenders
to Christ, who commands the other
Once by the law our hopes we're slain,
But now in Christ we live again.
Aristotle says that Mount Etna erupted one
villages ut the base, but that the mountain
divided its flame and made a 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 I 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
sof& &ha otp d,1hSi6pG
quiet and comes down into so deep silence
that can hear the other mountain speak
ave, 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 Felran.
But those streams are not nayigable. NO boat
put into these rocky streams could sail. But
1 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 off from under the shadows into
the calm sunlight of Gods pardon and into
the land Of peace.
oh, ifyou 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 Kentlsh
Knock sands, of 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 of another
plant from the wreck, and they said, I'VE
must die; we must die!" But after awhile
they saw Ramsgate llfeboat coming through
the breakers for them, and the man standing
highest up on the wreck said: "Can It beP
Ittis, it Is, 1t Is, it is! Thank God! It is the
Ramsgate lifeboat It is, it is, tits, 1t is!'
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 of the miserable wreck OF
our sin into the beautiful lfeboat Of the
gospel!