Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-10-27

Millions OF people want TO get into
il. They josie each 9th TO get
! the best seat in the boat You
could n keep them back though
! you stood at the gunwales with club,
! as on our ship Greece in n hurricane,
and the steei age passengers were de-
! teTmined to come up On deck. where
| they would have been washed off and
the officers stood at the top of the
stairs ubbing them back. Even by
such violence as that you could not
keep people from jumping into the
most popu ar boat made of church
mem Der 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 VI orld's Fair
for exhibition of all the frailties OF
church mem bers, so that if you believe
ali that is there told YOU, YOU would
be afraid to enter a church, lest YOU
get your pockets D olSed or g I
knocked down. This is e way they
talk: Il was cheated out of 300 by
leader OF bible class" "A Sunday
schoo te cher gossiped about me and
dld h best TO destroy my good
name " 81 had n partner in business
who swamped our business concern
by his tricSe Y, and then rolled M his
eyes in FRIDAY might PRAYER meeting,
as though he were looking for Eli
j his chariot to make q sec nd trip
and take up another passenger. But
what cracked and waite logged and
eaping-scaraed lIfeboat the inconsist-
encies Of others. Put me on a shingle
mid and leave me there,
rather than in su h a ya.yl OF spiritual
confidence. God forbid that / should
get aboard it,, and lest some Of you
make the mistake of getting into it, |
DO as the mariners did on tina. Medit-
errancan ship when the sailors were
about TO e INTO the unsafe llfeboat,
OF the text, and lose their lives n that
way. q hen the soldiers cut of the
ropes of the boat and let her fall OFF "
''N ell, avs some o G. this sub
iect is very discouraginr for we must
have lifeboat if we are ever TO get
ashore, and you have already con-
demned Ia ce" All, it is because
want To persuade you TO take the only
safe lifeboat / will not allow you TO
be deceived and get on to the wild
waves and then capsi@e or sink.
Than Col, / ere is lifeboat that
> g
as God is God and heaven is heaven.
i he keel and ribs OF this boat are
made out OF rec hat was set up on
bluff back of Jeru allen a good
many wears ago Both Of the oars
are made out of the same tree. The
rowluclSs IRE made out of the same
tree. The planks of IL were
hammered togett er by the hammers
of eXecution"rs, who thought they
we're My killing "A christ. but w re
really pounding together an escape for
all imprriled souls of all ages It is
an old oat, but goo aS new, thou h
il Ina be carrying passengers from
sinking ships to firm shore for ages,
and has ncv lost passenger Thes'
old Christians begin To SIN lie be ause
il is dawning upon them what mean.
The fact is that in this way Y airs ago
they got of W eek Themselves. and
do not wonder they smile. H. is not
q senscl' SIS gi"glr that means frivol ",
but is q smil, like that on he face
Of Christians the moment the leave
earth for heaven yea. like the smile
of God n mself whe he had completed
thu plan for saving the world
Right after tina big tumble of the
Atlantic ocean six or seven weeks ago,
On the beach at East Ham ton, met
the captain of the life-saving station
and said: Captain, do You think
lifrboat could live in sea like that?'
Altho gh the worst OF il was over. the
captain replied: No, | do not think
it could" But this liteboat of which
speak can live in any sea and deies
ali breakers and all cyclones and all
equinoXes and all earth and all hell
In twenty years the ii e-saving APP
piratus along our Atlantic coast saved
the lives OF over $1,000 of the ship
wrecked, but this lfeboat that com
mend has saved in twenty years hun
dreds of millions OF the shipwrecked
Like those newly-invented English
lifeboats, it is Interchangeable self
righting and self-bailing. All along
our rocky American coast things were
left to chance for centuries, and tue
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 erishing, the United states gov
eminent woke up AMI made an appro-
priat of So 1900 for lile-saving
stations, and life-lines fro n taking
box are shot over the wild surf, and
hawscrs are stretched from wreck 20
S ore, and what with Ly e's gun and
six-o red surf-boat, with cork at the
sides TO make it unsuitable, aud pa
trolmen all night long walking the
beach until they meet each other and
eXch nge meta tickle s, SO IS to show
the ebtirc beach has been traverse 8,
and the Ioston light a,hes hope FIR IN
shore to sufferer, aud surfmen, encased
in Merriman liie-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. 80
close by that this moment we can put
our hand on its top AID swing into it,
is this gospel lifeboat 1t will not
take you more than a minute to get
Into it.
But willie in my text we stand
watching the marines with their cut
lasses, preparing to sever the ropes
of the lifeboat and let her fall off,
notice the poor equipment. Only one