The Penn's Grove record., 1893-11-03
PENIS GROVE. N. J.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 3. 1893

standing the jarring mountains and the full
orchestra of the tempest, and b blazing Of
the air, pours out the ten drops-no MORE.
no less-which our people need to take for
their moral convalescence.
But I shall not leave you under the dis
age of the Ten Commandments, be-
cause we have al. offended. There Is an
other mountain in sight. n while one
mountain 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 gun of the Decalogue is
by the spikes of the cross. The only rock
that will ever stop the Slnatic upheayals is
the Rock of Ages. Mount Calvary Is higher
than Mount Sinai.
The English survey expedition, I know,
say that one Sinaitic peak Is 1000 feet high,
and another 5000, and another 5000 feet high,
and travelers tell US that Mount Cavalry is
only a bluff outside ofthe wall Of Jerusalem,
but Calvary, in mofal significance, overtops
and overshadows all the mountains of the
hemispheres, and Mount Washington and
Mont Blanc and the Himalayas are hillocks
compared with 1t. You know that some
times one fortress will silence another for
tress.
Moultrie silenced Sumter, and against ths
mountain Of the law / put the mountain OF
the cross. ''The soul that slnneth, it shall
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the c~annonade. "Save them from going
down to the pit. I have found q ransom"
pleads the other, until earth and heaven and
hen 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
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divided its lame and made a lane Of safety
tcr all those who came to rescue their aged
parents. And this volcanic Sinai divides its
Jury 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 W
mountains-the mountain of the Exodus n
the mountain of the nineteenth of John-all
my terror ome into supernatural calm, for
the uproar ofthe one mountain subsidies Into
quiet and comes down into so deep a silence
that l can hear the other mountain speak
aye, I can near 1t whisper, sThe blood, the
blood, the blood that cleanseth from all SIM"
The survey expedition says that the Sinai
tic mountains have wadys or water COURSES
Aleyat and Ajelah-emptying into Fefran-
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 andthre1t ready
to take us off from un1er 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 a ships crew felt on the Kentish
Knock sands, of the coast Of England, when
they were being beaten to pieces and they all
felt they must diel They had given up all
hope and every moment washed of another
plant from the wreck, and they said, "We
must die we must die - But after awhile
they saw a Ramsgate lifeboat coming through
the breakers for them, and the man standing
highest up on the wreck said ''Can it be?
It Is, 1t is, it is, it is Thank Godl 1t Is the
Ramsgate lifeboatl 1t is, it is, it is, 1t ism
And the old Jack Tar, describing that life
boat to his comrades after he got ashore,
said, "Oh, my lads, what a beauty it did
seem, coming through the breakers that awful
dayr' May God, through the mercyi in Jesus
Christ, take US all of the miserable wreck Of
our sin into the beautiful lifeboat of the
gospel