The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-12-16

sen like thbtF Although tne NoTsb VI ~
was over, the captain replied, mo, do not
think 1t could" But this lifeboat of which
speak can live in any sea and deiies all
and all cyclones, and all equinox
es, and all earth, and all hell. In 20 years the
life saving apparatus along our Atlantic
coast saved tne lives of over 5000 Of the
but this liteboat that com
mend has saved in 20 years hundreds Of
millions of the shipwrecked.
Like those newly invented English life
boats, it is Interchangeable, self righting
and self baiing. All along our rocky
American coast things were left to chance
for centuries, and the shipwrecked crawled
up on the beach to die unless some one hap
pened to walk along or some tisherman's
hut might be near But after the ship
Ayrshire was wrecked at Squan beach. and
the powhattan left her 800 dead strewn
along our coast, and another vessel went
on the rocks, 400 lives perishing, the United
States government woke up and made an
of 100000 for life saving sta
tions, and life lines from taking box are shot
over the wild surf and hawsers are stretch
ed from wreck TO shore, aud what with
Lyle's gun aad six Dared surtboat, with
cork at the sides to make it unsuitable,
and patrolmen all light long walking the
beach until they meet each other and eN-
change metal tickets, SO as to show the en-
tire beach has been traversed, and the Cos.
ton light flashes hope from shore to suf-
ferer and surfmen, incased in Merriman
live saving dress and life car rolling on the
ropes there are many probabilities OF
rescue for the unfortunate of the sea. But
the government of the united heavens has
made better provision for the rescue of our
souls SO close 10y that this moment we
can put our hand on its top and swing into
it, is this gospel lifeboat 1t will not take
you more than second to get into it.
A LIFEBOAT FOR ALL.
But while in my text we stand watching
the marines with their cutlasses, preparing
to sever the ropes of the lifeboat and let
her fall of, notice the poor equipment.
Only one lifeboat. Two hundred and sew
enty-six passengers as Paul counted them,
and only one lifehoat. My text uses the
singular and not the plural Cut off the
ropes Of the boat | do not suppose it
would have held more than 30 people,
though loaded to the waters edge. | think
by marine law all our modern vessels have
enough lifeboats TO hold all the crew and
all the passengers in case of emergency,
but the marines of my text were standing
by the only boat, and that small boat,
and yet 216 passengers But what thrills
me through and through is the fact that
though we are wrecked by sin and trouble.
and there is only one lifeboat, that boat is
large enough to hold all who are willing
to get intoit. The gospel hymn expresses it:
All may come, whoever will;
This Man receives poor sinners still
But must haul in that statement little.
Room for all in that lifeDoat, with just one
exception Not you; / do not mean you,
but there is one exception. There have
been cases where ships were in trouble and
the captain got all the passengers and crew
into the lifeboaGs, but there was not room
for the captain. He, through the sea
trumpet, shouted Shove off now and pull
for the beach Goodby," and then the cap
tain with pathetic and sublime self sacrifice
went down with the ship. So the Captain
of our salvation, Christ the Lord, launches
the gospel lifeboat and tells us all to get
in, but he perishes. at behooved Christ to
suffer"
Was it not so. we who witnessed his ago
nizing expiration Simon of Cyrene, was
it not so9 Cavalry troops whose horses
paved the dust at the crucixion, was it
not so? YeMarys who swooned away with
SOY by his stripes we are healed" BY
his death we live. By his sinking in the
deep sea of suffering we get off in "A safe
lifeboat Yes, we must put into this story
a little of our own personality. We had a
ride in that very lifeboat from foundered
craft to solid shore.
Once on the raging seas rowed.
The storm was loud; the night was dark;
The ocean yawned and rudely blow'd
The wind that tossed my laundering bark
But | got into the gospel lifeboat, and
got ashore. No religious speculation for
me. These higher criticism fellows do not
bother me bit. You may ask me 80 cues.
| lions about the sea, and about the land, and
about the lifeboat that | cannot answer
but one thing know, am ashore, and
| am going to stay ashore, if the Lord by his
/ grace will help me. | feel under me some
thing so firm that | try 1t with my right
foot, and try it with my left foot, and then
try it with both feet, and it is so solid that
| think it must be what the old folks used
to call the Rock of Ages.
/ And be my remaining days on earth
many or few am going to spend my tim
in recommending the lifeboat which fetche,
me here, poor sinner saved by grace, ant
in swinging the cutlasses to sever the rope
of my unsafe lifeboat and let her fall off
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