Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-11-10

ming, writes doom, the other mountain, with
lightning, writes mercy. The only way you
VIII ever spike the guns OF the DecalOgue is
by the spikes OF the cross. The only rock
that viii ever stop the sinatlc upheayals is
the Rock OF Ages. Mount Calvary is higher
than Mount Sinai.
The English survey expedition, I know,
say that one sinaltic peak Is 1000 feet high,
and another 5000, and another 5000 feet high
ana travellers tell us that Mount Cavalry is
I only blum outside fthe wall OF Jerusalem.
out calvary, In moral Significance, oyertops
ana overshsdows oil the mountains OF the
hemlspheres, and Mount Washington and
mont Blanc and the Hlmalayas are hilocks
I compared with 1t. You know that some
| times one fortress will silence another for
| tress
Moultrle sienced Sumter, and against the
mountain OF the law put the mountain OF
the cross. The soul that sinneth, IL shall
dle' booms one until the earth jars under
I the cannonade. Save them from going
down to the pit. have found a ransom
pieaus the other, until earth and heaven and
heh tremble under the reverberation. And
Moses, who commands the one, surrenders
u CnFs', VINO commands the other.
Once by the law our hopes were slain.
BOT now in Christ We live again.
Aristotle says that Mount Etna eruptei one
uay ana poured torrents OF scoria upon the
villages at the base, but that the mountain
divided Its flame and made lane of safety
lor All those VINO came TO rescue their agest
parents. And this volcanic Sinai divides IT.
fury for those whom Christ has come TO re-.
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 otthe one mountain subsidies into
quiet and comes down into so deep u silence
that can hear the other mountain speak
aye, / can hear 1t whisper, The blood. tie
blood, the blood that ceanseth from all sin"
The survey expedition says that the Sinai
tic mountains have Wajys C- water coursrs-
AHeyat and AJelah-emptying into Fciran
But those streams are not navigable No boat
put into these rocky streams could sail. But
L haveto tell you this day that the boat OF
gospel rescue comes right up amid the wa
tercourses Of Sin1itic 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.
On, nyou could see that boat of gospel res
cue coming this day you would feel as John
Gilmore in his book, 1.-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 theyall
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 RansgRte li!ehoat coming through
the breakers for them and the man standing
highest up on the wreck said Can 1t be?
1t is, 1t is, 1t Is, II is Thank God! Itisthe
Ramsgate lifeboat II Is it ia, it is. tits,
And the old Jack Tar, describing that life
boat to his comrades after hes got ashore,
said, "Oh, my lads. what a beauty II did
seem, coming through the breakers that awful
day. May God. through the mercy in Jesus
Christ, take us all or the miserable wreck OF
our sin into the beautiful lifeLoat OF tho
gospel