Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-11-10

ming, writes doom. the other mountain, WITT
| lightning, writes mercy The only way 20,
will ever spike the guns Of the Decalogue i
| by the spikes of the cross. The only rocs
that will ever stop the Sinatic upheavais II
the Rock of Ages. Mount Calvary is nlghei
than Mount Sinai.
The English survey expedition, L know,
| say that one Sinaitic peak Is 1000 feet niBn
and another 5000, and another 5000 feet nlgn
andtraveers 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 tne
hemspheYes, and Mount Washington ano
Mont Blanc and the Hlmalayas are hillocKs
compared with ii. You know that some
times one fortress will silence another fo--
tress
Moultrie silenced Sumter, and against the
mountain Of the law put the mountain Of
the cross. "The soul that sinnetb, 1t Shall
die, booms one until the earth jars under
the cannonade. "Saye them from going
down to the pit. have found ransom, :,
pleads the other, until earth and heaven and
hell tremble under the reverberaticn. 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 scorla upon the
villages at the base, but that the mountain
divided It's flame and made lane of safety
Tor 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 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 ofthe one mountain subsidies into
quiet and comes down into so deep silence
that can hear the other mountain speak
aye, can hear it whisper, "The blood, the
blood, the blood that cleanseth from all SIM"
The survey expedition says that the Sinai
tic mountains have wadys or water courses
Alleyat and Ajelah-emptying into Feiran
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 Sinsitic 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.
Oh, If You 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 Kentish
Knock sands, off 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, "We
must die we must die" But after awhile
they saw Ramsgate lifebost coming through
the breakers for them, and the man standing
highest up on the wreck said: ''Can II be?
1t is, it is, it is. it is Thank God 1t is the
Ramsgate lifeboat 1t is, it is, 1t is, 1t is -
And the old Jack Tar, describing that life
boat to his comrades after he got ashore.
said, ooh, 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 off the miserable wreck OF
our sin into the beautiful lifeboat Of the
gospel!