Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-21


it profit a man IL he gain the whole
world and lose his own soul?' How
ever fine your apparel, the winds of
death will nutter it like rags. Home
spun and threaabare coat have some
times been the shadow of coming
robes made white in the blood OF the
lamb. The pearl of great price is
worth more than any gem you can
bring from the ocean, than Australian
or brazilian min, s strung in one car
canet Seek alter cod; find lis
righteousness, and all shall be we'll
| here; ali shall be well hereafter.
But | must II we word with these
VINO during the present commercial
! C lamities have lot heavily. or per-
! haps lost all their estate. IL q man
,ose his property at 30 or 40 years of
/ age, it is only a sharp discipline gener-
! ally, by wifi h later he comes To larger
! success. 1t is ali folly Tor man To sit
! down in m d-life discouraged. The
II ar-hals of Napoleon came To their
commander and said: 1--WE have lost
! the battle. and we are being cut to
! pieces" Napoleon took his watch
from his pc keC and said: lit is only
| 2 o'clock in the afternoon. You have
| lost that bnttle, but we have time
| enough to win another. Charge upoa
the foe" Though the merida of lie
has passed with You, and YOU have
been routed in many conflict, give
I OF up in encouragement. There are
/ victories yet for you TO gain. But
sometimes mourtary disaster comes to
u man when there is SO nething in his
! age, or something in his health, or
so uething IN his surroundings, which
make him know wed that he will
never get up again. In 1897 It was eS-
! timated That, for many years previous
to that time, annually there had been
| 10000 failures iu the United States.
| Many of those persons NJ. er recovered
! from the IN sfortune. But let me give a
word of co Mort in passing. The sheriff
may sell you out of many things, but
! there are some things of which he can
not sell you out. lie cannot sell ont
/ your health. lie cannot sell out your
( family. III cannot sell out Your bible.
| lie cannot sell out your God. He can
/ OF sell out your heaven. You have
more than yon have lost. Sons and
/ daughters OF God, children OF an eter-
! nal and ALLOWING father, mourn not
( when your property goes The world
/ is yours, and life is Y urs, and death is
! yours. and immortality is yours, and
! thrones of imperial grandeur are
/ yours, and rivers of gladness are
! yours, and shining mansions are yours,
/ and God is yours. The eternal God
/ as sworl it. and every time you
! doubt it you charge the king OF heaven
+ and ear,h with perjury. Instead of
/ com claiming how hard you have it, 20
home take mp your bible felt OF
promises, get down on your kne' IS be-
/ fore God AMI thank him for what you
have, instead of spending SO much
/ time in complaining about what you
have not
Some of you remember the ship
wreck of the G ntral Ameri a 1hls
noble steamer, had, l think. about
five hundred pass myers aboard. sud
/ denly the storm came, and the surgcS
tramp ed the decks and swung into
the hatches and there went up hun
/ dred-voiced death-shriek. The foam
on the jaw of the wave. The pitching
of the steamer as though it were leap
/ ing a noun ain. The dismal flare of
the signal rockets The long cough
of the steam pipes. The hiss of the
eXtipguisled furnaces. The walking
/ of God on the wav~! The steamer
went not down W thout n struggle. AS
/
rows, 10 bale out the vessel, bark to
the thump Of the buckets, as m. I'M
used TO toll, with blistered hands ami
strained muscle, tug for their lives.
! here i sail seen against the SKY.
! The flash of the distress gun sounded,
/ its voice is heard not, for it is choked
in the louder booming of the sea a
few passengers escaped; but the
steamer gave one great lur, and
WAS gone. So there are some men
who sail on prOsperously in life.
! Ais well, ais well. But at
last, some financial disaster comes;
n euroclydon. Down they go!
! the bottom of this commercial sea
strewn with shattered hulks. But be-
cause your pro Jerly goes, do not let
your soul 20. Thou I'll all else perish,
save that; for have to tell you of a
more stupendous shipwreck than that
which ! have just mentioned. Col
launched this wOr d six thousand years
| ago. 1t has been going on under
! freight of mountains and immortals;
but one day it will stagger at the Try
OF fire. The tim bers of rock will burn,
! the mountains flame like masts, an
the clouds like sats in the judgment
hurricane. Then God shall take the
passengers of the deck, and rom the
berths those who have long been asleep
in Jesus, and he will set them far b.
! yond the reach of storm and peril. But
how many shall go down; that will
never be known, until it shall be an
nounced one day in heaven; the ship
wreck of a world! o. my dear hearers,
whatever you lose, though your houses
| go, Though your lands go, though all
your earthly possessions perish, may
God Almighty, through the blood of
the everlasting covenant, save all your
| souls