Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-10-28
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were IN trouble, and tho captain got oil
the passengers and crow into the life
boats, but there was not room FOR the
captain. He, through the sea trumpet,
shouted: "shove of now eud pull Sos
the beach. Goodbye And then tho
captain, with pathetic and sublime self
sacrifice, went down with the ship. So
the Captain OF our salvation, Christ the
Lord, launches the gospel lifeboas and
tells us all to get In, but he pesishea,
at behooved Christ TO suffer- Was
It not 80, ye who witnessed bis agonizipg
exptration9 Simon Of Cyrenc, wns 1t not
so2 Cavalry troops, whose horses paved
the dust at the crucifxion, was 1t not soa
Ye Marys who swooned away with the
sun Of the midday heavens, was it not
sof "By his stripes we are healed By
bis death we live. BY his sinking In the
deep sea Of suffering we get of in safe
lifeboat. Yes, we must put into this
story little Of our own personality.
We had ride in thatvery lifeboat from
foundered craft.to solid shore.
| Once Oh tho reang eeas rowed.
The storm was loud; Tho night was darh-
The ocean yawned and rudely blow'd
Tho wind thnt tossed my laundering bark.
But got into the gospel ifeboat, and ].
got ashore, No reliJousspeculation for
me. These higher criticism fellows DO
not bother me bit. You may ask me
80 questions about the sea, and about the
land, and about the lifeboat that can
not answer, but onething ] know, ! am
ashore, and I am going to stay ashore, il
the Lord by his--grace will help me. !
feel under me something 90 firm that I
try 1t with my right foot, and tryit with
my left foot, and then try it with both
feet, and 1t Is 80 solid that think 1t
must DO what the old folks used to cali
the Rock of Ages.
And be my remaining days on earth
many or few ] am going to spend my
time In recommending the lifeboat which
fetched me here, o poor sinner so7ed by
grace, and In swinging the cutlasses
to sever the ropes Of any unsafe li3eboas
and let her fall off. My nearer, without
asking any questions, get into the gospel
lifeboat. Rooml and yet there Is roomI
The biggest boat on earth Is the gospel
lifeboat You must remember the pro
portion Of things, and that the ship
wrecked craft Is the whole earth, and the
lifeboat must be in proportion.
You talk about your Companies, and
your 1ucanias, and your Majestios, and
your City Of New Yorks, but all Of
them put together are smaller than on
Indians canoe 90 Schroon lake COM
pared with this gospel hfeboat that b
large enough to take in all nattona
Room for one and room for all Get
in! GLOW? How? you ask.
Well, know how you feel, for gum
mer before last on the sea of Finland ]
had. the same experience. The ship,ina
which we sailed could not,yenture near
or than mile from shore, where stood
the Russian palace, Of Reterhof 49,
zhad.atn
and aswe went the
sidoofsthe;ship we held Firmly On tothe.
railing, but In order to, getinto the boat
we had ct last to let go.
How did know that the boat was
GOOD and that the oarsmen were sufnt
cienta How did l know that the Finland
SEQ would not swallow US with one open
ing of its crystal jaws2 We had to trust
and we did trust, and our trust was well
rewarded. In the same way get into this
gospel lifeboat. Let go! AS long as you
hold on to any other hope you are i'm
periled, and you get no advantage from
the liteboat. Let gol Does some one
here soy, II guess will hold on little
to my good works, or to pious parent
age, or to something can do In the way
Of achieving my own salvation No,
no, let gol Trust the Captain, who
would not put you into rickety or IN
certain craft.
ELOQUENT PERoRATIoN.
For the sake of your present and ev-
erlasting welfare, with all the urgency
Of an immortal addressing immortals, ]
CRY from the depths of my soul and at
tho TOP Of my voice, Let go! Last sum-
mer the life saving crew at East Hamp.
ton invited me to como up to the life
station and SEQ the crew practice, foT
twice week they are drilled in the I'M
portant work assigned them by the Unit
ed States government, and they go
through all the routine of saving the
shipwrecked. But that would give lit
tie idea Of what they would have to do
| if some midnight next winter, the wind
driving backward, vessel should get
| in the grasp of q hurricane.
See the lights care from the ship In
the breakers, end then responding lights
faring from the beach, and bear the
rockets buzz as they rise, and the life
boat rumbles out, and the gun booms,
and the life line rises and falls acToss the
! splintered decks, and the hawset tight
ems, and the life Car goes to and fro, caF
rying the exhausted mariners, end the
ocean, as If angered by the snatohlpg q
the human prey FROM the white teeth "
It's surf and the stroke Of it's bAlowing
paw, rises with increased fury to assal
| the land. So nowI am engaged IN no
light drill, practicing for What may
come over some Of your souls 1t Is WITH
some Of you wintry midnight, and your
hopes fof this world and the next are
wrecked.
But seel seei The lights hndled on
the beach! / throw out the life line.
Haul in, hand over handl Alb, there Is 2
lifeboat In the surf, which ell the WRATH
Of earth and hell cannot swamp, and its
Captain with SCARED hand puts the
trumpet to his lips as he cries. 'Oh.
Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but
In me Is thy help But what Is the use
OF all this II you decline to get INTO ~
You might as well have been sailor op
/. board that laundering ship of the MedS
I terrsnean when the mariners cut TIE
ropes Of the boat and let hez fall Off,,
" mat ne Regretted
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