Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-10-27

cept'on. There have been cases where
shlrs were in trOub and the captain
got all the assengels and crew into
the ltfeboats, but there was not room
for the captain. He, through the sea-
trumpet, shouted: "Shove oil now
and pull for the beach. Good-by,"
and then the captain with pathetic
and sublime self sacrifice went down
with the sh p. So the captain of ur
salvation, Christ the Lord, launches
the gospel lifeboat, and tell, us all to
get IN, but he perishes. at behooved
Christ TO suffer" Was il not so, We
who Witnessed his agoniziDg eXpira-
ton? Simon of Cyrene, was i, not so?
Cavalry troops, whose horses paved
the dust at the crucifi Nion, was 1T not
so? Ye Marvs who swooned away
with the sun OF the mid day heavens,
was it not SO? "By his stripes we are
healed" By his death we live. by
his sinking in the deep sea of suffering
we get of safe in lifeboat. Yes, we
must put into this Stor, a little o our
own personality. We had "a ride in
that very aeboat from foundered
craft TO solid shore.
| Once on the raging seas | rowed
! The storm was loud, the nigh5 was dark,
The q can yawnei and rudely blowd
The wind that tossed lay laundering
bark.
But got into the gospel lifeboat and
l got ashore. No religious speculation
! Tor me. These higher criticism fellows
do OF bother me bit. You m.ty ask
ne fifty Gu stions about the sea and
about the land and about the lifebuat
/ that cannot answer, but one thing /
know: "m ashore and am gong to
H.. 4 | L.. l..
will help rue. al under me some
thing so firm that try it with my
right foot, and try it with my left foot,
and then | try it wi h both feet, and
it is so solid that / think it must no
wha 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 time IN recommending
the liteboat which fetched me her,
poor sinner saved by grace, and
in swinging the Gu lasses TO sever the
ropes OF any unsafe lifeboat and let
her fall off. My hearer, without ask
ing any questions, &c into the gospel
lifeboat. Room. and yet there is
room! The b 4 est boat on earth is
the gospel ifeboat. You must re-
member the proportion of things, aud
that the snipwreckcd craft is the
whole earth, and he febOat must De
Ia proportion. You talk about your
Campanias. and your La anias, and
your MajeStics, and your City Of New
Horss but all of them put together
are smaller than an indians canoe on
Schroon AXE compa Ell with this Cos
pl life oat that is large enough to
take in all nations. Room for one
and room for all. Get in. How?
IL
how you eel, for summer before
last, Oh the sea of finland, / hal
the same experience. The snip IN
which we sailed could not venture
nearer than u mile from shore where
stood the Russ an palace OF 'eterhof,
and we had 10 get MO small b t
nd be removed ashor The water
WAS rou2h, an as we went down the
ladder at the side of tn ship, we held
ii miy on TO the railing, but in order
to get INTO the boat sc had At last To
let o. How did | know that the
Finland sea would not swallow us
with one opening of its crvsta, jaws
We had 10 trust. aud we did u>t, q q
our trust wa, well rewa ded. In the
same way get uto this gospel lifeboat.
Let 20. As long a. YOU hold on II
any other hope you are imperilrd and
you get DO advantage from the life
boat. Let go. Does some one here
say: 81 guess viii hold on little 10
my good Voc 6, or TO a pious parent
age, or 10 some hing / can do in the
way of achieving NV own salvatio ="
No, no, let go! Trust the capita n,
who " uld not put you into rIctety
or uncer ain craft.
For the sake of your present and
everlasting welfare, with all the ur-
gency Of an immortal addressing inn
mortals, l cry from the depth of my
soul and at the Top of my voice, Let
go! Last summer the ife-saving crew
at East Hampton invited me to come
up TO the life station and see the crew
pract ce, for twice week they were
drilled in the important work assigned
them 10y the United States government,
and they go through all the routine of
saving the shipwrecked. Bat that
would give little idea of what they
would have to 90 if some midnight
neXt winter, the wind driving
backward, vessel should get
in the grasp of hurricane. See the
lights flare from the ship in the
breakers, and then responding lights
fiaring from the beach. and hear the
rockets buzz as they rise, and the life
boat rumbles out and the gun booms,
and the lifeline rises and falls Pcross
the splintered decks and the hawser
tightens. and the life-car goes To and
fro, carrying the exhausted mariners.
and the ocean, as ii angered 10y the
snatching of the human prey from the
white teeth of it's surf and the stroke
of its billowing pa ", rises with in
creased fury to assail the land SO
ng9v | am enga Ell in no light drill,
practicing for what may come
over some of your souls. It
is with some of you win
try midnight aud your hopes
for this world and the next are
wrecked But see! See! The lights
kindled on e beach, throw out the
life line. Haul in, h md over hendl
All, there is lifeboat in the surf,
which all 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 myself, but in me is thy
help" But what is the use of all OF
this if you dec inc TO get Into it? You
might as WEI have been sailor on
board that laundering ship of the
Mediterranean when the m ariners cut
tho roDao Of tho hoot aul LOT har foil