Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-11-09

for their moral convalescence.
hut I shall not leave you under the
discouragement Of the Ten Command
tmcnts, because we have all offended.
There Is another mountain ia sight,
and while one mountain thnnders the
ether answers I'm thunder, and while
Mount Sinai, with lightning, writes
doom the other mountain, with light
ming, writes mercy. The only way you
will ever spike the guns Of the Deca-
logue Is by the spikes Of the cross.
The only rock that will ever stop the
Sinaitio ~upheavals Is the Rock of Ages.
Mount Calvary Is higher than Mount
Sinai.
The English survey expedition, I
know, say that one Sinaitic peak Is
1000 feet high and another 5000 and
another 5000 feet high, and travellers
tell us that Mount Calvary is only a
bluff outside Of the wall of Jerusalem.
But Calvary In moral Significance over
tops and oyershadows all the mountains
Of the hemispheres, and Mount Wash
ington and Mount Blanc and the Him.
alayas are hillocks compared with IL.
You know that sometimes one fortress
will silence another fortress.
Moultrie silenced Sumter, and against
the mountain OF the law l put the
mountain of the cross. THE soul that
sinneth, 1t shall die" booms until
the earth jars under the cannonade.
Save them from going down to the
pit, I have found a ransom" pleads
the other until earth and heaven and
he'll tremble under the reyerberation.
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 erupt-
ed one day and poured torrents OF
scoria upon the villages at the base,
but that the mountain divided it's flame
and made q lane of safety for all those
who came to rescue their aged parents.
And this volcanic Sinai divides It's fury
for all those whom Christ has come
to rescue from the red ruin on both
sides. Standing as l do to-day, half
way between the two mountains--the
mountain of the exodus and the noun
tain of the nineteenth Of John-all my
terror comes into supernatural calm,
for the uproar rof the one mountain
subsidies into quiet and comes down
into so deep q silence that I can hear
the other mountain speak-ay, L can
hear 1t whisper, 1.-The blood, the blood,
the blood that cleanseth fsGin iii sir"
The survey expedition says that the
Sinaitic mountains have wadys or wa
ter courses-Alleyat aud Ajelah-empty-
ing into Feiran. But those streams are
not navigable. No boat put into those
rocky streams could sail. But I have
to tell you this day that the boat of
gospel rescue comes right up amid the
water-courses of Sinaitlc gloom and
threat ready to take us off from under
the shadows into the calm sunlight OF
Gods pardon and into the land of
peace.
Oh. IL you could see that boat of gos-
pei rescue coming this day, you would
feel as John Gilmore in his book, THE
Storm Warriors" says that a ships
crew felt on the Kantish Knock sands,
Off the coast of England, when they
We're being beaten to pieces, and they
all felt they must die. They had given
up all hope, and every moment washed
OF another plank from the wreck, and
they said: 1--WE must die; we must
die.' But after a while then saw g
Ranssgate lifeboat coming through the
breakers for them, and the mah. stand
INC highest upon the wreck said; i.Can
it beg Can It be? 1t Is, 1t Is. il is, 1t
Isl Thank ~Godl 1t Is the I~audsgate
nfeboat! It Is, It il, 1t Is it isl"
And the old Jack Tar, describing that
| hfeboat to his comrades after he got
ashore, said: 'Oh, my lads, what a
beauty It did seem coming through the
breakers that awful day!" May God,
through the mercy IN Jesus Christ.
take us oil of the miserable wreck of
our sin into the beautiful lifeboat Of tho
gospel.