Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1893-10-26

shore for ages, and has never lost
passenger. These old Christians begin
TO smile because 1t il dawning upon
them what mean The fact II that In
this way years ago they got on wreck
themselves, and do not wonder they
smile. 1t Is not a senseless giggle that
means frivolity. but 1t is a smile like
that on the face of Christians the mo-
ment they leave earth for Heaven; yea,
like the smile of God Himself when he
had completed the plan for saving the
world.
Right after that big tumble of the
Atlantic ocean six or seven weeks ago,
on the beach at East Hampton, i met
the captain of the life-saving station
and said: Captain, do you think
life-boat could live in a sea like that?'
Although the worst of II was over, the
captain replied: mo, do not think 1t
could" But this life-boat of which
speak can live in any sea and defies all
breakers, and all cyclones, and all
equinoxes. and all earth. and all hell.
In twenty years the life-saving appa-
ratus along the Atlantic coast saved the
lives of over 1000 of the ship-wrecked.
but this life-boat that I commend has
saved in twenty years hundreds OF mil
lions of the ship-wrecked.
Like those newly-invented English
life-boats, it is insubmergeable, self
righting and self-bailing. All along
our ROCKY American coast things were
left to chance for centuries. and the
shipwrecked crawled up on the beach
to die unless some one happened to
walk along or some fisherman's hut
might be near. But after the ship Ayr
shire was wrecked at Square Beach,
and the Powhatan left her 800 dead
strewn along the coast, and another
vessel went on the rocks. 400 lives per-
ishing, the United States government
woke up and made an appropriation
of s2OO,OOO for life-saving sta
tions, and life-lines from fax
ing-boxes are shot over the wild
surf, and the hawsers are stretched
from wreck to shore, and what, with
Ly1e's gun and six-oared life-boat, with
cork at the sides TO make it unsinka BILE,
and patrolmen all night long walking
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and exchange metal tickets, so as to
show the entire beach has been ira
versed, and the Coston light flashes
hope from shore to the sufferer, and
surfmen, encased in Merriman life-sav-
ing dress. and life-car rolling ON the
ropes, there are many probabilities of
rescue for the unfortunate of the sea.
But the government of the United
Heavens has made better provisions for
the rescue of our souls. So close by
that this moment we can put our hand
on its top and swing into it, is this Cos
pei life-bOat II will not take you
more than q second to get into it.
But while in my text we stand watch
ing the marines with their cutlasses,
preparing to sever the ropes of the life
boat and let her fall off, notice the
poor equipment Only one life-boat
Two hundred and seventy-six passen-
gers, as Paul counted them. and only
one life-boat My text uses the singu-
lar and not the plural Cut off the
ropes of the boat" do not sup
pose it would have held more
than thirty people. though load
ed to the waters edge. I think
by marine law all our modern
vessels have enough life-boats to held
all the crew and all the passengers in
case of emergency, but the marines OF
my text were standing by the only
boat, and that a small boat, and yet
2I6 passengers. But what thrills me
through and through is the fact that,
though We are wrecked by a sin ant
trouble, and there is only one life-boat
that boat is large enough to hold al
who are willing to get into it The
Gospel hymn expresses it: