The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21

with you and you have been routed in
many conflict. give not up In discour-
agement. There are victories yet for
you to gain, But sometimes monetary
disaster comes to man when there is
something in his age or something in
his health or something in his surround
ings which make him know we'll that he
will never get up again.
In 1857 it was estimated that for many
years previous to that time annually
there had been 10000 failures in the
United States. Many Of those persons
never recovered from the misfortune.
But let me give word of comfort in
passing. The sheriff may sell you out
of many things, but there are some
things of which he cannot sell you out.
He cannot sell out your health. He can
not sell out your family. He cannot sell
out your Bible. He cannot sell out your
God. He cannot sell out your heaven.
You have more than you have lost.
Sons and daughters of God, children
of an eternal and all loving Father,
mourn not when your property goes,
The world is yours, and life is yours,
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 has
sworn it. ami every time you doubt it
you charge the King of heaven and earth
with perjury. Instead of complaining
how hard you have it, go home, take mp
your Bible full of promises, get down ON
your knees before God and thank him
for what you have instead of spending
so much time in complaining about what
you have not,
AN AWFUL sHlPwRECK.
Some of you remember the shipwreck
of the Central America. This noble
steamer had, think, about 500 passen.
gers aboard. Suddenly the storm came,
and tie surges trampled the decks and
swung into the matches, and there went
up hundred voiced death shrek. The
foam on the jaw of the wave; the pitch
ing of the steamer as though it were
leaping n mountain; the dismal flare of
the signal rockets; the long cough of the
steam pipes; the hiss of the extinguished
furnaces; the walking of God on the
wavel The steamer went not down With
out a struggle.
AS the passengers stationed themselves
in rows to bale out the vessel, bark to
the thump Of the buckets as men unused
to toll, with blistered hands and strained
muscle, tug for their lives. There is
sail seen against the sky. The flash of
the distress gun is 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
lurch and was gone! So there are some
men who sail on prosperously in life.
Ais well, alrs well. But at last some
financial disaster comes-a euroclydon.
Down they go! the bottom of this COM
mercial sea strewn with shattered hulks.
But because your property goes do
not let your soul go. Though all else
perish, save that, for have to tell you
Of more stupendous shipwreck than
That which have just mentioned. God
launched this world 5000 years ago. 1t
| has been gong ON under 1relgnt OF
mountains and immortals, but one day
It will stagger at the cry Of fire. The
imbers of rock will burn, the mountains
flame like masts and the clouds like sails
in the Judgment hurricane. Then God
shall take the passengers off the deck,
| and from the berths those who have long
been asleep in Jesus, and he will set
them far beyond the reach Of storm and
peril. ..
But how many shall go DOWN That
will never be known until it shall be aa-
| bounced one day in heaven-the ship
wreck Of world! Oh, my dear hearers,
whatever you lose, though your houses
30, though your lands go, though all
your earthly possessions perish, may
God Almighty, through the blood of the
everlasting covenant, save all your souls.