The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-08-17

! you will ask for their pardon, they vi
give it, and say they will try you agail
but, falling away again under tn
power CT temptation, they cast you o
forever. But God forgives sevent
times seven; yea, seven hundred time,
yea; though this be the ten thousandt
time He is more earnest, more sympa
thetic, more helpful this last tim
than when You took your first missteI
The ship Emma, bound from Gotten
burg to Harwich, was sailing on, whe
the man on the lookout saw somethin,
that he pronounced avessel bottom UP
There was something on it that locke,
Like sea gull, but was afterward foun,
to be waving q handkerchief. In tn,
small boat the crew pushed out to tn,
wreck, and found that it was a cap
sized vessel, and that three men hat
! been digging their way through thu
bottom of the ship. When the vessel
capsized they had no means of es
cape. The captain took his per
knife and dug away through
the planks until his knife broke.
Then an old nail was found, with which
they attempted to scrape their way out
of the darkness. each one working un-
til his hand was well nigh paralyzed,
and he sank back faint and sick. After
long and tedious work, the light broke
through the bottom of the ship A
handkerchief was Hoisted. Help came
They were taken on board the vessel
and saved. Did ever men come so near
watery grave without dropping into
it? How narrowly they escaped-es-
capped only with the skin of their
teeth"
In the last days it will be found that
Hugh Latimer, and John Knox, and
Huss, and Ridley were not the greatest
martyrs, but Christian men who went
up incorrupt from the communications
and perplexities Of Wall street, Water
street, Pearl street, Broad street, State
street, Third street, Lombard street
and the bourse. On earth they
were called brokers or stock jobbers,
Or retailers, or importers; but in Heaven,
Christian heroes. No fagots were
heaped about their feet; no inquisition
demanded from them recantation; no
soldier aimed spike at their heart;
but they had mental tortures, compared
with which all physical consuming is
rs the breath of a spring morning.
l find in the community large
class of men who have been so cheated,
80 lied about,so outrageously wronged,
hat they have lost faith in every
hing. In world where everything
seems so topsy-turvy they do not see
low there can be any God. They are
'onfounded and frenzied, and mis-
'nthropic. Elaborate argument to
Prove to them the truth of Christiani-
y, or the truth of anything else,
ouches them nowhere. Hear me, all |
UGH men. I preach to you no
'ounded periods, no ornamental dis
curse; but put my hand on your
and invite you into the peace
f the Gospel Here is rock on which
ou may stand firm, though the waves
ash against it harder than the Allan
c, pitching its surf clear above Eddy
tone lighthouse. Do not charge
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'orld. AS long as the world stuck to
cd, God stuck to the world; but the
arth seeded from His government,
nd hence all these outrages and all
lese woes. God is good. For many
of years He has been coaxing
lie world to come back to Him; but
lie more He has coaxed, the more vio-
mt have men been in their resistance,
Id they have stepped back and
epped back until they have dropped
to ruin.
This world is poor portion for your
u1, oh business man! An eastern
ng had craven upon his tomb two
lgers, represented as sounding upon
oh other with snap, and under
EN- the motto: 'All is not worth {
at" Apicius Coelius hanged him
If because his steward informed {
m that he had only eighty thousand l
unds sterling left. All of this
,rld's riches make but a small
heritance for soul. Robespierre S
tempted to win the applause of the t
'rld; but when he was dying wom-
came rushing through the crowd, c
wing to him: Murderer of my kim a
ed, descend to hell, covered with the L
rises of every mother in France" a
my who have expected the plaudits t
the world have died under its Anath.
la Maranatha. I
Oh, find your peace in God. Make O
e strong pull for Heaven. No half. f
" work will d. il. There sometimes S
mes time on shipboard when every o
ing must be 'acrificed to save the C
ssengers- The cargo is nothing, the c
'ging nothing. The captain puts the fl
lmpet to his ] p and shouts: "Cut a
'ay the mast ~ Some of You D
We been tossed and driven, and Won d
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