The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-08-04

through the bottom Of the vessel.
When the ship capsized they had no
neal of escape. The captain took his
penknife 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
n working until his hand was
well nigh paralyzed, and he sank
back faint and sick. After long and
tedious work, the light broke through
h bottom of the ship. A handker-
chief was hoisted. Help came. They
were taken on board the vessel and
aved. Did ever men come so near a
watery grave without dropping into it?
How narrowly they escaped-escaped
only with the skin of their teeth"
There are men who have been cap
sized of evil passions, and capsized mid.
ocean, and they are 1000 miles, away
from any shore of help. They have for
years been digging, and digging away,
but they can never be delivered unless
they will hoist some signal Of distress.
However weak and feeble it may be,
Christ will see it, and bear down upon
the helpless craft and take them on
board; and it will be known on earth
and In Heaven how narrowly they es-
caped-''escaped as with the skin of
their teeth"
There are others who, in attempting
to come to God, must run between q
great many business p~erplexities. II q
man go over to business at 10 o'clock
in the morning, and come away al 8
o'clock in the afternoon, he has some
time for religion, but how shall you
find time for religious contemplation
when you are driven from sunrise until
sunset, and have been for five years
going behind In business, and are fire.
quently dunned by creditors whom you
cannot pay, and when, from Mon
day morning until Saturday night,
you are lodging bills that you can
not meet? You walk day by day in
uncertainties hat have kept your
brain on fire for the past three years.
Some, with less business troubles than
you, have gone crazy. The clerk has
heard a noise In the bank counting
room, and gone in, and found the chief
man of the firm q raving msniac;o or the
wife has heard the bang of q pistol in
the back parlor, and gone In, stumbling
over the dead body Of her husbands
suicide. There are In this house to-
day three hundred men pursued, har'
sssed, trodden down and scslped OF
business ~perplexities, and which way
to turn next they do not know. Now,
God will not be hard on you. he
knows what obstacles are In the way
Of your being q Christian, and your
first effort in the right direc.
ton He will crown with success.
Do not let Satan, with cotton
bales, and kegs, and hogsheads, and
counters, and stocks of unstable goods,
block up your way to Heaven. Gather
up all your energies. Tighten the
girdle about your loins. Take an
agonizing look into the face Of God,
and then say: Here goes M great Of.
fort for life eternal" and then bound
away for Heaven, escaping ''as with
the skin of your teeth"
/ find In the community . large class
Of men who have been SO cheated, sc
lied about, SO outrageously wronged,
that they have lost faith In everything.
In q world where everything seems SC
topsy-turvey they do not zee how there
can be any God. They are COMPOUNDED
and frenzied, and misanthropic. Elab
crate argument to prove to them the
truth of Christianity, OF the truth OF
anything else, touches them nowhere.
Hear me, all such men, l preach to
you no rounded periods, nc ornamental
discourse; but l put my hand on your
shoulder, and invite you into the
peace OF the gospel. Here is the rock
on which you may stand firm,
though the waves dash against i,
harder than the Atlantic, pitching it,
surf clear above Eddstone light house
DO not charge upon God all thest
troubles of the world. As long as the
world stuck to God, God stuck to the
world; but the earth seceded from hi,
government. and hence all these out
RACES and all these woes God Is good
Try this God, ye who have had the
bloodhounds after you, and who have
thought that God has forgotten you
Try him, and see If He will not help.
Try him, and see il He will not pardon
Try him, and see If He will not save
The flowers of spring have no bloom
SO sweet as the Towering Of Christ.
affections. The sun hath nc warmth
compared with the glow Of His heart
The waters have no r~efreshment liks
the fountain that will Stake the thirs,
of thy soul.
This world is a poor portion for your
soul, oh business mani An eastern
king had craven upon his tomb two
fingers, represented as sounding upor
each other with q snap, and under
them the motto: "An Is not worth
that" Apicius Coclius hanged himself
because his steward informed him tina
he had only $500 900 left. All Of thil
worlds riches make but q small inner
itance for the soul.
Oh, find your peace in God. Max,
one strong pull for Heaven. No half
way work will do it. There some
times comes q time on shipboard wheI
everything must be sacrificed t.
save the passengers. The carg'
IL nothing, the rigging nothing. Tn
captain puts the trumpet to his lip snt
shouts: 'Cut away the msst" Som,
Of you have been tossed and driven
and you have. In your effort to keel
the world, well nigh lost your soul
Until you have decided this matter, lie
everything else go. Overheard will
all those other anxieties and burdens
You will have to drop the sails of you
pride and cut away the mast! Will
n earnest cry for help, put your caus'
into the hand of Him who helped Pau
out of the breakers of Melita
and who, above the shrill bias
of the wrathiest tempest tina
ever blackened the sky or shool
the ocean can near the faintest i'm
ploration for mercy. shall conclude
feeling that some Of you, who have con
sidered your cas- hopeless, will TAX
heart again, and that with a blood-re,
earnestness, such as you have never ex
perienced before. you will start for tn
good land Of the aOspel--at last to lool
back saying; What q great risk ] ran
Almost lost, but saved! Just go
through, and no more! Escaped by tn
skin o! my teeth"
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