The Globe-republican., 1894-08-10

means OF escape. 100 captain bOOk Nh
penl<nife and dug away through the
planks until his knife broke. Then
an old nail was found. with
which they attempted to scrapa
their way out of the darkness, each
one working until 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 handker-
chief was hoisted. Help came. They
were taken on board the vessel and
saved. Did ever men come so near q
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 a
great many business perplexities. If a
man 60 over to business at 10 o'clock
in the morning, and come away ht 8
o'clock in the afternoon. he has Sd me
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 that 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 noise in the bank counting
room, a gone in, and found the chief
man Of the firm a raving maniac; or the
wife has heard the bang of 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-
assed, trodden down and scalped 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
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 one great ef-
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, SO
lied about, so outrageously wrOnged,
that they have lost faith in everything.
In a world where everything seems SO
they do not see how there
can be any God. They are COMPOUNDED
and frenzied, and misanthropic. Elab-
crate argument to prove to them the
truth of Christianity, or the truth of
else, touches them nowhere.
Hear me, all such men, l preach to
you no rounded periods, no ornamental
discourse; but put my hand on your
and invite you into the
peace of the gospel. Here is the rock
on which you may stand firm,
though the waves dash against it
harder than the Atlantic, pitching its
surf clear above Eddstone light house.
Do not charge upon God all these
of the world. AS long as the
world stuck to God, God stuck to the
world; but the earth seeded from his
and hence all these out
RACES and all these woes. God is good.
Try this God, We who have had the
after you, and who have
thought that God has forgotten you.
Try him, and see if He will not help.
Try him, and see if 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's
affections. The sun hath no warmth
with the glow of His heart.
The waters have no refreshment like
the fountain that will slake the thirst
Of thy soul.
This world is poor portion for your
soul, oh business man! An eastern
king had craven upon his tomb two
fingers, represented as sounding upon
each other with a snap, and under
them the motto: "An is not worth
that" Apicius Coelius hanged himself
because his steward informed him that
he had only ESQ., 900 left. All of this
riches make but small inner
itance for the soul.
Oh, find your peace in God. Make
one strong pull for Heaven. No half.
way work will do it. There some. !
times comes time ON shipboard when
everything must be sacrificed to
save the passengers. The cargo
- ~0<hSrD Tho !