The Progress., 1894-10-20

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that; but do advise that you appeal to
that God to whom the Mediterranean
oarsmen appealed-the God who could
silence the tempest and bring the ship
in safety to the port. tell you, my
friends. that there has got to be a good
deal of praying before our families are
brought to Christ. All! it is an awful
thing to have half household on one
side the line, and the other part the
household on the other side of the line!
Two vessels part on the ocean OF
eternity, one going to the right and
the other to the left-farther apart,
and f: farther apart-until the signals
cease to be recognized, and there are
only two specks on the horizon, and
then they are lost to sight forever.
wish could put before my UNI
| pardOned readers, their own helpless
| ness. No human arm was ever strong
| enough to unlock the door OF heaven.
No foot was ever mighty enough to
break the shacllles of sin. No oarsman
swarthy enough to row himself into
Gods harbor The wind is against
you. The tide is against you. The
law is against you. Ten thousand cor
rupting influences are against you.
Helpless and undone. Not so helpless
u sailor on his plank, mid -Atlantic.
Not so helpless traveller girded by
twenty miles of prairie on fire.. Prove
it you say. will prove it. John VI:
a.: mo man can come to me, except
the Father which hath sent me draw
him."
But while l have shown your help
lcssness, want to put by the side OF it
the power and willingness of Christ to
save you. l think it was in 1856 a yes
sci was bound for Portugal, but it was
driven to pieces on an unfriendly coast
The captain had his son with him, and
with the crew they wandered up tho
beach, and started on the long journey
to find relief After awhile the son
tainted by reason of hunger and the
length of the way. The captain said tc
the crew, Garry my boy for me on
your shoulders They carried him on;
but the journey was long, that after
awhile the crew tainted from hunger
and from WEAKNESS, and could carry
him no longer. Then the father raj
lied his almost wasted energy, and
took up his own boy, and put
him on his shoulder, and carried him
on mile after mile, mile after mile, UNI
til, overcome himself by hunger and
WEAKNESS, he too tainted by the way.
The boy lay down and died, and the
father, just at the time rescue came TO
him, also persisted, living only long
enough to tell the stOry-sad story,
indeed! But glory be to God that
Jesus Christ is able to take us up out
of our shipwrecked and dying condi-
ton, and put us on the shoulder of his
strength, and by the omnipotence OF
his gospel bear us on through all the
journey of this life, and at last through
the opening gates Of heaven! He is
, mighty to save. Though your sin be
long and black, and inexcusa-
BILE, and outrageous, the very
moment you believe l will pro-
claim pardon-quick, full, grand, un-
conditional, uncompromising, illimit-
able, infinite. Oh, the grace of God!
am overwhelmed when come to think
Of it. Give NE q Thousand ladders
lashed fast to each other, that l may
scale the height Let the line run out
> with the anchor until all the cables Of
the earth are exhausted, that we may
touch the depth. Let the arcangel fly
in circuit of eternal ages, in trying to
sweep around this theme. Oh, the
grace of God! 1t is SO high. 1t is 81
broad. 1t is SO deep. Glory be to my
God, that where mans oar gives out
Gods arm begins! Why will we carry
\ your sins and your sorrows any longe
when Christ offers to take them? Why
: will you wrestle down your fears wher
a this moment you might give up and b.
J saved. Do you not know that every
q thing is ready?
- Plenty Of room at the feast. Jesu
n has the ring of his love all ready to pu
. upon your hand. Come now and 81
a down, We hungry ones, at the banquet
q Ye who are in rags of sin, take TIN
a robe of Christ. Ye who are swampe'
4 by the breakers around you, cry T.
y Christ to pilot you into smooth, still
4 waters. On account of the peculia
phase of the subject, have drawn m
2. present illustrations, you see, chiefly
Il from the water. remember that
), vessel went to pieces on the Bermuda
.e great many years ago. 1t had vas
a treasure Oh board. But the vessel bt
Is ing sunk, no effort was made to rails
70 it. After many years he'd passed,
1, company Of adventures went out frol
1t England, and after long voyage the
n reached the place where the vessel wa
n said to have sunk. They got into
I small boat and lowered over the place
Is Then the divers went dow
We and they broke through what locke
re like limestone covering, an
Of the treasures rolled out--what W;
TX found afterward to be, in America
or money, worth &1,5OO,00O, and Il