Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-08-02

an opportunity to get in a heavier
stroke until with one final effort, in
which the muscles are distended. and
the veins stand out. and the blood
the knee of the victor-escaped at last
as with tx skin of hos teeth.
The ship Emma, bound from
Gottenburg to Harwich, was sailing
on, when the man on the lookout saw
something that he pronounced yes
sci bottom up There was something
on it that looked like sea gull. but
was afterward found to be waving
handkerchief In the small boat the
crew pushed out to the wreck, and
found that it was a capszed vessel,
and that three men had been digging
their way out through the bottom of
the ship When the vessel capsized
they had no means of escape The
captain took his penknife and dug
away through the planks until his
knife broke. Then anr old nail was
scrape their way out of the darkness.
each one working until his hand was
/ wellnigh paralyzed, and he sank back
faint and sick. After long and tedious
f, work, the light broke through the
! bottom of the ship handkerchief
was hosted. Help came. They were
! taken on board the vessel and saved.
| 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. F"
! Try this God, we who have had the
bloodhounds after you. and who have
! thought that God had forgotten you.
Try him, and see if he will not help
/ Try him. and see if he will not par
| don. 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 compared with the glow of
| his heart. The waters have no re-
I fresh:nent like the fountain that will
Stake the thirst of thy soul At the
momuut the reindeer stands with his
/ lip and noStril thrust into the cool
mountain torrent, the hunter may be
coming through the thicket. With
| out cracking a stick under his foot
he comes close by the stag, aims his
! gun, draws the trigger, and the poor
thing rears in it's death agony and
| falls backward, it's antlers crashing
on the rocks: but the painting heart
| that drinks from the water brooks of
Gods promise shall never be fatally
wounded and shall never die.
This world is poor portion for
! your soul, oh business man. An east
ern king had craven upon his tomb
two fingers representing as sounding
upon each other with a snap and UNI
der them the motto, "All is not worth
that" Apicius Crlius hanged himself
because his steward informed him that
he had only eighty thousand pounds
sterling left All of this worlds riches
make but small inheritance for q
soul. Robespierre attempted to win
the applause of the world: but when
he was dying woman came rushing
through the crowd crying to him.
Murderer of my kindred, descend to
hell, covered with the curses of every
mother in France" Many who have
expected the plaudits of the world
have died under its Anathema Maran-
atha.
Oh, find your peace in God. Make
one strong pull for heaven. No half.
way work will do it. There some
times comes u time on ship board
when everything must be sacrificed to
save the passengers The cargo is
nothing the rigging nothing The
captain puts the trumpet to his lip
and shouts, Cut away the mast!
Some of you have been tossed and
driven, and you have. in your effort
to keep the world, well nigh lost your
soul. Until you have decided this
matter, let everything else go. Over
BOARD with all those other ankle"
ties and burdens. You will have
to drop the sails of your pride,
and cut away the mast. With
one earnest cry for help, put your
cause into the hand of him who helped
Paul out of the breakers of Melita
and who, above the shrill blast of the
wra thiest tempest that ever blackened
the sky or shook the ocean, can hea,
the faintest imploraticn for mercy.
shall conclude, feeling that some o.
you, who have considered your case
hopeless, Will take heart again, anc
that with a blood red earnes tness
such as you have never experienced
before, you will start for the goo.
land of the Gospel-at last to lool
back, saying, What a great risk
: ran. Almost lost, but saved! Jus
got through, and no more. Escapes
by the skin of my teeth