Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-08-16

tnlS Gay turn your BACK on me Wa'OHe
and start anew, God will help you. Oh
the weakness of human help. Men will
sympa thize for while and then turn
You off. If you ask for their pardon
they viii give it and say they will try
you again, but, falling away again. an.
der the power Of tempta zion, they cas-
you off forever. But God forgiyes sew
enty times seven; yea, seven hundred
times; yea, though this be the ten
thousandth time lie is more earnest,
more sympathetic. more helpful this
last time than when you took your first
misstep.
If with all the influence favorable
for right life, men make so many mis-
takes, how much harder is it when, for
instance, some appetite thrusts its iron
! grapple into the roots of the tongue,
and pulls a man down with hands of
destruction If, under such circum-
stances, he breaks away, there will be
no sport in the undertaking, no holiday
enjoyment, but struggle in which the
wrestlers move from side to side, and
bend, and twist, and watch for an OPP
| portunity to get in heavier stroke. I'M
til with one final effort, in which the
muscles are distended, and the veins
stand out, and the blood starts.
the swarthy habit falls under the knee
of the vietor-escaped at last as with
the skin of his teeth
The ship Emma, bound from Gotten
burg to Harwich, was sailing on, when
the man on the lookout saw something
that ha
There was something on it that looked
like a sea gull, but was afterward
found to be waving handkerchief. In
the small boat the crew pushed out to
the wreck, and found th-t it was cap
sized vessel and that three men had
been digging their way out through
the bottom of the ship. When the yes
sci capsized they had no means of es-
cape. The captain took his penknife
and dug away through the planks I'M
til his knife broke. Then an old nail
was found with which they attempted
TO scrape their way out of the dark
ness, each one working until his hand
has 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-
kerchief 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"
There are men who have been capsized
of evil passions and eapsized mid
ocean, and they are thousand miles
away from any shore of help. They
have for years been trying to dig their
way out. They have been digging
away, and digging away, but they can
never be delivered unless now they /
will hoist some signal of distress.
However feeble and weak 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-
as with the skin of
their teeth
There are others who, in attempting
TO come to God, must run between
great many business perplexities. II a
man go over to business at 10 o'clock
in the morning and comes away at
D clock in the afternoon he has some
time for religion; but how shall you
ind time for religious contemplation
when you are driven from sunrise until
sunset, and have been for five years go-
ng behind in business, and are fire.
Iuently dunned by creditors whom
you can not pay, and when, from Mon
lay morning until Saturday night, you
ire lodging bills that You can not
meet? You walk day by day in uncer-
ainties that have kept your brain on
ire for the past three years. Some,
With less business troubles than you,
ave gone crazy. The clerk has heard
noise in the back counting room,
nd gone in, and found the chief
nar of the firm raving maniac;
II the wife has heard the bang of a
,istol in the back parlor, and gone in, :
tumbling over the dead body of her
suicide. There are in this
ouse to-day three hundred men pur-
ued, harassed, trodden down, and
calped of business perplexities, and
which way to turn next they do not
now. He knows what obstacles are
a the way of your being Christian,
nd your first effort in the right direc-
ion he will crown with success. Do
OF let Satan, with cotton bales, and
egs, and hogsheads, and counters, !
nd stocks of unstable goods. block
p your way to Heaven. Gather up
II your energies. Tighten the girdle
bout your loins. Take an agonizing
,ok into the face of God and then say:
Here goes one grand effort for life
and then bound away for 4
eaven. escaping ''as with the skin of
our teeth"
In the last day it will be found that
ugh Latimer. and John Knox, and
uss and Ridley were not the greatest
artyrs, but Christian men who went
p incorrupt from the contaminations
nd perplexities of Wall street,
later street, Pearl street, Broad
rect, State street, Third street,
ombard street and the Bourse.