Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-07-30

iron grapDle into the rools OF Tue toDkuo
and pulls man down with hands OF
destruction II, under such circum-
stances, he break away, there will be no
sport in the undertaking, no holiday
enjoyment, but a struggle in which the
wrestIars move from side to side. and
bend. and twist, and watch for an op'
portunity to get in heavy stroke, IN
Ill 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 yictor-escaped at last as with the
skin OF his teeth.
The ship Emma" bound from Got
tenburg to Harwich, was sailing on,
when the man on the lookout saw some-
thing that he pronounced
A VESSEL BOTTOM UP.
There was something on it that looked
like a sea-gull, but was afterward touna
TO be waving handkerchief. In tue
small boat the crew pushed out to the
wreck, and found that IL was q capsized
vessel, and that three men had been
digging their way out through the bot
tom OF the ship. When the vessel cap
sized they had no means 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 one
working until his hand was wellnlgh
paralyzed. and be sank back, faint ana
sick. After long aud tedious work the
light broke through the bottom OF the
ship. A handkerchief was hoisteo:
Help came. They were taken on board
the vessel and saved. Did ever men
come so near watefy grave without
dropping into it? Bow narrowly they
escaped-escaped only with the SKID OF
their teeth"
There are men who have been cap
sized of evil passions, and capsized MID
ocean, and they are thousand miles
agay from any shore Of help. They
have for wears been trying to dig their
way out. They have been dlgelng
away, and digging away, but they Nn
never be delivered unless now they
hoist some signal of distress. However
weak and feeble it may be, Christ Will
see IL, and bear down upon TIE helpless
craft, and take them on board; and III
will be known on earth and in heaven
how narrowly they esc1psd-"escaped
as with the skin OF their teeth.
There are others who, in attempting
to come to God, must run between
great many business perpexities. II
man go over TO business at ten o'clock
In the morning, and comes away at
three O'Clock in the afternoon, he has
some time for religion; but how snail
you find time for religious contempla-
ton when you are driven from sunrise
until sunset, and have been for hve
years going behind in business, and are
frequently dunned by creditors whom
you cannot pay, and when, from Mon
day morning until Saturday night, you
are lodging bills that you cannot 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 q noise In
the back counting-room and gone In,
and found the chief man OF the hrm
raving maniac; or the wife has heard
the bang of pistol in the back parlor
aud gone in, stumbling over the dead
BODY OF her husbaDd-a suicide. There
are in this house to-day three hundred
men pursued, haTassed, trodden down
and scalped of business perplexities,
and which way to turn next they DO
not know. Now, God will not be hard
Ga you. He knows what obstacles are
in the way Of your being Christian.
and your first effort in the right direc-
ton be will crown with success. Do
not let Satan, with cotton bales, and
kegs. and hogsheads. and counters, and
stocks OF unsaleable goods, block up
your way TO heaven. Gather up all
your energies,