Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-03

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stroke, until with one final effort, in
which the muscles are disIended. and
the veins stand out, and the blood
starts, the swarthy habit falls under
the knee of the victor-escaped at last
as with the skin of his teeth.
The ship Emma, bound from
Gottenburg to Harwich, was sailing
on, when the man on the lookout saw
something that he pronounced a YES
sci bottom up. There was some thing
on it that looked like sea gull. but
was afterward found to be a waving
handkerchief. In the small boat the
crew pushed out to the wreck. and
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 penlnife 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
wellnigh paralyzed, and he sank back
faint and sick. After long and tedious
work, the light broke through the
bottom of the ship. A handkerchief
was hoisted. Help came. They were
taken on board the vessel and saved.
Did ever men come so near n watery
grave without dropping into it? How
narrowly they escaped-escaped only
with the skin of their teeth"
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-
freshment like the fountain that will
Stake the thirst of thy soul. At the
moment 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 q stick under his foot,
he comes close by the stag, aims his
gun, draws the trigger, and the poor
thing rears in its death agony and
! falls backward, its 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 q 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 snap, and un-
der them the motto, "All is not worth
that" Apicius Celius hanged himself
because his steward informed him that
he had only eighty thousand pounds
sterling left All of this worlds riches
make but a small inheritance for q
soul. Robespierre attempted TO win
the applause of the world: but wheI
he was dying a woman came rushing
through the crowd crying to him
Murderer of my kindred, descend tC
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 a time on ship board
when everything must be sacrificed tC
save the passengers. The cargo il
nothing, the rigging nothing. The
captain puts the trumpet to his lii
and shouts cut away the mast
driven, and you have, in your effor
to keep the world, we'll nigh lost you
soul Until you have decided thi
matter. let everything else go. Over
board with all those other ankle
ties and burdens! You will hav,
to drop the sails of your pride
and cut away the mast! Wit
one earnest cry for help, put you
cause into the hand of him who helpeC
Paul out of the breakers of Melita
and who, above the shrill blast of tn
wrathiest tempest that ever blackenet
the sky or shook the ocean, can hea
the faintest imploration for mercy.
shall conclude, feeling that some O
you, who have considered your cas-
hopeless, will take heart again, an
that with blood-red earnestness
such as you have never experienced
before, you will start for the goo
land of the Gospel-at last to loo,
back, saying, What a great risk
ran Almost lost, but saved! Jus
got through, and no more! Escape
by the skin of my teeth"
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