Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-04-04
ON THE GOSPEL SHIP.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE DRAWS A Les
SON FROM THE ARK.

SON FROM THE ARK.
elf of Salvation Through Christ-A Sure
Defense In Time of rrouble--The Load
stone Of q God Fearing Life.
NEW YORK, March 31.-Although bis
oratory is at all times magnetic and elo-
quent, there Is one theme with which,
whenever he makes 1t the groundwork of
his sermon, DR.. Talmage never fails to
communicate to his auditors the enthusi-
asm he himself feels That theme is the
gospel invitation, and when, this after
noon, he took for his subject THE Cos
pei Ship the great audience that crowded
the Academy was in full sympathy. The
text selected was Genesis vi, IS, "Thou
shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons
and thy wife and thy sons wives with
thee"
In this day of the steamships Lucania
and Majestic and the Paris will show
you a ship that in some respects eclipsed
them all and which sailed out, an ocean
underneath and another ocean falling up
on it. Infdel scientists ask us to believe
that In the formation of the earth there
have been half dozen deluges, and yet
they are not willing to believe the Bible
story of one deluge
In what way the catastrophe came we
know not-whether by the stroke of a
comet. or by flashes of lightning. chang
ina the air into water or by a stroke of
the hand of God, like the stroke of the ak
hetween the horns of the OK, the earth
staggered To meet the catastrophe God
ardered a great shin built. It was to be
without prow. for it was to sail to no
shore. II was to be without helm, for no
bnman hand sbould puide it, 1t was a
vast structure. probably as large as two
or three modern steamers, It was the
Great Eastern of olden time.
The shin is done. The door is open.
The lizards crawl in. The cattle walk in.
The prasshoppers hon in. The birds fly in
Tbe ipyitatio,, goes forth To Noah. Come
tbon and all thy house into the ark. >,
Just one human family embark on the
STRANGE vovape. and hear the door slam
shut. A great storm sweeps along the hills
and bends the cedars until all the branches
snan in the gale. There is a moan In the
wind like unto the moan of dying world
The blackpess of the heavens is shattered
by the flare of the lightnings that look
down into the waters and throw a ghastli-
ness on the face of the mountains How
strange IL looks! How suffocating the ali
seensl The big drops of rain begin &c
pIash upon the upturned faces of those
who are watching the tempest Crash
40 the rocks in convulsionl Boom go the
bursting heavensi The inhabitants of the
earth. instead of flying to housetop and
mountain TOP, as men have fancied sit
down In dumb, white horror to die, fol
when God crinds mountains to pieces and
let's the ocean slim its cable there is nc
place for men to fy to- See the ark pitch
and tumble in the surf while from its
windows the passengers look out upon tht
shipwreck of a race and the carcasses of q
dead world. Woe to the mountainsl Woe
to the seal
A Storm Coming.
am no alarInist. When, on the 20ti
of September, after the wind has for thret
days been blowing from the northeast, yor
prophesy that the equinoctial storm /.
coming, you simply state fact not to bl
disputed. Neither am an alarmlst wher
/ say that Il storm is coming compared
with which Noah's deluge was but al
April shower, and that it is wisest an6
safest for you and for me to get safel.
housed for eternity. The invitation tha
went forth to Noah sounds in our ears
Come thou and all thy house into th'
ark"
Well, how did Noah and his famil.
come into the ark2 Did they climb in a
the window, or come down the roof? No
They went through the door. And jus
so, If we get into the ark of Gods mercy
1t will be through Christ the door. Th
entrance to the ark of old must have beer
a very large entrance We know that i
was from the fact that there were monste
animals in the earlier ages, and in orde
to get them into the ark two and two, ac
cording to the Bible statement, the doc
must have been very wide and very high
So the door into the mercy of God is
large door We go in, not two and two
but by hundreds, and by thousands ant
by millions Yea, all the nations of tn
earth may 60 in 10,000,000 abreast.
Christ the Door.
The door of the ancient ark was in th
side. So now 1T is through the side 0
Christ--the pierced side, the wide opel
side, the heart side--that we enter. Aha
Abe Roman soldier thrustinp his spea
s,tr, +bo cov;o,,rlc.} }eida ovnactnd only Il
let the blood out, but be opened the way t
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