Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-08-10

yer comes IN, ana sitting BY ms DedSlue
writes document that begins: stIn the
name of God, amen. /, being Of sound
mind, do make this my last viii and
testament. 1t is certain where the sick
mans body will be IN less than week.
1t is quite certain who will get his prop.
erty. But what will become of his soul!
1t will go into ''the great to be, or
"ths everlasting now or .thc infinite
4 what is it. !" His soul Is in deep waters.
and the wind is blowing great guns "
Death cries, Overheard with the nn-
bciiever!" Asplash. He goes TO the bot
tom. He paid SIS for HIS ticket to Tar
slish when he bought the infdel books
He landed in perdition.
satan's swindles.
Every farthing you spend in sin satan
will swindle you out Of He promises
You shall have 30 per cent or great
dividend. He lies. He will sink all the
capital You may pay full fare to some
sinful success, but you will never get to
Tarshish.
Learn how soundly men will sleep in
tho midst OF danger. The worst sinner
on shipboard, considering the light he
had, was Jonah. He was member Of
the church, while they were heathen
The sailors were engaged in their law
full calling, following the sea. The mer-
chants on board, suppose, We're going
down to Tarshish to barter, but Jonah,
Notwithstanding his Christian profess
sion, was flying from duty. He was
sound asleep in the cabin. He has been
motionless for hours-his arms and feet
In the same posture as when he lay
down-his breast heaving with deep
respiration. Oh, how could be sleep
What if the ship struck rock? What il
it sprang aleak? What if the clumsy
oriental craft should capsize? What
would become of Jonah?
So men sleep soundly now amid perils
infinite. In almost every place, sup
pose, the Mediterranean might be sound
cd, but no line is long enough to fathom
the profound beneath every impenitent
man. Plunging thousand fathoms
down, you cannot touch bottom. Eter-
nifty beneath him, before him, around
him Rocks close by and whirlpools and
hot breathed Levantors. Yet sound
asleepl We try to wake him up, but
fail The great surges Of warning break
over the hurricane deck, the gong Of
warning sounds through the cabin, the
bells rings. "Awake" cry hundred
voices. Yet sound asleep i'll the cabin.
In the year 1775 the captain of
Greenland whaling vessel found him
self at night surrounded by iccbergs and
LAY to" until morning, expecting ev-
cry moment to be ground to pieces. In
the morning he looked about and saw a
ship near by. He hailed it. No answer
Getting into boat with some Of the
crew, he pushed out for the mysterious
craft. Getting near by, he saw through
the portfolio man at stand, as though
keeping logbook He hailed him. No
answer. He went on board the vessel
and found the man sitting at the log
book, frozen to death. The logbook was
dated 1862, showing that the vessel had
been wandering for 10 years among the
ice, The sailors were found frozen
among the hammocks, and others in the
cabin. For 10 years this ship had been
carrying its burden Of corpses.
So from this gospel craft today de-
scry voyagers for eternity. Icry: "Ship
ahoy Ship ahoy!" No answer. They
float about, tossed and ground by the
icebergs of sin, hosting no sail for heav-
en-. l go on board / find all asleep. 1t
is frozen sleep. Oh, that my Lord
Jesus would come aboard and lay hold
of the wheel and steer the craft down
into the warm gulf stream of his mercy
Awake, thou that sleepestl Arise from
the dead, and Christ shall give thee life
Again, notice that men are aroused
by the most unexpected means. If Jonah
had been told one year before that
heather sea captain would ever awaken
him to sense of danger, he would have
scoffed at the idea, but here it is done.
So now men in strangest ways are
aroused from spiritual stupor A pro-
fame man is brought to conviction by
the shocking blasphemy of comrade.
A man attending church and hearing
sermon from the text. 1.-THE OK knoweth
his owner" ETC., goes home impressed.
but, crossing his barnyard, an OK come
up and ticks his hand, and he says:
There it is now The OK knoweth his
owner and the ass his masters crib,
but do not know God. " The careless
remark Of a tcamster has led man to
thoughtfnlness and heaven. The child's
remark: Father, they have prayers at
uncle's house Why don't We have
them9" has brought salvation to the
dwelling
By strangest ways and in the most un-
expected manner men are awakened.
The gardener OF the Countess of Hunt
ingdon was convicted OF sin by hearing
tho countess on the opposite side of the
wall talk about Jesus John Hardoak
was aroused by dream, in which he
saw the last day, and the Judge sitting,
and heard his own name called with
terrible emphasis, John Hardoak, come
to Judgment The Lord has thousand
ways of waking up Jonah. Would that
the messengers of mercy might now
find their way down into the sides of
the ship, and that many who are uncon-
sciously rocking in the awful tempest of
their sin might hear the warming:
"What meanest thou, o sleeper Arise
and call upon thy God"
awake Too Late.
Again: Learn that man may wake
up too late If, instead Of sleeping,
Jonah had been on his knees confessing
his sins from the time he went on board
the craft, think that God would have
saved him from being thrown overheard
But he woke up too late. The tempest
is in full blast, and tho sea, in convul-
sion, is flashing itself, and nothing will
stop it now but the overthrow OF Jonah.
So men sometimes wake up too late
The last hour has come. The man has
no more idea Of dying than / have Of
dropping down this moment The rig
ging is all white with the foam Of
death. How chill the night is II must
o~ANneN>NNNN>A<NNN1