The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-11


he knew that there were others who
would do that. He says: "Yonder are
men and women freezing in the rigging
of that wreck Boys, launch the boatr'
And now see the oar blades bend un-
der the strong pull; but before they
reached the rigging a woman was fro
zen and dead. She was washed off,
poor thing! But he says: There Is |
man to save;' and he cries out: Hold
on five minutes longer and I will save
you. Steady! Steady! Give me your
hand. Leap into the life boat. thank
God he is saved!'' So there are those
here to-day who are safe on the shore |
of Gods mercy. I will not spend any
time with them at all; but I see there
are some who are freezing in the rig
ging of sin and surrounded by perilous
storms. Pull away, my lads! Let US
reach them. Alas! one is washed of
and gone. There is one more to be
saved. Let US push out for that one.
Clutch the rope. Obi dying man, clutch
it as with a death grip. Steady, now,
on the slippery places. Steady therei
SavedI Saved! Just as I thought. For
Christ has declared that there are some
still in the breakers who shall come
ashore "OtheP sheep have which are
not of this fold"
Christ commands his ministers to be
fishermen. and when I go fishing do
not want to go among other churches,
but into the wide world, not sitting
along Hohokus creek, where eight or
ten other persons are sitting with hook
and line. but, like the fishermen of New
foundland, sailing off and dropping net
away outside, forty or fifty miles from
shore. Yes, there are non-church goers
here who will come in. Next Sabbath
they will be here again, or in some bet
ter church. They are this moment be-
Ing swept into Christian associations.
Their voice will be heard in public
prayer. They will die in peace, their
bed surrounded by Christian sympa-
thies, and to be carried out by devout
men to be buried, and on their grave
be chiseled the words: Precious in the
sight Of the Lord is the death Of his
saints" And on resurrection day you
VIII get up with the dear children you
nave already buried and with your
christian parents who have already won
the palm. And all that grand and glo-
rlous history begins this hour. "Other
sheep 1 have which are not of this
fold"
Again remark, that the heavenly
shepherd is going to find great many
sheep among those who have been flung
OF evil habit. It makes me sad to see
Cnrlst1an people give up prodigal as
1ost. There are those who talk as
though the grace of God were a chain
OF forty or fifty links and after they
mad run out there was nothing to touch
the depth of a very bad case. If they
were hunting and got off the track of
the deer, they would look longer among
the brakes and bushes for the lost game
than they have been looking for that
lost soul. People tell US that if a man
have delirium tremens twice, he can not
be reclaimed; that after a woman has
sacrlhced her integrity, she can not be
restored. The Bible has distinctly init
mated that the Lord Almigh is ready
TO pardon four hundred and ninety
times; that is, seventy times seven.
There are men before the throne of
COO who have waIlowed in every kind
OF sin; but, saved by the grace of Je-
sus and washed in his blood, they
stand there radiant now. There are
those who have plunged into the very
lowest OF all the bells in New York,
who have for the tenth time been lifted
up. and finally, by the grace of God.
they stand in heaven gloriously res
cued by the grace promised to the chief
OF sinners. I want to tell you that God
loves to take hold of a very bad case.
When the church casts you off and
when the club room casts you of and
when society casts you off and when
business associates casts you off and
mother casts you off and when every
body casts you off, your first cry for
help will bend the Eternal God clear
down into the ditch OF your suffering
and shame
The Good Tenp1ars can not save you,
although they are a grand institution.
The Sons of Temperance can not save
you, although they are mighty for good.
Signing the temperance pledge can not
q oh T ho1i in h.
Ing but the grace Of the Eternal God
can save you, and that will if you will
throw yourself on it. There is a man
In this house who said to me: Unless
God helps me can not be delivered.
1 have tried everything, sir; but now
I have got in the habit OF prayer and
when I come to a drinking saloon I
| pray that God will take me safe past
and pray until I am past. He does
i help me-" For every man given to
strong drink there are scores of traps
| set; and when he goes out on business
tomorrow he will be in infinite peril,
and no one but the everywhere present
| God can see that man through. OH!
| they talk about the catacombs of Ma
| pies and the catacombs of Rome and
| the catacombs of Egypt-the burial
| place under the city where the dust of
! a great multitude lies; but I tell you
| New York has it's catacombs and Bos-
| ton its catacombs and Philadelphia it's
catacombs. They are the underground
restaurants, full of dead mems bones
! and all uncleanness. Yong man, you
| know it. God help you. There is no
need of going into the art gallery to see
the skillful sculpture that wonderful
representation of man and his sons
wound around with serpents. There
are families represented in this house
that are wrapped in the martyrdom of
| fang and scale and venom-a living
LAGOON of ghastliness and horror.
| What are you to do? I am not speak
ing into the air. I am talking to hun
| dreds Of men who must be saved by
| Christ's gospel or never saved at all
| What are you going to do?
Do not put your trust in bromide Of
| potassium, or in Jamaica ginger, or in
| anu thing that anofhecorfoS oov