News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-08-08

no lie does not believe in ministers.
You say, "Read the Bible to him" No;
he does not believe in the Bible. A law
yer comes in, and sitting by his bedside
writes a document that begins: lin thC
name of God, amen. l, being of sound
mind, do make this my last will and
testament. 1t is certain where the sick
mans body will be in less than a week
1t is quite certain who will get his prop
erty. But what will become of his souli
1t will go into "the great to be-" or
"the everlasting now," or "the infinite
what is it" Il soul is in deep waters,
and the wind is blowing great guns. -
Death cries, Overheard with the I'M
believer" A splash. He goes to the bot
tom. He paid So for his ticket to Tar
shish 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 a great
dividend. He lies. He will sink all the
capital. You may pay full fare to some
sinful success, but you will %lever get to
| Tarshish.
Learn how soundly men will sleep in
the midst of danger. The worst sinner
on shipboard, considering the light he
had, was Jonah. He was member Of
| the church, while they were heather.
| The sailors were engaged in their law
full calling, following the sea. The mer-
chants on board, suppose, were 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 he sleepl
What if the ship struck rock? What if
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
ed, but no line is long enough to fathom
the profound beneath every impenitent
man. Plunging a thousand fathoms
down, you cannot touch bottom. Eter-
nifty beneath him, before him, around
| him Rocks close by and whirlpools and
hot breathed Levanters. Yet sound
asleep! 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
| ho1 1c ~, 10
voices. Yet sound asleep in the cabin.
In the year 1775 the captain of
Greenland whaling vessel found him
self at night surrounded by icebergs and
clay to- until morning, expecting ev-
cry moment to be ground to pieces. In
the morning he looked about and saw
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 ID 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 ahoyr' No answer. They
float about, tossed and ground by the
icebergs Of sin, hosting no sail for heav-
en-. go or board. I 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 sleepest! 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 q
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 a
sermon from the text, '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 1 do not know God" The careless
remark of teamster has led man tc
thoughtfulness and heaven. The child Is
remark: Father, they have prayers al
uncle's house. Why don't we have
them?" has brought salvation to the
dwelling.
By strangest ways and in the most un.
J expected manner men are awakened.
The gardener of the Countess of Hunt.
] ingdon was convicted of sin by hearing
the 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 thai
) 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 o.
their sin might hear the warning
"What meanest thou, o sleeper? Arts,
, | and call I1no1 thv God -,