The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-04-13
THE GOSPEL SHIP.
"Come Thou and All Thy Family
Into the Ark"
Get Safely Housed for Eternity-If We
Get Into the Ark of God's Mercy
II Will BE Through Christ. tho
Door-Dr. 1almage's Sermon.

Got Safely Housed for Eternity-If We
Get Into the Ark of Gods Mercy
It VIII BE Through Christ. tho
Door-Dr. 1almage's Sermon.
The text selected by DIR. Talmage
last Sunday 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 Luca-
mia 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 upon it. Infidel 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 del
uge.
In what way the catastrophe came
we know not-whethcr by the stroke
of a comet, or By flashes of lightning.
changing the air into water, or by a
stroke of the hand of God. like the
stroke of the AK between the horns of
the OK, the earth staggered. To meet
the catastrophe God ordered a great
ship built. 1t was to be without prov,
| for 1t was to sail to no shore. 1t was
to be without helm, for no human
| hand should guide it. 1t was vast
structure. probably as large as two or
three modern steamers. 1t was the
Great Eastern of olden time.
The ship is done. The door is open.
The lizards crawl in. The cattle walk
in. The grasshoppers hop in. The
birds fiv in. The invitation goes forth
to Noah, Come thou and all thy house
into the ark" Just one human family
embark on the strange voyage, and |
hear the doors slam shut. A great storm
sweeps along the hills and bends the
cedars until oil the branches snap in the
| gale. There Is a moan in the wind like
unto the moan of dying world. The
blnckness Of the heavens is shattered by
the fare OF the lightnings, that look
down into the waters and throw a
ghastliness on the face of the mount
aims. How strange it looks. How suf-
locating the air seems! The big drops
of rain begin to splash upon the up
turned faces Of those who are watch
ing tho tempest Crash. go the rocks
in convulsion. Boom. go the bursting
heavens The inhabitants of the earth,
instead of flying to house top and
mountain top. as men have fancied, sit
down in dumb. white horror to die.
For when God grinds mountains to
pieces and let's the ocean slip its cable
there is no place for men to fly to.
See the ark pitch and tumble in the
surf, while from its windows the pas
sengers look out upon the shipwreok
Of race and the carcasses of dead
world. Woe to the mountain! Woe to
the sea!
am no alarmist. When on the Goth
Of September, after the wind has for
three days been blowing from the
northwest, you prophesy that the equi-
noctial storm is coming, YOU simply
state fact not to be disputed. Neither
, am ! an alarmist when ! say that a
storm is coming, compared with which
Noah's deluge was but an April show
er, and that it is wisest and safest for
, you and for me to get safely housed for
} eternity. The invitation that went
forth to Noah sounds in our ears,
.'Come thou and all thy house into the
. ark"
Well, how did Noah and his family
D come into the ark? Did they climb in
, at the window, or come down the roof?
No; they went through the door. And
lust so, il we get into the ark OF Gods
B mercy, it will be through Christ, the
D door. The entrance to the ark of old
, must have been a very large entrance.
0 We know that it was from the fact that
n A. 1e i,,f ha ar.
. lier ages, and in order to get them into
Q the ark, two and two, according to the
y y Bible statement, the door must have
been very wide and very high. So the
9 door into the mercy of God is large
0 door. We go in, not two and two, but
0 by hundreds, and by thousands and by
3 3 millions. Yea, all the nations of the
5 earth may go in, 10000, 900 abreast!
The door of the ANCIENT ark was In
o the side. So now it is through the side
o of Christ-the pierced side, the wide
!, open side, the heart side-that we en-
Q ter. Aha, the Roman soldier, thrust
q ing his spear into the Saviour's side, ex
0 pected only to let the blood out, but hs
. opened the way to let all the world in
% Oh, what broad Gospel to preach! u
Q a man is about to give an entertain
= ment, he issues 200 or 300 invitations
o carefully put up and directed to the
y particular persons whom he wishes Il
o sntertnin. But God, our Father makes
, q banquet and goes ont to the from
o door OF Heaven and stretches out hi
!, hands over land and sea, and with |
= = voice that penetrates the Hindoo jun
% gle, and the Greenland ice castle, ant
q Brazilian grove, and English factory
% and American home, cries out, Come
r tor all things are now ready" 1t is
y wide door. The old cross has been takel
Is apart, and its two pieces are stood N
~ for the doorposts, so far apart that al
70 the world can come in. Kings seattle
g treasures on days of great rejoicing. $
o Christ, our King. comes and scatter
70 the jewels of Heaven.
~ Rowland Hill said that he hoped t
no get into Heaven through the crevice
20 of the door. But he was not oblige
s., thus to go in. After having preache
op the Gospel in Surrey chapel, going u
~ toward Heaven the gate-keeper cried
Is Lift up your heads, ye everlasting
% gates, and let this man come in" Tn
10 dying thief went in. Richard Baxte
~ and Robert Newton went in. FL
IS rope, Asia, Africa, North an
sS South America may yet go throug
~ ~ this wide door without crowding, Ho
25 every one-all conditions. all ranks, a
- teople. Luther said that this trut
Is was worth carrying on ones knee
10 from Rome to Jerusalem, but l thin
CD it worth carrying all around the glob
10 and all around the heavens, that $50
o. SO loved the world that lie gave Iii
81 only begotten Sen, that whosoever b'
~ lieveth in Him should not perish, bu
70 have everlasting life" Whosoeve
20 will, let him come through the larg
-
10
20 Marvellous Results.
si I. From a letter written by Rev.J Gu
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