The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-17


be kept down stairs, or sent to the
neighbors, to keep the house quiet,
You say: :Send for the minister. "
But no; he does not believe In minis
ters You say: ''Read the Bible TO
him." No; he does not believe
in the Bible. A lawyer comes
In, and, sitting by his bedside.
writes q document that begins: "In
the name of God, amen. /, 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
q week. 1t Is quite certain who will
get his property. But what will be
come of his soul? Il will go into "the
great to be-" or 'the everlasting now"
or "the infinite what Is it." His soul
is in deep waters, and the wind IL
'blowing great guns Death cries:
Overheard with the unbelieveri" A
splash! He goes to the bottom. He
paid five dollars for his ticket to
Tarshish when he bought the infidel
books He landed in perditionl
Every farthing you spend in sin sa-
tan will swindle you out Of. He prom
ises you shall have thirty 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 the midst of danger. The worst
sinner on shipboard, considering the
! light he had, was Jonah. He was a
member of the church, while they
were heather. The sailors were en-
gagged in their lawful calling, following
the sea. The merchants on board,
suppose, were going down to Tarshish
to barter; but Jonah, Notwithstanding
his Christian profession, 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 sleep? What if the
ship struck rocki what if it sprang
aleak! what IL the clumsy oriental
craft should capsize! What would be-
come of Jonah?
In the year 1775, the captain OF a
Greenland whaling vessel found him
self at night surrounded by icebergs,
and 'lay to" until morning, expecting
every 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 a boat with
some of the crew, he pushed out for
the mysterious craft Getting near
by, he saw through the port hole a
man at a stand, as though keeping q
log book. He hailed him. Noanswer.
He went on board the vessel, and found
the man sitting at the log book frozen
to death. The log book was dated
1862, showing that the vessel had been
wandering for thirteen years among
the ice. The sailors were found frozen
among the hammoclks, and others in
the cabin. For thirteen years this
ship had been carrying its burden Of
corpses.
So. from this Gospel craft to-day I
descry voyagers for eternity. l cry:
"Ship. ahoy! ship, ahoy" No answer
They float about, tossed and ground by
the icebergs of sin, hosting no sail for
Heaven. l go on board. / find all
asleep. 1t is a frozen sleep. o, 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 sleep
| est! 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 n sense of danger he
would have scoffed at the idea; but
here it is done. So now, men in
strangest ways are aroused from spirit
ual stupor. A profane man is brought
to conviction by the shocking bias
phemy of comrade. A man at
tending church and hearing SER
mon from the text: "The OK
knoweth it's owner" ETC.. goes home
unimpressed; but, crossing his barn
yard, an OK comes up and licks his
hand, and he says! There 1t is now
the OK knoweth his owner. and the
ass his masters crib but do not
know God" The careless remark of a
teamster has led man to thoughtful
ness and Heaven. The childs remarks.
Father, they have prayers at uncle's
house-why don't we have them?" has
brought salvation to the dwelling.
BY strangest way and in the most
unexpected manner men are awak-
ened. The gardener of the Countess
OF Huntington 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 judgmentw The
Lord has thousand ways of waking
up Jonah. Would that the messages
of mercy might now find their way
down into the sides of the ship, and
that many who are unconsciously
rocking in the awful tempest of their
sin might hear the warming: "What
meanest thou, o. sleeper? Arise, and
call upon thy Godr'
| Again. Learn that a man may wake
up too late. II. instead of sleeping,
Jonah had been on his knees confess
ing his sins from the time he went on
board the craft, l think that God
would have saved him from being