The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-01


him in" A vessel without bulwarks or
doors would not be a safe vessel to 20 in
When Noah and his family heard the fas-
tening Of the door Of the ark, they were
very glad. Unless those doors were fas-
tened, the first heavy surge Of the sea
would have whelmed them: and they might
as well have persisted outside the ark as
inside the ark. The Lord shut him in"
Oh, the perfect safety OF the ark The
surf OF the sea and the lightnings Of the
sky may be twisted into garland Of snow
and fre-deep to deep, storm 10 storm.
darkness to darkness; but once in the
ark, all is we'll. God shut him in"
There comes upon the good man del
uge OF financial trouble. He had his thou
sands TO lend now he cannot borrow q
dollar He once owned a store in New
York, and had branch houses in Boston,
Philadelphia and New Orleans. He owned
four horses and employed a man TO keep
the dust OF his coach. phaeton. carriage
and curricle: now he has hard work 20
get shoes in which to walk. The great
deep OF commercial disaster was broken
up. and fore-and-aft, and across the hur-
ricane-deck, the waves struck him. But
he was safely sheltered from the storm
The Lord shut him i'm A food OF domes-
tic troubles fell on him. Sickness and he
reavement came. The rain pelted, the
winds blew. The heavens are aiame. All
the gardens of earthly delight are washed
away. The mountains of 10y are buried
fifteen cubits deep. But standing by the
empty crib. and in the desolated nursery,
and in the doleful hail. once airing with
merry voices, now silent forever, he cried
The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken
away; blessed be the name Of the Lord"
The Lord shut him in" All the sins of
a lifetime clamored for his overthrow
The broken VOWS, the dshonored Sab
baths, the outrageous prOfanities, the mis-
az mo- FaFf
their hands to the door Of the ark to pull
him out The boundless ocean Of his sin
surrounded his SOUL bowling like a
simeon, raving like an euroclydOn. But,
looking out of the window, he saw his sins
sink like lead into the depths of the sea.
The dove of heaven brought an olive
branch to the ark. The wrath of the bill
low only pushed him toward heaven. THE
Lord shut him inp'
The same door fastenings that kept
Noah In keep the troubles out l am glad
to know that when man reaches heaven
all earthly troubles are done with him.
Here he may have had il hard to get
bread for his family; there he will never
hunger any more. Here he may have wept
bitterly; there 1.-THE Lamb that is In the
midst of the throne will lead him to living
fountains of water. and God will wipe
away all tears from his eyes" Here ne
may have had hard work to get a house;
JUL III my Il dAutI > mousse are many Inan-
sions and rent day never comes. Here
there are death beds and collins and
graves; there no sickness, no weary watch
ing, no choking cough, no consuming
fever, no chatterlng chill, no tolling bell.
no grave The sorrows of life shall come
up and knock at the door, but no admit
lance. The perplexities of life shall come
up and knock on the door, but no admit
lance. Safe forever All the agony of
earth in one wave dashing against the bull
warks OF the ship of celestial light shall
not break them down. Howl on, We winds,
and rage, We seas! The Lord-"the Lord
shut him in"
Oh. what a grand old door! so wide.
so easily swung both ways. and with such
sure fastenings. No burglars key can
pick that lock. No swarthy arm of hell
can shove back the bolt. l rejoice that
l do not ask you to come aboard a crazy
craft with leaking hulk, and broken helm.
and unfastened door; but an ark fifty Gu
bits WIDE and three hundred cubits long
and door so large that the round earth.
without grazing the post, might be bowled
in!
Now, II the ark of Christ is so grand n
place in which to live and die, and tri
umph, come into the ark Know well that
the door that shut Noah in shut Others
out and though, when the pitiless storm
came pelting on Their heads, they beat
NRNA Nh0 NOptf Sdgln&s Let me IN let |
me mr. the door did not open. For one
hundred and twenty years they were in
Nited. They expected to come in; but the |
antideluvians said: I'VE must cultivate |
these fields; we must be worth more hocks |
or sheep and herds of cattle; we will wait |
until we set little older; we will enjoy
our Old farm little longer" But mean
while the storm was brewing. The foun-
tains of heaven We're filling up The pry
was being placed beneath the foundations |
of the great deep. The last year had |
come, the last month, the last week, the |
last day, the last hour, the last moment |
In an awful dash. an ocean dropped from |
the Sky, and another rolled up from be- |
meath; and God rolled the earth and slxv |
into one wave of universal destruction
Some men now put off going into the ark.
They say they will wait twenty years first |
They will have little longer time with |
their worldly associates. They will wait |
until they get older. They say: you cam |
not expect man of my attachments and |
OF my position TO surrender myself Just |
now. But, before the storm. comes [ win |
go in. Yes, l will l know what | am
about Trust mel" After a while. one |
night about II o'clock, going home. he
passes a scaffolding Just as a gust of |
wind strikes it. and a plank falls. Dead |
and OUTSIDE the ark! Or, riding in the |
park a reckless vehicle crashes into him
and he shouts: whoa! Whoar' and takes |
another twist in the reins, and plants his |
feet against the dashboard, and pulls |
back. But no use. 1t is not so much |
down the avenue that he flies as on the |
way to eternity. Out of the wreck of the, |
crash his body is drawn, but his soul is
not picked up. 1t fled behind a swifter
courser onto the great future. Dead |
and outside the ark Or, some night. he |
wakes up with a distress that momenta |
rily increases. until he shrieks out win |
pain. The doctors come in, and they give |
him twenty drops. but no relief: forty
drops, fifty drops, sixty drops but no re-
lief. No time for prayer. No time tn
read one of the promises. No time to get
a single sin pardoned. The whole house
is aroused in alarm. The children scream
The wife faints. The pulses fail. The
heart stops. The soul flies. Deadl and
outside the ark
have no doubt that derision kept unanv
people out of the ark The world laughed
to see a man go in, and said, Here is a
man starting for the ark. Why. there will
be no deluge. If there is one that rniser
able ship will not weather ii. Aha going
into the ark! Well, that is too good 10
keep. Here, fellows, have you heard the
news? This man is going into the ark
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