The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-08-10


r~espiration. o6fskow could he sleepl
What IL the ship eefnck a rock! what II
Il spranp q leoki what IL the clumsy
oriental craft should scapsizel What
become ofJoaah2
So men sleepsoundly now amid psrila
infinite. In almoeteysrg p,neeskA npt3
pose, the MedittegrAAAaSs1uight -
sounded, but no ltnAap l95lR e4opRh 70
fathom the profoApdu9tp44 bensath
every impenitent sHRq. Plunging q
thousand fathoms down. you cannot
touch bottom. Eternity beneath him,
before him, around hint Rocks close
by, and whirlpools, and hot-breathed
Lsvanters; yet sound Asle&pl We try
to wake hin up, but fAiL The great
surges Of warning break over the hur-
ricane deck-the gong OF warning
sounds through the cabin-the bell
rings. "Awake" cry q hundred voices;
yet sound asleep in the cabin.
In the year -l775, the captain OF q
Greenland whaling vessel found him
self at night surrounded by ieebergs,
and "lay to- until morning. expecting
every moment to be ground to pieces
In the morning he looked about and
saw q ship near by. He hailed It, Nc
answer. Getting into q boat with some
of the Grew, he pushed out for the mys-
terious craft. Getting near by he saw
through the port hole q man at q stand
Is though keeping a log book. He
hailed him. No answer. He went on
board the vessel, aud found the man
sitting at the log book, frozen to death.
The log book was dated l762, showing
that the vessel had been wandering Tor
thirteen years among the ice. The
sailors were found frozen among the
hammocka, and others In the cabin.
For thirteen years this ship had been
carrying its burden of corpseA
So from this Gospel craft to-day, ]
dsscry voysgsrs for eternity. l cry
"Ship shoyl ship ahoyi" No answer.
They hoat about, tossed and ground by
the icsbergs Of sin, hoisting NO sail for
Heaven. 1 20 on board. / find all
asleep. It IL . frozen sleep. o that
nv Lord Jesus would come aboard,
and lay hold OF the wheel, and steer
the craft down into the warm Cult
Stream Of His mercy Awake, thou
that sleepesti Arise from the dead,
and Christ shall give thee LIE.
Again: Notice that men are aroused
by the most unexpected II
Jonah had been told one year before
that . hssthen sea captain would ever
awaken him TO . senss Of danger he
would have seofSed st the idea; but here
IL Is done. So now, men In strengest
ways are aroused from spiritual stupor.
A profsne man 10 brought TO eouvic-
ton by the shocking blasphsmy Of .
oomrade. 4 man attending church, and
hearing Q sermon from the tsxt, The
OK knowsth It's owner" etc, goes homo
unimprsssed; but crossing his bsrn
yard, IN OK comes up and lioks his
hand, and he ssys: There Il - now
the or knowsth it owner. and the
as his mastsr's crib but ] do not
know God" The careless remark Of .
tsamstsr has led Q man TO thouehtful.
ness and Heaven. The child's remark,
father, they have prayers 81 unels's
h~ouss-why don't we have themP' has
brought salvstion 70 the dwelling.
BY stran9est way and In the most
unexpected manner men are awskensd.
| The gardener Of the Countess Of Hunt
neton was convicted Of ain BY hear
ing the countess on the opposite side
| Of the walk talk about Jesus. John
| Hardoak was aroused by . dream in
which he ssw the last day, and the
Judge sitting, and heard his own name
called with terrible emphasis: "John
Hardoak, como TO j~udgmsntr The
Lord has . thousand ways Of waking
up Joush. Would that the messages
Of msroy might now find their way
down into the sides Of the ship, and
that many who are unconsciously rock.
ing In the awful tempest Of their Gin
might hear the warning: wins
mssnest thon. Q slseper? Arise, and
call upon thy 0odr
Again: Lean that . man may wake
up too late. II, instead Of slesping
Jonah had been N his knees confsasinf
his sins from the time he went ON board
the craft, think that God would have
saved him from being thrown over
board But be woke up too lsta TIL
tempest u in full blast, and the seq, II
convulsion, 10 lashing itsel& and moth
ing Will stop " now but the overthrow
Of Jonah.
So men sometimss wake up too late
The last hour has come. The naa ha,
NO more idea Of dying than I have o
dropping down this moment The rig
cling Il all white with the foam ofdeath
How chill the night lei II must die,
Assays, yet not ready. Unjust push on
upon this awful go, but hayS Nothing
with whieh to pay my fare. The whit
espsi The dsrknessi The hurricane
How long have ] been slssping3 Whole
days. and months. and years. / IN
quite awake now. I zee everything
but II 10 too late" Invisible hand
take him up He struggles 20 20
loose. In vain. They bring his sou
to the verge. They let II down owe
the side. The winds howl. The ~
opens it, frothing jaws TO swallow
He has gone forever. And while tn
canvas craoksd and the yards ratified
end the ropes thumped, the SEQ tool
mp the funeral dirgs. playing Will
opsn .dispason Of midnight storm: BE
cause I have called and - refused;
have stretched out my hand and n
man regarded; but 70 have set .
taught all my counsel, and would nom
Of my reproot; ! also will laugh .
your calamity; win mock when you
fear cometh-"
Now, lest any Of you should max
this mistake, I address you In tn
words Of the Msditsrranesn sea car
tain: "What mesnsth thou, o sleeper
Arise, call upon thy God, II 70 Be tina
God will think upon II. that We psris
aots If you have . God, you had bel
ter call upon Him. Do you say: 81
have NO 0odT' Then you had belts
call upon your fathers God. Whe
/ your father was in trouble, who did b
dy tor You hesrd him, In his old day
, tell shout some terrible exposure in
~spowstorm, O 1T ass, or in battle. Q
among miduight ~Rarroters. and no,
he escaped. Perhaps twenty years b
: fore you were born, your father mad
sweet scqusintancs with Goo
There 10 something in the worn page
, of the Bible he used to read who
. makes you think your father ha
= God. In the cid religious books lynn
sroupd the house there are passage
marked with . lead peneil-psssage
that make you think your father wa
not . goddess man, but that, On this
dark day when he lay In the back ROOF
dying, he wss ready-sll ready. Bu
perhaps your father was . bad man
prsyerless. and . blasphsmer, and 20
never think Of him without . shuddsl
He w~orshipsd the world OF his ow
appetitssL Do not, then, I beg Of 20,
rnll upou vour N fhar ODD INIT "a