The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09

Overheard with the unbelieverV' A
splash! He goes to the bottom. He
paid SIS for his ticket to Tarshish when
he bought the infidel books He land
ed in perdition!
Every farthing you spend in sin Satan
will swindle you out of. He promises
you shall have 80 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 never
get to Tarshish.
Learn how soundly men will sleep
in the midst of danger. The worst
sinner on ship-board, considering
the light he had, was Jonah. He
was a member of the church, while
thev were heather. The sailors were
engaged in their lawful calling, fol-
lowing the sea. The merchants on
| board, l suppose, were going to
Tarshish to barter; but Jonah, not
withstanding his Christian profession,
was flying from duty. He was sound
asleep in the cabin. He had been mo-
tiouless 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 rock! what if
it sprang a leakl what if the clumsy
oriental craft should capsize! What
would become of Jonah?
Somen sleep soundly now amid perils
infinite In almost every place, | sup
pose, the Mediterranean might be
sounded, but no line is long enough to
fathom the profound depth beneath
every impenitent man. Plunging a
thousand fathoms down, you cannot
touch bottom Eternity 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 hur-
ricane deck-the gong of warning
sounds through the cabin-the bell
rings. "Awal1er' cry hundred voices;
vet sound asleep in the cabin.
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 ship near by. He hailed it. No
answer. Getting into a boat with some
of the crew, he pushed out for the mys-
terious craft. Getting near by he saw
through the port hole man at stand
as though keeping a log book. lie
hailed him. No answer 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
hammocks, and others in the cabin.
For thirteen years this ship had been
carving its burden of corpses.
So from this Gospel craft to-day,
descry voyagers for eternity. 1 cry:
.'Ship ahoy! ship ahoy" No answer
They float about, tossed and ground by
the icebergs of sin, hoisting no sail for
Heaven. | go on board. / find all
| asleep. 1t is a frozen sleep o that
nv 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
bv the most unexpected means. II
Jonah had been told one year before
that a heather sea captain would ever
awaken him to a 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 profane man is brought to convie-
ton by the shocking blasphemy of a
comrade. man attending church, and
hearing a sermon from the text, 'The
OK knoweth its owner" etc, goes home
unimpressed; but, crossing his barn
ward. an OK comes up and licks his
hand, and he says: There it is now
the OK knoweth its owner, and the
ass his masters crib but l do moi
know God" The careless remark of q
teamster has led man to thoughtful
ness and Heaven. The child's remark
father, they have prayers at uncle''
house-why don't we have themP' has
brought salvation to the dwelling.
| Bv strangest way and in the most
unexpected manner men are awakened
The gardener of the Countess of Hunt
ngton was convicted of sin by hear
ing the countess on the opposite side
of the walk talk about Jesus. JohI
Hardoak was aroused by a dream il
which he saw the last day, and the
Judge sitting, and heard his own name
called with terrible emphasis: 'tJohr
Hardoak, come to Judgment Th'
Lord has a thousand ways of waking
up Jonah. Would that the message
: of mercy might now find their wa,
down into the sides of the ship, ant
that many who are unconsciously rock
! ing in the awful tempest of their sii
might hear the warning: "Wha
meanest thou, o sleeper? Arise, ant
call upon thy Godr'
Again: Learn that a man may walk
up too late. If, instead of sleeping
: Jonah had been on his knees confessin
, his sins from the time he went on boar
. the craft. l think that God would hav
: saved him from being thrown over
board. But he woke up too late. TIL
/, tempest is in full blast, and the sea, i
r convulsion, is lashing itself, and moth
e ing will stop it now but the overthrow
). of Jonah.
S So men sometimes wake up too late
: The last hour has come. The man hs
{ no more idea of dying than [ have c
e dropping down this moment The rig
: ging is all white with the foam of deatf
a How chill the night is! Il must die,
? he says. yet not ready. Unjust push OF
!. upon this awful sea, but have nothin