Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-14

| ocSiiS tHhl lHcy SOI plenLy An
he knew that there were others who
would do that. He says: "Yonder are
men and women freezing in the rigging
of that wreck. Boys, launch the boat.
And now / see the oar blades bend un.
der the strong pull; but before they
reached the rigging woman was fro
zen and dead. She was washed off
poor thing But he says: There is a
man to save" and he cries out: Hold
on five minutes longer and 1 will save
! you. Steady! Steady! Give me your
| hand Leap into the life boat. l thank
! God he is saved!" So there are those
here to-day who are safe on the shore
| of Gods mercy. l will not spend any
| time with them at all; but l see there
are some who are freezing in the rig
| ginS of sin and surrounded by perilous
storms. Pull away, my lads! Let us
| reach them. Alas one is washed off
| and gone. There is one more to be
! saved. Let us push out for that one.
! Clutch the rope. Oh! dying man. clutch
it as with a death grip. Steady, now,
on the slippery places. Steady there,
| Saved! Saved. Just as l thought. For
Christ has declared that there are some
still in the breakers who shall come
ashore. "Other sheep l have which are
not of this fold.''
Christ commands his ministers to be
fishermen, and when I go fishing / do
not want to go among other churches,
but into the wide world. not sitting
along Hohokus creek, where eight or
ten other persons are sitting with hook
and line, hut like the fishermen of New
foundland, sailing off and dropping net
away outside, forty or fifty miles from
oh, a,,c
here who will come in. Next Sabbath
they will be here again, or in some bet
ter church. They are this moment be-
ing swept into Christian associations.
Their voice will be heard in public
prayer. They will die in peace, their
bed surrounded by Christian sympa-
thies, and to be carried out by devout
men to be buried, and on their grave
be chiseled the words: Precious in the
sight of the Lord is the death of his
saints" And on resurrection day you
VIII get up with the dear children you
nave already buried and with your
Christian parents who have already won
the palm. And all that grand and glo-
rlous history begins this hour. "Other
sheep l have which are not of this
fold"
Again l remark, that the heavenly
shepherd is going to find a great many
Sheep among those who have been flung
Oh evil habit. 1t makes me sad to see
CHRISTIAN people give up prodigal as
iost. There are those who talk as
though the grace of God were chain
OF forty or fifty links and after they
mad run out there was nothing to touch
the depth of a very bad case. If they
were hunting and got off the track of
the deer, they would look longer among
the brakes and bushes for the lost game
than they have been looking for that
lost soul People tell us that if a man
nave delirium tremens twice, he can not
be reclaimed; that after a woman has
sacrificed her integrity, she can not be
restored. The Bible has distinctly init
mated that the Lord Almighty is ready
to pardon four hundred and ninety
times; that is, seventy times seven.
Ihere are men before the throne of
COO who have wallowed in every kind
or sin; but, saved by the grace of Je
sus and washed in his blood, they
stand there radiant now. There are
those who have plunged into the very
lowest of all the bells in New York.
VINO have for the tenth time been lifted
up. and finally, by the grace of God,
cued by the grace promised to the chief
OF sinners. l want to tell you that God
loves to take hold of a very bad case.
When the church casts you off and
when the club room casts you off and
when society casts you off and when
business associates casts you off and
when father casts you off, and when
mother casts you off and when every
body casts you off, your first cry for
help will bend the Eternal God clear
down into the ditch of your suffering
and shame
The Good Templars can not save you,
although they are a grand institution.
Ihe Sons of Temperance can not save
you, although they are mighty for good.
signing the temperance pledge can not
save you, although / believe in it, Moth
ing but the grace of the Eternal God
can save you, and that will if you will
throw yourself on it. There is a man
in this house who said to me: UNLESS
God helps me 1 can not be delivered.
l have tried everything, sir; but now
J. have got in the habit of prayer and
when | come to a drinking saloon I
pray that God will take me safe past
and l pray until 1 am past. He does
help me-" For every man given to
strong drink there are scores of traps
set; and when he goes out on business
tomorrow he will be in infinite peril,
and no one but the everywhere present
God can see that man through. oh!
they talk about the catacombs of Ma
pies and the catacombs of Rome and
the catacombs of Egypt-the burial
place under the city where the dust Of
a great multitude lies; but tell you
New York has its catacombs and Bos-
ton it's catacombs and Philadelphia it's
catacombs. They are the underground
restaurants, full of dead mems bones
and all uncleanness. Yong man, you
know it. God help you. There is no
need of going into the art gallery to see
the skillful sculpture that wonderful
representation of a man and his sons
wound around with serpents. There
are families represented in this house
that are wrapped in the martyrdom of
fang and scale and venom-a living
LAGOON of ghastliness and horror
What are you to do? 1 am not speak
ing into the air. l am talking to hun
dreds of men who must be saved by
Christs gospel or never saved at ALL
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