The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-05

there "the Lamb that Is in the midst Of tn
ihrone will lead him to living fountains c
water, and God will wipeaway all tears fror
. ais eyes" Here he may have hard work {
get q house; but In my Fathers house ar
d many mansions, L rent day never comes
D Here there are deathbeds and collins an,
d graves; there no sickness, no weary watching
d 40 choking cough, no consuming fever, n
ehattering chill, no tolling bell, no grave
u The sorrows of life shall come up and knocl
At the door, but no admittance. The per
: plexities OF life shall come up and knock OF
The door, but no admittance. Safe forever
ALI the agony of earth In one wave dashin,
' against the hulwarks Of the ship Of ~celestia
light shall not break them down. Howl on
re- winds, and rage, ye seasl The Lord
"the Lord shut him inf'
: Oh, what a grand old door! So wide, Sc
asily swung both ways and with such sure
nstenings. No burglars key can pick thai
ock. No swarthy arm of hell can shove
back that bolt. I~rejoIce that / do not ash
you to come aboard a crazy craft with leak.
ing hulk and broken helm and unfastened
ioor, but an ark fifty cubits wide and 800
'ubits long and a door SO large that the
'ound earth, without grazing the post,
night be bowled in.
Now, If the ark of Christ is so grand a
llace in which to live and die and triumph,
some into the ark. Know well that the door
that shut Noah in shut others out, and
though, when the pitiless storm came pelt.
Ing. on their heads, they beat upon the door,
saying: "Let me in! Let me inI' the door
did not open. For 100 years they were In
vited. They expected to come in, but the
lntediluvians said: ave must cultivate
shese fieldsI we must be worth more foeks
Of sheep and herds of cattle; We will wait
until we get 9 little older; we will enjoy our
Did farm a little longer" But meanwhile
10 storm was brewing. t fountains Of
heaven were 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 thesky and another rolled up from
meath, Int God rolled the earth and sky Into
one wave of universal destruction.
30 men now put off going into the ark.
They say they will wait twenty years first.
they Will have a little longer time with their
worldly associates. They will wait until
they get older. They say; "You cannot ex-
pect a man of my attachments and of my
position to surrender myself Just now. But
before the,storm comes 1 will go in. Yes, !
VIII. know what l am about Trust mel"
Alter awhile, one night about IL o'clock, go
ing 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 his horses becomes u-nmanageabIe,
and he shouts, "Whoa, whoa!" and takes
hhOttiVI tWI6t III lu6 Eelu3 ana plants MS
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 fed
behind aswifter courser into the great fu-
ture. Dead, and outside the ark! Or some |
night he wakes up with q distress that mo- |
mentarily increases until he shrieks out with |
pain. The doctors come in, and they give |
twenty OOPS, but no relief; forty drops, fifty |
drops, sixty drops, but no relief. No time
Tor prayer. No time to read one of the
promises. NO time to get a single sin par
1oned. The whole house Is aroused in
alarm. The children scream. The wife
1aints. The pulses fail. The heart stops.
The soul flies. Dead, and outside the arkl
have no doubt that derision kept many
people out OF the ark. The world laug ed
to see a man go in and said: "Here il a
man starting for the ark. Why, there will
be no deluge. If there is one, that miserable
snip Will not weather it. Aha, going into
The ark Well, that is too good to keep.
Here, fellows, have you heard the news?
This man is going into the arkp' Under
luton persisted. |,
And so there are hundreds kept out by the
fear OF derislon. The young man asks him !
sell: what would they say at the store to-
morrow morning if l should become a Chris s
t,anf When | 80 down to the club house !
ESJ W. 9NOut, llSlb GUiutS LHuL new ClrlS. l 7
tlan. suppose you will not have anything :
70 &c with us now. Suppose you are pray i
ing now. Get Town on your knees and let /
US near You pray. Come, now, give us a
ouch. VIII not do it, Ell? PrettYt hrisuarT
you are?" Is it not the fear OF be-
augheG at that keeps you out of the kingd@I
Of God? Which Of these scorners will he'll
at the last? When you lie down on a
lying pillow, which of them will be there? 2
N the DAY OF eternity will they bail you out? n
My frlends1and neighbors, come in right a
way. Come In through Christ, the wide
some in and be saved. Come afk5.IS.
Spirit and the Bride say, Come"
n the ark! Room in the arki N
But 90 not come alone. The text invites
'ou to bring your family. It says, .'Thou
M thy sons and thy. wife," You cannot ),
he pigeons and the doves into the ark he Il
you'd only have scattered them. Some par \,
nt5 are not wise about these things, They CT
make iron rules about Sabbaths, and they a
orce me cateehism down the throat as they ~
you'd held the child's nose and force down ~
dose OF rhubarb and calomel. You can W
iot drive your children into the ark. You 81
an draw your children to Christ, but you or
annot coerce them. The cross was lifted &c
ot to drive, but to draw. 'If / be lifted IN
will draw all men unto Me-" As the sun
up the drops OF the morning dew 80
ne sun Of righteousness exhales the tears Of
epentence. NJ
Be sure that you bring your husband and
lie with you. How would Noah have felt
/, when he heard the rain pattering on the nj,
'of OF the ark, he knew that his wife was su
inside in the Storm No; she went with liz
And yet some II you are on the shin hr,
outward bound" for heaven. But your dis
'mpanion is unsheltered. You remember sci
day when the marriage ring was set. hi
othlnS mas yet been able to break II. Sick est
sss came, and the finger shrank, but the
staid on. The twain stood alone above
10 child's grave, and the dark mouth Of the
NIB swallowed up a thousand hopes, but ]
q ring dropped not into the open grave ha,
avs OF poverty came and the hand did OF
any q hard days work, but the rubbing OF Sbt
2 WORK against the ring only made it shine
Shall that ring ever be lost2 Will
Q iron clang of the sepulcher gate crush ii
reVerf i! pray God that you who have a
en- married on earth may be together In bio
ayen. Oh, by the quiet bliss OF your earthly
me, by the babes cradle, by all the vows #.
that DAY when you started life together. | oao
9 you to see to 1t that you both get into %
3 ark. wo
in, and bring your wife or your his NIL
with you-not by fretting about relig- =
l or dlegdongtng them about religion, but 40,
1t shall bring the tbrone ~ IN da1 pad5ha ria
lr room. Go home and take M the Bible of
eSbVthei3 anu then kneel Town
d eommend your souls to Him who has :
tehed you all these years. and before yor vel
there will be futtering of wings over Ma
Ir head. angel crying to angel, HDehold mil
y pray!' fasi
this does not include all your family, aur
ng the children too. God bless the dear
ldren. What would our homes be with -
theml We may have d3ne much for tori
N. They have lone more for US. What kar
for a wounded heart there IL in the n
palm Of a child's hand! Did harp or ger
Q ever have such music as there is in a =
Ids sgood night" From our coarse, reoe
gh life the angels Of God are often driven Ia;
K. But who comes into the nursery with -
y who die in infancy 70 straight into brio
", but you are expecting your children the
row up in this world. Is It not a cues
!, then, that rings through all the corri- =
} and windings and heights and depths Of sugl
r soul, what "a to become OF your sons ticu
daughters for time and for eternity2 doc.
}" you say, II mean to see thRgssev have ~.
d manners. Very well. 81 mef
'sthem well, il have myself o go shagl