The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-05
THE GOSPEL SHIP.
-'Cone Thou and All Thy Family
Into the Ark"
Cot Safely Housed for Eternity-If We
Get Into the Ark of Gods Mercy
1t Will BE Through Christ. the
Door-Dr. Talmage's Sermon.

A-0at cuHudy was OoueSlS vi, 10, lnO
shalt come into the ark, thou and tn
SONS and thy wife and thy sons wive
with thee"
In this day of the steamships Luc;
min and Majestic and the Paris wi
show you ship that in some respect
ecliPsed them all, and which sailed ou
am ocean underneath and another ocea
falling upon it. Infidel scientists as
us to believe that in the formation c
she earth there have been half doze
asluges, and yet they are not willini
To believe the Bible story of one del
uge-
In what way the catastrophe cam
we know not-whether by the strol1'
OF a comet, or by flashes of lightning
changing the air into water, or by 6
stroke of the hand of God, like the
ssroke of the AK between the horns o,
Fhe OK, the earth staggered. To meet
the catastrophe God ordered a great
ship built. 1t was to be without Prov
For it was to sail to no shore. 1t was
On be without helm, for no human
band should guide it. 1t was a vast
structure, probably as large as two or
three modern steamers 1t was the
Great Eastern of olden time.
The snip is 1e. Tie door is open.
The liar Il in. The cattle walk
En- The g. oppers hop in. The
birds fly in. ,e invitation goes forth
To Noah, Come thou and all thy house
iuto the ark" Just one human family
embark on the strange voyage, and l
hear the doors slam shut. A great storm
sweeps along the hills and bends the
cedars until all the branches snap in the
gale. There is a moan in the wind like
unto the moan of dying world. The
hiackness of the heavens is shattered by
the fare of the lightnings, that look
down into the waters and throw a
ghastliness on the face of the mount
aims How strange it looks! How suf-
the air seems! The big drops
of rain begin to splash upon the up
aarned faces of those who are watch
ing the tempest. Crash! go the rocks
IN couvulsion. Boom! go the bursting
sseavens. The inhabitants of the earth,
instead of flying to house top and
top, as men have fancied, sit
Gown in dumb, white horror to die.
For when God grinds mountains to
places and let's the ocean slip its cable
there is no place for men to fly to. |
See the ark pitch and tumble in the |
s1rf, while from its windows the pas
'engers look out upon the shipwreck |
II a race and the carcasses of a dead
world. Woe to the mountain! Woe to
he sea!
I am no alarmist. When on the Goth
# September, after the wind has for
hree days been blowing from the
lor Invest, you prophesy that the equi-
loctial storm is coming, YOU simply
tate fact not to be disputed. Neither
IN L an alarmist when l say that
torn is coming, compared with which
loah's deluge was but an April show
r, and that it is wisest and safest for
GU and for me to get safely housed for
ternity. The invitation that went
1rth to Noah sounds in our ears,
Come thou and all thy house into the
rk"
Well, how did Noah and his family
DING into the ark? Did they climb in {
{ the window, or come down the roof?
loi they went through the door. And
asst SO, if we get into the ark of Gods
Iercy, it will be through Christ, the
DOR. The entrance to the ark of old i
INST have been very large entrance. c
1e know that it was from the fact that /
lere were monster animals in the ear 7
CT ages, and in order to get them into b
re ark, two and two, according to the /
ible statement, the door must have e
zen very wide and very high. So the
,or into the mercy of God IS a large \
,or. We go in, not two and two, but g
' hundreds, and by thousands and by I
Yea, all the nations of the "
nth may go in, 1000, 900 abreast! h
The door of the ancient ark was in h
&C side. So now it is through the side h
Christine pierced side, the wide L
zen side, the heart side-that we en- "
r. Aha, the Roman soldier, thrust W
z his spear into the Saviour's side, ex- a
cted only to let the blood out, but he b
ened the way to let all the world in! a
/, what broad Gospel to preach! If a
man is about to give an entertain n
mt, he issues 200 or 300 invitations, b
refully put up and directed to the 81
persons whom he wishes to il
terrain. But God, our Father, makes cl
banquet and goes out to the front g
or of Heaven and stretches out his u
nds over land and sea, and with a m
ice that penetrates the Hindoo jun 81
;, and the Greenland ice castle, and b
azilian grove. and English factory, Il
d American home, cries out, ''Come, in
: all things are now ready" 1t is a CT
de doori The old cross has been taken d.
art, and its two pieces are stood up "
: the doorposts, so far apart that all h
E world can come in. Kings scatter
assures on days of great rejoicing. So sc
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