Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16

ACaIn. notice that meu are arou--.i bv ths
most unexpected means II Jonah had been
told one wear before that a hezthen sea
captain would ever awaken him 70 a sense
Of danger, he would have seofei n the ties.
but here u r. done. So now men IN =tranrest
way- are aroused from spiritual stupor. A
pr5lane man i brought o. conviction BY the
shocking hla-phemv 10 n eomraie. A man
! attending church and hearing a sermon from
the text. The OK knoweth his owner" etc.
goe- home impressed. but. crossing his barn
/ ward. an OK come up and licks his hand. aud
he SAYS: "Thrr' IL now. The oX knoweth
his owner and the ass his masters crib. hut
4 40 not know G01." The careless remark
Of a teamster has led man 10 thoughtful
ness aud heaven. The child's remark.
"Fath-r. they have prayers at uncls's house.
Why don't W. have them" has brought saliva
ton o. the dwelling.
BY strangest ways aud in the most unev-
pected manner men are awakened. The gar
dener OF the Countess ~ Huntingdon was
. convicted 81 sin hy hearing the countess on
the opposite side Of the wall talk about Jesus.
John Harloak was aroused by a dream. in
which he saw the last day. AMI the Judge sit
ting. and heard his own name called with
terrible emphasis "Johu Harioak, come To-
Judgement The Lord has a thousand ways
of waking up Jonah. Would that the mes
sengers of mercy might now find their way
who are unronsciously rocking in the awful
tempest of their sin might hear the warning:
"what meaneSt thou. sleeper Arise and
call upon thy Corr
Again: Learn that n man may wake up
too late. II. instead Of sleeping, Jonah hal
been ON his knees confessing his sins from
the time he went on board the craft, | think
that God would have saved him from being
thrown overheard. But he woke up too late.
The tempest is in full blast and the sea, in
cOuvulsiOn. is lashing itself. and nothing will
stop il now but the overthrow Of Jonah.
So men sometimes wake up too late. The
last hour has come. The man has no more
idea Of dying than | have OF dropping down
this moment. The rigging is all white with
the foam Of death. How chill the night is
~ must die he saws. ''yet not ready.
must push out upon this awful sea, but have
nothing with which to pay my fare.
The white capsl The darkness The
hurricanel How long have | been sleep
Ing? Whole DAYS and months and years.
am quite awake now. ! see everything, but
it is too late" Invisible hands take him up
He struggles to get loose In vain. They
bring his soul to the verge. They let it
down over the side. The winds howl The
sea opens lis frothing jaws to swallow. He
has gone forever. Aud while the canvas
cracked, and the yards ratified, and the ropes
playing with open diapasou Of midnight
storm, because | have called, aud We re-
fused. l have stretched GU. My hand, and no
man regarded but We have set at nHuGht all
Nv counsel and would none OF my reproof,
! also will laugh at your calamity, will
mock when your fear cometh.'
Now, lest any Of you should make this
mistake, | address you in the words OF the
Mediterranean sea captain: what mean
est thou, O. sleeper? Arise, call upon thy
God, if 50 be that God will think upon Us,
that We perish no." II you have God,
YOU had better call upon Him. Do YOU say,
II have no God?' Then YOU had better call
upon your fathers God When your father
was in trouble. whom did he fly TOP You
heard him in his old days tell about son"
terrible exposure in II snowstornl, or at -eA,
or in battle. or among midnight garrotrrs,
and how he escaped Perhaps twenty
years before YOU were born your
father made sweet acquaintance with
God There is something in the
worn pages If the Bible he used to read which
, makes you think your father had a God In
the old religious books lying around the
house, here are passages marked with Il
lead penciI--passages that make you think
your father was not goddess man. but that,
on that dark day when he lay ia the back
{ room dying he was ready -all ready. But
perhaps your father was bad man prayer
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think She was good. You remember when
, your father came home drunk late on Il cold
= night, how patient your mother was.
, You often heard her pray. She used to sit
: by the hour medtating a. though she were
thinking VI some s"oi' warm p'ato, VIII
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