The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-16

blowing great guns Death criess
Overheard with the nnbelieverl' A
splashl He goes to the bottom. He
paid Eve dollars for his ticket to
Tarshish when he bought the inidel
books lie landed in perditioni
Every farthing you spend in sin sa-
tan will swindle you out of. He prom
ises you shall have thirty per cent or q
great dividend. He lies. lie 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 shipboard, considering the
light he had, was Jonah. lie was n
member of the church, while they
were heather. The sailors were en-
gagged in their lawful calling, following
the sea. The merchants on board, |
suppose, were going down to Tarshish
to barter; but Jonah, notwithstanding
his Christian profession, was flying
from duty. He was sound asleep in
the cabin. He has been motionless for
hours-his arms and feet in the same
posture as when he lay down-his
breast heaving with deep respiration.
Obi how could he sleep? What if the
ship struck a rockI what if it sprang
aleak! what If the clumsy oriental
craft should capsizel What would be-
come of Jonah?
So men sleep soundly now amid
perils infinite. In almost every place.
/ suppose, the Mediterranean might be
sounded, but no line is long enough to
fathom the profound deep beneath
every impenitent man. Plunging a
thousand fathoms down, you can not
touch bottom. Eternity beneath him,
before him, around himl Rocks close
by, and whirlpools, and hot-breathed
Levanters; yet sound asleepl We try
to wake him up. but fail. The great
surges of warning break over the hur-
ricane declx-the gong of warning
sounds through the eabin--the bell
rings. 'Awal1e!" cry hundred voices;
yet sound asleep in the cabin.
In the year IT'S, 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 a ship near by. lie hailed it. No
answer. Getting into a boat with
some of the crew, he pushed out for
the mysterious craft. Getting near
by, he saw through the port hole
man at stand, as though keeping a
log book. He hailed him. Noanswer.
He went on board the vessel and found
the man sitting at the log book frozen
to death. The log book was dated
1852, showing that the vessel had been
wandering for thirteen years among
the ice. The sailors were found frozen
among the hammocxs, and others in
the cabin. For thirteen years this
ship had been carrying its burden of
.corpses.
SO. from this Gospel craft to-day |
descry voyagers for eternity. / cry:
"Ship. ahoy! ship, ahOy!" No answer.
They float about, tossed and ground by
the icebergs of sin, hosting no sail for
Heaven. l go on boarJ. / find all
asleep. 1t is a frozen sleep. o, that
my Lord Jesus would come board, and
lay hold of the wheel, and steer the
craft down into the warm Gulf Stream
of His mercy! Awake, thou that sleep
est! Arise from the dead, and Christ
shall give thee life.
Again: Notice that men are aroused
by the most unexpected means. If
Jonah had been told one year before
that heather sea captain would ever
awaken him to 81 sense of danger he
would have scoffed at the idea; but
here it is done. So now, men in
strangest ways are aroused from spirit
ual stupor. A profane man is brought
to conviction by the shocking bias
phemy of a comrade. A man at
tending church and hearing a SER
mon from the text: 1.-The OK
knOweth its owner" etc. goes home
unimpressed; but, crossing his barn
yard, an OK comes up and liclxs his
hand, aud he says; There it is now
the OK knoweth his owner, and the
ass his masters crib but do not
know God" The careless remark of
teamster has led man to thoughtful
ness and Heaven. The child's remark:
Father, they have prayers at uncle's
house-why don't we have them?" has
brought salvation to the dwelling.
BY strangest way and in the most
unexpected manner men are awak-
ened. The gardener of the Countess
of Huntington was convicted of SIN by
hearing tie countess on the opposite
side of the wall talk about Jesus. John
Hcrdoak was aroused by a dreIm in
which he saw the last day, and the
Judge sitting, and heard his own name
called with terrible emphasis. John
HDrdOGis, como TO Judgment" The
Lord has a thousand ways of waking
mp Jonah. Would that the messages
Of mercy might now find their way
down into the sides of the ship. and
that many who are unconsciously
rocking in the awful tempest of their
sin might hear the warning: What
meanest thou, o. sleeper? Arise, and
call upon thy Godl"
Again. Learn that a man may wake
up too late. If, instead of sleeping,
Jonah had been on his knees confess
ing MS sins from the time he went on
board the craft, l 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 CONFUSION, is flashing
itself, and nothing will stop it 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 chilly the night isl 81