Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-04

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go A5.Sf$sT IN entisSs ask us to be-
lieve that in the formation of the earth
there have been a half dozen deluges'
and yet they are not willing to beheVe
the Bible story of one deluge.
In what way the catastrophe came
we know not; whether by the stroke
of a comet or by flashes of lightning,
changing the air into water. or by
stroke of the ak between the horns
Of the OK. the earth staggered. TO meet
the catastrophe God ordered great
ship built 1t was to be without prov,
for 1t was to sail to no shore. 1t was
to be without helm, for no human hand
should guide 1t. It was vast struc-
ture. probably as large as two or three
modern steamers 1t was the Great
Eastern of olden time.
The ship is done. The door IS open.
The lizards crawl in. The cattle walk
in. The grasshoppers hop in. The birds
fly In. The invitation goes forth TO
Noah: "Come thou and all thy house
into the ark" Just one human Iamily
embark on the strange voyage, and
hear the door 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 a dying world.
The blackness of the heavens Is shat
tered by the flare Of the lightnings.
that look down into the water. and
hn lfit inc IN 20 "a
mountains. How strange it looks! How
suffocating the air seems! The big
drops of rain begin to plash upon the
upturned faces of those who are watch
ing the tempest. Crashi go the rocks in
CONFUSION. Boom! go the bursting
heavens The inhabitants Of the earth.
instead of flying to house-top and
mountain-top, as men have fancied, sit
down In dun, white horror to die.
For when God grinds mountains TO
pieces and lets the ocean slip its cable.
there is no place for men to fly to- See
the ark pitch and tumble in the surf;
while from its windows the passengers
look out upon the shipwreck of a race.
and the carcasses of a dead world. Woe
TO the mountainsi Woe to the sea!
! am no alarmist. When. on the TWEEN
tieth of September. after the wind has
for three days been blowing from the
northeast. you prophesy that the edul-
noctial storm is coming. you simply
state fact not to be disputed. Neither
am / an alarmist when l say that
storm is coming, compared with which
NOahs deluge was but an April show
er: and that 1t is wisest and safest for
you and for me TO get safely housed
for eternity. The invitation that went
forth 10 Noah sounds in our ears.
Come thou and all thy house into the
ark"
Well, how did Noah and his family
come into the ark? Did they climb In al
the window, or come down the roof
No; they went through the door. And
just SO. If we get into the ark Of Gods
mercy it will be through Christ the
door The entrance to the ark of old
must have been very large entrance
We know that it was from the fact
that there We're monster animals in the
earlier ages; and in order to get them
into the ark. two and two. according
10 the Bible statement. the
door must have been very
wide and very high so the
doc nto the mercy Of God is a large
door. We go In. not two and two, but
by hundreds and by thousands. and
by millions. Yea. all the nations of the
earth may go in, ten millions abreast.
There comes upon the good man
deluge of financial trouble. He had his
thousands 10 lend. now he cannot bor-
row a dollar. He once owned a store
in New York. and had branch houses
in Boston. Philadelphia. and New Or
leans. lie owned four horses. and en-
ployed a man to keep the dust on his
coach. phaeton, carriage and curricle.
now he has hard work TO get shoes In
which TO walk. The great deep of COM
mercial disaster was broken up and
fore and aft, and across the hurricane
deck, the waves struck him But he
was safely sheltered from the storm.
The Lord shut him I'M" 4 flood az
domestic troubles fell on hir. sick
ness and bereavement came The rain
peited, the winds blew. The heavens
are afiame All the gardens of earthly
delight are washed away. The noun
tains Of JOY are buried fifteen cuhits
deep. But standing by the empty crib
and in the desolated nursery. and in
Ihe doleful hall. once airing with merry
voices now silent forever he cried
The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken
away blessed be the name az the
Lord" The Lord shut him in" An
the sins OF lifetime clamored for his
overthrow. The broken VOWS. the dis
honored Sabbaths, the outrageous pro-
families, the misdemeanors OF twenty
years. reached up their hands Is the
door of the ark IL pun him ont The
boundless ocean OF sin surrounded his
soul. bowling like simeon. raving like
an euroclydon. But, looking out of the
window he saw his sins sink like lead
into the depths Of the sea. The dove III
heaven brought an olive branch "a the
ark. The wrath Of the binow onl,,
pushed him toward heaven. The Lord
shut him in"
The same door fastenings that kapt
Noah III keep the troubles out am
siad t. know that when man reaches
heaven all earthly troubles are done
with him. Here ne may have had II
Lard 10 get bread FOR his family: there
he will never hunger any more Here
he may have wopt bitterly; there "th
Lamb that is in the midst OF the throne
viii lead him to living fountains Of
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