The Penn's Grove record., 1895-08-09

hammocks and others In the cabin. FoI
thirteen years this ship had been carrying ID
burden of corpses.
So from this gospel craft to-day daSsr
s2yagsrs for eternity. l cry: "ship ahoy
Ship ahoyI' No answer. They ioat about
tossed n ground by the icebergs OF sin
hosting no sail for heaven. l go on board.
l mud all asleep. It Isl trosan sleep. Oh
that my Lord Jesus would come aboard and
lay hold OF the wheel and steer the eraf
down into The warm gulf stream Of Eli,
mercyl Awake, thou that s~leepestl Arise
from the dead, and Christ shall give the,
lfe.
Again, notice that men are aroused by tn,
most unexpected means. II Jonah had beer
told n year before that q heather ses
captain would ever awaken him to a sense
OF danger, he would have scofied at the Idea,
but here It Is done. So now men in strangest
ways are aroused from spiritual stupor. A
proiane man Is brought to conviction by the
shocking blasphsmy Of a eomrade. A man
attending church andhearing q sermon from
The text. ''The OK knoweth his owner" etc,
goes home impressed, OUT, crossing MS barn
yard. an OK come up and ticks his hand, and
he SAYS: "Therei 1t Is now. THE OK knoweth
his owner and the ass his masters crib but
l do not know Col" The careless remark
OF a eamster has led q man to thoughtful
ness n heaven. The ehild's remark:
Father, they have prayers at unole's house
Whydont we have them?" has brought saliva.
ton to the dwelling.
By strangest ways and in the most unex-
pected manner mon are awakened. The gar
dener OF the Countess of Huntingdon was
convicted OF sin by hearing the countess on
the opposite side of the wall talk about Jesus.
John Hardoak was aroused by a dream, in
which he saw the last day, and the judge sit
ting, and heard his own name called with
terrible emphasis, John Hsrdoak. come to
iudgment" The LordhaAR thousand ways
OF waking up Jonah. Would eaat the mes
sengers OF mercy might now ind their way
down into the sides OF the ship, and that many
who are unconsciously rocking IN the awful
tempest Of their sin might near the warnings,
"What meanest thou. o sleeper? Arise and
sail upon thy Coil"
Againi Learn that a man may wake up
too late. II, instead OF sleeping, Jonah had
been on his knees confessing his sins from
that God would have saved him from being
thrown overheard. But he woke up too late.
The tempest Is In full blast, aud the sea, in
convulsion. Is lashing itself. and nothing will
stop 1t now but the overthrow OF Jonah.
Now, lest any OF you should make this
mistake, I address you in the words Of the
Mediterranean sea eaptatni "What mean
. kiouN VI btOCpOIE Nl5bV Oitt uDuN tl1
God, II 30 be that God will think upon US,
that We perish not" II you have a God,
YOU had better call upon Him. Do you say,
II have no God?" Then you had better cali
upon your fathers God. When your father
was In trouble, whom did he fly 10? You
heard him in his old days tell about ZONE
terrible exposure in a snowstorp. or at sea,
or in battle, or among midnight Garroters,
and how he escaped. Perhaps twenty
wars haf0Hq Won NUara horn vOuF
father made sweet acquaintance with
Cod There Ia something in the
won pages Of the Bible he used to real which
mfkes you think your father had q God. In
the old religious books lying around the
house, here are passages marked with a
lead p-eneil-passages that make you think
! your father was not a goddess man, but that,
on that dark day when he lay IN the back
room dying he was rsady-al ready. But
perhaps your father was q bad man-prayer-
less and o blasphemer-and you never think
OF him now without a shudder. He wor-
shipped the world or hts W appetites. Do
not then, I beg Of you, call upon your faith
er's God, but call on your mothers God. 1
think she was good. You remember when
| your father came home drunk late on a cold
night, how. patient your mother was
You often heard her pray. She used to ait
by the hour meditsting as though she were
thinking OF some good, warm place, where
1t never gets cold; and where the bread does
not fail, and staggering steps never some.
You remember her now IS abe sat in cap and
, spectaclss reading her Bible Sunday after
noon. What good advice she used 10 give
you'll How black and terrible the hoh In the
ground looked to you when with two ropes
they let her down to rest In the graveyard
All, I think from your LOOK thst I am on the
right track. Awake, o sleeper, and call
upon thy mothers God
But perhaps both your father and moths,
were depraved. Perhaps your cradle wM
rocked by sin and shame, and X q a wonder
that froW such a starting YOU have some to
respectabihty. Then don't can upon the
God Of either Of your parents I beg Of YOU.
Blu you have children. You know God
kindled those bright eyes and rounded those
healthy limbs and set beating within their
breast an Immortality. Perhaps In the bs-
lief that somehow 1t would DO for the hast
you have taught them to say q evening
prayer, and when they knesl beside you and
faces all innocence and love, yoa know that
there Ia q God somewhere about In the
room.
Think I am on the right track At last.
Awake, o sleeper, and call upon the God Of
thy childreni May He set these little onss to
pulling at thy heart until they charm thee to
the same God to whom tonight they will say
their little prayers.
But, alas, alas, some OF these men and wo-
men arc unmoved by the fact that theil
father had q God. that their mother had a
God, and their children have a God, but they
have no God. All the divine goodness for
nothing. All warning for nothing. They are
found asleepin the side Of the ship, though
The sea n sky are in mad wrestle.
Many years ago a man. leaving his family
In Massachusetts,, sailed from Boston to
OhfA. 90 .. IA fharA IN tho aAauk ~ Thtna
In the midst Of a night OF storm he made
shipwreck. The a~dyenturer was washed up
on the beach senseless-all his money gone.
He had to beg in the streets Of Canton to
keep from starving. For two years there
was no communication between himself and
family. They supposed him dead. He knew
not but that hts family were dead. He had
gone out as q captain. He was too proud to
come back as a private sailor. But after q
while he choked down his pride and
sailed for Boston. Arriving there
he look an evaning train for
the center OF the S!tte, where he haileft his
family. Taking the stage from the depot
and riding a score Of miles, he got home.
He says that, going up in front OF the cot
tage In tho bright moonlight, the place
looked to him like heaven. He raped on
the window, and the affrighted servant let
him in. He went to tho room where his
wife and child were sleeping. He did not
dare TO wake them for tear of the shock.
Bending over to ktss his child's cheek, a tear
fell upon the wtts's face, and she wakened,
and he said: ''Maryi" and she knew his
voice, and there was an indescrfbable scens
Of welcome and Joy and thanksgiving W
5od.
To-day 1 know that many Of you are sea
tossed snd driven BY sin In a worse storm
than that which came down on the coast Of
China, and yet I pray God that you may, like
the sailor, live to get home. In the house oil
many mansions your friends are waiting to
meet you. They are wondering why YOU do
not aome. Escaped from the shipwrecks OF
earth, may you at last go In! 1t will be
= fright night-a very bright night az
you put your thumb on the latch OF that
door. Once IN you will md the old family
faces sveeter than when yon last saw them,
and there 1t will be found that He who was
your fathers God, and your mothers God,
and your children's God, is your own most
blessed Redeemer, to whom be glory and
dominion throughout all ages. world with
our end Amen.
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