The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-07-18

pOOI UOuSe. w Ulit, lily. llienuS,
we do admit that there is such d
thing as lawful use of money--a
profitable use Of money---let us
recognize also the fact that money
/ cannot satisfy q mans soul, that
tit cannot glitter in the dark valley,
that it cannot pay our fare across
the Jourdan of death, that it cam
not unlock the gate of heaven.
There are men in all occupations
who seem to act as though they
thought that pack of bonds and
mortgages could be traded off for
a title to heaven, and as though
gold would be a lawful tender in
that place whore it is 80 common
they make pavements out of it.
Treasures in heaven are the only
incorruptible treasures.
Have you ever ciphered out in
the rule of loss and gain the sum:
what shall it profit n man if he
gain the whole world and lose his
own soul?" However fine your
apparel, the winds of death will
flutter it like rags. Homespun
and thread-bare coat have some
times been the shadow of coming
robes made white in the blood of
the lamb. The pearl of great price
is worth more than any gem you
can bring from the ocean, than
Australian or Brazilian mines
strung in one carcanet. Seek af-
ter God; find his righteousness,
and all shall be we'll here; all
shall be we'll hereafter.
Some of you remember the ship
wreck Of the Central America.
That noble steamer had, | think,
about 500 passengers aboard. Sud
denly the storm came, and the
surges trampled the decks and
swung into the matches, and there
went up a hundred-voiced death
shrieks. The foam on the jaw of
the wave. The pitching of the
steamer as though it were leaping
a mountain. The dismal flare of
the signal rockets. The long cough
of the steam pipes. The hiss of
extinguished furnaces. The walk
ing of God an the wave! The
steamer went not down without |
a struggle. As the passengers sta
toned themselves in rows, to bale
out the vessel, bark to the thump
of the buckets, as men unused to |
toll, with blistered hands, strained |
muscle, tug for their lives. There
is a sail seen against the sky. The |
flash of the distress gun is noticed,
its voice heard not, for it is choked |
in the louder booming of the sea.
A few passengers escaped but the
steamer. gave one great lurch and
was gonel SO there are some men
who sail on prosperously in life.
ALPS we'll; all's we'll, But at last
some financial disaster comes: a
euroclydon. Down they got the
bottom of the commercial sea is
strewn with shattered hulks. But |
because your property goes do not
let your soul go. Though all else
perish, save that; for / have to tell
you of n more stupenduous ship
wreck than that which / just men,
toned. God launched this world
5000 years ago. 1t has been going
on under freight of mountains and
immortals; but one day it will
stagger at the cry of fire. The
timbers of rock will burn, the
mountains fame like masts, and
the clouds like sails in the judg-
ment hurricane. Then God shall
take the passengers. off the deck,
and from the berths those who
have long BEEN asleep in Jesus,
and.he will set them far beyond
the reach of storm and peril. But
howmany shall 60 down will new
or be known, until it shall be an
nounced one day in, heaven; the
.shipwreck of a world So many
millions saved! So many millions
drownedl Oil my dear hearers,
whatever you lose, though your
houses 60, though your. lands 90,
though. all your earthly possess
ions perish, may God Almighty,
through the everlasting covenant
saye all your souls. @s4 .rss## ii s5..5@1<
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