Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1895-08-09


tom. He paid s. for his ticket to Tar
shish when he bought the infidel books
He landed in perdition.
satan's Swindles.
Every farthing you spend in sin satai
will swindle you ont of. He promise
you shall have 80 per cent or a grea
dividend. He lies He will sink all thu
capital You may pay full fare to som'
sinful success, but you will never get t
Tarshish.
Learn how soundly men viii sleep il
the midst Of danger. The worst sinner
on shipboard, considering the light J.,
had, was Jonah. He was a member o.
the church, while they were heather.
The sailors were engaged in their law
full calling, following the sea. The mer-
chants on board, l suppose, We're going
down to Tarshish to barter, but Jonah,
Notwithstanding his Christian profes-
sion, 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. Oh, how could he sleep
What if the ship struck rock? What if
it sprang aleak? What if the clumsy
oriental craft should capsize? What
would become of Jonah?
So men sleep soundls now amid perils
infinite. In almost every place, sup
pose, the Mediterranean might be sound
ed, but no line is long enough tofathom
the profound beneath every impenitent
man. Plunging a thousand fathoms
down, you cannot touch bottom. Eter
nifty beneath him, before him, around
him Rocks close by and whirlpools and
hot breathed Levanters. Yet sound
asleep We try to wake him up, but
fail The great surges OF warning break
over the hurricane deck, the gong OF
warning sounds through the cabin, the
bells rings. "Awaker' cry hundred
voices. Yet sound asleep in the cabin.
III the year l775 the captain of
Greenland whaling vessel found him
self at night surrounded by icebergs and
clay to-" until morning, expecting ev-
cry moment to be ground to pieces. In
the morning he looked about and saw o
ship near by. He hailed il. No answer.
into boat with some Of the
crew, he pushed out for the mysterious
craft. Getting near by, he saw through
the portfolio man at stand, as though
keeping a logbook. He hailed him. Nc
answer. He went on board the vessel
and found the man sitting at the log
book frozen 60 death. The logbook was
dated 1862, showing that the vessel hal
been wandering for 10 years among the
ICE The sailors were found frozen
among the hammocks, and others in the
cabin. For 10 years this ship had been
carrying its burden Of corpses.
So from this gospel craft today de-
icry voyagers for eternity. Icry; "Ship
lhOyl Ship alloy 1" No answer. They
1oat about, tossed and ground by the
cebergs Of sin, hosting no sail for heav-
N. go on board. find all asleep. 1t
S q frozen sleep, Oh, that my Lord
Jesus would come aboard and lay hold
If the wheel and steer the craft down
nto the warm gulf stream of his mercy |
Awake, thou that sleepestl Arise from
he dead, and Christ shall give thee life.
Again, notice that men are aroused |
" the most unexpected means. If Jonah |
lad been told one year before that
leathen sea captain would ever awaken
lin to a sense Of danger, he would have |
coffed at the idea, but here it is done. |
20 now men in strangest ways are
reused from spiritual stupor. a pro
ane man is brought to conviction by
he shocking blasphemy of comrade
l man attending church and hearing a
ermon from the text, "The OK knoweth
is owner" ETC., goes home impressed,
ut, crossing his baInyard, an OK come
p and licks his hand, and he says
There it is now. The OK lnoweth his
wner and the ass his masters crib,
ut do not know God. " The careless
emark of a teamster has led a man to
and heaven. The childs
emark: Father, they have prayers at
ncle's house. Why don't we have
lem'" has brought salvation to the
By strangest ways and in the most I'M
zpected manner men are awakened
he gardener Of the Countess of Hunt
lgdon was convicted of sin by hearing
le countess on the opposite side Of the
all talk about Jesus John Hardoak
as aroused by a dream, in which he
wv the last day, and the judge sitting,
I'D heard his own name called with
rrible emphasis, John Hardoak, come
judgmentp The Lord has thousand
avs of waking up Jonah Would that
e messengers of mercy might now
I'd their way down into the sides of ]
10 ship, and that many who are uncon-
iously rocking in the awful tempest of
cir sin might hear the warning {
What meanest thou, 0 sleeper? Arise {
ID call upon thy God %
Awake Too Late. =
Again: Learn that a man may wake
, too late. If, instead of sleeping, !.
nah had been on his knees confessing
S sins from the time he went on board j
9 craft, think that God would have
we'd him from being thrown overheard.
1t he woke up too late. The tempest
in full blast, and the sea, in convul-
N, is lashing itself, and nothing viii
lp it now but the overthrow of Jonah.
So men sometimes wake up too late,
ie last hour has come. The man has