The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-08-09

he does not believe in the Bible. A law
yer comes in, and sitting by his bedside
writes document that begins: "In the
name of God, amen. /, being OF sound
mind, do make this my last will and
testament - 1t is certain where the sick
man S body will be in less than week.
1t is quite certain who will get his prop,
erty. But what will become of his souli
1t will 60 into "the great to be-" OF
"the everlasting now" or "the infinite
what is it. His soul is in deep waters,
and the wind is blowing great guns. y
Death cries, Overheard with the I'M
believerp' A splash. He goes to the bot
tom. He paid So for his ticket to Tar
shish when he bought the inidel books.
He landed in perdition.
satan's swindles.
Every farthing you spend in sin satan
will swindle you out of. He promises
you shall have 80 per cent or great
dividend. He lies. He 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. He was a member of
the church, while they were heather.
The sailors were engaged in their law
full calling, following the sea. The mer-
chants ON board, suppose, were going
down to Tarshish to barter, but Jonah,
notwithstanding his Christian profess
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 soundly now amid perils
infinite. In almost every place, sup
pose, the Mediterranean might be sound
ed, but no line is long enough to fathom
the profound beneath every impenitent
man. Plunging 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. Awaken cry hundred
voices. Yet sound asleep in the cabin.
In the year 1775 the captain of a
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 a
ship near by. He hailed it. No answer.
Getting 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 logbook. He hailed him. No
answer. He went on board the vessel
and found the man sitting at the log
book, frozen to death. The logbook was
dated 1859, showing that the vessel had
been wan dering for IS years among the
ice. The sailors were found frozen
among the hammocls, and others in the
cabin. For IS years this ship had been
carrying its burden of corpses.
So from this gospel craft today I de-
scry voyagers for eternity. Icry: "Ship
ahoy! Ship ahoyP' No answer They
float about, tossed and ground by the
icebergs of sin, hosting no sail for heav-
en-. go on board find all asleep. 1t
is frozen sleep. Oh, that my Lord
Jesus would come aboard and lay hold
of the wheel and steer the craft down
into the warm gulf stream of his mercy
Awake, thou that sleepest 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 a
heather sea captain would ever awaken
him to a sense of danger, he would have
scoffed at the idea, but here it is done.
So now men in strangest ways are
aroused from spiritual stupor. A pro-
fame man is brought to conviction by
the shocking blasphemy of a comrade.
A man attending church and hearing a
sermon from the text, 1.-THE OK knoweth
ll1o OWhCl, OtC. SOOS uOlu0 pI6SS6u,
but, crossing his barnyard, an OK come
up and ticks his hand, and 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
and heaven. The child's
remark: Father, they have prayers at
uncle's house Why don't we have
theml" has brought salvation to the !
dwelling.
By strangest ways and in the most I'M
expected manner men are awakened |
The gardener of the Countess of Hunt |
ingdon was convicted of sin by hearing |
the countess on the opposite side of the |
wall talk about Jesus. John Hardoak |
was aroused by dream, in which he |
saw the last day, and the Judge sitting, |
and heard his own name called with |
terrible emphasis, John Hardoak, come |
10 Judgment" The Lord has thousand
ways of waking up Jonah. Would that
the messengers of mercy might now
find their way down into the sides of
the ship, and that many who are uncon-
sciously rocking in the awful tempest of
their sin might hear the warning: |
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