Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-09-01

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frequently dunned by creditor.
whom You can not pay. and
when from Monday morning until
Saturday night you are dodging bills
you can not meet? You walk day by
day in uncertainties that have kept
your brain on fire for the past three
years Some with less business troubles
than you have gone crazy. The clerk
has heard a noise in the back counting
room and gone in and found the chic
man of the firm "A ravinp maniac.
or the wife has heard the bang of
pistol in the back parlor and
gone in. stumbling over the dead
body of her husband-a ,uicid,
There are men pursued, harassed.
troddcn down and scalpcd of busincss
perpleNities, and which way TO turn
next they do not know. Now God will
not he hard on you. lie know, what
obstacles are in the way of your bcinp
"a Christian. and your first effor, in tho
right direction He will crown with sue.
cess Do not let Satan with cotton
bales and kegs and hogshcad- and
counters and stocks OF unstable goods
block up your way To Heaven. Gather
mp all your energies. Tighten the gir.
die about your loins. Take am ayuniz.
ing look in the face of God. and then
say: Here goes one grand effort fot
Inf" eternal and then bound away for
Heaven. escaping AS with the skin OF
Your teeth.
The ship Emma bound from Gotten.
burg 10 llarwich. was sailing on ,,hc,
the man on the lookout saw .omn
thing that hc pronounced a vessel bot,
tom 'lhar,.
That looked like sca-gull but was af.
tcrward found to bc a ,ynyin,r h.ndI,ar.
chief. I'm the small boat the crew push.
ed out To the wreck. and found that
NJ was capsiIcd vessel. and that three
men had been digging their way out
through the bottom Of the shin. When
the vessel capsilcd they had no means
ot escape. The captain took his pen.
knItc and dug away through the
planks until his knife broke. Then
AN old nail was found. with which
they attempted 10 >crapc their way m
out of the darkness. each one WORKING
until his hand was wcll-nigh paraIvzrd
and hc sank back faint and sick. After
long and tedious work the light broke
through the bottom Of the ship. \
handkerchief was hoistcd. Help came.
- ''''' AiiN'ii VII lhliFl lllt vessel
and saved. Did ever men come 81
near watery grave without dropping
INTO it, How narrowly they cscapcd =
escaped only with the skin of their
teeth. There are men who have been
capNl|ed OF evil passions. and capSizcd
mid-occan, and they are a thousand
miles away from any shore of help.
They have for years been trying to di,
HON asat
away. and digging away. but they can
never he delivered unless now they
Will hoist some signal of distress How.
ever weak and feeble il may be. Christ
Will see IL. and bear down upon the
helpless craft. and take them on board
and II will be- known on earth and in
heaven how narrowly they escaped,
escaped a. with the skin of their
teeth.
In the last day il will be found tina,
Hugh Latimer. and John Knox: and
IiuNS and Ridley were not TIE. greatest
martyrs. but Christian men who went
mp incorrupt from the contaminatious /
ana pcrpicNiticS of Pennsylvania av- .
cnuc. Broad street State street and
hird street. ON earth they were called .
brokers, or stock iobbcrs. or retailers.
or importers; but in Heaven, Christian
heroes. No faggots were hccpcd about
their feet; no inquisition demanded
from them recantation: but they had
mental fortunes. compared with which
all physical consuming is as The breath
of spring morning.
ma nm the community "A large class
oil men who have been 50 cheated 20
he'd about, 50 outragcou>iy wronpcd
hot B.