The Progress., 1897-08-28

boat tho crow Eusneu OuI " VIC "AoSA anu
found that it was u capsized vessel and
that three men had been digging their
xvav out through the bottom of the ship.
when the vessel capsized they had no
means OF escape The captain took his
nenknife and dug away through the planks
until his knife broke Then an ola nail
was found with which they attempted to
scrane their way up out of the darkness,
zach one working until his hand was we'll
,,ioh Darnlvzed and lie sank back faint
and sick After long and tedious WORK.
the light broke through the bottom OF the
shin. A handkerchief was hoisted. Help
came. They were taken on board the YES
sol and saved Did ever men come SO near
a watery grave without dropping into It?
How narrowly they escaped-esca only
with the skin of their teeth. lhere are
men who have Lcen capsized OF evil PAS
sfons and capsized midoco"n' ana they
are 1000 miles away from any shore OK
hslp. They have for years been trying to
DIG their way out. They have been dig
cling away and digging away, but thev can
never be delivered unless now thev VIII
| hoist some signal of distress. However
weak and feeble it may be, Christ Will 500
| It and bear down upon the helpless craft
| and take them on board, and 1t Will DO
| known on earth and In heaven how mar
| rowlv they escaped, ESCAPED as with tho
| skin of their teeth.
There arc others who In attempting to
| come to God must run between great
many business perplexities II man go
over to business ut 10 O'Clock In the morn
| mo and come away at o'clock in the aft
| ernoon. he has some time for religion, but
how shall you find time for religious con-
temptation when you are driven from sun
| rise to sunset and have been Tor nSe years
: going behind in business and are ire
ouently dunned by creditors whom you
cannot pay, and when from Monday morn
, ing until Saturday night you are lodging
hills that you cannot meet? You walk day
t by day in uncertainties that have kept
Q your brain On fire for the past three years
q Some with less business troubles than you
o | have gone crazy. The clerk has heard a
8 noise in the back counting room and gone
It In and found the chief man of the firm
10 raying maniac, or the wife has heard the
u bang Of II pistol in the back parlor ana
gone in, stumbling over the dead BODY OF
q her husband-a suicide. There are men
pursued, harassed, trodden GOWN nnu
scalped of business perplexities, and when
It way to turn next they do not know NOW
'e God will not be hard on you. He knows
q what obstacles are in the way OF your De
I'd Ing q Christian, and your first effort il
re- the right direction he will crown with sue
cess. Do not let satan with cotton o"le
OF and kegs and hogsheads and counters ah'
ct stocks Of unstable goods block up you
lr way to heaven. Gather up all your en-
w ergies Tighten the girdle about you
CO loins. Take an agonizing look into tn
p face Of God and then say, Here goes on
ne grand effort for life eternal, and the
IN bound away for heaven, escaping 'as VII
al the skin of your teeth"
he In the last day it will be found tina
u. Hugh Latimer and John Knox and hus
en- and Ridley were not the greatest martyr
m but Christian men who went up incorrul
icy from the COMMUNICATIONS and perplex1tl'
GU Of Pennsylvania avenue, Broad stree
he State street and Third street. On earl
or they were called brokers or stock jobbe
ev or retailers or importers, but In heave
gh Christian heroes. No faeeots were heapt
Is about their feet; no inquisition demand'
ore from then, recantation. no soldier aim,
'ok pike at their heart, but they had ment
fortunes compared with which all physic
for consuming is as the breath OF spril
'es, morning.
ice, rAnd In tho community large class