The Monitor-register., 1897-02-26
Actual Potash.

| jungle Of thorny skepticism into gar
den all abloom with luxuriant joy that
you have never dreamed of-from a
tangled Caprera of sadness into para
| disc of God
] do not know how your theological
system went to pieces. 1t may be that
your parents started you with only one
plank, and you believe little or moth
| ing. Or they may have been too rigid
and severe i'll religious discipline and
cracked you oven the head with psalm
book. 1t may be that some partner in
business who was a member of an evan
gelical church played on you trick
] that disgusted you with religion. 1t
may be that you have associates who
have talked against Christianity in your
presence until you are ''all at sea, " and
you dwell more on things that you do
not believe than on things you do be-
| Iieve. You are in one respect like Lord
Nelson, when signal was lifted that
he wished to disregard and he put his
sea glass to his blind eye and said, 81
really do not see the signal" Oh, my
hearer. put this fieldglass of the gospel
no longer to your blind eye, and say, l
cannot see, but put it to your other eye,
the eye of faith, and you will see Christ,
and he is all you need to see.
If you can believe nothing else, you
| certainly believe in vicarious suffering,
| for you see it almost every day in some
shape. The steamship Knickerbocker of
the Cromwell line, running between
| New Orleans and New York, was in
great storms, and the captain and crew
saw the schooner Mary D. Cranmer Of
| Philadelphia in distress. The weather
| cold, the waves mountain high, the first
officer of the steamship and four men
put out in lifeboat to save the crew of
| the schooner, and reached the vessel and
| flowed it out of danger, the wind shift
| ing so that the schooner was saved. But
| the five men of the steamship coming
back, their boat capsized, yet righted
| again and came on, the sailors coated
with ice The boat capsized again, and
| three times upset and was righted, and
a line was thrown the poor fellows, but
| their hands We're frozen SO they could
not grasp it, and a great wave rolled
over them, and they went down, never
to rise again till the sea gives up its
dead Appreciate that heroism and self
sacrifice of the brave fellows all who
can, and can we not appreciate the
| Christ who put out into more biting
| cold and into a more overwhelming
surge to bring US out of infinite peril
into everlasting safety7 The wave of hu-
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and the wave of hellish fury rolled over
him on the other side. Oh, the thick
ness of the night and the thunder of
| the tempest into which Christ plunged
for our rescue!
Cling to the Cross.
Come in Oh one narrow beam of the
cross. Let all else go and cling to that;
put that under you, and with the ear
nestness of a swimmer struggling for his
| life put out for shore. There is a great
warm fire of welcome already built,
| and already many, who were as far out
| as you are, are standing in its genial
and heavenly glow. The angels of Gods
rescue are wading out into the surf to
clutch your hand, and they know how
nrodioa1S If hoa1,o,, 90 ~ 49, hoooI,
with new 1vb;+o roI,os ~. o1othn a11 ] tloso
| who come in on broken pieces of the
ship.
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mora booanso T 1Sos 80 ,,o+.ro11.1 ~. H. a,,on4;aaI 49, VIZ
disposed to question everything about
co.. of ho;ne. eart,,o,. ~ ~ ~ 80 - 0''
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| of INV +boo1oc,;oo1 ,,,,oea,.oa,. I,oeo'.
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nose 70 e,o o1t -, c,,,- ttat 600 .o.o;,, - -,
not for 40 roinn+es d;so,,se,od +ho oo,,+,.o
yerted noints of +boolonv IN On Uoa,,S
and durinp the rest of Nv 1ifo ia not
nronose to discnss thor, for On sooondS
T vm1d rather j., a ,nnd sco1y ~, A.
| weather the zyorct crclono +ba+ ovo,.
swent nm frorn tho Car;h,aan a.,
risk INV Immortal so,l in r,so1oSs and
perilous discussions in which soma of
| my brethren in the ministry are indulg-
ing. They remind me of a company of
sailors standing on the Ramsgate pier
| head, from which the lifeboats are
usually launched, and coolly discussing
the different styles of oarlocks and how
deep boat ought to set in the water
while hurricane is in full blast and
| there are three steamers crowded with
passengers going to pieces in the ofine.
An old tar, the muscles of his face work
| ing with nervous excitement, cries out:
''This is no time to discuss such things.
Man the lifeboat! Who will volunteer?
Out with her into the surf! Pull, my
lads; pull for the wreck! Ha, ha! Now
we have them. Lift them in and Law
them down ON the bottom of the boat.
Jack, you try to bring them to- Put
these hapnels around their heads and
| feet, and l will pull for the shore. God
help me! There! Landed Huzza!''
When there are so many struggling in
the waves of sin and sorrow and wretch
edness, let all else go but salvation for
time and salvation forever.
A Safe Plank,
| bethink MYSELF that tbara ara sone
here whose onnortunitv or whose lifa ;s
/! a mere wreck. and thev have onlv
small piece left. You started in vontb
with all sails set. and everything nrom.
ised a GRAND VOYAGE b,,t yo,, hove
sailed in the vvrono direction or howe
foundered ON rock Yon have onlv a
fragment of time left Then come in on
that ono miami "co,oa ~, 1,,.,l,o,, .,;ooo,,