Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-08-27

ST 4aCtionS n, under such circumstances
he break away, there will be no sporr
ia thu undertaking, no holiday enjoy
meDt, but a struggle in which The
wrestlers move from side to side anc
bead aad twist ard watch for an oppor-
.unity 20 get in a heavier stroke, until
VII. cra mai effort, in which The mus
clc aIe 0istena d ard the veins stand
on and The blood starts, the swarthy
habit falls under the knee OF the victor
ESCAPED at last as with the ski. Of
bis teeth.
Near a Watery Grave.
The ship Emma, bound from Gotten
burg to HaTwich, was sailing on when
the man on the lookout saw something
that he pronounced a vessel bottom up.
There was something on it that looked
like a sea gull, but was afterward found
to be a waving handkerchief In the
small boat the crew pushed out to the
wreck and found that it was a capsized
vessel, and that three men had been
digging their way out through the bot
tom OF the ship. When the vessel cap
sized, they had no means Of escape. The
captain took bis peDknife and dug away
through the planks until his knife broke
Then an old nail was found, with which
they attempted to scTape their way up
out Of the darkness, each one working
until his hand was well nigh paralyzed,
and he sank back faint and sick. After
long and tedious work the light broke
through the bottom Of the ship. A hand
kerchief was hoisted. Help came. They
were taken on board the vessel and
saved. Did ever men come so near a
watory grave without dropping into it,
How narrowly they escaped-esoaped
only with the skin Of their teeth "
There are men who have been capsized
Of evil passions and capsized midoceaD,
and they are a thousand miles away
from any shore Of help They have for
years been trying to dig their way out
They have been digging away and dig
cling away, but they can never be deliy-
cred unless now they Will hoist some sig
nal Of distress. However weak and feeble
it may be, Christ will see it and bear
down upon the helpless craft and take
them Oh board, and twill be known On
earth and in heaven how narrowly they
escaped" escaped as with the sin Of
their teeth.
There are others who in attempting
to come to God must run between q
great many business perplexities. If a
man 20 over TO business at 10 O'Clock IN
the morning and come away at 3 O'Clock
in the afternoon, he has sol3 time for
religion, but how shall yCa find time
iCr religions contemplation when you
are driven from sunrise 80 sunset and
have been for five years going behind
in business and are frequently dunned
ly creditors whom you cannot pay, and
when rom Monday morning until sat
urday nisat you are lodging bills that
you cannot meet? You walk day by
day in uncertainties that have kcrt
vcur 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
rCom and gone in and found tie chief
nan Of .ho firm 4 Iayiug maniac, or the
wife has heard the bang Of a pistol in
tic back parlor ana gone in, stumbling
over .le dead lcdy Of her husbaud-a
suicide. There aIe men pursued. bar
g ca, trodden down and scalpcd Of
business pe1rlexities. aud which way
20 turn LCzt they 40 not Know. Now
Ccd Vi.lnct be hard on you. He knows
what @. .eclcs axe in the way Of your
l,.ug q Christian, and your fist effort
in Tie l.ght direction be will crown
with success. Do not let satan, with
cotton bales, and kegs, and hogsheads,
and couutcrs, and stocks Of unstable
goods, Ucck up your way to heaven.
Gather up all your energies Tighten
the gildle about your loins. Take an
agouizing look into the face Of God,
nud then say, Here goes one grand
effort for life eternal" and then bound
away for heaven, escaping las with
the skin Of your teeth. "
In the last day it will be found that
Hugh Latimer, and John Knox, and
Huss, and Ridley were not the greatest
martyrs, but Christian men who went
I'D incorupt from the communications
AID perplexities Of Pennsylvania ave.
nue. Brcad street State street and
Third street. On earth they were called
brokers', or stock jobbcrs, or retailers,
or importers, but in heaven Christian
heroes. no fagots were heaped about
their feet; 10 inquisiJion demanded
trrm them rccantation; 10 soldier