The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-08-26
WASHINGTON THURSDAY AUGUST 1897

Now, there is no ilaTm III getting mau III you
only get mad at SIM You need to bride and
saddle those hot-brcathed passions, and with
them ride down injustice and wrong. There
are thousand things in the world we ought
to be mad at. There is no harm in getting
red hot if You only bring to the forge that
which needs hanlnering. man who has
no power of righteous indignation is an i'm
beetle But be SUITE it is righteous indig-
nation, and not q petulancy that blurs and
unravels, and deplatas the soul
If you this day turn back on the wrong and
start anew God will'help you. God forgives
seventy times seven yea, seven hundred
times: yea, though this be the ten thou
sandth time, he is more earnest more SYM
pathetic, more helpful this last time than
when you took your first misstep.
AN ILLUSTRATION FROM LIFE.
The ship Emma, bound from Gottenburg
to Harwich, was sailing on when the man on
the lookout saw something that he pro-
nounced vessel bottom up, There was
something on it that looked like sea-gull
but was afterwaFd found to ba waving
handkerchief In the small boat the crew
pushed out to the wreck, and found that it
was capsized vessel, and that three men
had been digging their way out through the
bottom of the ship, When the vessel cap
sized they had no means OF escape. The
Captain took his penknifs and dug away
through the planks until his knife broke.
Then an old nail was found, with which they
attempted to serape 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
handkerchief was hoisted. Help came
They were taken Oh board the vessel and
saved. Did ever men come so near watery
grave without dropping into it Z? How
narrowly they escaped--eseaped only with
the skin of their teeth.
There are men who have been capsized of
evil passions, and capsized in mid-ocean, 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 digging away, but they
can never be delivered unless now they will
hoist some signal of distress. However weak
and feeble it may be, Christ will see it, and
bear down upon the helpless craft, and take
them on board and it will be known on
earth and in heaven how narrowly they es-
capped, escaped as with the skin of their
teeth"
There are others who in attempting to
come to God, must run between great many
business perplexities. If a man go over to
business at 10 o'clock in the morning, and
come away at 8 O'Clock in the afternoon. he
has some time for religion but how shall
you find time for religious contemplation
when you are driven from sunrise to sunset,
and have been for FIVE years going behind In
business, and areSaTcquently dunned by
creditors whom yoa cannot pay, and when
from Monday morning. until Saturday night
you are lodging bills that You cannot meet
There are men pursued, harassed, trodden
down and scalped hysbusiness perplexities,
and which way to turn next they do not
know. Now God viii not be hard ON you.
He knows what obstacles are in the way of
your being Christians and your first effort
in the right directipa lie viii crown with sue
cess. Do not let fsian, with cotton-bales,
and kegs, and hoksheads, and counters, and
stocks of unsaleable goods, block up your way
to heaven. Gather UP all your energies.
Tighten the girdle about your loins. Take
an agonizing look into the face of God, and
then say 9 Here goes one grand effort for
life eternal" and then bound away for
heaven.
THESE WERE. MARTYRS.
IN the last day it Will be found that Hugh
Iatimer, and John Knox, and Huss, and
Ridley were not the greatest martyrs, but
Christian men who went up lncorrupt from
the concentrations and perpleXities OF Penn
sylvania avenue, Broad street, State street
and Third street On earth they were called
brokers, or stock jobbers or retailers or i'm
porters; but in heaven, Christian heroes.
No abo Iei feet mr.
inauisition demanded from them recantation
no soldier aimed a pike at their heart; but
they had mental fortunes, compared with
which all physical consuming is as the breath
of Spring morning
find in the community a large class Of
men who have been so cheated, so lied about,
so outrageously wronged, that they have lost
their faith in everything In world where
everything seems so topsy-turyey, they do
not see how there can be any God They are
confounded, and freDzied, and misanthropic.
Elaborate arguments to prove to them the
truth of Christianity, or the truth of anything
else, touch them nowhere.
Hear me, all such men. preach to you
no rounded periods, no ornamental discourse;
but put my hand on your shoulder, and in
vite you into the peace of the Gospel. Here
is rock on which you may stand firm,
though the waves dash against it harder than
the Atlantic, pitching its surf clear above
EddystOne lighthouse Do not charge upon
God all these troubles of the world. AS long
as the world stuck to God, God stuck to the
world; but the earth seeded from his govern
ment, and hence all these outrages and all
these woes. God is good. For many hun
dreds of years he has been coaxing the world
to come back to him; but the more he has
coaxed, the more violent have men been in
their resistance, and they have stepped back,
and stepped back until they have dropped
into ruin.
Try this God, We who have had the blood
hounds after you, and who have thought that
God had forgotten you. Try him, and see if
he will not help. Try him, and see if he will
not pardon. Try him, and see if he will not
save The flowers of Spring have no bloom
so sweet Us the Towering of Christ's affections
The sun hath no warmth compared with the
glow of his heart The waters have no re-
freshment like the fountain that will sIake
the thirst Of thy soul.
This world is poor portion for your soul,
oh, business man!
Oh, find your peace in God. Make one
strong pull for heaven. No halfway work
will do it. 'h''
/ shall close this sermon feeling that some
of you, who have considered your case as
hopeless, will take heart again, and that with
blood-red earnestness such as you have