Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1898-12-24

veStraents YOU wi.l avoid the mistakes
that thousands o; men as good a. you srs
Notice also that there was q limit to the
shut an experience OF those ancient marin
ers. Isupposs the forty days OF the de-
scending and uprising foods and the iso
ashore must have seemed to those eight
people IN tho biz boat like a small eternity.
Rain. rain. cainl" said the wife of Noah. I
"wili Il never stopf'' For forty mornings
they looked ont aud saw not one patch OF
blue sky. Floating around smid tho
peaks OF mountains Shem and Ham ant
Japhet had 20 hush the fears OF their wives ,
lest they should dash against the project
ing rocks. But after awhile IL cleared on.
sunshine. glorious sunshinei The as
cending rnists were foidet up into
clouds, which instead ~ darken-
ing the sky only ornRmented ~.
worn passengers cisppei their hands and
rel diced that the storm ~as over. and
think IL God could stop such storm as
that He could stop any storm In your life
tine experience. L. He can control a vui-
ture IN midskv. He can stop a sumner bat
that fies IN 81 your window. At the right
time re viii put the rainbow on the cloud
and the deluge OF your missortunes Will
dry up. preach the doctrine OF limita-
tior. relief and disenthrallment. A. just
the. right time the pain Will cease. tho
bondage will drop. the imprisoned viii be
liberated. the fires will 20 out. the body /
ana nina ana soul Will De Tree I0tfenct4 II
Notice also that on the cessation OF the Il
deluge the shut ins came out. and they l
built their houses and cultured their gar !
dens and started a new world on the ruins Il
% the old world that had been drowned /
I out Though Noah lived $50 years after /
this worldwide accident and no Doubt his /
/ fellow passengers survived centuries I
warrant they never got over talking about |
/ that voyage. Now I have seen Dore's !
I pissures and manv other pictures Of the |
. ar ~n~ ~ a and
7 human family. and the animal creation
I into that ship which sailed between two
worlds-antidiluvian world and the Tost-
NE u their coming out; 20, .seIr EN-
/ -. sation was not more important tns-
4 their diseD harkation- Many a crew has
entered a ship that never landed. Wit
I ness the steamer Portland. few days
/ sEo. with 100 souls on board. going do yn
/ with al i.s crew and passengers. Witness
I the lire OF sunken ships. reaching Ike n
submarine cable OF anguish across the
{ ocean depths from America TO Europe. II
any ship might expect complete wreckage.
the one Moan commanded might have ex-
pectei a.. But no. those who embarked
disembsrkcd. Over the plank reaching
down the side OF the ark &c the Armenian
/ cliffs on which thew had been stranded che
procession descended. No other wharf felt
so solid or Afforded such Rttractiveness as
thai height % Arnrat when the eight pas
/ senEer put their feet on IL. And no soooer
had the last one. the invaded wife Of
+ Janheth been helped down the plank upon
, the rock than the other apart ments OF the
shin were opened. aud such a dash 81 bird
/ music never ilied the air as when the entire
orchestra OF robin redbreast. aud morning
lark and chaf1nch. and mocktng bird, and
i house swallow took wing into the bright
sky. while the cattle began 20 low AMI the
: sheep TO bleat and the horses 20 neigh Tor
. the pasture. which from the awful sub
rnergence had now begun 20 grow green
/. and aromatic. j tell you plainly nothing
= Interests me more in that tragedy from the
! / frst 70 the last act than tho exit aud the
I, 'sexeunt" than the fact that the shut
I ! ms became the got outs" And / nov
I cheer with this story all tho inmates Of th'
= sickroons and hospitals, aud those prison.
u where men and women are uniustly encun-
y geoned. and al the thousands who az
n I bounded on the North aud south and Eas
= aud West by floods. by deluges OF mlsfor
!, tune and disaster. The ark OF your tror
= bic. II Il does not land on some earshl,
= height % vindication and rescue, viii lans
II on the heights celestial.
By a strange providence. FOR which
~ / shall be forever grateful, Circumstances
I. with which think you are all familiar,
= have admission through the newspape
- press week by week 90 tens Of thousands o
4, / Gods dear children who cannot ente
- / church on the sabbath and hear their ex
& ! ceilcut pastors because Of the age OF RI
II Sufferers. or their Illness. or the lamenes
i I OF foot. or their iucapacity 70 stay Ia on
II position an hour aud a half. or thei
i / p0verties or their troubles % some scr
- will not let them so out OF doors. and Z
=. them as much a. 20 those who hear me
=. preach this sermon. as / prea,h mani
Il OF nv sermons. the invisible au6ienc
I. always vaster than the visible, some o
al them tossed on wilder seas than thos
=. I that tossed the eight members OF Noah
- family, and instead Of forty DAYS OF stOrI
- and five months Of being shut in, as the
were. Il has been with these invalids Nv
years OF shut in. !" or ten years OF ''shu
n, / In" or twenty years OF shut In" OF
- comforting God! Help me 20 comfort then
=, Give me two hands fun OF salve for the
a. wounds When We were 500 miles out {
:. I SEA, a hurricane struck us. and the lii'
- boats were dashed from the cavits and a
- the lights in the cabin were put out by q
!. rolling OF the ship aud the water While
= through the broken skylights had pcure
sk And a. now ind many in hurricanes {
ge trouble. though I cannot quiet the storn
can strike 4 match 20 light up the darl
- ness, and ! strike match. Whom q
6Z Lord l0veth He chasteneth." strike a
All other match. Weeping may endure for
OF night, bat Joy cometh IA the morning"
n strike another match. I'VE have q He
ge Priest who can be touched with the fecllE
en- Of our inhrnities. AID He was In ell poin
tai tempted like as We are" Are you oil
n One breath Of heaven viii make you eve
nd lastiagly young again Have you ach
lot and palms, They insure Christ's presen
81 and sympathy through the darkest ID
st- eember nights. which are the ionze
Ia. | nights OF the year. Are you berel
Dr. Here - resuErected Christ who
'ou voice Is full Of resu rrectionRFy pow'
for Bat do not think that heaven Is made
% % env ipdiserImlnste population some
the ny friends are 80 generous in their the'
les ogy that they would let everybody In wit
lur cut references 20 condition or charact,
sls DO rot think that MbeTtines OF biasphei
al err and rejecters Of God and His Josl
ent have letters Of credit" that will draw an