Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-12-22

ship inside the craft kept him from
many outside perils. How those wrath
full seas would like to have rot their we :
a anffs hm Ana ana all 81 n You OF of the
great army OF the shut-in realize,
though you have special temptations
where you are now, how much Of the
outside style Of temptation you escape !?
Do you. the merchant fncarcerated in
the sickroom, realize that every hour Of
the day you spend looking out of the
window or gazing at the particular fg-
ure on the wall paper or listening to the
clocks ticks men are being wrecked by
the allurements and uncertainties of
business life? How many forgeries are
committed, how many trust funds are
swamped. how many public moneys are
being Incorporated, how many
bankruptcies suffered? II may be. II
Is. very uncomfortable for Noah inside
the ark. for the apartment Is crowded
and the air is vitiated with the breath
ing Of so much human and animal life,
but II is not half as bad for him rs
though he were outside the ark. There
IL not an OK. or a camel, or an antelope.
or sheep inside the ark as badly off az
the proudest king outside. While you
are on the pillow or lounge you will
make no bad bargains, you will rush
into no rash inveedme you will avoid
the mistakes which thousands OF men
AZ good as you are every day making.
Notice also that there was limit to
the shut-in experience OF those ancient
mariners. / suppose the 40 days Of the
descending and uprising floods and the
$50 days before the passengers could go
ashore must have seemed to those eight
people in the big boat like small
eternity. "Rain, rain, raini" said the
wife OF Noah. "Will II never stop?"
For 10 mornings they looked out and
saw not one patch of blue sky. Float
ing around amid the peaks of noun
tains, shem and Ham and Japheth had
to hush the fears of their wives lest
they should dash against the project
ing rocks. But after awhile il cleared
off. Sunshine, glorious sunshine! The
ascending mists were folded up into
clouds, which instead of darkening the
sky only ornamented 1t. As they
Il oked out of the windows these worn
passengers clapped their hands and
rejoiced that the storm was over. and
think If God could stop such storm
as that He could stop any storm in your
lifetime experience. IF He can control
vulture in mid-sky. He can stop sum
mer bat that flies in at your window.
! At the right time He will put the rain
| bow on the cloud and the deluge Of
your misfortunes will dry up preach
| the doctrine Of limitation, relief and dis
c1thrallment. AT just the right time
| the pain will cease. the bondage will
drop, the imprisoned will be liberated,
the fires will go out. the body and mind
and soul will be free. Patience! An
old English proverb referring TO long
continued invalidism, says: "A creak-
ing gate hangs long on its hinges and
this may be protracted case of vale
tudinarianism, but you will have taken
the last bitter drop, you will have suf-
fered the last misinterpretation, you
will feel the gnaMing of The last hun
ger, you will have tainted the last time
from exhaustion, you will have felt the
cut Of the last lancet you will have
wept under the last loneliness. The
last week of the Neachian deluge came,
the last day. the last hour, the last mo-
ment, The beating OF the rain on the
roof ceased. and the dashing Of the
pillows on the side of the ship quoted,
and peacefully MS u yacht moves out
over quiet Lake Cayuga, Como or Luz
cerne. the ark with it's illustrious pas
seugers and important freight glided
10 its mountain wharfage.
Notice also that on the cessation OF
the deluge the shut-ins came out, and
they built their houses and cultured
their gardens and started new world
on the ruins of the old world that had
been drowned out. Though Noah lived
$50 years after this worldwide accident
and no doubt his fellow passengers sur
viyed centuries. | warrant they never
rot over talking about that voyage.
Now, | have seen Dore's pictures and
many other pictures OF the entrance
into the ark. two and two, of the hui
man family and the animal creation
into that ship which sailed between
two worlds, antediluvian world and the
postdluvian world, but | never saw
y picture of their coming out, yet their
cmbarkation was not more important
than their Decentralization. Many .
crew has entered ship that never
landed, Witness the steamer Portland
short time ago, with 100 souls on
board, going down with all its crew and
passengers. Witness the line Of sunken
ships reaching like submarine cable
OF anguish across the ocean depths
from America to Europe. II any ship
might expect complete wreckage, the
one Noah commanded might have ex-
pected IL. But no. Those who en-
barked disembarked, Over the plank
reaching down the side of the ark to
the Armenian cliffs on which they had
been stranded the procession descend
ed No other wharf felt so solid or at
forded such attractiveness as that
height OF Ararat when the eight pas