Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-10-26

shore. Oh, that this moment our cry
might be lifted long, loud and shrill till
Christ, the swimmer, shall come and take
us lest we drop a thousand fathoms UNI
der!
IL you have been much by the water,
you know very well that when one is in
peril help must come very quickly, or 1t
will be of no use. One minute may de-
tide everything Immediate help the man
wants or no help at all. Now, that is just
the kind of relief we want. The case Is
urgent, imminent, instantaneous. See
that soul sinking! Son of God, lay hold
Of him. BE quick, be quick! Oh / wish
you all understood how urgent this gospel
is! There was a man in the navy at sea
who had been severely whipped for bad
beha vior, and he was maddened by it and
lcaped into the sea, and no sooner had he
leaped into the sea than, quick as light
ming, an albatross swooped upon him.
The drowning man, brought to his senses
seized hold of the albatross and held on.
The 1uttering of the bird kept him on the
wave until relief could come. Would now
that the dove of Gods convcting, con-
verting and saving spirit might flash from
the throne upon your soul and that you,
taking hold of it's potent wing, might live
and live forever.
The world has had strong swimmers
besides the one Of the text, perhaps the
greatest among them Matthew Webb OF
the British mercantile marine service.
He lcaped from the deck of the Russia,
the Cunard steamer, TO save the life of
sailor who had fallen overheard No won
der the passengers subscribed for him
large reward and the Royal Humane So
ciety of London decorated him with hon
ors. A mighty swimmer was he, by the
strength of his own arm and foot push
ing through the waters from Blackwell
pier to Gravescnd pier, IS miles, and
from Dover to Calais, 80 miles, where he
crossed, yet he was drowned at last in
our Niagara's whirlpool. But the strong
swimmer of my text put out alone to
swim a wrathcr sea and far vaster dis
lance, even from world to world, to save
us who were swamped in guilt and woe,
and brought us TO the shore OF safety, al
though he at last went down into the
whirlpool of human and satanic rage.
"He descended into help
Rescuing n Drowning Soul.
New modes have been invented for res
cuing a drowning body, but there has
been no new invention for rescuing a
drowning soul. In 1885 Lionel Lukin, n
London coach builder, fitted up a Nor
way yawl as a lifeboat and called it the
Interchangeable, and that has been i'm
| proved upon until from all the coasts Of
the round world perfect lifeboats are
ready to put out for the relief Of maxine
disasters. In 16 years the French So
ciety For Saving Life From Shipwrcck,
| by their lifeboats and gun apparatus,
saved 2,120 lives. The German Associa.
ton For the Rescue of Life From Ship
wreck, the Royal National Lifeboat in
stitution and our United States life saw
ing service have done a work beyond the
| power of statistics to commemorate.
| What rocket lines and sling life buoys
and tally boards and mortars and ham
mocks and cork mattresses and life saw
ing stations filled with machinery for saw
ing the bodies of the drowning! But let
me here and now make it plain that there
| has been no new way invented for the
moral and eternal rescue of a struggling
soul. Five hundred attempts at such
contrivance have been made, but all of
them dead failures. Hear it, There is
none other name under heaven given
among men whereby we must be saved"
than the name Of Jesus The mighty
swimmer OF my text comes down off the
beach Of heaven and through the break
ers, comes buffeted and bruised. and red
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