Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-10-28
ACcOMAC C. H. VA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER rs, 1900.

upset by squat three miles from
shore. 1t was In the night. but one
man swan nightly for the beach.
guided by the dark mountains that
lifted their top through the night. He
came to the beach. He found q shore
man that consented to 60 with him
and save the other men. and they put
out 1t WINS some time before they
could find the place where the men
were, but after awhile they heard their
cry, Help. helpr and they bore down
to them. and they saved them and
brought them to shore Oh. that this
moment our cry might be lifted long.
loud and shrill till Christ, the swim
mer, shall come and take us lest we
drop q thousand fathoms under!
The Gospel Urgent.
II 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 decide 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, 1 wish you all under
stood how urgent this gospel Is.
There was a man in the navy at sea
who had been severely whipped for
bad behavior, and he was maddened
by it and leaped into the sea. and no
sooner had be leaped into the sea
than, quick us lightning, an albatross
swooped upon him. The drowning
man, brought to his senses. seized hold
of the albatross and held on. The fut-
tering of the bird kept him on the
wave until relief could come. Would
now that the dove of Gods convict
ing, converting and saving spirit might
flash from the throne upon your soul
and that you. taking hold Of !ts 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 serv-
ice He leaped from the deck Of the
Russia, the Cunard steamer, to save
the life of sailor who had fallen over
board. No wonder the passengers sub,
scribed for him q large reward and the
Royal Humane Society Of London dec
grated him with honors. A mighty
swimmer was he. by the strength Of his
own arm and foot pushing through the
waters from Blackwell pier to Graves.
end pier, 10 miles. and from Dover to
Calais, 80 miles, where he crossed, yet
he was drowned Mt last In our Nj
agara's whirlpool. But the strong
swimmer Of my text put out alone to
swim q wrathier sea and for vaster
distance, even from world to world. to
save us who were swamped in guilt
and woe. and brought us to the shore
Of safety. although he at last went
down into the whirlpool of human and
satanic rage. "He descended into hell!'
Not a New Invention.
New modes have been invented for
rescuing drowning body, but there
has been no new invention for rescuing
a drowning soul. In 1885 Lionel Lukin,
a London coach builder, fitted up q
Norway yawl as n lifeboat and called
1t the Insubmergible, and that has
been improved upon until from oil the
coasts of the round world perfect life
boats are ready to put our for the relief
of marine disasters. In 16 years the
French Society For Saving Life From
Shipwreck, by their lifeboats, and gun
apparatus saved 2.129 lives. The Ger
man Association. For the Rescue OF
Life From Shlpwreck. the Royal Ma
tional Lifeboat institution and our
United States life saving service
have done q 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
saving stations filed with machinery
for saving the bodies of the drowning!
But let me here and now make It plain
that there has been no new way In
vented for the moral and eternal res
cue of n 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 where
by we must be saved" than the name
Of Jesus. The mighty swimmer OF my
text comes down of the beach Of heaV-
en- and through the breakers, comes
buffeted and bruised. and, reddening
the waves from his OVID decorations, ne
cries: Lay hold of my arm! Put your
head on my shoulder! Hear the, beating
of my loving heart! Be We saved, for |
am God. and there is no other"
want to persuade you to lay hold
of this strong swimmer. NO" you
say: "it is always disastrous for
drowning man to lay hold Of swim
mer." There is not river or lake but
has n calamity resultant from the fact
that when a strong swimmer went out
to save sinking man the drowning
man clntchcd him. threw his arms
around him. pinloned his arms. and
they both went down together. When
you are saving a man in the water,
you do not want to come up by his
face. You want to come up by his
back. You do not want him to hold
you while you take hold of him. But,
blessed be God, Jesus Christ Is 80
strong a swimmer he comes not to our
back, but to our face. and he asks us
to throw around him the arms or our
love and then promises to take us to
the beach, and he will do it. Do not
trust that plank Of good works. DO not
trust that shivered spar of your own
righteousness Christ only can give
you safe transportation. Turn your
face upon HIM as the dying martyr
did in olden times when he cried out:
"None but Christ! None but Christi
Jesus has taken millions to the land.
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