Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-11-01
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sarZ,,I.. He came to the beach.
.s-g .oAnd a shoreman that consented to go
with him and save the other men, and they
put out. 1t was some time before they
,ould find the place where the men were,
out after awhile they heard their cry 4,
Help, helpI'' and they bore down to them.
and they saved them and brought them to
shore.
If 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 every
thing. 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 quickl Oh, 1 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 behavior, and he was maddened
by it and leaped into the sea, and no sooner
had he leaped into the sea than, quick as
lightning, an albatross swooped upon him.
The drowning man, brought to his senses.
seized hold of the albatross and held on.
The fiuttering Of the bird kept him on the
wave until relief could come. Would now
that the dove of Gods convicting, convert
Ing and saving spirits might fash from the
throne upon your soul and that you, TAX
ing hold of its potent wing, might live and
live forever.
The world has had strong swimmers be-
sides the one of the text, perhaps the
greatest among them Matthew Webb, of the
British mercantile marine service. He
leaped from the deck OF the Russia, the Cum
ard steamer, to save the life of a sailor who
had fallen overheard. No wonder the
passengers subscribed for him a large re-
ward and the Royal Humane Society Of
London decorated him with honors. A
l1~I~k hA Ix,, . ha a.
OF his own arm and foot pushing through
the waters from Blackwall pier to Graves
end pier eighteen miles, and from ID over to
Calais. 80 miles, where he crossed, yet he
was drowned at last in our Niagara's
whirlpool. But tho strong swimmer of my
text put out alone to swim a 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 helli''
New modes have been invented for res
cuing drowning body, but there has been
no new invention for rescuing drowning
soul. In 1785 Lionel Lukin, a London
coach builder, fitted up Norway yawl as
lifeboat and called it the InsubmergIble.
and that has been improved upon until
from all the coasts OF the round world per-
feet lifeboats are ready to put out for the
relief Of marine disasters. In sixteen years
the French Society For Saving Life From
Shipwreck saved 2129 lives. The Ger
man Association For the Rescue of
Life From shipwreck, the Royal Ma
tion Lifeboat institution and our
United States life saving 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 hammocks and cork mat
tresses aud life saving stations filled with
machinery for saving the bodies OF the
drowning! But let me here and now make
1t plain that there has been no new way In
vented for the moral and eternal rescue OF
q struggling soul. Five hundred attempt
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.