The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1902-01-24

zee IN all this theme how tho tnpossf-
bllities may be turned into possiblL-
ties. That AK head was sunken In the
muddiest river that could be found.
The alarmed student OF Elisha may
know where II went down and may
dive for ~. and perhaps fetch II up.
but can the sunken AK head be lifted
without n hand thrust deep into the
mud the bottom OF the river? No.
that Is impossible. admit. so far
as human power Is concerned. II Is
impossible. but with God all things are
possible. After the tree branch was
thrown upon the surface OF Jordan
the iron did swim"
Some one asks me. did you ever
see iron SWIM" Yes. yes: many
time. saw n soul hardened until
nothing could make II harder. All
styles OF sin had piled that soul. IL
was petrihed "a TO all One feeling. 10
had been hardening fcf thirty years.
II had gone into tho deepest depths.
II had been given up as lost. The
father had given IL up. The mother.
the last to do SO. had given II up.
But one day In answer TO
some prayer branch OF the
disfoliRged tree OF Calvary was
thrown into the dark and sullen
stream. and the sunken soul respond
ed to it's power and rose into the light.
and. TO the astonlshment OF the
church and the world. the iron did
swim" I have seen hundreds OF cases
like that. when the dying bandit on
the cross beside Christ's cross was
converted. When Jerry McAuley.
rufiian graduate OF Sing Sing prison.
was changed into a great evangelist.
so useful I'm reclamation OF wandering
men and women that tho merchant
princes OF New York established for
him the Water Street and Cremorne
missions and mourned at his burial.
amid the lamentations OF n city.
When Newton. the blasphemlng sail
or under the power OF the truth was
brought 10 Christ and became one OF
the mightiest preachers OF the gospel
that England ever saw. When John
Bunyan. whose curses shocked even
the profane OF the fish market. was
80 changed I'm heart and life that he
could write that wonderful dream.
The Pilgrims Progress" In such
way that uncounted thousands have
found through IL the road from the
city OF destruction" TO the celestial
city" In all these cases think iron
was made TO swim. | worship the God
who can do the impossible.
You have a hayward boy. Only God
knows how you have cried over him.
You have tried everything for his ref
Ormation. Where Is he now-in this
city. In the country. or has he crossed
the scar oh you say. Il do not
know where he Is. He went away In
the gulks and did not say where he
was going" You have about made up
your mind that you will never hear
from him again. Pretty hard pay he
gives you for all your kindness and
the nights you sat up with him when
he was sick Perhaps he struck you
one day when you we're trying 10 per-
suade him 10 do better. How different
was the feeling OF that hard fist
against your face from his little hand
IN infancy patting your cheek! Ia
Their! Mother! That Is an impossible
that would like TO see God take hold
Of. OF the conversion OF that boy, for
he will never be anything but n boy TO
you. though you should 1.-Two TO see him
ffty years of age. Did you say his
heart Is hard? How hard? Hard as
stone? Yes" you say. harder than
that Hard as iron" But here Is
God who can lift the soul that has
been deepest down. Here is n God who
can raise n soul out OF the black
est depths OF sin and wretehedness.
Here Is n God who can make iron
swim. the God OF Elisha. the God OF
the young student that stood in dis
may on the banks OF the Jordan at the
time OF the lost AK head. Lay hold OF
the Lord in n prayer that viii! take no