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REV. 1 )R. ran: 1 THK vatotv NOTKD DIVINE’S BUZfDAY _ DISCOURSE. Snbiect; “A Shattered Faith.” Text: “And some on broken pieces of the I Ship.’’—Aetr> xxvit., 44 j j Never off Goodwin sands or the Ske-ries a or CuriH I 11'it't.riK '.[edlt.-rl'm-.Tn u a i.m u ^ rse predica- me_ waC“terrain v m in the hurricane w“. shin \,r ‘ ’vb'>!? 97 c » ; sss s'tSyife “ ™ u w« ..at,roly <ll»abl 0 TaTd command of the vessel. He was small, crooked-baeke i and sore-eved. accord- ing to tradition. It was Paul, the only unseated man aboard. He was no mo re afraid of a Euroclydoa tossing the Mediterranean sea, now up to the gates of heaven uud now sinking it to the gates of beil, than he was afraid of a kitten playing witn r. string. He ordered them all down to take their rations, first asking for them a blessing. Then he insured ail their lives, telling them thev would be rescued, and. so far from losing their heads, they would not lose so much of their hair as you could cut off with one click of the scissors—nny, not a thread of it, whether it were gray with age or gold«u with youth. “There shall not a hair fall from the head of any of you.” Knowing that they can never get to the de¬ sired port, timy make the sea on the four¬ teenth night bl sk with overthrown cargo. bo that when iu ship strikes it wifi not strike so beavi At daybreak they saw a creek and in th .r exigency resolved to make lor it. And so they out the cables, took in the two paddles they had on those ol i boats and hoisted the main-all so that they might come with such force as to be driven high up on the beach by some fortunate billow. There she goes, tumbling towards the rocks, now prow „ toremost,now stern foremost, now roiung over tot.io starboard now over to the larboan.; now a wave dashes clear over t ae deck, and it seems as if the old craft has gone forever. But up she comes again. iiiul s arms arouud a mast, ho cries: All is well. God lias given me all those that sail with me.” Crash wen . the prow, with such force that it broke off the mast. Crash went tho timbers till the seas rushe l through from side to side of the vessel, hhe parts amidships, aud into a thousand fragments the vessel goes,and Into the waves 27b immortals are precipitated. Some ot them hud been brought up on the seashore aud bad learned to swim, and with their chins just above the waves and by the strokes of both arms and propulsion of both feet they nut out for the beach and reached it. But alas for those others! They have never learned to swim, or they were wounded by the falling of the m.-ist, or the nervous shock was too great for them. And others had been weakened by long seasick- ness. Ga, what will become of them? “Take tlmt piece oi a rudder,” says Paul to oue. “Take that fragment of a spar,” savs Paul to another. “Take that image of Castor and Pollux. “Take that plank from the lire- boat.” “Take anything and head for the beach.” What a struggle for file in the breakers! Oh, the merciless waters, now they sweep over the hea ls of m n, women and children. Hold on there' Almost ashore. Keep up your courage. Itemembor what Paul told you. There the receding wave on the beach leaves in the saml a whole family. There crawls up out of the surf the centurion. There another plank comes in. with a lifeclingingfast to it. There another piece of the shattered vessel, with its freightage oi an immortal soul. They must by this time all bo sowed. Yes; there comes m last of all. for he had been oversee- ing the resr, the old missionary, who wrings the water irom his gray beard and cries out, “Thank God. all are here!” I do not underrate the value of a great theological system, but where in all the Bible is there anything that Pays Beheie m John Calvin and thou shalt be saved;' or. believe in Armimus and thou shalt be saved, or. believe in synod of Dort aud thou shalt be saved, or, believe in the Thirty-nme Articles uud thou shalt bo sftve.l? A man may be orthodox and go to hell, or heterodox and go to heaven. The man who t.hnst fa**, deep atrection of his heart accepts is saved, and the man who does not accept him is lost. I believe in both the Heidelberg and West- minster catechisms, aud I wish you all did, but you may believe in nothing they contain except the one idea, that CErist'came to save sinners, aud that you are one of them ; and you are instantly rescued. If you can come in ou the grand old ship, I would rather have you get aboard, but if you can only find a piece of wood as long as the hu- mau body, i r a piece as wide us the out- spread human arms, and either of them is a Tens piece of the cross, come iu on that piece, of thousands of people are to-day kept out of the Kingdom of God because they believe ' cannot everything. I am talking with a man thoughtful about his soul who has lately traveled through New England and passed the night at And- over, lie says to me, “I cannot believe that in this life the destiny is irrevocably Ilxea: jl think there will be another opportunity of repentance after death.” Isay to him: “My Don’t brother, what has that to do with you? you realise that the man who waits for another chance after death whv." he has a good chance before death is a .rk fool? Had not you better take the plank that is thrown to you now r-“tad for shore rather than wait for a \ that may by invisible hands be thrown to • ou after you are dead? Do as you please, buYas for myself, with pardon for all my sins offered me now, aud all the joys of time and eternity offered me now. I instantly take tli-m, rather than run the risk of such other chance as wise men think they can peel off or twist out of a Scripture passage that h is for all the Christian centuries been interpreted anotuer way.” You say, “I flo not like Princeton theology, or New Haven theology, or Andover theology. I do n ask you on board either of these great me. of-vrar, their portholes filled with tiie great 'ego gnus of ecclesiastical battic. but I do as you to take the ono p'ank of the gospel that you do believe in and strike out for the pearl strung beach of heaven.” Says some other man. “d would attend to religion if I was quite sure about the doc- trine of election aud free agency, but that mixes me all up.’ Those things used ro bother me, but 1 have no more perplexity about them, for I say to myself, “If I love Christ and five a good, honest, useful life, I I am elected to bs saved, and if I do not love Christ Km live a bad life I will be damned, nn l ad tho theological sem- iuaries of the universe cannot make it any different.” I fiouudered a long while in the sea of sin and doubt, and it was as rough as the Mediterranean on the four- teenth night, when they turew the grain overboard. but I saw there was mercy for a sinner, and that plank I took, and I have been warming myssli by the bright fire on the shore ever since. While 1 am talking to another m:.n about h»s soul he tells mo, “I do not become a Christian because i do not believe there is any hell at all.” Ah. don't vou? Do all the people of all beliefs and no belief at all, of good morn's and bad morals go straight to a bauched happy heaven? Do the holy and the de- have the >ame destination? At mid- mght, in a hallway, the owner o: a house and a burglar meet. They both fire, and both are wounded, but the burglar dies iu live minutes, and the owner of the bouse lives a week after. Will the burglar be at the gate of heaven, waiting, when the house owner comes in? Will the debauchee and the libertine go right in among the families of heaven? I wonder if Herod is playing on the bank's of the river of life with the children no massuered. I wonder if Cnaries Guiteau aud John Wilkes Booth are up ihnre shooting at a mark. I do not now controvert it, although I must bay that for such a miserable heuven L Because all are saved, according to vour ’heory, hat ought not to keep vou from lov¬ ing and serving Christ. Do not refuse to come ashore because all the others, accord¬ ing to your theory, are going to get shore. You may have a different theory about chem¬ istry,'about astronomy.about the atmosphere from that which others adopt, but you are not therefore hindered from action. Because your theory of light is different from others do not refuse to open your eves. do not y° refuse r ur thf ; to 0 U breathe. K °‘ a j r is Because different'you theory about the stellar your system is different you do not refuse to acknowledge the north Why..hould «b, fa,t that your thedo- s » JriL'S.*2K “But I 100 don’t believe believe in in revnais. revivals'” Then .men goto your room, ami all alone, with your door locked, give your heart to God, and join some church where the thermometer never “But gets I higher than fifty in the shade. do not believe in baptism!” Come in without it and settle that matter after- ward. “But there are so many in- consistent Christians!” Then come in and show them by a good example how professors should act. “But I don't believe in the Old Testament!” Then come in on the New. “But I don’t like the book of Romans.” Then come in on Mat- thew or Luke. Refusingto come to Christ, whom you admit to be the Saviour of the lost, because you cannot admit other things. you are like a man out therein that Meditor- r.mean tempest aud tos.se 1 iu the Melita breakers, refusing to come ashore until he eau mend the pieces of the broken ship. I hear him sav: “1 won’t go in on auy of these planks until I know in what part of the ship they belong. When I can gee the wind- lass in the right place, and the sails set, and tnat keel piece where it belongs, and that floor timber right, and the ropes untangled, 1 will go ashore. 1 am an old sailor, and know all about ships for forty vears, and a 3 soon as I can get the vessel afloat in good shape I will come in.” A man drifting bv on a piece of wood overnoar- him and savs: “You vrill drown before vou get that ship re- constructed. Better \lo as I am doing. I know nothing about ships, and never saw one before I came on board this, and I can- uot swim a stroke, but I am going ashore on this shivered timber.” The man in the offing, while trving to mend his ship goes flown. The man who trusted to the plank i s saved. Oh, my brother, let your smashed U p system of theology go to the bottom. while you come in on a splintered spar! “Some on broken pieces of the ship.” If you can believe not him-else you cor- tainly believe in vicarious sufferin'' for vou see it almost every dav in some shape The steamship Knickerbocker of the Cromwell line running between New Orleans and* and New York, was in great storms, the captain and crow saw the schooner Mary D Cran- m er of Philadelphia iu distress. high The weather cold the waves mountain four’men the first officer of the steamship and put out in a lifeboat to save the crew of the schooner and reached the vessel and towed it out of dan was’saved -er the wind shifting so that the schooner But the five m en of the steamship coming back, their bo it ca sailors' sized vet righted \vith°ise a-ain and came on the coated The boat capsized again, and three times upset and was righted, aud a line was thrown the poor fellows, but their hauds were irozen so they could not grasp it, and a great wave rolled ovor them and tlmv w«nt down gives’up uever to r i se Anrireeiate u - a in till the sea its dead that heroism and self sacrifice of the brave fellows all who can, and can we not appreciate the Christ who put } out into a more biting cold a.d into a no ro overwhelming surge to bring us out of infinite neril hjmai into hJte^ everlasting o^r safetvV The wave of rolled h m from OQO 9ide , in d the wave of hellish fury rolled over him on the other side. Oh. the thick- tempSt ness of the ni'-ht wSU and ChrLt the olSSSed thunder of oSr the into J for rescue' " Come in on the narrow beam of the cross. Let all else go and cling to that; put that under you, and with the earnestness of a swimmer struggling for his life put out for shore. There is a great warm lire of wol- come already built, and alreudv many, who wero us fur out ns you ure U re standing in its genial and heavenly glow. The angels of God’s rescue are wading out into the surf to clutch your hand, aud they know how exhausted y 0U Sl re, aud all the redeemed prodigals of heaven are on the beach with new white robes to clothe all those who come in on broken pieces of the ship, My sympathies are for such all the more because I was naturally skeptical, disposed to question everything about this life and the next, aud was in dan- ger of being farl her out to sea than any of the 27(5 in the Mediterranean break- ers, and I wa« sometimes the anuoyaneo of my theological professor because I asked so many questions. But I came inonaplank. I knew Christ was the Saviour of sinners and that I was a sinner, and I got .-.shore, and I do not propose to go out on that sea again. I have not for thirty minutes dismissed the controverted points of theology in thirty years, and during the rest ot my life 1 do not propose to discuss them lor thirty, seconds. I would rather in a mud scow try to weather the worst cyclone that ever swept un from tho Caribbean, than risk my immor- ml soul in useless and perilous discussions in which some of my brethren in the minis- try are indulging. They remind me of a company of sailors standing on the Rams- gate usually pier launched, head, from which the lifeboats are aud coolly discussing the different styles of oarlocks and how dee;* a boat ought to set in the water while a hurricane is in full blast and there are three steamers crowded with passengers going to pieces in the offing. An old tar, the muscles of his face working with nervous excitement, cries out: “This is no time to disouss such things. Man the lifeboat! Who will volun- teer? Out with her into the surf! Pull, my lads; pull for the wreck! Ha, ha! Now we have them. Lift them in aud lay them down on the bottom of the boat. Jack, you try to bring them to. Put these flannels around their heads nnd feet, aud I will pull for the snore. God hoip me! There! Landed! Huzza!” When there are so many struggling in the waves of sin and sorrow and wratch- edness. lot alt else go but salvation for time and salvation forever. You admit you are all broken up. one de- cade of your life gone by, two decades, three decades, four decades, a'half century,perhaps three-quarters of a century, gone. The hour hand and the miuuve hand of your clock of life are almost parallel, and soon it will be 12 and your day ended. Clear ais- con raged, are you? I admit it is a sad thing to give all of our lives that are worth any- sin and the devil and then at lost make God a present of a first rate corpse. But the past you cannot recover. Get on board that old ship you never wifi. Have you oniy one more year left, oue more mouth, one more week, one more day. one mote hour—come in on that. Perhaps if you got to heaven God may let vou go out on some great mission to some other world, where you can atone for your lack of ser- vice iu this. From many a deathbed I have seen the hands thrown up in deploratlon something like this: “My life has been wasted. I had good mental faculties and fine social position and great oppor- tunity. but through worldllness and neg- lect all has gone to waste save thtse tew remaining hours. I now accept of Christ and shall enter heaven through His mercy, but alas, alas, that when I might have entered the haven of eternal rest with a tu 11 cargo, and been greeted by thewav- inghandsofa multitude in whose salvation I had borne a blessed part, I must confess I now ent^r the harbor of heaven on broken pieces of the ship.” The United States dynamite cruiser Vesuvius ran the blockade of Charleston QS. C.J Harbor by Admiral Bunoa*9 fleet. __ . SATISFIED SISTERS. Y7HAT POSTPONED TIIE TRIP TO IIOT SPUING*. From the Tribune, Cullman, Ala. Two well known ladies o! Holly Pond, Cullman County, Alabama, are the Misses H. A. and M. F. Shepard, and they are hold in the highest estoem. Two years ago, Miss M. F. Shepard, was stricken with terrible sickness, from which she suffered long. The history of the case is so interesting that wo publish the lady’s own version as it is every way worthy of perusal: “Two years ago Inst February, I was stricken with a terrible pain around my heart, which prostrated me for hour-*, and from then on I grew weaker until spring, when from impaired circulation and impov¬ erishment of the blood, a stomach difficulty set in. bloating my body fearfully. Of course I was confined to my bed and to add to my sorrows a general attack of rheumatism fol lowed, so that motion was painful, and loco- motion impossible, “Several physicians were consulted but they gave nae no relief, until the last came, whoso helped my stomach difficulty, th<it .after several months I was able to sit up. The rheumatism, however, stubbornly stayed, and I was advised that my only hope was the Hot Springs of Arkansas. I was preparing to make the journey, when I was recommended to try Dr. Williams’Pink Pills, “During my illness, I had taken two boxefe of these self same pills, but not in the way recommended, as I was taking other reme- dies. Now though, 1 determined to try them properly, as I was no longer nder a physi- cian’s care, and could do as pleased, aud my ordered sister, Miss H. A. Shepard, at my request, six boxes of Pink Pills for me, as I could r.ot leave the house and could only hobble with the aid of crutches, “By the time I bad finished tne pills, I had given up crutches, though 1 was still almost a skeleton from the ordeal through which 1 had passed. 1 am now quite fleshy, and the only agent that has caused the change is Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, for I used no other medicine. My right hand is still drawn so that I can only use the thumb and first fln- ger, and my back is still lame, but I am in better health than for many years. None of my friends expected me to live, and at one time it was feared my reason was giving wa y- I do not know how to pay a suffl- eiently high tribute to Dr. Williams’ medi- cine - It is, 1 believe the grandest blood medicine that was ever prepared, “Now. having stated my own case, 'et me refer to my sister, Miss H. A. Shepard, who had a scirrhous growth on her right temple. This was terribly inflamed and spreading so fm>t, that I prevailed upon her to order live dollars'worth of Dr. Williams’ Pink Puls, and test their virtue as a blood cleaner, as the only means of arresting the rapid growth of the cancer. This she did, and has taken about seven of the boxes, and is still taking t hem - The sore has stooped spreading, and appears to be healing. When she began to take the pills she was the thinnest living be- tag I oversaw that could move aboat. Now SQB has gained in flesh, her skin has re- K ainei1 its normal appearance, and she is stronger, and her general health is better u h ? s beeQ miiuv y ea f 8 - ®od grant she may be spared the horrible death with which she was threatened. My sister’s case, more than my own, has induced me to write this statement, in order tnat it may be made P u ”. 1 '** "M. F. Shepatr®, , t “Cullman Co., Alabama.” Dr. Williams Pmk Pills T contain, m a con- densed form, all the elements necessary to give new fife and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves They are also a *P ec,lie for Rubles peculiar t-. females such ^suppressions irregularities and ail forms of y^kness. They build up the blood and restore the glow of health to pale and sallow che ^ s ‘ In men they effect a radical cure 111 a 1 Cft9es rising from mental worry, over- work or excesses of whatever nature. Pink PA's are sold in boxes (n-ver m loose bulk) at 60 ^ 2 b ° X ?, r ? X b0X ? for *1*’ may be had of t all druggists, or direct by £ iaU from Dr WHHams’ Medicine Company. Schenectady, N. Y. Seventy Cents for a Horse. A horse for seventy cents! A real live animal, capable of drag¬ ging a peddler’s cart and its owuer for a price less than six bits. McCurrie, special officer for the Fre venkion of Cruelty to Animals in the City and County of San Francisco, has found the oddest horse trade that has come to notice in a long time, says the San Francisco Call. “I forget who the peddler was,” Mc¬ Currie said yesterday, “but I know about the lowest-priced horse that ever has assisted any man in San-Franclseo to carry on business.” McCurrie has every-day contact with horses all over the city, and, as might be supposed, it is a fact that the poorer horses are those which are the most subject to abuse and so attract his at¬ tention more closely, the complaints be¬ ing principally against the owners of such. “Of course this was a cash trade,” solid McCurrie, with some amusement. “The money paid over was two quit¬ ters, one dime aud two nickels. When til® owner of the nag received this* money the peddler got the horse sure enough and w'as ready for business. “The fact is that peddlers con get oil the horses they want now for $1 each. I knew of another case where a horse was bought by a peddler for an old stove which was much the worse for wear; the stove, I mean, and for $1 :n cash.” A New Evolution. Two or three mornings after the ar- rival of a new butler the mistress of tne .it house took , , tile .i opporturnity , of , asking the cook liow she liked her new- fellow-servant. 1 ’ The report was an excellent AT1 one. <<Tr. font- n a ” cnLl -ad , , tlie cook, tne servants liall is quite a different place now.” Not unnaturally the mistress pressed for further par- f . , , „ ticulars. \\ ell, ne talks so cleverly, said the cook. “Last night, for in- stance ’ he explained things to us for an , nour an a i, >> u xL.xpiamea things—what . things? ’ said the mis- tress, now reallv interested. “Well,” " as t -u A re . pr P .i i Y’ T *q, ue p "as telling us p™ now a 'l descended from Air. Darwin. Westminster Gazette. How’s This? 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At the clese of the recent six-day bp- cycle race in New York the Star took occasion to comment on the extraordi¬ nary smashing of records and to dis¬ cuss the probable elements entering into this apparent progress toward perfection in physical and mechanical development. It now appears that a hitherto unsuspected factor contrib¬ uted in the main to this result—cocaine. This powerful drug, an alkaloid obtain¬ ed from coca leaves, has been used since 1SS4 as a local anaesthetic, and has unquestionably been of service to surgeons, particularly to oculists.whose scope of success has been greatly wid¬ ened by the ability to perforin bold operations on the eye. which is ex¬ tremely sensitive. The drug has also placed a new material for artificial stimulation 'in the possession of those unfortunates Who crave indtflgenee in such intoxicants as morphine, Ko- een'tly a report has come from a Con¬ necticut town tiialt scores of the inhab¬ itants are acutely suffering from the cocaine habit, resulting from a local druggist’s concoction for The relief of catarrh. Now if is asserted that the riders in the New York race were dosed regularly wiitth cocaine, twenty drops in a glass of rnlilk being given at a time. This, It is said, stimulated the flagging energies and deadened The pain caused by the strain on The muscles and the nerves, and enabled the men to main¬ tain wonderful rates of speed for pe- riods heretofore regarded as beyond the limits of human endurance. One rider, ilt is related, remained on his wheel without interruption for n*o less than fifty-four hours, under the Stimulation caused by an extra dose. The record was broken by Twelve riders, one of them exceeding it by twenty per cent., but tire results of TMs method of secur¬ ing Temporary stimulation are still in evidence, though the race ended three weeks ago, one of the men being re¬ ported to be still in hospital, suffering agonies of mind and body. Cocaine is not only a stimulant and a temporary nerve paralyzer, bolt, according to some medical authorities, 'it is a specific muscle poison, breaking down the cords ami sinews. If these things related of The wheelmen be true—and the circum¬ stances of the race and its results lend color of extreme probability to the as¬ sertions—Tire riders who became fa¬ mous for their unparalleled achieve¬ ments were deliberately destroying their permanent abilities for the sakt of temporary success.—Washington Star. No-To-Rac for Fifty Cents. Over 400.000 cured. Why not let No-To-Bac regulate or remove your desire for tobacco? Saves money, makes health and manhood. 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