Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 12, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 August 1894 — Page 6

^NARROW ESCAPES.” X>r. Talmage Talks on Close Calls for Salvation. The Cam of This World Coupled with Man’s Evil Propensities Render Salvation, in Some Cases, a Fret- * ty Tight Squeeze. The following' sermon was selected by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage as the reading portion for his great congregation this week. The subject is “Narrow Escapes," being based on the text: I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.— Jofrxix., 20. Job had it hard. What with boils, and bereavements, and bankruptcy, and a fool of a wife, he wished he was dead; and' I do not blame him. His flesh was gone, and his bones were dry, His teeth wasted away until nothing but the enamel seemed left. He cried out: “1 am escaped with the skin of my teeth.” There has been some difference of opinion about this passage. St. Jerome and Schultens and Drs. Good and Poole, and llarnes, have all tried their forceps on Job's teeth. You deny my interpretation and say: “What did Job know about the enamel of the teeth?” He knew everything about it. Dental surgery is almost as old as the earth. The mummies of Egypt, thousands of years old, are found today with gold-filling in their teeth. Ovid and Horace and Solomon and Moses wrote about these important factors of the body. To other provoking complaints. Job, I think, has added an exasperating toothache, and, putting his hand against the inflamed face, he says: “I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.” A very narrow escape, you say, for Job's body and soul; but there are thousands of men who make just as narrow escape for their soul. There was a time when the partition between them and ruin was no thicker than a tooth’s enamel; but, as Job finally escaped, so have they. Thank God! Thank God! Paul expresses the same idea by a different figure when he says that some people are “saved as by fire.” A vessel at sea is in flames. You go to the stern of the vessel. The boats are shoved off. The flames advance; you can endure the heat no longer on your face. Y'ou slide down on the side of the vessel, and hold on with your fingers until the forked tongue of the fire begins to lick the back of j’our hand, and you feel that you must fall, when one of the life boats comes back, and the passengers say they think they have room for one more. The boat swings under you—you drop into it—you are saved. So some men are pursued by temptation until they are partially consumed, but after all get off—“saved as if by fire.” Hut I like the figure of Job a little better than that of Paul, because the pulpit has not worn it out; and I want to show you, if God will help, that some men, make narrow escapes for their souls, and are saved as “with the skin of their teeth.”

It is as easy for some people to look to the cross as for you to look to this pulpit. Mild, gentle, tractable, loving, you expect them to becohie Christians. You go over to the store and say, “Grandon joined the church yesterday.” Your business comrades say, “That is just what might have been expected; he always was of that turn of mind.” In youth, this person whom I describe was always good. He never broke things. He never laughed when it was improper to laugh. At seven, he could sit an hour in church, perfectly quiet, looking neither to the yight hand nor to the left, but straight into the eyes of the minister, as though he understood the whole discussion about the eternal decrees. He never upset things, nor lost them. He floated into the kingdom of God so gradually that it is uncertain just when, the matter was decided. Here is another one, who started in life with an uncontrollable spirit. He kept the nursery-*in an uproar. His mother found him walking on the edge of the house roof to see if he could balance himself. There was no horse he dared not ride—no tree he could not climb. His boyhood was a long series of predicaments; his manhood was reckless; his mid life very wayward. But now he is converted, and you go over to the store and say, “Arkwright joined the church yesterday.” Your friends say, “It is not possible! You must be joking!” You say, “No; I tell you the truth. He joined the church.” Then they reply, “There i& hope for any of us if old Arkwright has become j a Christian!”

In other words, we all admit that it is u$>re difficult for some men to accept the Gospel than for others. I may be addressing1 some who have cut loose from churches, and Bibles, and Sundays, and who have at present no intention of becoming Christians themselves, but just to see what is going on; and yet you may find yourself escaping, before you hear the end, ns “with the skin of your teeth.” I do not expect to waste this hour. I have seen boats go off. from Cape May or Long Branch, and drop their nets, and after awhile come ashore, pulling in the nets without having caught a single fish. It was not a good day, or they had not the. right kind of net. Butjve expect no such excursion today. The water is full of fish; the winct is in the right direction; the Gospel net isfe strong. O, thou, who didst help Simon and Andrew to fish, show us to-day how to east the net on the right side of the ship! Some of you, in coming to God, will have to run against skeptical notions. It is useless for people to say sharp and cutting things to those who reject the Christian religion. I can not say such things. By what process of temptation, or trial, or betrdfjfal you have come to your present state, I know not. There are two gates to your nature; the gate of the hc>id, and the gate of the heart. The gate of your head is locked with bolts and bars that an archangel could not break, but the gate of your heart swings easily

on Its hinges. If I assaulted your body with weapons, you would meet me with weapons, and it would be sword-stroke for sword-stroke, and wound for wound, and blood for blood; but if I come and knock at the door of your house vou open it, and give me the best slat in your parlor. If I should come at: you to-day with an argument, you would answer me with an argument;; if * with sarcasm, you would answer me with sarcasm; blow for blow, stroke for stroke; but when I come and knock at the door of your heart, you open it and say: “Come in, my brother, and tell me all you know about Christ and Heaven.” Listen to two or three questions: Are y »u as happy as you used to be when you believed in the truth of the Christian religion? Would you like to have your children travel on in the road in which you are now traveling? j You had a relative who professed to be : a Christian, and was thoroughly con-j sister!, living and dying in the faith of the gospel. Would you note like to live the same quiet life, and die the same peaceful death? I received a letter, sent me by one who has reiected the Christian religion. Itsays: “lam old enough to know that the joys and pleasures of life are evanescent, and to realize the fact that it must be comfortable in old age to believe in something relative to the future, and to have a faith in some system that proposes to save. I am free to confess that I would be happier if I could exercise the simple and beautiful faith that is possessed by many whom I know. I am not willingly out of the church or out cl the faith. My state of uncertainty is one of unrest. Sometimes I doult my immortality, and look upon the d eathbed as the closing scene, after which there is nothing. What shall I do that I have not done?” Ah, skepticism is a dark add doleful land. Let me say that this Bible is either true or false. If it is false, we are as well off as you; if it is true, then which of us is safer? Bo you not feel that the Bible, take it all in all, is about the best book that the world has ever seen? Do you know any book that has as much in it? Bo you not think upon the whole, that its influence has been beneficent? I come to you with both hands extended toward you. In one hand I have the Bible, and in the other I have nothing. This Bible in one ha^d I will surrender forever just as soon as in my other hand 3’ou can put a book that is better. To-day I invite you back into the good old-fashioned religion of your fathers—to the God whom they worshijied, to the Bible they read, to the promises on which they leaned, to the crass on which they hung their eternal expectations. You have not been haptpy a day since you swung off; you wil l not be ha ppy a -minute until you swing back.

Again: There may be some oi you who, in the attempt after a Christian liff-, will have to run against powerful passions and appetites. Perhaps it is a disposition to an£er that you have to contend against; and perhaps while in a very serious mood, you hear of something that makes you feel that you must swear or die. I know of a Christian man who was once so exasperated that he said toa mean customer: “I can not swear at you myself, for I am a member of the church; but, if you will go down stairs my partner in business will swear at you.” All your good resolutions heretofore have been torn to tatters by explosions of temper. Now, there is no harm in getting mad if you only get mad at sin. You need to bridle and saddle these hot-breathed passions, and with them ride down injustice and wrong. Thdhe are a thousand things in the world that we ought to be mad at. There is no harm an getting red hot if you only bring to the forge that which needs hammering. A man who has no power of righteous indignation is an imbecile. But be sure it is a righteous indignation, and not a petu1 aney that blurs, and unravels, and depletes the soul. L There is a large class of persons in mid-life who have still in them appetites that were aroused in early manhood, at a time w hen they prided themselves on being a “little fast,” “high livers,” “free and easy,” “hail fellow’s well met.” They are now paying in compound interest for troubles they collected twenty years ago. Some of you are trying to escape, and you will— yet very narrowly, “as with the skin of your teeth.” God and your own soul only know what the struggle is. Omnipotent grace has pulled out many a soul that was deeper in the mire than you are. They line the beach of Heaven—the multitude whom God has rescued from the thrall of suicidal habits. If you this day turn your back on the wrong, and start anew, God will help you. Oh, the weakness of human help! Men will sympathize for awhile, and then turn you off. If

you will ask for their pardon, they will give it, and say they will try youagain^ but, falling away again under the power of temptation, they cast you off forever. But God forgives seventy times seven; yea, seven hundred times; yea; though this be the ten thousandth time Ue is more earnest, more sympathetic, more helpful this last time than when you took your first misstep. If, with all the influence favorable for a right life, men make so many mistakes, how much harder it is when, for instance, seme appetite thrusts its iron grapple into the roots of the tongue and pulls a man down with hands of destruction. If, under such circumstances, he breaks away, there will be no sport in the undertaking, no holiday enjoyment, but a struggle in which the wrestlers move from side to side, and bend, and twist, and watch for an opportunity to get in a heavier stroke, until with one final effort, in which the muscles are distended, and the veins stand out, and the blood starts, the swarthy habit falls under the knee of the victor—escaped at last as with the skin of his teeth. The ship Emma, bound from Gottenburg to Harwich, was sailing on, when the man on the lookout saw something

that be pronounced a vessel bottom up. There was something on it that looked like a sea gull, but was afterward found to be waving a handkerchief In the small boat the crew pushed out to the wreck, and found that it was a cap* sized vessel, and that three men had been digging their way through the bottom of the ship. When the vessel capsized they had no means of escape. The captain tock his pen knife and dug away through the planks until his knife broke. Then an old nail was found, with which they attempted to scrape their way out of the darkness, each one working until his hand was well nigh paralyzed, and he sank back faint and siek. After long and tedious work, the light broke through the bottom of the ship. A handkerchief was hoisted. Help came. They were taken on board the vessel and saved. Did ever men come so near a watery grave without dropping into it? How narrowly they escaped—escaped only “with the skin of their teet^.” In the last days it will be found that Hugh Latimer, and John Knox, and Hnss, and Kidley were not the greatest martyrs, but Christian men who went up incorrupt from the contaminations and perplexities of Wall street, Water street, Pearl street, llroad street, State street, Third street, Lombard street and the bourse. On earth they were called brokers or stock-jobbers, or retailers, or importers; but in Heaven, Christian heroes. No fagots were heaped about their feet; no inquisition demanded from them recantation; no soldier aimed a spike at their heart; but they had mental tortures, compared with which all physical consuming is as the breath of a spring morning. I find in the community a large class of men who have been so cheated, so lied about.so outrageously wronged, that they have lost faith in every-, thing. In a world where everything seems so topsy-turvy they do not see how there can be any God. They are confounded and frenzied,« and misanthropic. Elaborate argument to prove to them the truth of Christianity, or the truth of anything else, touches them nowhere. Hear me, all such men. I preach to you no ! rounded periods, no ornamental dis- j course; but I put my hand on your shoulder, and invite you into the peace of the Gospel. Here is a rock on which you may stand firm, though the waves dash against it harder than the Atlantic. pitching its surf clear above Eddy* stone lighthouse. Do not charge upon God all these troubles of the world. As long aspthe world stuck to God, God stuck to the world; but the earth seceded from His government, and hence all these outrages and all these woes. God is good. For many hundreds of years He has been coaxing the world to come back to Him; but the more He has coaxed, the more violent have men been in their resistance, and they have stepped back and stepped back until they have dropped

into rum. Try this God, ye who have had the .bloodhounds after you, and who have thought that God has forgotten you. Try Hiih and see if He will not help. Try Him and see if rie will not pardon. Try Him and see if He will not save. The flowers of spring have no bloom so sweet as the flowerings of Christ’s affections. The sun hath no warmth compared with the glow of His heart. The waters have no refreshment like the fountain that will slake the thirst of thy soul. At the moment the reindeer stands with his lip and nostril thrust into the cool mountain torrent the hunter may be coming through the thicket. Without crackling a stick under his foot, he comes close by the stag, aims his gun, draws the trigger, and the poor thing rears in its death agany and falls backwards, its antlers crashing on the rocks; but the panting heart that drinks from the water brooks of God’s promise shall never be fatally wounded, and shall never die. This world is a poor portion for youi soul, oh business man! An eastern king had graven upon his tomb twc fingers, represented as sounding upon each other *Hth a snap, and undei them the motto: “All is not worth that.” Apicius Coelius hanged himself because his steward informed him that he had only eighty thousand pounds sterling left. All of this world’s riches make but a small inheritance for a soul. Robespierre attempted to win the applause of the world; but when he was dying a woman came rushing through the crowd, saying to him: “Murderer of my kindred, descend to hell, covered with the curses of every mother in Trance!" Many who have expected the plaudits of 4he world have died under its Anathema Maranatha.

Oh, find your peace in God. Make one strong pull for Heaven. No halfway work will do it. There sometimes comes a time on shipboard when everything must be sacrificed to save the passengers. The cargo is nothing, the rigging nothing. The captain puts the trumpet to his lip and shouts: “Cut away the mast!” Some of you have been tossed and driven, and you have in your effort to keep the world, well nigh lost your soul. Until you have decided this matter, let everything go. Overboard with all those other anxieties and burdens! You will have to drop the sails of your pride and cut away the mast! With one earnest cry for help, put your cause into the hand of Him who helped Paul out of the breakers of Melita, and who, above the shrill blast of the wrathiest tempest that ever blackened the sky or shook the ocean, can hear the faintest imploration for mercy. 1 shall conclude, feeling that some of you, who have considered your case hopeless, will take heart again, and that with a blood-red earnestness, svch as you have never experienced before, you will start for the good land of the Gospel—at last to look back, saying: “What a great risk I ran! Almost lost, but saved! Just got through, and no more! Escaped by the skin of my teeth.” If you are a laborer, see that you are worthy o'f your higher.—Rural New Yorker.

DUN’S COMMERCIAL REVIEW. A Most Gloomy Report of the Situation C»u*m1 by the C ontinued Outgo of Gold, the Fall in the Treasury Reserve and In the Price of Wheat, with Increased C'ncoftalnty About Tariff Legislation,Etc., Etc. New York. Jbly 2$.—R. G. Don & Co.'s weekly review of trade, issued today. says: The heavy outgo of gold, the fall of the treasury reserve, and of the price of wheat to the lowest point on record, and the increasing uncertainty about the tariff, have entirely overshadowed [ other influences, business delayed for ' months by two great strikes now crowds | railroads and swells returns, and gives the impression of revival in business. But it is not yet clear how far 1 there is an increase in new truflic, distinguished from that which has been merely blockaded or deferred. In some branches there has been more activity, but in others less, because events early this week led many to infer that no change of tariff would be made. The internal revenue , receipts on whisky suddenly dropped more than half, and sales of wool greatly increased. But the uncertainty is not removed, and much of the business done seems to be in the nature of insurance against possibilities. Internal revenue receipts amount to $38,700,000 for the month, $14,300,000 more than in the same part of July last year. Customs receipts this month are less than $8,000,000, against $18,000,000 last year. Freight w’hich was delayed by the railroad blockade now crowds the railroads, and doubtless accounts in large degree for heavy western receipts of wheat. But earnings show little gain: the comparison is now with a time of great depression last year. The decrease on all roads yet reporting for July has been 36.5 per cent., though the roads as yet reporting for the third week show a loss of only 12.6 per cent. Earnings in July on such roads as have reported are 88.9 per cent, less on Pacific, 87.3 per cent, on granger and S3.7 on southwestern roads. But much of the business was only deferred. “ The payments through clearinghouses are 15.3 per cent, less than a year ago, and for the month thus far 15.8 per cent, less, being 23.4 per cent, below those of 1892. Wheat has found in the lowest depths a deeper still, and sold below 55, making the monthly average at New York the lowest ever known. Western receipt have been 5,455,874 bushels, against 3,193,395 last year, in part because of delayed shipments, but the movement from the farms has been heavy, while Atlantic exports have been only 1,511,004 bushels, against 2,057,050 last year. Corn was stronger, with accounts of injury to part of crop, and the exports are trifling. Cotton declined a sixteenth to 7 cents, though receipts from plantations are small. Official reports count for nothing in comparison with enormous visible

stocks. Textile industries have been perceptibly stimulated according to dealers, by disagreements which many suppose may prevent change of the tariff, and there has been more buying of cotton goods, with slightly higher prices for a few, notwithstanding the closing of some important mills. The stock ot such goods is, on the whole, quite large. In woolens, the goods famine, which clothiers prepared for themselves by deferring orders, is such that imperative necessities now keep most of the mills at work, and purchases of wool for immediate use are large. ' But there is no ehange for the better as respects orders running into the future, and indeed some concerns have withdrawn spring samples in which very Ioav prices had been fixed, and will make no effort for trade at present. Sales of wool have been greatly swelled by speculation, in the belief that wool is not likely to decline in any event, but may advance sharply if tariff changes fail. Sales for the week were 9.034,100, against 2,164.500 last year, and 9,118,500 in 1892. In four weeks of July sales have'been 22,359,285 pounds, against 10,696,900 in 1893, and 20,250,350 in 1893. While scarcity of coal delays resump tion of work in many central and western iron mills, the light inquiry for finished products and the disappointing demand for most at Pittsbui’gh raises doubt whether material increase can be expected until the tariff question is out of the way. The demand for sheets is better at Chicago, and there are numerous small orders for structural work at Pittsburgh, with rather better demand for bars, but nothing like the expected rush. At Philadelphia the tone improves and prices are steady, but foundry business is much depressed, and sharp competition prevents advance in finished products. Business in shoes continues good, and shipments for four weeks of July have been 11.000 cases or 4 per cent, larger than last year, and 37,000 cases or 11 per cent, less than in 1892 or 1891. Orders for women’s light goods appear to be slackening. Failures for three weeks of July compare well, of course, with the panic period last year, commercial liabilities being 86,317,696, of which 83,588,933 were of manufacturing and 82,403,011 of trading concerns. Commercial loans are expanding but little, and great caution still maintains soundness. The failures this week have been 249 in the United States, against 386 last year, and 39 in Canada, against 23 l$st year.

A FATAU PAY DAY. Two Miners Drowned as the Beenlt of a Pay-Day Spree. McKeeesfort, Pa., July 28.—David O. Davis and Uriah Wall, brothers-in-law, both miners at Dravosburg. received their pay Tuesday evening and later visited several saloons. Tuesday night they started home in a skiff on the Monongahela river. Since that time they have been missing. Yesterday a sea-.'ehing party found the body of Davis floating in the river. The body of Wall has not yet been found. Both men leave large families

UTTERLY WIPED OUT. The Town of rhllllpa. Win.. Destroyed by1 Fhw—Three Thouauud Penoiu Home* | lew—Nearly Elghl Hundred Uwuet j Burned—Sixteen I^nmau Belngt Known to Have l'erlshed- Aid from Surrounding Towns Pouring In. Phillips, Wis., July 29.—At day-1 break to-day smoke covered an area of 100 miles square. About 3,500 people j have fled into the forests or to the vil-1 lages near by. The town this morn- j iug was a smouldering1 heap of ruins j and the smoke was so dense that the headlight of a locomotive could not be j seen fifty feet away. Three relief trains reached Phillips soon after 6 o'clock this morning.. One was in charge of Gov. George W. Peek and his staff. The second came from Stevens' Point in charge of Frank Lamereaux and Crosby Grant, and the third from Marshfield in charge of Maj. W. 1L Upham, republican nominee for

governor. As soon as he arrived Gov. Peck called his staff together and directed the work of unloading the provisions. There were several car loads of food and a warehouse was opened in one of the few buildings that are left standing ip, the town. Through the dense smoke Gov. Peck made his way and found two heavy walls that marked the place where the two banks had stood. On inquiry it was learned that the vaults of the banks contained $52,000, and Goy. Peck immediately swore in a dozen men to guard the money in the vaults. They were armed with Winchester rifles and ordered to remain on duty in two shifts day and night. The loss by the conflagration in its entirety is difficult to estimate. Out of 800 building in the tqjvn only thirtyseven remain. B. W.Davis. of the Davis Lumber Co., estimates the total loss at $1,500,000, with scarcely half that amount covered by insurance. The Davis Lumber Co.'lost $500,000; fully insured. The next highest loss is that of the Fayette-Sbaw Tannery Co.idperating one of the largest tanneries in the United States. The tannery was destroyed with its stock, aggregating a loss of nearly $200,000. The Plata Brewing Co. of Milwaukee, had a distributing depot here which was destroyed with a loss of $3,000. j.

There is no way of estimating the number of lives lost, in the fire, anil even after forty-eight hours have passed no one can be -lound who ventures an opinion of the loss of life. When the people?fled before the wave of fire they became separated, and can give no account of each other. It is known that sixteen persons perished on the raft that burned in the bayou. A bridge or trestle crossed the bayou, and when the supports of this bridge burned away it fell. Women and children were crossing at the time, and some must have perished. The charred body of Anton Flentzer can be seen in the wreck of a brick chimney. The man was attempting to carry his trunk from a burning dwelling, when the brick chimney fell on him, crushing out hislife. As the fire swept towards the bridge a number of children were seen to take refuge in the big lumber yard. Their cries were heard by others who fled towards the water, but the children have never been found. Of the sixteen person’s who lost their lives on the raft that burned in the bayou eight are yet in the water. The body of Frank Cliss, the machinist, was found under a pile of driftwood at noon to-day. The bodies of his wife and children/ were recovered afterwards. Dynamite was exploded all day in the bayou, and a number of bodies were raised by this means. Jim Lock's body wad, brought to the surface. He was /the butcher who was drowned with ms child in his arms The true story of the launching of this ill-fated raft has never been told. The only man who tells a comprehensive narrative of the horror is Joseph Bollen, a lumberman. He was standing near a boathouse when a number women and children came toward him. There were three or four men following. They went to the raft and attempted to push it from the shore when it caught fire. Some jumped into small boats and others remained on the raft. All perished, as the boats were overloaded and sunk. The raft burned to the water’s edge. The local relief committee has issued a statement to the public thanking the generous citizens of the state for their liberal contributions. ^ To briefly summarize, the fires have burned as follows: The city of Phillips, entirely wiped out; the city of Mason, practically destroyed, with the White River Lumber Co.,* and 30,000,000 feet of, lumber; headquarters of the Ashland Lumber Co., near Short’s Crossing, entirely wiped out; a special train of the Chicago, St,. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, consisting of sixteen cars and two locomotives, all burned, broke through the burning bridge near Ashland Junction; the camps of the Thompson Lumber Co., burned at White river; two bridges on the ‘main line of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad, one near Ashland Junction and one near Mason; two bridges on the Wisconsin Central, one at Chelsea and the other at Phillips, both on the main line south of Ashland. Several parties of berry pickers from Ashland narrowly escaped with their lives.

Sixty Business Houses and Several Dwell, tags In Belle Flaine la., Destroyed. Belle Plain’K, la., July 29.—The cry of fire was heard throughout the town late yesterday afternoon. The citizens soon had the fire apparatus out, but owing to the engines steaming slowly the flames, which had started in the roof of a livery stable and were fanned by a strong west wind, had leaped across the street to the business part of the city, and were soon beyond the control of the firemen. It was impossible to stop the spread of the flames with the apparatus at hand and sixtv buildings were burned.

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